The Amare Stout experient needs shelving, I Feel for Amare but he is neither tough
not even a true PowerForward as far as attitude and his ability to be a force in the paint for few points OR rebounds.
All in all call it the NY Knickerbockers 'Lemon law', yes cutting Amare Or trying desperately to shop him in off season
on next yr, until he goes away is very very difficult & near impossible.
But We need to start addressing some of our woes outside Carmelo Anthony, and at least to Melo is gone OR
will still be hear with help equalling a LEGIT #2 bonafide Star/superstar player whom can take over a game at least 85-99%
of the time when MELO is way off his game, then Knickerbocker franchise is fooling themselves as far as championship dreams
or even chasing NBA division titles.
Amare been a good trooper, mostly kept quiet and no wonder worked harder to overcome his physical woes at his younger age then
I commend him for coming to NY & making us relevant in terms of other NBAers wanting to try coming to knickerbockers.
However its still about game of basketball no simpler than that! Even if we admit we cant ever NEVER get old STOUT
a piece of STOUT Or 50% of old' Amare play is BETTER than none, we're not even getting close to that! I Aint going to fully
blame our lame PG play again which isnt Amare's fault.
Amare isnt tough, emotionally he's up & down often too soft to really focus on doing anything such as scrapping for a loose ball
out BIGGING smaller PFs such as David West & Boozer, Amare can't pass well and for a guy over 6' 8 OR 6 9' tall HE dont rebound
enough for me at least 9-11 boards so we can say he's a 'really good rebounder'.
The Hakeem summer camp project helped us see few of his low post nice moves once in awhile but often,
the paint gets rough and tough and you need to be fierce & Amare isnt fierce NOR Imposing or trys to be FORCEFUL enough
with his big body to punish. Stoudemire often plays PF like he's a 6'4 Shooting guard.
Amare is an albatross around Knicks org. similar to AllanHouston #20 during poor knicks decline yrs, I aint a fool to blame
all this on Amare its not his fault he's got bad back and bad knees. But you cant teach defense and re-invention which many
NBAers before Amare has similar such as B.King and even in NFL but came back & kinda re-invented few things to figure out their
place in their profession/sport.
Respectively, Amare Stout don't seem able to figure this out to find a place on court to be a force On Knicks needs or
even in leadership. Stout cant board consistent, cant score consistent & in the paing, cant defend period, cant be tough & resilient, cant pass, cant block enough shots to change a game, cant more importantly CANNOT be legit #2 scorer star/threat
Period! *write it in stone
So get rid of him ! The 100$million being hear for next 2 seasons is a farce & I dont want that!
As a main knick fan as many on this board I cannot stand it anymore, NY Knicks wont do it but I'd be ok with cutting him or letting NY Find a taker to even part partial of his $contract so over the next 1 yr or so we can search for:
1) Legit #2 valid star/superstar and pay them multiyr contract to see what help Melo Anthony will get
and how it may change Knicks fortunes
2) Legit PG or star PG in the making,
we neither have a top PG OR a top #2 legit star option
Tired of JR Smith
Tired of Raymond Felton
Both of these guys can go to hell, We're better off giving Copeland a chance to develop and worry bout his D' over summer camp
and at least until we get opportunity for legit 2nd person to aid Knicks/Melo. At least Chris Copeland can score inside & out with
a perimeter shot with > avg pct. as numbers indicate when he is given chance he can score OR get to basket to draw fouls cause of
his height and youth athleticism.
Tire also of Coach Mike Woodson, let him play out the season but Woody whom I support is turning out to be a worst coach
than MDA, at least during bad bad stretches MDA would test different lineups and also test different things, even bench a starter
What has woodson done to bench a starter ? bench Ronnie Brewer ? whom was screwed by Woodson as a starter scapegoat and if
unless I'm stupid as poor as few of Brewer games been as SG/SF when he started when he was a knicks didn't Knicks have a better record? or winning more & playing a more complete game with Brewer in lineups ?
The stupid coach never went back to this guy & god bless Brewer going to OKC the kid deserves to be with a real winner,
We can learn alot from what Knicks are doing wrong these days,
Just watch coach Woodson!
2/23/2013 7:05 PM