misterearl wrote:There is a valid reason Stoudemire is silent.

After a failed comeback from surgery, Amare will retire in January.

You heard it here first.

If this is true--do we get a player exemption that can be used to sign a free agent?

IrishKnickFan wrote:

Nalod wrote:

IrishKnickFan wrote:

Nalod wrote:What happens?

I don't know.

good insight lol

Thats the most original thought youve come up with in a long time.

Hope the ensueing migrane is not too bad.

well you were nasty to me first. show me respect and i will show you resepct

Dude chill out!

Great ball movement (passing).
Defense.
Low turnovers (important for our possessions because we haven't been that great in the rebounding category).

Unfortunately for Amare, HE EXCELS AT NONE OF THESE QUALITIES.

He is not known to be a good passer. Rather, he has tendencies to be the "black hole", where you pass him the ball and you won't see it coming back. He wants to shoot and score.

Defense??? No. Just, no. Getting one block means jack if you're consistently letting your man blow by you or losing players on the backdoor cuts. He's such a liability on defense.

He also turns the ball over a lot. Bobbles passes. Loses his dribble.

I honestly don't know where Amare fits into this team and its new identity. We have a top 5 offensive player in the league (Melo), a Sixth Man of the Year candidate in JR who also provides offensive firepower, RayRay has been returning to borderline All-Star playmaking, and we have 3-pt shooters in Kidd, Novak, and heck even Brewer. Yes, Amare can add some offensive talents to our team but I'm praying the coaching staff does not lose sight of why we have been doing so well. Defense. Defense. It's all about defense.

In my opinion (since I doubt he's tradeable), we have to delicately handle Amare's ego and convince him that by announcing he'll gladly come off the bench, it will do wonders for his image, as opposed to insisting he is a starter in the NBA and consequently seeing the Knicks return to the Knicks of old. 20-25 min off the bench please.

IrishKnickFan wrote:

Nalod wrote:

IrishKnickFan wrote:

Nalod wrote:What happens?

I don't know.

good insight lol

Thats the most original thought youve come up with in a long time.

Hope the ensueing migrane is not too bad.

well you were nasty to me first. show me respect and i will show you resepct

YOu got to earn that.

MY beef is you called me out on the rondo comment because you did not read my post.

You reguritate the obvious over and over so you needed a talking to anyway.

Instead of "my bad" you bring on sophmoric reference to "Tampons".

At my age I might be menopausal so I might not even use one anymore!

See, be original to defuse a confrontation or just freaking do a "my bad".....Name calling stopped working in grade school.

Thats how you earn it son!

Use him to backup Melo at PF. Melo gets 2 early fouls, Amare 1st guy off the bench.

I'm counting on Amare to have some pride and not be the guy that stops the ball when the rest of the team is moving it. To not be the guy who misses assignments when everyone else is busting their arse on D.

Sheed is smart as hell. So's Kidd. Chandler/Woody holds guys accountable. Shump is a beast on D as is Brewer as is Camby man as is Krazy Eyes Kurt. If Amare can still create holes in the defense with all of these players and this coach around him then he's hopeless on D and we have to hope:

- his J is back to where it was
- some of his explosiveness comes back
- he becomes the reincarnation of Hakeem

Then he'd basically be like Brook Lopez. Max contract, All offense, zero defense. Hopefully a better rebounder than Lopez.