amare isn't 2nd option bc he wasn't healthy at the start of the season. jr was so there's your 2nd option. if he was healthy at the start of the season, im sure he'd be the 2nd scoring option. his defense also makes him too much of a liability to be on the court. regardless of what you think, the knicks were a good defensive team at the start of the season with melo and jr on the court. when have the knicks ever been a good defensive team with stat on the court?
prigioni needs to shoot more to get more playing time. he looks to pass way too much.
also ask yourself of novak, tyson, kidd, copeland, and felton, who's better than wade, westbrook, or duncan/parker? one is point guard who should be distributing. two of those need shots to be created for them. one guys is 40, and the other was playing in europe for the past 5 years. you're kidding yourself if you think those guys are second scoring options.
Your right .. Amare isnt a 2nd option, he been a first option throughout his career. Except when he had Marbury & Melo as teammates.
JR.smith did pretty well as a 2nd option the first half of the season covering for a missing Amare & Felton.
It's the 2nd half of the season now where teams and players will be stepping up their level of performance for a playoff run, a new contract, or not to be traded during the offseason. So JR.smith have to take a back-seat for our PG-Felton and one of the leagues top-10 highest scorers Amare Stoudemire.
Having JR.smith in 85% of all our lineups has stop our defensive-transition game to score easy baskets on fastbreaks, plus having a 40% FG, and 33% 3-ball FG, averaging five 3-ball shots per game had us struggling to remain a .500 team the past two-months.
Our strong Role-Players (Novak, Tyson, Felton, Amare, Kidd, and Copeland) with the ability to score 10 points are never given 5 to 7 shots in a game, we only allow two-players (Melo & JR) to take warm-up shots everytime they enter the game.
We have two great defensive backcourt players in PG-Pablo & SG-Brewer that playingtime minutes decrease to DNP when Felton went out with a 5 to 6 week injury (what-up with that?). We have a great 10 to 14 minute per game defensive Bigman in Kurt Thomas too, that we DNP.
Our 9+ man winning rotation during the 18-5 start has dwindle down to a 7+ man rotation during our 14-13 last games .. making us a predictable team.