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I watched the series, you dumb . And I saw a 19 year old kid hold the MVP to 13 ppg.
Being a Clipper fan you probably don't see too many post season games. In that series Amare didn't guard Duncan, the entire Suns team guarded Duncan. He was quintiple teamed.
I watched the series, you dumb . And I saw a 19 year old kid hold the MVP to 13 ppg.
Dumbass. Amare didn't guard Duncan. He was doubled and tripled everytime he touched the ball. Since when has Amare been anything but a crappy defender. Clipper fan?
Nevermind. I don't debate lowlife wad homers.
We'll see what happens.
All the way through the Mavs-Suns series, I heard sports analysts comment that Stoudamire doesn't like to play defense. So, could one solution be to force him to attempt to play defense and get into foul trouble early on?
You must not talk to yourself much either.
Oh, wait, did you mean master-bate?
If you plan on putting Duncan on Amare, then that means that either Nazr will never play with Duncan or Nazr will be guarding Marion. Not a chance. Duncan will guard Marion and Nazr will play Amare. Or Horry will get more time than Nazr this series.
We don't have to defend Amare, we have to defend him and Nash on the pick and roll (which if Seattle is any indication, we're in trouble).
m2m, I expect Nazr on Amare, Duncan on Matrix.
Well if I'm correct, Amare is getting majority of his pts from easy dunks & FT's. I believe he's avg about 13 FT attempts during the playoff's & has made them @ about 87%.
Key is to keep him far from the rim, defend better on pick-n-roll & keep him off the FT line. His jumper has improved, but I rather have him attempt 18-20 footers than getting easy dunks.
My concern is our DEF against the pick-n-roll, since we had trouble aginst it Vs the Sonics. JJames had success & got the majority of his limited Pts with the pick-n-roll, imagine now with Amare, far better player.
Put Horry on him since Horry more agile/quicker with his feet than Nazr & Rasho in the open court.
I think the Spurs made a good effort in game 5 on the PNR, and if they can copy what they did in that game, then they can carry it over to Phoenix.which if Seattle is any indication, we're in trouble).
Besides, I think they wanted the Sonics PGs to shoot outside shots instead of dumping it down low.
just a hunch.
shut down Nash... you shut down amare and suns!
we might see the return of the massenburg this series
I would start Nazr on him. Nazr has impressed me with his one-on-one defense. His rotations and team defense hasn't been great.
I'm sure Pop won't risk getting Duncan into early foul trouble. If you look up Amare's stats, you'll see he shoots alot of free throws so I'm not ready to risk getting Duncan into an early foul trouble. Also Horry will be a nice fit on him. He has the mobility to guard him but I'm concerned about Amare's strength. He had his way with Dampier so he should be able to muscle Horry around.
Hopefully not. In that Suns game where the Spurs came back to win in Phoenix, TMass was the reason why the Suns got off to a big lead. He was sucking and the Suns were running circles around them.
Hopefully Devin Brown is healthy. This is the series for him to shine. He's looked hurt the last few games that the Spurs have put him in, but hopefully he can return to full strength sometime soon.
Then you're blind. Frank Johnson swarmed Tim with three defenders every time he touched the ball and forced the other spurs to beat them. If Amare tried to guard Tim with the form he was in in 2003, he'd have been eaten alive.
Even the gimpy Tim of this year would have his way with him.
Ya .
You defend Amare by crushing Steve Nash's penetrations...
other than that, your going to get dunked on repeatedly. I expect Tim to get smashed on a good number of times this series by Amare. , when Amare was a rookie he dunked straight over Tim in the playoffs. Right then, I knew he was a monster in the making.
I also remember a 37 year old David Robinson reducing him to a little schoolgirl on offense. Whenever David covered him, he got stuffed or gave up the ball. Watch the tapes. It's amazing what a good defender Dave was, even in his last year. Dave in his prime would have embarrassed him.
A very gimpy Tim won't be guarding him much or have much success in guarding him. The key is to take away the guy who spoon-feeds him, Steve Nash. If you take away Nash's gifts, Amare is actually very poor at creating for himself. Look at his numbers when Nash was injured this year.
Yeah. A little schoolgirl. 14.2 ppg for the series. A 19 year old rookie fresh out of high school. You're a stupid mother er, aren't you?
Damn right he could not even get through the dunk contest without Nash.
And Mohammed didn't even play.
The problem with the suggestion of having Duncan guarding Amare and Mohammed guarding Marion is you put Duncan at risk of getting into foul trouble and more importantly you let Marion have his way offensively against Mohammed. Just ask Dirk Novflopface. He's a PF that moves like a PG and he couldn't keep up with Marion.
Dallas actually had a decent strategy and that was to let Nash dp all the scoring. The flaw was they didn't have a defensive stopper to put on him. Bowen is the perfect player to place on Nash.
Also, Quentin Richardson has COMPLETELY lost his stroke from 3pt range. I think this is because Joe Johnson is out. If you're going to double Amare, leave Richardson open until he can prove that he'll hit the shot. If Johnson isn't in the lineup--and it's looking like he won't be tomorrow--let Q shoot. He may hit a couple, but he'll be 2-12 and that should play perfectly into the Spurs game plan as they should expect to score over 100 points.
BUT DO NOT think that the Suns will give a lot of rebounds like they did in the regular season. That is probably the main thing they've been working on and Amare has been a madman on the glass the last two series. Second chance points will be huge for the Spurs.
Hehe, cute.
Attack him. Get him in foul trouble.
But that's why the Suns are a poor defensive team--they try everything they can not to foul. Two of the fouls against Amare in game 6 against Dallas were touch fouls. One was in retaliation to Henderson grabbing at his arms.
The only solution I could think of is getting him into foul trouble by attacking the basket and hope he fouls or let them run an iso for him. Other than that, you guys are going to get creamed by that pick-and-roll one way or the other, but I suppose Pop had prior adjustments for this seeing how that's also been a problem against Seattle.
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