CrushAlot wrote:

holfresh wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:I hope at the very least that they bring Stat off the bench at first. Maybe he will like playing with the second unit without Melo on the floor for stretches, having Kidd and Prigs feeding him the ball is a nice luxury to have. They can still put Stat and Melo in together at the end of games so nobody feels slighted.

So where is the second scorer coming from if STAT is on the bench??..STAT has to play at least 35 minutes per game for the Knicks to be successful..he has to play with Anthony at some point...How do we compete if we only have one legit scorer on the floor when top teams start at least three...

Maybe thirty minutes a night and sit out back to backs. Stat if healthy is way too good to wear down. The Knicks will need him next spring.

I'm thinking that's why we have 15 guys who can play right now..Maybe less minutes for all starters...But we need Melo and STAT to play together...It's the only way we will be competitive...

I was actually surprised last year at Novaks defense. He started off horrendously - always backing off and giving too much space. That killed him in two ways, people would take the open shot or just drive past him
as he wasn't fast. But when he got up on them his length helped a ton and when they drove past them we had Chandler and now we will have Camby as well.

We are going to need JR to step up his play and we are going to need offense from other guys and that is a bit scary. Unfortunately, JR seems to play best when he is not depended on much, a bit like how Melo played brilliantly in the Olympics. Chandler doesn't have an offensive game beyond P&R and putbacks. Felton is going to be key along with Copeland imo. I wish we had held onto our offensive Stat insurance policy, otherwise known as Lin. Sorry, had to get that in there. I was harping on this since they didn't match Lin's offer.

nixluva wrote:Just too much to ask a player of Amar'e caliber to come off the bench. There are much easier ways of handling that. You can have him sit early in the 1st so that the sub pattern has him play a lot when Melo sits. This way you keep his pride intact and still reap the benefits of his talent. Personally I don't think the problem is about STAT and Melo, but rather our lack of quality PG's in the past. With the PG's we have now I don't expect any issues at all. I think things are going to work out great. When you have great passers you don't have distribution issues.

The problem is Stat and Tyson. And that might be far less a problem since Stat is gonna be out for much of his remaining knick games.

Too much to ask a player of HIS CALIBUR? Are you kidding me? We are paying him like village idiots we can ask him to polish everyones shoes if we want to.

MSG3 wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:Chris Broussard‏@Chris_Broussard

Amare Stoudemire to miss at least 1st 6 weeks of season with knee injury, according to league sources. Knicks expected to announce tomorrow

Great... only pre season worse than this I can remember is when McDyess destroyed his knee.

Was going to post Antonio McDyess all over again

holfresh wrote:This will probably typical of his career going forward..We got half a season from him..STAT, Donnie and MDA took Dolan to the cleaners again..

CrushAlot wrote:Chris Broussard‏@Chris_Broussard

Amare Stoudemire to miss at least 1st 6 weeks of season with knee injury, according to league sources. Knicks expected to announce tomorrow

NUPE!!!!!

COME AT ME BRO!