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Message: [QUOTE="oldhusky, post: 4650915, member: 9844"] I would agree that Amari has better shooting and passing skills, and also good shot blocking skills. Emphasis on skills here though. Amari has not been an effective shooter, passer or shot blocker IMO despite her skills. Her shot selection has negated her effectiveness as a shooter. She has not been efficient. She has passing skills but because she is careless with turnovers she is not good there either. As for the blocked shots, she gets plenty but is a foul machine so her stats there relative to the fouls is also not good. Those are three skills that I agree she has, but after bad shots, turnovers, and fouls she has not been able to turn any of those skills into a usable advantage because of bad decision making and or basketball IQ. Sometimes that comes with experience but there is no significant trend-line from freshmen to sophomore that suggests we should project much difference. I will go back and look up some numbers on Kia, but my recollection is she was a very good player early in her career despite not getting playing time due to great players ahead of her. If Amari played better she could have easily been at a minimum a regular 4th big in the rotation, but Geno seemed to prefer going small than using Amari as the 4th big. Anyway hope I am wrong. [/QUOTE]