Amar’e Set to Have Down Year

I’m sure he will miss having an MVP point guard getting him the ball, who wouldn’t?

“He looked pretty good in the playoffs just a few months back…”

He looked even better between the trade deadline and the playoffs. I guess he knew he wasn’t getting a max guaranteed contract from the Suns so he had to audition for other teams and prove he could play defense. I hope we get to see 82 games of that Amar’e.

Not really sure what they meant by “too sensitive to deal with media” because for the past month, all Amar’e has been doing is getting New York (and its media) to love him. Talk about good PR.

insert media conspiracy comment here…

He hasn’t seen the real NY “media” until his first bad game in a loss.

Watch the magic happen.

The same can be said for Nash. Amar’e was pretty good before him. Can’t really say the same for Nash, we’ll see this season I guess.

Yeah, bad media will happen, but the Knicks expect forty wins and as long as he doesn’t bust his knee up, (say, a la one big fellow named Antonio) he’ll be well liked. Sure he’ll have haters, but everyone who is successful at what he does will. The NY media will be receptive.

Watch it happen.

Just as possible for the Knicks to play some inspired basketball for a change, the fans love Stoudemire and Amar’e never looks back to see what Nash is doing. Guess we won’t know what is possible until the season begins.

Come on guys. Amare isn’t stupid. He knows how bad the New York media can be. Maybe not first hand, but I am sure he is aware of it. He wouldn’t have signed here if he was afraid of the pressure. Nash not being there will obviously hurt his production a bit. But I have a hard time believing that he can’t put up similar numbers. David Lee put up 20 and 10 while playing out of position, and with Duhon at PG. D’Antoni might have a ton of flaws as a coach. But he knows how to get his guys to put points on the board. Amare will have a great statistical season.

You must have just started watching the Knicks. Even during the ’90′s when the Knicks were perennial contenders the players and the team got “bad” press.

I seriously think that if a player busts his a$$, dives for loose balls and shows heart etc…he could have a terrible night on the box scores and still be cheered for his effort…Ny fans don’t boo players who give it their all, we only boo when we know max effort isn’t there…

So if amare is a lazy, no effort type player then yes, he will be booed out of the garden asap. along with any other player who plays without heart and effort.

“Can’t really say the same for Nash”

Wow. How “yung” are you? I don’t even like Nash and even I have to admit he was more than “pretty good” before Amar’e.

LMAO

No shots.

There are no handouts for knicks players or fans, just the way it is.
Its at the point where this franchise has to put up or shut up. The beauty
is that if we do get it done this year the media will give us the “Darling”
treatment.

“I seriously think that if a player busts his a$$, dives for loose balls and shows heart etc…he could have a terrible night on the box scores and still be cheered for his effort…Ny fans don’t boo players who give it their all, we only boo when we know max effort isn’t there…”

I agree, those are the savvy intelligent fans I remember.

Until the _avi_ era, I used to think the same. What the hell happened?

It is true nobody knows how Amar’e Stoudemire will be able to perform without Steve Nash.

But he was arguably the best player in the league after the All-Star break and he torched Pau Gasol in the Western Conference Finals.

We’ll see.

I hear you man, but in defense of Lee fans, what else have knicks fans had to cheer about the past couple of years??

But I don’t think he’s “set to have a down year”.

I expect a difference (Felton is no Nash offensively), but not necessarily a “down” year.

He may score a little less, but if plays hard on the defensive end I could care less.

Dumb ass article. I mean, he also mentions Vince Carter and Elton Brand… hello? Those guys already had down years last year.

Nash and Amar’e both had good seasons last year and Amare’ may lose scoring opportunities not playing with Nash, why is the reverse not true? Is Nash capable of the same production without Amar’e? And in this breakup, why is the 28 year old guy due for a down year while the 36 yearl old guy isn’t?

Answer: Because the 28 year old guy plays for the Knicks. Some national sports columnists seem to almost openly fantasize about the Knicks sucking.

What a load of crappola. These sports writers have nothing better to do to in the off season than attract attention by stirring things up. The guy has a crystal ball…yeah right.

If Felton can make this team run and play a steady 35 mins, the new young Knix will be exciting and Amar’e may go bananas. He’ll be the 2nd coming of Bob McAdoo and go for over 25 ppg…if he stays healthy. But I think the Knix will give up as many points as they score.

The fact that he’s on the list doesn’t bother me. I really want to see how he’ll be able to adapt without Steve Nash. But the paragraph isn’t really “fair” and particulary interesting.

3 4 years ago he wanted to be the main guy,now he has the chance let’s see what he does,without nash gettin him easy baskets etc,i think he can do it

the knicks will score 108 an give up 109

nash assist might go down but i think his scoring might go up.

felton isn’t alot of things,felton can’t run the floor like old guy nash,i’m still trying to think of something felton is good at thats not bad.

True Dat!

I’m not even concern and STAT will prove the haters wrong! Stat will drive off the Gardens energy!

Please! Dude is going to come out with a chip on his shoulder and beast it up. How many games is he playing against Amir Johnson, Troy Murphy and Elton Brand? Those guys should just stop it right now.

Amare will start at PF for the East All Star team, its been a while since Knick fans could say that one of their players should do that.

Why is it that nash helped amare so much but it’s never the other way around. Amare being the best finish above the rim in the world, is a pretty nice asset for a pick and roll PG to have. Let’s see how steve nash fairs with brooke lopez.

excuse me: i meant robin lopez

I know i emailed the guy that wrote this and we came to an agreement that we should continue to down play the Knicks, or at least try too to, in an attempt to keep them under the radar.

Just keep the hate coming lol.

All I can say is…this article is wrong. I’m expecting a career year for Amar’e..for all the reasons that the article writer wrote.

Fact: Average PFs last year got assisted on 63% of shots. Amare got assisted on 61% of shots.(same as Dirk

Fact: Amare got 41% of his points of post-ups, isos, etc. (had nothing to do with Nash)

This Nash thing is so overblown. He’s probably one of the 3-4 best individual talents in the league.

* Those numbers from Tom Haberstroh of hoopsdata

Im not saying Nash is Nothing without Amar’e Im Just Saying Amar’e Isn’t Nothing without Nash.
It was a mutual relationship that both benefited from greatly.

post of the century. well-done.

I knew Amar’e's ‘assisted’ numbers…I just didn’t know the league average of 63%.

this post is just about all that needs to be said to people who say Nash made Amar’e.

I can provide more reasons of why Amar’e made Nash…rather than Nash making Amar’e.

Amare is easily the best combo of skill/powerful among big man in the game.

I can’t believe people actually believe that he can’t score without Nash. Idiots.

*power

You just said you “can’t really say the same about Nash” when it comes to being pretty good without Amar’e. Nash was always a very good point guard.

He’ll make Warrick and Childress look like All-Stars.

Nash played most of his prime with Dirk and Amare but people never bring that up…smh…

He played with Dirk before Amare, he’s pretty much always had a great PF during his prime years…

We’ll see about that…

Stop hating on that man! Amare will bring it in NYC and show
that he can handle the pressure. He is the real deal, no questions
about it.