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Originally Posted by Arlie Rahn
Here's the issue though. Duncan is as good as he's going to be right now. Amare has barely touched the surface on his complete game. All that said, Amare completely outplayed Duncan on the offensive end and did it against a much better team defense (ie, helping) than Duncan faced (until Joe Johnson came back).
If Amare can become more consistent on the defensive end and continue to grow offensively, he will be a better overall player than Duncan - probably by age 24. Imagine where he's going to be at age 28 <shudder>.
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I agree, but as of now, we don't know whether the progress in rebounding and defense will be made. People said the same about Kemp on the defensive end, and it never happened (even before he got washed up). Offensively, he still is very raw as well. He struggles with double teams, and is a very poor passer from the post. BTW, I think it's fair to say that Stoudemire at 24, is probably what Stoudemire is. Rarely do players improve past that age.