<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Rodney Carney became acquainted with Thaddeus Young two years ago. Then a junior small forward at Memphis, Carney used to play pickup games with Young ? a junior at Mitchell High in Memphis at the time. ?He always wanted to guard me because, I guess, he said I was the best player,? Carney said after Monday's first full day of Sixers rookie camp. ?He wanted to get better. Now it's like that here, but on a different level.? On the professional level, Carney and Young are in the mix for minutes ? if not a starting spot ? on the wing opposite Andre Iguodala. Carney is coming off a rookie season in which he averaged 6.6 points and shot 46.4 percent in 67 games, 35 of which he started. Young, the 12th pick in the 2007 draft, wowed the Sixers with his athleticism, character and potential. Both players run the floor well and can get to the rim. ?With Thaddeus and all them, there's some pretty good competition, as we've seen today,? Carney said. ?You're going to have to step your game up, and that's what I'm going to do.? Carney, 23, has the advantage of experience. He spent four years at Memphis, compared to Young's one season at Georgia Tech. Young is going through his first NBA camp, while Carney is in his second. ?It was very different,? Young said of his first pro intrasquad scrimmage. ?The high school and college levels are so much different than the NBA. Everything's much more physical and the guys are much bigger.?</div> Source: Philly Burbs
