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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 5233149, member: 37"] Samson was on the Whaley trajectory. After playing for Ollie and playing 540 minutes Isaiah played four seasons under Hurley. His first season he played about sixty minutes. The next three seasons he played around 600 minutes in each. Samson played four years under Hurley. His first two seasons he played 68 minutes and then 47 minutes. The achilles heel injury set him back two seasons. Last season Samson played 640 minutes. This season he played 660 minutes. Game time experience matters. Samson had three strikes against him. The most devastating was the injury. The second was having to play behind two incredible centers during his tenure. The third was having to play with a severely flawed team when he was finally given his opportunity. I don't know what bignight3 in post 37 is talking about. Samson always hustled. His problem earlier this season was he was still learning to get himself under control. Less we forget Samson was paired with Solo, Mahaney, Liam and Alex early in the season. That was three starters who were very bad at defense and no matter how quick Samson was he couldn't make up for that bad trio. Meanwhile Reed would be subbed in with Hassan. When Hurley finally started Diara Samson finally began to get into rhythm. But a third of the season was lost. Diarra was really the only player that could lob the ball accurately enough to feed Samson. But that pretty much ended when Hassan had problems with his knee. His lessened ability to drive to the basket effectively shut down that option. There was a thread created to feed the Bear. I agreed with that thread. But why not a thread to lob to our leopard. Samson's offensive weapon was far more effective than even Tarris. Unfortunately both were the victims of a poor passing team. This thread is mostly a tepid response to just how good Samson has become. Hurley was ridiculed at the beginning of this season because of how he claimed Samson was NBA material. Over this last third of the season we can see that potential. He "finally clicked" is more of a tragedy of what happened due to his injury. I wish we had him for one more year. [/QUOTE]

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