I think to put the whole AJ thing into perspective.

Lets compare where he stands compared to Maxey

Maxey played 4 years of big time college hoops.

His first year with us when he as 22-23 he averaged 2 points and 1 rebound.

AJ has had no college experience and prior to this year he had only 50 games in the D league 60 in total beyond high school if you include the 11 games with us over the last two years.

AJ is still only 20 years old and won't be 21 until the playoffs, which is about 2 + years younger than Maxey was when he joined us.

So far AJ is averaging 2.5 points and 2.7 rebounds a game this year, which are already better than Maxey had in his first year with us and those numbers should go up by the end of the year.

So if you compare him to Maxey, I would say that AJ at this time in on a relative time, experience and age basis compares very favorably to Maxey.



Jason Maxiell - Detroit Pistons - Career Statistics - NBA - Yahoo! Sports


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