we all know amare when he entered the league was an absolute freak, but the thing that gets me is his learning curve. Both him and LBJ seem to pick things up faster than anyone before them sans MJ.
Here's KG's numbers in his first 7 seasons:
RPG APG PPG
6.3 1.8 10.4
8.1 3.1 17.0
9.6 4.2 18.5
10.4 4.3 20.8
11.8 5.0 22.9
11.4 5.0 22.0
12.1 5.2 21.2
Here's Dirk's numbers in his first 6 seasons:
RPG APG PPG
3.5 1.0 8.2
6.4 2.5 17.5
9.2 2.1 21.8
10.0 2.4 23.4
9.9 3.0 25.1
8.7 2.7 21.8
Here's Amare's numbers in his first 2.1 seasons:
RPG APG PPG
8.7 1.0 13.5
9.1 1.4 20.6
9.2 0.7 28.7
All have decent 1st years (with Amare with the best), all have exponential growth during the second year, but after that its really a gradual expansion to dominance for most. Amare has had exponential growth so far his 3rd year as well. Eventually, I'm sure we'll see some of this gradual stuff, but right now it still seems like his game is growing by leaps and bounds.
I'll say this, this is about impossible to continue into next season, because if it did, he'd be averaging 36/10, basically surpassing Shaq, Kareem, Hakeem, etc (without titles of course), and entering the status of a modern day Wilt.
As a sidenote, Wilt was a beast! His worst season, he grabbed a paltry 18.2 boards, his best season, he avg'd 50.4 ppg and 25.7 rpg while shooting 51%. At least Amare has him on the percentages!
