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It has taken 19 games into this season for the Grizzlies to find regular profit in Swift's play. This also is arguably the highest degree of mental toughness Swift has shown in his four-year career.

He began the season as the team's starting center and then lost the job to Jake Tsakalidis because of poor work ethic. Swift, though, didn't disappear and is back in coach Hubie Brown's rotation as a backup to Lorenzen Wright.

"Now he's giving us major production in half a game," Brown said. "That means he's maximizing his time. That's what we ask our players to do. He has more hop and more life."

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c_dog

That's just awesome. It's definitely hard to find minutes on this team because it's so stacked. i hope stro keeps it up because he's one of the most exciting players to watch on this team. he's easily a 20/10 guy like randolph and jermaine o'neal if he gets to play 30+ minutes per game.

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UKfan4Life

Bump.

With the Grizzlies huge win last night and the dunk of the year by Stro, I'm sure we're all well aware that the Stro Show is back, and the show is better than ever.

Dakota

I still have not seen that Stro dunk everyone has been talking about. Could someone please give me a link or something that has the dunk on it. I'd really really appreciate it.


note-47 point win over Jersey, noicccceee.

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UKfan4Life

Go to www.nba.com. It's their number one dunk. Damn what a dunk! I'm still like whenever I see that dunk.

bigbabyjesus

Man, I love Stromile Swift.

He plays so well in limited minutes for you guys.

I love the Grizzlies this year, one of my favourite teams, such a deep team with so many athletic players, coming from that team i hated you had in Vancouver

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w-h-i-t-e-b-o-y

I am a Stro fan! I have been saying along I was the only one that Gasol is over-rated and Stro should be our starting PF. Now I know alot will dis-agree but you gotta give me props for stating Stro could get very impressive numbers if he got starting minutes. Its kinda like the Chi. Jamal Crawford situation, with regular minutes he is going crazy and FINALLY Stro is showing the same.

GO STRO SHOW!!

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Cinco de Mayo

You know...if someone asked me who I'd rather trade between Swift and Gasol, I'm starting to think harder and harder about it.

Gasol could be an All-Star if he really wanted to, but watching him, I'm just convinced that he's not the sharpest bulb at the picnic. Or something. He takes such a long time to decide what to do with the ball that he often makes pretty boneheaded plays. Swift's not the most basketball-savvy guy I've ever seen either, he has work ethic problems, and IMO not as high upside as Gasol in the sense of becoming a go-to guy, but he's such a complete freak that you know he'll blow up the second he gets playing time.

Like I said, I'm thinking about it.

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MemphisX

Pau is going to get dealt as soon as a superstar becomes available to Jerry. People forget that there is only 6 months seperating Pau and Stro. Pau is more consistent (but his minutes are also) and somehow he aviods being benched for poor, uninspired play (see Miami game). Stro is erratic but Stro at full blast is greater than Pau because Pau does not defend or attack rebounds like Stro.

In a perfect world they would just stay on the court for 40 minutes a night together and dominate and at 24/23 years of age that can still come in the future.

This is year 2 of seeing a glimpse of Stro dominating with this season's glimps being longer than last season, so I would not give up either on of them unless we got a true superstar in return, not just an All Star but an ALL NBA type.

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talula

Where was this attitude during the summer when I said that we wouldn't miss a beat if we traded Gasol, and started Stromile? Sure, Gasol puts points on the board, but he gives up just as many or often more on the defensive end, i.e. Lamar Odom.

OZZY

This is pathetic, people say start Stromile? Why? Because he gets cool kick *** dunks that are shown on Sports Center and Stuart Scott says some supposedly hip phrase to go along with it? Stromile is a solid player but just because he can dunk doesn't mean he is a great player yet.

Cinco de Mayo

He has shown flashes of being a great player, and the potential is undeniably there. Dunking isn't the only thing about his game that people are impressed with.

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OZZY

If you took him and pulled a Shawn Kemp right now and he suddenly could not jump, would he be good at all? He must learn how to rebound better, defend better and shoot much better. Right now he is just a athlete that can get great dunks, but that doesn't make him a great player. True he has potential but any player that is a superior athlete has potential.

talula

Stromile is one of the better defenders and rebounders on the team. I had a gripe with him last season about not holding his position on defense and always going for the block, but he's improved greatly on that. If you haven't noticed he's also capable of hitting a jump-shot this season. He actually worked hard on his offensive game during the offseason, as noted by both Hubie and Jerry West. And trust me, they don't say nice things about Stromile very often, which is understandable because of the inconsistency he's played with in the past. If Stromile could only dunk, he simply wouldn't be getting any playing time under Hubie Brown.