Amare Stoudemire coming off the bench...

[Da Knicks]

Stat will start and do very well, he is a good help defender who struggles man to man but going up against the vets in practice he will be much better. The spacing problem was due to his shot not being there and teams not having to defend him outside. Stat will dominate when he comes back!

[lowkeymelo]

y'all.....y'all..... y'all....y'all......yeah your definitely from the south..

Lol matter fact i ain't even goin get mad no more ... you know everything i post make sense b ...you mad or something bro ?

[lowkeymelo]

Stat will start and do very well, he is a good help defender who struggles man to man but going up against the vets in practice he will be much better. The spacing problem was due to his shot not being there and teams not having to defend him outside. Stat will dominate when he comes back!

I'm patiently waiting for his return

[lowkeymelo]

I really don't understand this obsession. Amare and melo played reasonable well together after the trade. Last year Amare couldn't hit a jump shot in the the first 1/2 of the season and Melo was not on board with the the team. After Mike left they rarely played together due to injury.

On paper they are both fowards with excellent range. On of whom get more of his buckets off cuts/screen rolls and catch and shoots the other plays more back to the basket and off the dribble.


There is no reason Amare and melo can't make it work.

If you want to ***** about Amare not being a good defender or being a dumbass for punching a fire extinguisher fine but the idea that him and Melo cant play together is BS that only gains credibility b/c people keep saying it

Thank you ... Tyson Chandler came & made it difficult on them Meshing

[EnWhyKay]

Same Folks who thought Kidd would stink, Felton wouldnt be great, and the Knicks had no shot.. Now want Amar'e coming off the bench.. I keep telling you folks.. We will only get better with Amare Stoudemire... We win nothing without him...

You'll see..

[lowkeymelo]

If y'all say Amaré should hit the bench ? i wonder what y'all would say about Dwade if Miami didn't get cheated that championship last year cause he's been awful since teaming up with Lebron

[KnickFanSince91]

Stat will start and do very well, he is a good help defender who struggles man to man but going up against the vets in practice he will be much better. The spacing problem was due to his shot not being there and teams not having to defend him outside. Stat will dominate when he comes back!

Thank you

Let's assume our starting line up looks like PG-Felton SG-Kidd SF-Melo PF-STAT C- Chandler, the spacing will be excellent because it will become extremely difficult to effectively double team Melo on his post ups and drives.

I'm interested in seeing how much he learned from Hakeem because that low post game will be critical when we need easy buckets and the jump shots aren't falling.

Lost in all the "Bench Amare, Melo is the best 4 on the team" hype is that we can very easily slide Amare to the 5 when Tyson goes out to get the same advantage for stretches, but we don't want an entire season of Melo at PF because he will get worn down and abused by the bigger 4's in the league.

[yankstheknicks]

Thank you ... Tyson Chandler came & made it difficult on them Meshing

Im really starting to think that you were in special ed.... no were in what he said indicates anything about tyson ....you are definitely " special "......

[rhymeratic]

STAT From The Bench?: Knicks forward Amar’e Stoudemire trained relentlessly this summer – maybe too much. Stoudemire came into Knicks camp arguably in the best shape of his life and really wanted to prove his doubters wrong. Then the unthinkable happened. A cyst in his left knee ruptured and required a surgical procedure called a debridement, which is a scraping or removal of dead or infected tissue.

To call the injury a setback is an understatement; it was a death blow to a player that tried so hard to answer his critics.

One Knick player who is close to Stoudemire admitted that after the surgery, Stoudemire was in “dark place” emotionally, but as his rehab has progressed, his spirits have normalized and his passion for his Knicks teammates is a daily constant.

The elephant in the room for the Knicks is what happens when Stoudemire is ready to come back? Carmelo Anthony is having what some are calling an MVP-type season, playing the bulk of his time at the power forward spot. Tyson Chandler is the league’s reigning Defensive Player of the Year and the backbone of the Knicks’ new-found defensive focus.

Could the Knicks ask Stoudemire, who is slated to earn $19.94 million this season, to come off the bench?

Could the Knicks explore trading Stoudemire once he proves himself healthy and simply try to offload his contract and the burden of trying to make it work with Anthony?

The Knicks don’t perceive this to be nearly the problem the fans and the media think it will be and as one Knicks player said on the subject: “Amar’e just wants to win”

Stoudemire is traveling with his Knicks teammates and is putting in aggressive rehab work. He could start serious court work in the coming weeks and is expected to be ready to go in the early part of December.

With the Knicks sitting at 5-0 on the season and heading into San Antonio tonight, it will be interesting to see how Knicks coach Mike Woodson handles Stoudemire. His teammates say he’d have no problem playing from the bench as the sixth man, especially if that’s what it takes to win games and ultimately a championship, but saying that is entirely different from actually doing it.

http://www.hoopsworld.com/nba-am-mor...-the-hot-seat/

[ElishaJ1030]

It's going to depend on how the team is playing when he returns. I also see him getting a lot of minutes to rest Sheed and those other bigs for the playoff run

[Da Knicks]

Im really starting to think that you were in special ed.... no were in what he said indicates anything about tyson ....you are definitely " special "......

No need to say stuff like this guy, we are all knick fans that have being waiting patiently for this team to be good again.

Amare knows that the whole world is watching and waiting to see him fail just like some psd followers hope for. What i dislike is when some knick fans want to see him out for the rest of the year. I would never wish injury on someone and especially on one of the knick players.

Stat will do what he has to, to get better. He is always in shape so his injuries have never being for the out of shape category that many others get. Freak injuries happen and Stat has being one of the best to overcome injuries and be able to beast after them. He got lessons from one of the best on the block in the dream, i saw a move against toronto when amare spun and attacked the basket going left something i had not seen since his arrival in ny. His shot was falling and he was being more observant on defense very good in my eyes just needs to get healthy.

[SluggeR]

As NBA players and as a NBA coach, they should figure out how to make the pairing of STAT & Melo a blessing rather than a curse. Even if he did come off the bench, STAT & Melo are going to have to learn to play together; because they will no doubt close games together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!! This whole issue is idiotic. As long as STAT is healthy & balling..HE SHOULD BE STARTING!!

[lowkeymelo]

Im really starting to think that you were in special ed.... no were in what he said indicates anything about tyson ....you are definitely " special "......

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[STATcityNYK]

y'all.....y'all..... y'all....y'all......yeah your definitely from the south..

Are you a knick fan yo?

[lowkeymelo]

Same Folks who thought Kidd would stink, Felton wouldnt be great, and the Knicks had no shot.. Now want Amar'e coming off the bench.. I keep telling you folks.. We will only get better with Amare Stoudemire... We win nothing without him...

You'll see..