All stars normally show their potential within a year and a half most of the time. I dont think tyrus is going to be that because of a few simple reasons. He is not a natural offensive player. Blocking shots and weakside help are his strongest points and his rebounding is about average but that could increase with consistent playing time. If he had the mindset of a ben wallace type which is defense first and get his points in the flow of the offense he would be much better. But face it. He is slightly trigger happy, too small to be a 4 and doesnt have the ball handling or scoring of a 3. And I havent seen him possess what most all star caliber players have which is a high basketball iq and heart.

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So what was the focus of your off-season, Vinny?

Well, I erased Ben’s name from all our late fourth quarter plays and penciled other guys in. I’ll go back over it in ink once I figure out what works. Then I tried to think up a cool code name for our defense, so I can say something other than the strategy was to switch a lot. And I worked on the pronunciation of my hard c sounds, since it seems like this Hinrich guy isn’t going anywhere after all.