Originally Posted by TwinkieFoot

To be honest, I believe that Channing is a bit overhyped and given a bit more credit than he deserves. For instance, his scoring ability. During the first few months of the season, many of the shots he would recieve would be fairly open. I attribute that to plays being run to perfection and a general lack of knowledge by most teams about Channing as a player. As a jump shooter, Frye took advantage of those looks. When teams actually put a hand in his face, his shooting percentage seemed to drop a bit as well as his FA's. Although Frye has a gift on the offensive end, I still would like to see whether he can be as big a threat with an open jumper as he is taking the ball to the rim or with his back to the basket.


I think the one thing that he's doing though that must do not give him credit for is rebound. People are quick to point out his 6rpg over the course of the season but fail to note he only got 24mpg to do so. Overall, that is not to bad if he can maintain that efficiency over 30 plus minutes. On many occassions, our reputation proceeds us and I believe that is the case with Frye. He was supposedly "soft" on the boards in college and that image of him has followed him into the NBA. The problem with that analysis is that it does not take into account the kind of rebounds that were available playing for Arizona. I do not follow college ball but I know a great deal of there strength came from there backcourt and off shooting perimeter shots in a run and gun system. Long shots equal long rebounds which clearly puts a post guy at a disadvantage to position for rebounds.

I'm curious to see what Frye does during the course of this season because it would give us a good indication of how good he really is or could be.