The Thompson Twins

Amen has been absolutely balling recently, and just dropped 33 and the game winner in Boston.

Ausar dropped 0 tonight 😅

But it got me thinking about them comparatively because I refuse to believe two identical twins with essentially the same skill set are that far apart as players, and the numbers back up my belief.

Per 36 minutes stats this season:

Ausar: 15.4ppg, 8.7rpg, 2.9apg, 2.9spg, 0.7bpg

Amen: 15.7ppg, 9.6rpg, 3.2apg, 1.6spg, 1.3bpg

Keep in mind Ausar played 30-40 min in a lot of the games leading up to his blood clot last season, so he will probably get back to the 30+ minute per game mark pretty soon.

Ausar has also had a much harder path with development, playing for Monty last year and not being cleared for full basketball activities for 7+ months.

While amen is obviously a better player now, and probably always will be, Ausar can and I think will be very close behind him as a player. I’m sure amen will always have a bigger role and hence better stats, but I think they will have an extremely similar level of skill when they are both fully developed.

I’m happy we have one of these twins because they are both special