It wasn’t hard to come up with a list of reasons for why Amen Thompson could bust in the NBA when he entered the 2023 draft. Amen and his twin brother Ausar took a novel path to the draft by bypassing college basketball for the upstart Overtime Elite league, where they played against younger and inferior competition that muddied their statistical projection. Neither of the twins could shoot, but Amen’s jumper looked especially weak. Amen was supposed to be a point guard, but he refused to take a pull-up jumper and played more like a rim-rolling big man around the basket.
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