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Bonner's gonna shut that ass down, then take him to school on the low block.
Or should the Spurs just let him score and stop whatever relative garbage is the rest of the Knicks?
By the way, notice for all the hype of the 18-14 Knicks for awhile they have a point differential under 1 (0.72 vs. about 5.34 for a team like the Bulls who have won just 4 more games ) and are the 17th ranked team in Hollinger's power rankings (having played a far easier schedule than the Spurs) and are free falling back to earth the last few weeks:
http://espn.go.com/nba/hollinger/powerrankings/_/page/2
They are now also projected to win only 43 games:
http://espn.go.com/nba/hollinger/playoffodds
Don't lay down for this one Spurs - go at them hard early and rest up for the Celtics!
Last edited by Rummpd; 01-02-2011 at 07:46 AM.
Bonner's gonna shut that ass down, then take him to school on the low block.
Sadly that may be Pop's plan - I see a 40 point night coming for Amare but Spurs will prevail anyway.
I posted that on another thread but once again there's amare of course but there is for me the 3 pts issue too, ny has some good 3 pts threat beginning with danilo and we are not very good at defending 3s.
I'd try to contain Amar'e to the best of our ability, but the gameplan isn't to stop him. You've got to shut down Raymond Felton, where the attack starts. From there you play tight D on the outside shooters, mainly Gallo. Ginobili's capable of frustrating Landry Fields enough as to where his intangibles don't even really show up.
wilson chandler's been a beast this year too...
i think that if our shots aren't falling, our transition defense is gonna be a big factor.
i dont think any knick can even defend bonner out in the perimeter or down the low block, dude is just unstoppable when he backs out that junk of his, so what is he going to do with that junk, all that junk in his trunk...
NY is getting exposed and is dropping in the standings now that they've hit a patch in their schedule of + .500 teams. I don't really care about "stopping Amare" so much as I care about "beating NY". Amare approached 40ppg in the 2005 playoffs, and we handily dispatched the Suns.
Amare should get his, but we should shut everyone else down. We should own the boards. Tough question is can Blair finally start guarding a perimeter big man?
Exactly. And TP has to remain aggressive, no one has been able to stop him.
Amar'e doesn't make the Knicks that much better. He can get his.
Lamar Odom and Jeff Green say hi.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/...012280SAS.html
http://www.basketball-reference.com/...101010SAS.html
I would say o to both that neither player received any passes while open at the three. That was more a failure of their team than anything Blair did on the perimeter.
You have video of them left alone and undefended?
Blair did a good job on both of those players.
let bonner guard him he'll be confused he's so open and he'll miss his shots
The D'Antonis (1st in ppg, 28th in ppg allowed) are all of 5-9 against teams over .500. We play smart Spurs ball and it shouldn't be much of a contest. Let A'm'a'''r'''e get his 40 and strangle the rest of the team.
If Amare is unstoppable, then let him play his game. No need to waste energy with that guy, unless you have some big who can stick with him which we do not. I'd like Pop to tell his boys not to let other players of Knicks get involved. That's how you can play it. Play SOLID D against their position 1-4 and just be smart in playing their 5. If this is playoffs/finals, Pop would hack-a-MARE him.
How are the knicks stopping the Spurs?
We never cared, we just let him knock everyone out of the game, and you put pressure on felton and the shooters.
the knicks, they are going to get steamrolled. boston on the b2b, who knows.
Overlooking the knicks like some fans here would be foolish. I watched them playing @orl and without amare fool troubles I think they could have won this game.
It's SSOL vs NIW!!!
A-mare always scores. Big deal. We get their shooters firing off bricks and that 7 second bull , we own them.
Without Amare's foul trouble, the Suns would have a couple rings already. Amare is a foul waiting to happen. He's not very smart. That's part of his game.
That's like saying "without Shaq's FT woes, they would have won the game".
I'm pretty sure he meant "foul trouble due to poor officiating"..Amare was taken out of the game by bad calls, the Knicks had all the momentum and would have probably won that game..
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