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The worst max contract player in NBA history.
Didn't see this posted in this spurs forum so here it goes.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap;_y...gid=2012030724
The worst max contract player in NBA history.
Amare needs to take a long hard look in the mirror. He's not nearly as good as he thinks he is.
LOL can't accept that he's the biggest liability of the team
his defense is so bad ... to even think some Spurs fans wanted him on the team is ridiculous
I've never been a fan of Amare either as a person or a player. Hes an idiot off the court and a traffic cone on it.
What he's actually saying is that they aren't coached properly and/or they aren't mentally prepared. How else could you explain superior talent, inferior results?
There are 0.500 team only because some asian kid had great games. Those overpaid morons are .333 at best.
I hadn't seen Amare play in awhile and he looks like a s of his form self. Clearly those surgeries have taken a toll on his athleticism. I'm sure the Knicks are regretting giving him that deal. In terms of his comments, he has been saying that since the Phoenix days when the supposedly more talented Suns were getting defeated each year by the Spurs.
we should send a transcript of the ESPN spanish feed to Amare
I've consistently said ever since the Suns days when Amare was getting voted onto the all-NBA team that he was more of a liability than an asset to a team. Just like Carmelo. Now they are both on the same team with another hugely overrated person coaching, Mike D'Antoni. And they are at best an 8 seed and out in the first round.
I've had friends who are Knicks fans who creamed their jeans when Amare and then Carmelo came to the Knicks. I told them it would be a net negative for the Knicks and a net positive for the teams they left, the Suns and the Nuggets. I was right on both counts.
People who don't understand how basketball teams actually win games get super excited about playground type beasts like Carmelo and Amare. They are stupid.
Sean Elliott made a very insightful comment about Amare last night. He said that if Amare got his head straight and got motivated to play defense and rebound, he could have been the next Hakeem Olajuwan. I think that's exactly right. But he never progressed as a player and thus he's nothing but a really talented Globetrotter playing in the NBA.
Carmelo is similar but not the same. He's much more talented offensively than Amare. But he's even worse (if that's possible) on defense. Plus, Carmelo has to have the ball to score, and create his own shot or drive, so he sucks up possessions and the team ends up standing around and watching him. Notice how the Knicks got cold and Linsanity ended after Carmelo came back? Not a coincidence.
Amar'e always talked to the media like he was a boxer hyping up the next match.
But damn he really does look like a mannequin on the court like what Sean Elliott said
Tbh hard for me to hate on Amar'e too much after he lost his bro earlier in the season.
Just like they said on the WOAI post game show, he's simply just a tier 2 player; always has been, always will be. Same for Carmelo for that matter.
Amare & D'Antoni - two guys who will never win anything.
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As for the Amare quote...I don't get it, this has to be out of context or something because it makes no sense
Duncan, Parker, Ginobili > Chandler, Melo, and Amare EASILY. Parker is a legitimate (though unlikely) MVP candidate while Melo's old team is doing better without him even with injuries to Gallo and Nene (as well as losing Smith and Martin) and Amare's scoring average is down 8 points this season and that's all he's even good atSean was completely right, this guy plays LITERALLY no defense.
hes the next Dream according to Sean
Turn on ESPN2 right now. They're talking about it on the group panel.
rashard is good in nba2k, tbh
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As for the Amare quote...I don't get it, this has to be out of context or something because it makes no sense
Duncan, Parker, Ginobili > Chandler, Melo, and Amare EASILY. Parker is a legitimate (though unlikely) MVP candidate while Melo's old team is doing better without him even with injuries to Gallo and Nene (as well as losing Smith and Martin) and Amare's scoring average is down 8 points this season and that's all he's even good at
he's giving me 40 5 5 on the spurs
Full quote (which makes more sense)
"You watch San Antonio," Stoudemire said. "They don't have nearly enough talent to compete with us. Our talent level, personnel, is off the charts. But what they do well is they keep the floor spaced and make sure those guys execute the plays."
"That's something we've got to do, keep the floor spaced and keep the ball moving and get everyone involved."
Stoudamire is right.
Spurs don't have a that good record because of their talent but because they play right. While I don't think there is an unique right way to play basketball, there still are right ways and bad ways to play it. Because of Pop and some great vet leadership, the whole Spurs' team is mostly playing a right way and it helps them to overcome their relative lack of talent.
Knicks seem to be better without Amare and Carmelo... hmmm... who could the problems with spacing the floor and moving the ball be.
Well, exactly. Having a good offense in the NBA is about maximizing good shot opportunities. A bench player in the NBA who has an open shot in rhythm is better than Carmelo Anthony forcing up a tough off balance one from 22 feet. Obviously the best shot opportunity is a transition layup or dunk so good defense leads to good offense. But once the defense gets set and you go into your offense, ANYONE in the NBA can get a shot off at ANY TIME. The question is, are you going to (a) actually participate in the offense set, (b) expend mental focus and physical energy participating WELL, even if your role is just to set a screen or make a cut to clear out an area, and (c) MOVE THE BALL to someone to get a better shot? In (c) I'm not just talking about assists, I'm talking about general ball movement... you don't pound or squeeze the air out of the ball, you MOVE IT and maybe the guy 2 or 3 passes away is the one who gets the good shot, because you got the defense reacting by your first pass.
On offense in the NBA, if you don't have players who are WILLING to do the work I outlined above, EVEN IF it does not end up being points or assists for you that show up on the stat sheet, at the HIGHEST LEVEL Of intensity.......
you are the New York Knicks and waste a WHOLE TON of innate ability, not to mention money, being a mediocre team.
And, yes, Carmelo and Amare are the prime offenders.
Amare continues display a low BBIQ - both on and off the court. If both Amare and Carmelo devoted half as much attention to defense as they both do to offense, perhaps the Knicks would be better. In the end, it all goes back to their head coach - the man with 3 first names.
That's why watching the spurs is something better.
You looka at bad teams and they are not as interesting in play as the spurs are.
the talk is the spurs are boring but they are great basketball machine.
And props to pop that he could change the style of the spurs during all those years.
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