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Originally Posted by max  Trying to see where you guys are going with this Rebounder per minute stat of Amir's. He got 5 of them. Which is pretty good. I was there and it looked like he missed a lot of opportunities.
It just did not seem like Amir was very impressive out there. I call it like I see it. No excuses, no global judgements. Don't read any more into it than that. |
If he missed a lot of them I can only imagine what our other players missed.
I am biased but it is all a matter of perspective and likes and dislikes.
For example last night Bynum got a career high in points in 21 making as I recall 8 of 9 shots.
Now most of those were dunks. Not the earth shattering ones but mostly two handed.
But what I had noticed with him before and saw more of it last night because of all the dunks that he had were two things which only one of I recall having heard maybe one commentator commenting on but have seen anyone have written about him on.
The two things that I noticed were.
1. He can read interior defenses and he knows when to roll to the hoop. (only one of his dunks was a put back and I don't recall any being on a fast break).
2. He has great hands and can catch and throw down anything he can reach within 5 feet of the basket.
The point being and I am in no way discounting what you are saying about AJ based upon what you saw is that we tend to see that which interests us and the other things we just ignore.
Based upon the fact that he had only one block last night and what everyone has said about his play last night, it seems reasonable to say that he did not have one of his better efforts.
But the fact remains, that despite the many missed opportunities and I am assuming you are referring to missed rebounding opportunities, he still wound up with more rebounds per minute for the second straight game that he has played in, than any of our other players. That is a fact, not an observation. So while he may have been listless last night he still managed to rebound at a pretty decent rate of more than 1 every 3 minutes and it is only going to get a lot better.
Inconsistent play for a 20 year old does not surprise me at all.
I have seen AJ and Maxey play like all of us have and in my opinion AJ will never be the glass crashing player on offense like Maxey, nor a one handed dunker like Maxey. So to a lot of people he will not be as exciting to watch around the glass as Maxey.
Again, I am not disputing what you saw and the validity of your comments, but just adding some other observations and opinions to them.
