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We eliminated the Suns with Amare averaging about 35 pts/game.
And these Knicks are nowhere near where those Suns were.
Answered your own question here boss. The Knicks have a whole lot of nothing outside of Amare. Make him beat you, shut everyone else down.
We eliminated the Suns with Amare averaging about 35 pts/game.
And these Knicks are nowhere near where those Suns were.
Exactly.
The Pacers have 15 offensive rebounds against the Knicks.....in the first half. Interesting to note that the Pacers are 27th in the league in offensive rebounding.
Absolutely, for once Amare is not at the origin of his fool troubles, officiating has been awful during this game. Officiating totally changed the game, a lot of the fools have been called on perfectly legit Amare's blks which lead to momentum killer.
Speaking of the Knicks game, I'm watching it as I type this, and Gallinari just went down with a knee injury. He was under the basket getting position for a rebound when Brandon Rush of the Pacers drove in and fell right into Gallinari's knee...
It will probably have to be by committee, as far as defending Stoudamire. McDyess will probably be the main guy. I would play off on Stoudamire and make him hit his jumper.
"We" don't stop him . . . and the Spurs don't, either. First of all, he's not stoppable. Second of all, even if he was stoppable, the Spurs don't have the personnel to do the stopping.
What they'll do is attack his inadequate defense at the other end. That means going to Duncan early and often, since Stoudemire isn't capable of adequately defending him. They'll inevitably have to double and when they do, the Spurs will get clean looks from three. Also, this could lead to Stoudemire getting in foul trouble.
I hope Pop doesn't limit Duncan's minutes too much (first of a back-to-back and three-in-four) and play McDyess or Bonner on him too much, because they can't guard him either and can't hurt him nearly as much on the other end.
Instead, Pop should lean on Duncan, make them play Turiaf (and possibly Mozgov) more, which means they'll have to sacrifice some outside shooting, because they'll have to play two bigs together more than they normally do.
I expect the Spurs to pound the Knicks on the glass and in the paint in general. But in the process, no matter what they do (short of getting him in foul trouble), they probably won't be able to prevent him from getting 30-35.
Pretty much this. You use the old Phoenix gameplan and let Amare try to beat you by himself. Now you don't even have Nash to worry about.
Duncan and Turiaf are good friends. They will take it easy on each other. Amare won't be a problem. He will pick up a technical or two, and will probably have 3 fouls midway through the 2nd (one of them offensive thanks to Manu)
Yup. Amare can score 40 points but if the rest of his team only scores 30 or 40, then that's an easy victory.
That is not true. NY has plenty of guys outside of Amare. They are the highest scoring team in the league and Amare isn't averaging 100+ points a game
Also for a team that doesn't defend the 3PT line well, NY takes the most in the league and is the 9th best 3PT shooting team.
Spurs are better, but there are things to focus on.
dirk stopper!
stopping Amare is not a concern for the San Antonio Spurs
They will play each other in 2 relatively irrelevant games in all of the 2010-2011 season.
Seriously, I wish the Spurs all the best for the game. And I hope they'll win.
It's so much better to comfort a sad but hot Knicks-Girl after her team lost.
HUH ?
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