KingCharles34
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Great points made by Harper
lol @ Turiaf playin overseas injuring himself :lol:
Hes right, time to end this thread
lol @ Turiaf playin overseas injuring himself :lol:
Hes right, time to end this thread
Where's the Amare from last year?
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If there is a Knick player besides of Shumpert that spent most of his time working out and preparing for the upcoming season, please let me know. I understad why some of you guys are asking why Amare hasn't shown up at the facility yet. He's the Knicks leader and leaders are supposed to show more commitment, if our co-star Carmelo didn't spend even an hour at the gym, that's okay, because he's a superstar and a great player but still he's got no leadership, Carmelo despite all his talents is still a single player, Amare is the team.
Slow Down....
All of the above mention is all good but it still does not excuse Amare,
plus u overratted Amare leadership as if he was Duncan or KG.
GM and Headcoach both "TANKED" two season on purpose to have a
winning record in their 3rd season. The Knicks didnt have any leadership-
players on the roster in those two "TANKED" seasons but tanking on purpose?
Amare past 2 seasons performance in the NBA graded Amare an A+ on his
final contract season, and a B+ for being the highest paid 2010 superstar FA.
Amare had alot to do with the Knicks DNP of Mozgov & AR who offered the
Knicks a Big-body defense & athletic defense in the paint. Which the 3 months
of DNP to two defensive bigs forced the Knicks owner to make the Melo-trade
for the health of Amare crying aghaustion-aghaustion throughout the entire
month of January. for being the only BIG in the rotation.
Little has been mention about the 15 points, 6 rebounds the Knicks got each
from Gallo & Chandler before the Amare signing. Both Chandler & Gallo work
ethic in the 2010 offseason showed great improvement in their all-around
performance, but the two wasnt allowed to show their scoring improvement
on offense with the 40 minutes of playingtime given to "Felton & Amare" tag-
team match on offense.
Amare had 9 straight 30 point games. :thumbsup:
Go back and look at the stats on shot-attempts by Gallo & Chandler in those games.
Amare entire performance showed us an unstoppable high scorer lastseason,
and a up and down rebounding performance. There is two things Knicks fans
need to absorb/focus on before the 66 game season get started:
1) PG-Billups will not make 90% of his passes to only Amare like Felton did.
2) SF-Melo will end the season with the most shot-attempts by a Knicks player.
What happens when rookie Shump earns 24 minutes of playingtime as a combo-guard? Which will push hustler Landry Fields into getting minutes at SG and SF with his quickness on at grabbing rebounds to start a transition play. All these things are factors in Amare's stat performance this season.
nyk_nyk
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I'm not bashing Amare at all, but here is a blog by Berman that pretty much outlines what I was trying to say.
BERMAN: Knicks' Stoudemire, Billups should have arrived earlier
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4:44 PM, December 7, 2011 ι By MARC BERMAN Jared Jeffries, who agreed to terms with the Knicks but hasn?t signed his contract yet, was the latest player to show up Wednesday for voluntary workouts at the team's Westchester facility.
Training camp officially opens Friday.
Captain Amar?e Stoudemire and leader extraordinaire Chauncey Billups still haven?t showed. Billups is flying in Wednesday and should be there Thursday for the final day.
Stoudemire? Also supposed to be coming in Thursday from Miami.
I am not going to question Stoudemire's and Billups? decision to arrive one week after they were permitted to work out in Westchester. Stoudemire has done too well in his lone season in New York and Billups is an NBA champion.
But I also don?t want to hear either of those two guys talk about lack of chemistry due to the shortened training camp as excuses if the Knicks get off to a slow start. The 66-game schedule isn?t kind early, with the big Christmas opener against the vaunted Celtics, who swept them in the playoffs last season, followed by a three-game-in-four-nights Western trip.
They?ll face the Mark Jackson-coached Warriors, the Lakers and Sacramento on New Year?s Eve. A 1-3 start could be in the cards. Stoudemire wanted to stay in the warm climate of Miami, maybe for his back. But after having such a long rehab and unable to be with the Knicks medical staff all summer, you?d think he?d have been the first to arrive last Thursday with Carmelo Anthony when the training center opened to them.
Stoudemire made several attempts to get the Knicks together for a minicamp at Bradenton, Fla. or Los Angeles and was rebuffed. Maybe he was frustrated at not getting that accomplished. This is a team that needs team bonding more than most. The Knicks were broken up at the trading deadline by the Anthony deal and never seemed to find the same camraderie afterward.
Good for Anthony to show up in Westchester last Thursday, joining Toney Douglas. Both those players had offseason surgeries and most of their rehab period was done without the supervision of the Knicks training staff.
Billups, who has to leave his family behind in Denver, and Stoudemire might?ve wanted to come earlier just as a sign of leadership. There were pickup games to play and chemistry issues to be laid to rest. But then again, I didn?t lose 19 percent of my salary from the lockout.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/knick..._billups_zbZtTTzxBSTMJMe6VShiBL#ixzz1fxjltFJB
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Print 4:44 PM, December 7, 2011 ι By MARC BERMAN Jared Jeffries, who agreed to terms with the Knicks but hasn?t signed his contract yet, was the latest player to show up Wednesday for voluntary workouts at the team's Westchester facility.
Training camp officially opens Friday.
Captain Amar?e Stoudemire and leader extraordinaire Chauncey Billups still haven?t showed. Billups is flying in Wednesday and should be there Thursday for the final day.
Stoudemire? Also supposed to be coming in Thursday from Miami.
I am not going to question Stoudemire's and Billups? decision to arrive one week after they were permitted to work out in Westchester. Stoudemire has done too well in his lone season in New York and Billups is an NBA champion.
But I also don?t want to hear either of those two guys talk about lack of chemistry due to the shortened training camp as excuses if the Knicks get off to a slow start. The 66-game schedule isn?t kind early, with the big Christmas opener against the vaunted Celtics, who swept them in the playoffs last season, followed by a three-game-in-four-nights Western trip.
They?ll face the Mark Jackson-coached Warriors, the Lakers and Sacramento on New Year?s Eve. A 1-3 start could be in the cards. Stoudemire wanted to stay in the warm climate of Miami, maybe for his back. But after having such a long rehab and unable to be with the Knicks medical staff all summer, you?d think he?d have been the first to arrive last Thursday with Carmelo Anthony when the training center opened to them.
Stoudemire made several attempts to get the Knicks together for a minicamp at Bradenton, Fla. or Los Angeles and was rebuffed. Maybe he was frustrated at not getting that accomplished. This is a team that needs team bonding more than most. The Knicks were broken up at the trading deadline by the Anthony deal and never seemed to find the same camraderie afterward.
Good for Anthony to show up in Westchester last Thursday, joining Toney Douglas. Both those players had offseason surgeries and most of their rehab period was done without the supervision of the Knicks training staff.
Billups, who has to leave his family behind in Denver, and Stoudemire might?ve wanted to come earlier just as a sign of leadership. There were pickup games to play and chemistry issues to be laid to rest. But then again, I didn?t lose 19 percent of my salary from the lockout.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/knick..._billups_zbZtTTzxBSTMJMe6VShiBL#ixzz1fxjltFJB