| 10 May 2007
(Boulder-CO) I’ve decided that during this thin part of the off-season when the only thing Nuggets fans can do is sit and watch other franchises in the playoffs. I would take the opportunity to breakdown this team player-by-player and honestly weigh in on their 2006-07 season. I plan on going in reverse order of what I deem contribution, so today’s evaluation is going to spotlight Jamal Sampson. Otherwise known as, “The 12th man”. When he was signed this previous off-season the report was that he was one of, “George Karl’s guys”, dating back to 2002 in his rookie season with Milwaukee. The good news about Jamal Sampson is that he just missed tying a career-high in games played with 22, but the bad news is it was for less than six minutes per appearance and for meager averages of 1.1 points, (and I use the plural sense of that word very liberally), 2.2 rebounds, and not even large enough of a percentage of an assist to mention. So much for being, “One of George Karl’s guys” parlaying into playing time.
My honest take on Jamal is that I still don’t even know what this 6’11”, 240 pounder can do! I would have liked to see whether or not he could have been a contributor, but once again it was a season with the best seats in the house for Sampson. On that same note, and as you will see in the rest of these player report cards, the Nuggets need to drop some of the dead weight on this bench and I am sorry to say that Mark Warkentien and his management crew would be well advised to shop Sampson around this off-season in combination with a couple of other not-so often utilized players in hopes of being able to play more than two or three deep come playoff time.
Jamal earned $774,551 in salary for 2007.
Anybody looking for a very well rested big man?
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