amare also let mullens (a briggs favorite) go 3 for 3 against him. so all told, by my count, amare gave up 15 makes on 17 attempts. just an absolutely pathetic effort tonight from him.

Killa4luv wrote:I have been saying for a while that Amare is the worst defensive player on this team. For a while people lumped Amare and Melo together as bad defenders. Amare is worse, much worse. His bad defense is coupled by his poor rebounding. Its really inexcuseable, unless he's still hurt.

He played the same way last season.

I guess people din't notice it because he was the only guy on the team that could score consistently and keep us in games.

colombian0725 wrote:Yeah he was bad on D but the problem with our D is we our letting these guys get open and when your trying to recover they have the chance to pump fake and our guys bite including Stat. Our team D is just bad. We need to have these guys swarm to ball carriers. All the great teams that play ball great help D cause lets face it when they get in the lane we need the help to come on time force bad passes. We wouldn't give up as much if the help D got their on time. But Yeah Amare got schooled one on one a few times but if the help got their on time It would look different. I see players get taken off the dribble but the difference is that they get the help on time and the rotations are on time.

too much damn switching too. Except Imam, everyone was running under screens and switching allowing mismatches and easy backdoor plays.

I buy in that he seemed extremely lazy and disinterested defensively on ALL rotations
or help. Amare was never a stealth D guy but he had athletic capability to do it when
he wants. Same for Melo Anthony.

Its early and perhaps too early to blame D'Antoni whom aint the defensive coach on this team.

I think this is the play I watched live and recall thinking it was amazing.

I'm in my 60s and I can defend better than Amare. Last night I watched him just look at guys go by him and he never lifted an arm. I think that Amare feels like he is not wanted and Melo is getting all of the attention.

Sangfroid wrote:

Papabear wrote:Papabear Says

I'm in my 60s and I can defend better than Amare. Last night I watched him just look at guys go by him and he never lifted an arm. I think that Amare feels like he is not wanted and Melo is getting all of the attention.

Sorry Papa, he just doesn't play D. He might get a weak side block, or makes a feeble attempt to pressure his man out on the perimeter, SOMETIMES. I'm hoping that the peer pressure and prodding from Woodson will at least get some response from him.

We'll see how he responds to that game- he got thoroughly embarrassed, and for a player who keeps going on about swag, that has to be humiliating- it would be great if it gave him the push he needs to actually care about playing defense. I mean they just had a long film wtching sessions- he must of cringed when watching how bad he was at times.

It's not just effort with Amar'e, it's also confusion- he has played for D'Antoni too long. If you read his post game quotes, he sounds like he's confused about what they're meant to be doing defensively.