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Hate to say it but I doubt it, he was never as intelligent as either one of them. And both of them were always good defenders, Negative Stats still doesnt know how to defend. He makes stupid offensive decisions that often lead to him getting called for an offensive foul or his shot gets blocked. Not only Chandler has surpassed him, but Jeffries has too. Hes scoring a little more efficiently with Lin running the point, but his defense is 100X better then Amarknee's. I think that once Harrelson comesback, Atari will be collecting more and more dust as time goes on.
Actually one legit reason he thrives in up-tempo, spacing-oriented offensive systems where he is on the move and he often gets the rock often on the move.
He doesn't have to think too much, if at all. His decisions have to be made quickly, too, and explosively, so he doesn't even really have "time" to think if he wanted to.
Amare's bread and butter was as simple as it was with Nash, as it was with Felton.
And it was pretty much just as unstoppable and efficient w/ Felton, as with Nash.
Amare would fummox, and underperform in many offenses otherwise. We've seen that first hand.
You could make a case that if Amare grew up under some other coach he would still have become one of the most dominant and efficient big men scorers in the game, and been good at D.....but based off the general intelligence and bball iq that he's shown, especially on D,
it's like teaching an autistic kid; they can be brilliant with one thing, which you need to coach out of them in just the right way for them to shine, but otherwise, you're deluding yourself if you reasonably expect similar brilliance to manifest any way else.
