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anyone know when amare is set to come back? i heard christmas day...anyone know for sure?
around Christmas is the target for his full return, maybe a little earlier
anyone know when amare is set to come back? i heard christmas day...anyone know for sure?
Howard Beck just tweeted that STAT made the trip. Could this be his first minutes this season?
https://twitter.com/HowardBeckNYT/status/273209359050346497
This is huge news if so.. It'll show he's more committeed to team and winning than showing he's still a "star" or his stats. He might even buy into defense..
saw an article that said Amare would be okay coming off the bench. we'd be so scary.
starting
Felton
Shump
Brewer
Melo
Chandler
Bench
Kidd
Smith
Novak
Amare/Rasheed
Rasheed/ Amare
that bench is so balanced with Defense and Offense. Good spacing, amare will thrive.
Great news.This just means that STAT is ready to put his ego aside and focus on winning.
But in terms of the teams' rotation, I don't expect STAT's bench role to make much of a difference in terms of the team gelling together. This move is all about improving the team's offensive continuity and flow by limiting the time that STAT and Melo are together on the court. However, I expect STAT to average 32-35 mpg once he's fully recovered, and Melo will also get his 32-35 mpg which means that there'll be only 13-15 mins of game time where they are not playing together. This is the case unless Woody decides to lower the minutes of either STAT or Melo,which is very unlikely. In short, I just don't see the logic to the idea of Amar'e in a bench role for the Knicks. Can someone explain to me why this would be a good move??
Also, does this mean Melo will be the permanent starting PF?