Official Iman Shumpert Thread

[petescud]

I just hope he's a good compliment to our team. I think he's going to be another TD (a keeper) ...Hope he's a quick NBA learner

[NYKnicks11]

hahahahaha u gonna have to take that one up with the threadstarter. It reminds me of draft night, after Marshon Brooks was picked everybody on one of the basketball forums (cant remember which one) kept sayin hes the next Kobe.

lol that's even worse.

[nixon7]

Watching the first hour of the MSG training camp special.

First off, Tyson Chandler is making a strong bid for coach of the year. It is just amazing to watch how much he is coaching the rest of the team on defense, especially with regards to communicating on the floor.

Second, Shumpert is just totally hilarious. I just love this kid's sense of humor. I can totally see the rest of the team taking him under their wing as a little brother. And he clearly is a high IQ and character guy, just like Fields.

Getting real excited in a way I haven't felt since 1999.

[Lercher]

NYK and MSG have done ****ed up this time, there is no online stream of the training camp, so every Knicks fan from outside US can watch it...

[platnumn]

They'll have replays on, no worries man.

[DrB]

We have a very exciting team.

Shumpert will add to it greatly!

That's all I'm saying..

All the great players came into the league very, very good and quickly became the cream on their teams...SHUMPERT will be the cream and Amare and Carmelo treated him that way when he came back to the bench. They have confidence in him.

[Lercher]

I_am_Iman: Lol I apologize for shooting a layup on the break haha. Thas the last time...next time I'll be clear for takeoff. I was too excited to think.

He played good today, but he's right he should have dunked it when he got a clear path.

[iSaYughh]

Tyson Chandler is making a strong bid for coach of the year. It is just amazing to watch how much he is coaching the rest of the team on defense, especially with regards to communicating on the floor.

Exactamundo. It's no mystery that this would have a good chance of happening, as this precise situation:

quality, very respected, defensively-committed and passionate player coming to a talented team of athletically able, yet defensively lax players and transforming the entire culture of defense of the players on the floor, especially younger stars.

Is textbook.

Amazing to see it already manifesting on the court for us.

[ronoranina]

Yea and he (chandler) has a newly earned ring so when he speaks everyone has to respect it, even the coach.

[metrocard]

Latrell Sprewell 2.0

[MSGhobo247]

Latrell Sprewell 2.0

Ouch... I mean I love Spree but he could only dribble with 1 hand. Don't think of Iman now but 2-3 years from now when he knows a few tricks. I like what I see but I'm still holding out till All Star break to give a real verdict.

[nixon7]

And IMAN SHUMPERT is gonna LIGHT the GARDEN on FIRE!!!!!!!

Starting 2nite!!!!!

BTW, much love to the Sprewell 2.0 comment, I do not think it was about a particular on-court skill set. It was about playing with PASSION.

And do not forget about his alter-ego:

IMAM SHUMPERT

playing in the MECCA of basketball.

Not just Baron Davis, but the whole team should grow beards this season.

It will build esprit de corpes and scare the living daylights out of opponents.

[KingStarbury3]

Latrell Sprewell 2.0

I love that comparison bro...I think this year hes gonna be a little inconsistent but eventually hes gonna be one of the better shooting guards in the NBA. With all the pain and suffering we endured during the past 10 years we finally have made it back to the top and mother**** whatever teams we gotta go through

[fender0577]

I really hope I'm wrong but if you look at our track record... We'll trade him in a year or 2 and then he'll come back and drop 30 on us... on a regular basis.



Get em Shump.

Wow, that would be terrible, but i haven't seen a 6'5 guard with this kind of lateral movement since D-wade.His hops look of the charts, that's good but i hope he learns that u can't out jump everyone early in his career, and keeps working on his mid range jumper.After seeing him pre-season he needs to work on shot selection, and he'll be great.PS he is not a PG, his scoring looks like his strong point, and i think he could learn a lot from Melo.

[KingStarbury3]

So is it safe so say the Shump Trucks already done enough to get his jersey retired at MSG?