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This is about a month old but I don't remember seeing it in here:
Source: TheGlobeAndMail.com
Now an assistant coach with the New Jersey Nets, it’s Mitchell’s job to help figure how to defend the Raptors, who host the Nets a week Friday, and increasingly that means figuring out how to stop Andrea Bargnani.
“You look at the numbers he’s putting up, he’s becoming a guy you have to game plan for,” said Mitchell when I called him. “The way he’s scoring the basketball, the way he’s shooting it, you got to game plan for him. He’s putting up some unbelievable numbers.”
“I always felt like he was the closest thing to Dirk Nowitzki I’d seen,” says Mitchell. “A 7-footer who can put the ball on the floor and shoot with range, and he had a mid-range game and I always felt like he was as better athlete than Dirk, so at some point you thought he might have a chance to be an even better scorer than Dirk because he was a better athlete. He’s going to get better. He’s a young player, he’s a very intelligent player, and he can flat-out shoot the basketball.”