I don't think anyone made a Rodman comparison. I know someone made a John Salley comparison.
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I don't think anyone made a Rodman comparison. I know someone made a John Salley comparison.
found it....it was Codename V in the Blazers OGT:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Mailman
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Originally Posted by Codename V
Matt > The Mailman.
I think Amir is more like john salley than dennis rodman in that they are both the help-defending/shot-blocking type while Rodman, although a great help-defender, was never a great shot-blocker (which had to do with him being such a great on-the-ball defender and focusing on obtaining position for the rebound rather than blocking the shot).
Rodman, in my opinion, was the greatest rebounder to ever play this game. Amir Johnson will never be in his league. He tries to block too many shots (which I don't necessarily think is a bad thing).
The fact that Rodman's not in the hall of fame is an absolute shame.
With all that being said, Amir Johnson has the potential to be MUCH better than John Salley. Salley was always a little soft and often settled for jumpers while amir is much more physicially gifted (both in leaping ability and strength) and is not afraid to attack the rim, glass and his oppenent's shot. He is exactly what this team needs. It's a shame that he's still so young and not to the point where he can play big minutes at the 4 in big games.
I'm glad that Amir has had a chance in games to finally prove what he can do. He has a lot of raw talent, and is so young that I don't think he's even begun to tap his potential. There were a lot of people in here early on that were worried about what kind of player Amir could be, but I think he's hushing every doubter about now.
More importantly with Amir is his attitude. The guy was in the D-League for 2 years, sat the bench for most of this year, and has to deal with Flip's crazy substitution patterns. Yet there wasn't one word of complaint from him. In fact, it looks like he took it upon himself to get better and let his play get him minutes. The guy is much more bulked up than he was even last year, and he still will get even stronger. I have seen him hit jump shots, he's just not comfortable with that part of his game yet. He will be in due time.
And if we're doing the comparison game, here's mine:
Amir Johnson is what Pacers fans hoped Jonathan Bender would be.
YOU GO VISIT JOHN BENDER IN FIVE YEARS
yea, hard not to get excited after last night. his body type is almost exactly like a very young KG's. and he's got that same quickness, which is really exciting.
what he becomes is entirely on him. joe raved about how much he likes playing D. thats cool. pretty much, its on amir as far as what kind of a player he wants to be. whether its rodman, salley, garnet, duncan. whatever. we know he has a shooting touch, he just needs to work on that form.
i am impressed with his attitude. imo, it looked like we set him up to fail and he did not. good stuff.
Looks like we don't need Camby after all, lol.
Amir is a working model volcano built out of clay that erupts baking soda and vinegar.
The Pacers wanted Bender to be a SG.