Anyone see this info on Buike?

Was surfing through clipsNation and came across one of their posts concerning Azubuike and it had this to say.

Azubuike opened last season as a starter and had a 33pt/ 8rb game against the clipps and followed a few games later with a 27pt 11rb game against dallas which is good… but he was playing injured the whole season and it just kept getting worse and worse because he never took 2 weeks off the let it heal.

Kelenna got a bone bruise in his ankle in summer league that had not healed by the start of the season. He was playing(and well) but was putting all his weight on his right leg because of his left ankle. He developed tendonitis in his right knee. The big dallas game was really the last time anyone saw a healthy Azubuike. He would have been fine if he sat out 2 weeks and let the right knee heal but he couldn’t for fear of falling out of crazy nellie’s rotation and Nellie wouldn’t sit him out because even though they were having to pump him full of liquid tylenol just to play, he was still better than both Barnes and Pietrus which were the alternatives. He averaged 8.5 pts / 4rbs in 20 minutes/game for 81 games while playing really injured… Imagine what he will do while healthy in 35 mins/game as a starter alongside Baron(who is probably the one who filled the clips in that Kelenna’s numbers were achived while playing injured all season). 

This is some really interesting information. I remember watching Azubuike during the first two weeks of the season and all I can say is he was flat out balling. I expected a lot more of those kinds of games but they never seemed to come. Most people attributed his production fall off to the return of Stephen Jackson, but really Buike didn't look like his same explosive self. Anyone remember his dunk on Kaman and putback over Diop?

I know this topic has been debated back and forth already, but knowing this information now, it'd be hard not to sign him for 3 mil/year. At the same time, will he ever get the playing time to show off his potential? Another reason I don't think we should have went out and got Maggette. Why not just commit yourself to the youth movement and let the kids play, including Azubuike? Who really knows what he's truly capable of to this point?