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Like some have said Rodney White is much younger than Prince! Prince played 4 years in college, White played one season. So obviously Prince might look better right now. Hey a ton of SG looked better than Kobe when he came into the NBA, does that mean they are better than him? Hell no! They are just more advanced in there basketball development because of there age. Take for example Battier, I hate the guy when he came out. Why, well he can not improve on what he already has, he will not get better, he will only get worse. Some players have a upside to them because they are young, and you take into account the aspects of the game they could learn over time if they work at it. So that is where the athletic ability comes in, if every player works just as hard, then the better athlete will be the better player. Only problem is some athletes don't work hard all the time.
But back to White, I do not think he is athletic, I just think he is a very solid mismatch problem. He is a big kid, has a wonderful handle of the basketball, he can get to the hoop and is a competitor. I think his future will be much better than Prince because White has not shown what he can do yet. And part of the reason for the is he did not get any time to play on Detroit.
Again people probably said Al Harrington etc were not good players in the first few years of their career. But now look at the Pacers, they collected young talent and they are succeeding because of it....
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