<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (chingd15 @ Jul 25 2008, 12:21 PM)
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<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (chingd15 @ Jul 24 2008, 09:21 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I honestly never understood the huge difference between being a 22 year old and a 20 year old in the league and how one age makes you hit your potential wall while the other age means the sky's the limit. Sure it's two years but everyone learns differently, enters their primes at different time. It actually really pisses me off. I think if you just take yearly progressions of players, it would be a much better estimate as opposed to "this guy's ceiling" or blah blah. People are constantly adjusting their game, see Michael Jordan, Vince Carter, as examples. It's how they adapt. I personally think Yi has a great chance at adapting to the US game because he has a mean streak and is not a push over. I'm glad he called out Michael Redd and Mo Williams for being ball hogs. That means he wants the damn ball. I think he's got the mentality, now he's just gotta put it together, and if he's 20, 22, 50, whatever, let's let him play in our uptempo, shooter friendly system, and see how it goes, :-D.
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When did Yi call out Michael Redd and Mo Williams for being ball hogs? I may have missed this but could you provide a source? Thanks.
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I thought I had read that in another topic thread, the one where someone thought Yi was arrogant and wouldn't be a star. I could be wrong, though, sorry for the trouble.
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I think that could be mixed in with the idea that his handlers last year gave Milwaukee a bad time for drafting him. Complaining about playing time, care for injuries, no fans. Someone had posted that management was glad to have finally gotten rid of Yi because of his handlers. I don't think of Yi as being arrogant, but just looking at the people he trusts with his career giving Milwaukee management a bad time throughout the season, can swell a guy's head. IN NJ he's going to have the best of both worlds, the media market, yet not being IN the media market. His handlers can choose what to do and when to do it, knowing them, they're diving in full bore, but it could be taxing on Yi. On the basketball side of things, can't get any better than having a GM like Thorn and Kiki on his side. Plus I think Frank will get Yi to work on his weaknesses.