colombian0725 wrote:He is not a max player because he is not creating his own shot. Amare is being counted on this team to score points and play his position and that's rebound and not hide whenever someone comes in to lay up or dunk. How many times have ween seen him step aside and allow a dunk or lay up when Jorts jumps straight up with his arms and contests shots. Amare max player is supposed to at least be able to create for himself esp when melo is out with an injury. I mean look at Chris Bosh getting 33 points without wade or Lebron and leading Miami to a victory over ATL in a game we clearly would lose. He had a rookie in Cole and Mario Chalmers who at this point wouldn't start on many teams and isn't exactly the best passer. Bosh found ways to score. He took the ball in the post. I would take Chris Bosh at this point on this team with Melo. Chris Bosh is now banging in the paint with that little frame of his and he is scoring. I used to bash Bosh but he is actually taking the ball in the post and posting his man up and scoring. In a game where Bosh was playing without Wade and Lebron he had other parts of his game that he used to score. Post up game. Amare even with Melo out and ball movement hasn't been able to score. He is supposed to be a scorer. Scorers should be able to create offense. Amare is being exposed and now is looking like a role player that cannot create for himself. He requires a pg. It's pretty clear that he cannot be the number one guy if he cannot score because he does not have a point guard.
I was not making a point in calling him a max or vet-min player. It really doesnt matter what he earns at this point. Maybe him and Melo will restructure their contracts, maybe not. Does not matter for this season.
The point I was making is that no player can be judged by his own. Its always the situation he is in. And Stat is known for 9 years of playing an elite finisher. He was never supposed to create his shot. But him with a PG that gives him the ball at the right spot is as dangerous for the opposing team as it gets. Pay him max money for it? Really, I dont care. As others said, it was more about him being here to start something out of nothing. There were times last year he was looking like THE big prize in free agency. That includes LeBron and that biatch Bosh (good for him that he had a 33 point game, he can have the boxscore printed out and hang it over his bed).
Now you have him exposed. He is not a create for himself player, because he always either picks up an turnover or an offensive foul when he tries to dribble to the basket. But hes neither a player who needs a MVP-Nash as his PG. A RayRay was enough to give him 9 30+ games (dont remember how many it were).
So, if you only need to give a top 15 PG 5 million a year, to have Stat play like a MVP candidate, I would rather wait for the off season and sign one. That is, if baron dont work out!
The alternative is to send Amare away in a trade. You would not get enough in return for him in any trade scenario to justify this.
But until then, Stat on the other hand has to get his head out his arse and do what he did for like 3 games this season: Be ferocious on the offensive glass and work! Your shot is not falling? Box out and rebound, because Melos shots are not falling neither.
This team is disfunctional as it is, but its not Stats fault in my view. Its neither Melos fault (well, not totally at least, hes really trying this season and I give him that), its Dolans fault to blow his wad on Melo and in turn alienate the best GM hes ever had, destroy a functional team, rip his coach of said team, blablabla... Water under the bridge and so on.
1/17/2012 3:51 PM
