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Appreciating Amir (or at least his hair)

From Austin Burton at Dime: "Watching Amir Johnson in his 10 minutes off the bench last night, two things occurred to me: (1) Instead of barely cracking the Pistons’ rotation, the 21-year-old could have been a senior at Louisville this year, and (2) Amir has the tightest waves in the NBA."

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Think Amir would put Louisville over the top?

by brgulker on Mar 25, 2009 6:39 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Damn I didnt even realize that. Of course Louisville would be pretty amirzing if he was there this year. unfortunatley for them he is not and MSU is going to win it all.

by Ronnie D. on Mar 26, 2009 6:00 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

MSU has absolutely no chance of wining it all, I’m sorry to say. It would be cool if they did, though.

by brgulker on Mar 26, 2009 5:31 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

The problem with Amir is that everyone including we the fans, Curry, Joe D and Amir himself is expecting him to be "great" right now which is wrong in my book. When we hype him up to be the next KG or whoever we are just setting him up to fail. Think about it.

For one, he’s ONLY 21 and straight out of high school.

Secondly, he’s very frail.

And thirdly, he has had 0 to no time to develop. Remember he’s straight out of HIGH SCHOOL and has only played in four more NBA games than sophomore Rodney Stuckey, even though Stuckey missed alot of games last season with a broken hand.
Amir has played in 128 games, Stuck 124.

It’s unreasonable to expect Amir, a second round draft pick, to be this basketball messiah ESPECIALLY when he hasn’t had the playing time to improve and develop his skills.

With that said I don’t think we should trade him anytime soon. When he’s seen heavy minutes on the floor he’s one of our most productive bigs. Once he plays more which will help him to gain more knowledge of the game and bulks up , he won’t foul as much and become much more efficient offensively.

Be patient Curry/Dumars. He will blossom with more playing time. Just look at how Andrew Bynum or Tyrus Thomas started out.

by iLegend on Mar 27, 2009 12:12 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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