If Ariza being quick surprised you, you didn't know anything about Ariza. Ariza is a monster athlete with long arms, crazy hops, and tremendous speed and quickness for a 6'8" man. He disrupts passing lanes and generally wreaks havoc on defense away from the ball. He's not a fantastic man defender, but he's good, and he was improving as of last year. He scored most of his points with the Lakers on lobs, breaks, putbacks, pick & rolls, and the occasional jumper, so I wasn't expecting him to put up big scoring numbers based on ability to create his own shot. he's been surprising so far in that regard. Most surprising is his taking over 6 3's a game and making 46%. I figured he could probably hit 33-36% or so of them picking his spots--enough to be a threat when open, but not somebody you check for as a perimeter threat--but he's been fantastic from downtown. I don't think he'll stay at 46% long term, but it looks like he's put even more work into his shooting and can be an actual weapon from the outside...which will just open up his inside game that much more.