STRONGER, BIGGER AND BETTER

LaMarcus Aldridge of the Portland
Trail Blazers goes for a skyhook over
Rasheed Wallace in file photo.

Rip City fans has something big to look forward to next season as Portland Trail Blazers assistant coach and former Talk N Text (PBA) head coach Bill Bayno gave an update on the preparations and summer workouts being done by the Blazers power forward LaMarcus Aldridge in Dallas. With the help of a Dallas Cowboys trainer, Bayno said Aldridge has become bigger, stronger and better as the latter gets ready for the training camp which starts in October, according to OregonLive.com.

Bill Bayno

“He's working. He's wearing me out to be quite honest with you. 

He hired a personal trainer, a guy that works with a couple of the (Dallas) Cowboys. He's really gotten stronger; and he's done that on his own. I think he's probably up to 260, 262 (pounds). Considerably stronger and bigger, but hasn't lost any quickness. One of the things we've been working on is improving his first step. I can't say enough good things about him. He's taking it; I'm literally beating him up. He's probably doing 100 possessions a day once we get through, where I'm just forcing him baseline, forcing him middle, forcing him to his left hand, and just really cracking him with the pads and working on getting and-ones, and just continuing to be good at creating that contact and finishing with contact.”