Stoudemire blames D'Antoni for not being taught defense

[irishock]

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/225357/Stoudemire_Has_Never_Been_Taught_Defense_In_Whole_ Career

Amar'e Stoudemire indirectly criticized Mike D'Antoni while praising current head coach Mike Woodson.


"I think having a defensive coach for the first time in my career is going to help,'' Stoudemire said after practice in Greenburgh on Wednesday. "I've never been taught defense in my whole career. So to now have a coach who actually teaches defense and teaches strategies and knows positioning and posture and how to guard different plays, it's going to be helpful.''


Stoudemire vowed to improve his defense in his new bench capacity.


"I'm taking it as a challenge,'' he said. "I'm going to accept the challenge. And I'm going to try to improve as a player."



:lmao LA head coach

[SpursIndonesia]

But it's SHOWTIME that's important, right ? :lol

[BUMP]

:lmao needing to be "taught" defense at his age

[JRHernandez88]

Lmfao what a clown

[NRHector]

Now that his offense is declining he's going to have to play a better defense to get some playing time

[irishock]

He's more worthless than Kurt Thomas, Marcus Camby and Rasheed Wallace lmao

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

That excuse dried up after 2008, and the fact he decided to sign with a team coached by D'antoni in 2010 makes that excuse look questionable regardless.

Also, he was fuckin horrible at it, but Terry Porter was a defense first coach, and Amare was on board with the team mutiny to get him fired. Amare's heart is in the right place when he says these things, he's just so amazingly stupid and narcissistic he can't help himself from continuously making excuses.

[Reck]

:lmao needing to be "taught" defense at his age

Exactly, wtf..

[BUMP]

You can't really "teach" NBA players anything when they're getting paid millions. Do you think they really care at all? Det's why NBA "head coach" is one of the most overrated jobs in America.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

This also isn't even close to the first time Amare blamed D'antoni for his bad D so idk why it's newsworthy.

[Spursfan092120]

:lmao needing to be "taught" defense at his age
This...if that sumbitch paid attention in Middle School and High School he would have known how to play defense. :lol blaming his NBA head coach that he didn't learn one of the most basic parts of the game.

[Mori Chu]

In his early days in Phoenix, he tried a lot harder on defense. But he was also a huge malcontent with the refs; he would bark at the official every time he disagreed with a call / no-call. Pretty quickly the refs grew to hate him and started blowing the whistle on him for ticky-tack fouls just to give him the finger. So Amare found that if he played hard defense, he'd pick up 2-3 quick fouls in the first half and had to sit down on the bench.

Amare chose to stop playing D to avoid fouls, rather than stopping barking at the refs and learning to play careful defense without fouling. He has continued this for years, and the current Amare is the product of such degeneration. Pity; he could have been a good defender, but he chose not to be. Mike _'Antoni certainly didn't help, but they had defensive assistants, including big-men coaches, who certainly tried their best to instill defensive principles in the guy. It is not all on any one coach.

[Spur-Addict]

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[BlackSwordsMan]

He should join the spurs -- they gave up defense a long time ago

[thunderfan]

You can't really "teach" NBA players anything when they're getting paid millions. Do you think they really care at all? Det's why NBA "head coach" is one of the most overrated jobs in America.

Arrogant, retarded veterans - maybe not. Certain players do care and are teachable though. Look at Serge Ibaka today compared to 4 years ago -astonishing. You think noone taught him anything? Dude works tirelessly with coaches.

[whitemamba]

You can't really "teach" NBA players anything when they're getting paid millions. Do you think they really care at all? Det's why NBA "head coach" is one of the most overrated jobs in America.

this. its rare that you find a player i think that actually wants to learn.. those tend to be the better players.

[baseline bum]

Wasn't Amare considered a big defensive prospect when he came out of HS? I remember seeing videos of him in HS blocking everything like he was Nerlens Noel.

[thunderfan]

Wasn't Amare considered a big defensive prospect when he came out of HS? I remember seeing videos of him in HS blocking everything like he was Nerlens Noel.

If you're 6'10 and you can stand on your own 2 legs, you can pretty much block everything in a HS basketball game.

[DMC]

So who failed to teach him that punching glass can cause injuries to your hand?

[Drachen]

So who failed to teach him that punching glass can cause injuries to your hand?

He had an appointment to learn this but he was too busy doubling up on his "pushups before freethrows" class.

[Spurs9]

Amare's too busy trying to get fashion advise from his Amish teammate to learn any defense.
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[BUMP]

Arrogant, retarded veterans - maybe not. Certain players do care and are teachable though. Look at Serge Ibaka today compared to 4 years ago -astonishing. You think noone taught him anything? Dude works tirelessly with coaches.

Well he's a little bit different since he's a foreigner and knows that he'll get shipped back to his homeland, chucking spears and playing basketball with coconuts if he doesn't listen to master, so he has no choice.

Guys like Deron Williams, Griffin, Amare, etc. already have their money so they have no desire to improve at all.

[AaronY]

This...if that sumbitch paid attention in Middle School and High School he would have known how to play defense. :lol blaming his NBA head coach that he didn't learn one of the most basic parts of the game.

NBA defense is very complicated actually. Most rookies really struggle with it even ones coming out of good college programs

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

:lmao comparing Serge Ibaka to someone who's made 9 figures in salary

[Riddler]

Well he's a little bit different since he's a foreigner and knows that he'll get shipped back to his homeland, chucking spears and playing basketball with coconuts if he doesn't listen to master, so he has no choice.

Guys like Deron Williams, Griffin, Amare, etc. already have their money so they have no desire to improve at all.

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[Hemotivo]

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[irishock]

D'antoni:

He might have forgotten that Mike Woodson was also running the defense the last year I was there, so I don’t know if he just didn’t pick that year to listen.



LOL