[IndianaBasketballParticipant]

He looks like he’s on the decline and like the knee surgeries are catching up to him, athletically wise.

I know this is a shortened season, etc but he’s not finishing or jumping with the same explosiveness. He doesn’t have as much lift and his jump just isn’t as quick.

He reminds me of Antonio McDyess right after he started to lose his athleticism.

[llperez]

i was just looking up some stats to answer your all-star reserve thread, and i knew amare was struggling this year and the knicks as a team were struggling, but amare’s lack of stats were bad. I mean at 43fg% tells me he isnt getting easy buckets like he has throughout his career prior. ANd its not all becasue of nash vs knicks pg’s, although that is a big part of it. But amare is becoming a jump shooter and he has never brought the little things in terms of d and toughness.

[db24kb24Participant]

 …That series wayy back where he was sh!tting on Duncan was the last of Amare we want to remember. He went down w/ those injuries, got that surgery and now he’s a 20ft jump shooter….sad. Now he is useless, his inability to rebound and inconsistency makes him so undesirable. 

[SupParticipant]

I dunno if you wrote this before or after todays game, but he just had 34 points. Antonio mcd sucked nwver did that on the knicks.

[PurpleMonkeyDishwasherParticipant]

Bad knees have a good game or 2.  It’s the same reason his contract isn’t insurable and why the Knicks were his only true suitor when he was a freeagent.   He had too much time on his hands his hands during the lockout and a player cannot replicate true NBA conditions during such a time.

[Tongue-Out-Like-23Participant]

Sup

Even McDyess had a  24Pt – 17Reb game.. at the age of 34.

Not to mention, the Knicks lost.

[invalidParticipant]

 Amare is still mvp candidate when he joined knicks before melo moved in.. i wished that trade never happened

[BigDParticipant]

I think Amar’e can still coexist with Melo, but they need a PG who is going to set things straight and feed him the ball in a pick and roll while being the 3rd option on the team. Like Melo and Amar’e combined for 53 shots today of the 90 they took, that’s flipping ridiculous.

I honestly think Melo needs to fall back to being the 2nd option on this team, let Amar’e be the number 1 guy, will Melo allow that, i have my doubts. But if he honestly wants to win, he will do that. I’m not sure whether Baron Davis is their saviour at the PG spot, but if he’s motivated, he’s certainly capable of doing the job and some more.

If Baron isn’t going to solve the problem, they need to make a small trade for a new PG, probably involve Fields if they can and allow Shumpert to take the defensive lockdown role at the SG spot. Theres only a few players i would think the Knicks should go for:

Ramon Sessions

Steve Nash (highly unlikely he’ll want to move to the Knicks though)

Kirk Hinrich

Their next step is to get some bench scoring.

[SupParticipant]

@ tongueout Amare is not on the decline. Also he’s in another world compared to Antonio McD…he is a potential hall of famer

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