Paladin55 wrote:Amare has to make some adjustments and not try to force things. It is painful watching him sometimes when he sets his mind to drive and pays no concern to the fact that he is being surround by 3 defenders, or is running into one of them in his charge to the basket.

On three occasions, he had a wide open guy for a baseline 3, and Turn the ball over on all three possesions trying to either draw the foul or make an impossible shot. He actually played a lot like Eddie curry on the offesive end.

knicks1248 wrote:

Paladin55 wrote:Amare has to make some adjustments and not try to force things. It is painful watching him sometimes when he sets his mind to drive and pays no concern to the fact that he is being surround by 3 defenders, or is running into one of them in his charge to the basket.

On three occasions, he had a wide open guy for a baseline 3, and Turn the ball over on all three possesions trying to either draw the foul or make an impossible shot. He actually played a lot like Eddie curry on the offesive end.

sad but true

BRIGGS wrote:If Amare can make a move--make your move. If there is a clean opportunity to pass make a pass. Dont try to go through 3 guys or spin dribble if you see a defender in the peripheral. Right now he looks like a bad version of Udonis Haslem rather than the guy we saw last year.

The scouting report on him was that once he decides he's going to score he gets a wee bit o' tunnel vision.

Solution 1:

Get him into more situations like he was in Phoenix rolling to the hoop or picking and popping for a wide open J.

Trade for Steve Nash
Have guards and Amare put in extra time getting that frikkin pick n roll down.

Maybe only Nash can thread em through defenders like he do????

Solution 2:

Have Amare work on passing out of a frikkin double team or get some more moves. Maybe a post game of some kind. Bring in Hakeem.

MDA should be able to to think of something, right?

Right?

michael6835 - you know I love you like the red-headed step cousin on my Aunt Betty's side of the family but it was not just one game.

I'd be delighted if Amare simply stops spinning into the lane without looking.

Look on the bright side. Once he gets in sync with the backcourt (and vice versa) by December - the crowd will stand and cheer.

Nalod wrote:I love Barkley. Man got that Yogi Berra Stupid-Smart thing down. He is there for the comedy.

Knicks have and will make adjustments. Often its what the defense gives you. Yes, they took away Amare and dared us to beat them with Gallo and our guards. They lost.

Bulls came roaring back as one might have thought. We prevailed even with the TO's.

This is exactly the point, Their defense was playing Amare only and they lost the gamble. If we can consistently make good ddefensive teams pay when they focus all their might on Amare for a few games, we will automatically gain respect from other teams. THEN we can look for a more balance defense against us where Amare will have more freedom.

kam77 wrote:

Michael6835 wrote:Side bar, it would be cool to have a "notify me by email" feature to the board. I've seen it in other forums, where you can subscribe to a thread. I don't post much because I don't get to check often.

And with the ability to reply via email so I don't even have to log in.

unfor we are low tech here at ultimateknicks.com

Michael6835 wrote:earl,
82 game season,
they are 2-2, so it will even out. Being a forward in this league has everything to do with your cast. It's not like he is 1,2,3 where he can have the ball on the wing and control his flow. He needs space to do what he does, if the rest of the team isn't going to hit shots and step up (GALLO) then teams will always stack the deck on Amare, why wouldn't you.

the thing is, he's been single covered until he hits the paint and he's going to draw lots of attention there regardless of the players around him.

but you are right that he will adjust. it's hard to average 7 TO's a game for an entire season. it's just a matter of how long before he wises up.

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