More Rankings: 6-10
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We hoped May would have learned his lesson after a tough rookie season, one that saw him show up to camp out of shape, suffer the requisite achy knees, and play in just 23 games. Now, when he can stay on the floor this season, May has been playing at a per-minute level that suggests a future All-Star appearance (12 points, 6.7 rebounds, two assists in only 24 minutes per game, at age 22). But he can't stay on the floor for long because of those bad knees, and he's still out of shape. As it stands, May has played five times over the last two months, 35 games overall in his second season, so maybe this year will serve as the wake-up call. Sometimes it takes a couple of rings to wake the big guys up. |
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Also in a contract year, Bibby busted out of the gate shooting a woeful 36 percent in the month of November. No problem, it seemed, because Bibby had started 2005-06 shooting poorly after spending more time in the weight room than on the basketball court over the offseason, and he'd righted the ship by mid-December. This year? It took him a little longer -- Bibby only recently pushed his shooting percentage past the 40-percent barrier, bad news for a player who was hitting 45 percent of his career looks entering 2006-07. And the fact that Bibby kept chucking through the slumps even while the misses piled up -- instead of finding more looks for the sweet-shooting Kevin Martin -- probably cost the Kings a few wins, and another trip to the postseason. |
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Davis' averages of 16.6 points, 4.8 assists and four rebounds in 37.6 minutes per game aren't bad, they're pretty solid in fact. But the T'wolves guard is offering about the same per-minute production at age 27 that he was giving teams in his early 20s. Davis is supposed to be entering his prime, playing for a team that runs plenty of plays for him, so shouldn't we see some sort of statistical spike at some point? Davis is still skirting by on the same raw talent he showcased mere weeks after joining the NBA in 1999, though he should approach the 20 points per game barrier in 2007-08, a contract year.
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Claxton's knees have been killing him all season, his first as a Hawk, taking the lift off an already shaky jump shot and robbing him of the potential for the sort of pell-mell drives that allowed him to flourish in years past and grab a four-year, $25-million dollar deal from Atlanta. Claxton has been among the worst rotation players in the game since the season's outset. He's shot 32.7 percent from the floor, and is probably going to sit out for the rest of the season after a March that saw him score two points in nearly 35 minutes of court time. |
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We carped endlessly about Milwaukee's insistence on handing Jamaal Magloire 30 minutes a game last season. How it made no sense for someone like Mags to see the ball so much when he struggled to score and remained turnover prone, especially while rookie center Bogut was stuck playing out of position at power forward. The offseason hits, Magloire is traded for (essentially) three road alternate jerseys and a roll of ankle tape, and this is how Andrew takes to the pivot: 12.3 points, 8.8 rebounds, 2.9 assists, and half a block a game. Not bad -- he's still only 22 -- but he seems way too content to let Milwaukee's cast of guards chuck 17.4 3-pointers a game, while Bogut has to subsist off put-backs and broken plays. Even worse, and this is no exaggeration -- Andrew makes Zach Randolph look like Bo Outlaw defensively. He might be the worst help defender in the NBA. |
On the cusp: Stromile Swift, Nazr Mohammed, Larry Hughes
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