AK's banner year:
Year Team G GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% OFF DEF RPG APG SPG BPG TO PF PPG
03-04 UTA 78 78 37.1 0.443 0.338 0.790 2.9 5.2 8.1 3.1 1.9 2.8 2.76 2.23 16.5
vs.
10-11 UTA 53 51 32.2 0.469 0.372 0.777 1.6 3.9 5.5 3.0 1.3 1.2 1.83 1.75 11.9
The difference?
-Blocks and steals are down. He doesn't have the legs he had in 2004 and won't see his career average in blocks ever again.
-More rebounds, which he was fighting Harpring, limited minute Ostertag and Collins, and a pitch in effort from Gugliota over. Not exactly strong competition from your own teamates.
-More points from more opportunities. Again, he was fighting Harpring for the top scoring spot. Jazz had to use him.
AK is having the same year AK always has. His "fall off" year, 2006-2007, he was against four better players for points (Boozer, D-Will, Fisher, Okur + Harpring) and a pretty darn good overall rebounding team. This tells me AK was never a superstar and his contract was a mistake. There's no difference from AK playing with or without Williams. He was the best player on bad teams and stood out because of it, got a boatload of money, and ended up looking worse when his teammates got better. Again, his only team competition was Matt "Frysauce" Harpring.
He was a late season Dutch in a Chinese nursery. Dude looked huge in comparison, but really never was.