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No more experimenting, its time to play 9-10 players tonight and see what happens.

Starters: Lopez/Hedo/Hill/Richardson/Nash

Bench: Dragic/Dudley/Warrick/Chill/Frye

Unless it's a Suns blowout then by all means play your 3rd string.


Lets NBA!!!


Discuss

Is this one televised?

I have a yahoo league draft starting an hour before the game. Multitasking FTW.

Wow, I've heard the same "9-10" talk... but who out of those 10 is EVER not going to play? I mean, how are we even going to keep Gani off the court in some ways? Gosh, so many worthy players...

looking for a stream guys - I do know the All The Damn Hedo Enquiries one, and they don't have it listed

JohnVancouver wrote:looking for a stream guys - I do know the All The Damn Hedo Enquiries one, and they don't have it listed

That's the only one I'm familiar with

Neither does NBA league pass tonight. Guess I need to buy tickets and head to U.S Airways Center to watch a preseason game. lol

just while we wait for the game ... Basketbawful on Amare


The New York Knicks

During the offseason, the Bricks spent $100 million on Amar''''''e Stoudemire. Which would be fine if Amar''''''e wasn't a total fraud.

Okay, okay. That's not fair. Stoudemire isn't a total fraud. The guy is a stud on offense, ranking 5th in free throw attempts (632), 7th in field goal percentage (.557) and 10th in points per game (23.1). However, most of those sparkling stats came at the end of an assist from Steve Nash. In Phoenix, Amar''''''e lived off the variety of dunks, layups and pick-and-pops that Nash created. Conversely, Stoudemire was at his absolute worst when trying to create offense on his own. Unless he could simply blow by his man and not encounter any help defense at the rim, the dude looked like a baby deer trying to run on ice skates. STAT isn't a creator, he's a finisher. What's he going to finish in New York? Other than the hopes and dreams of Knicks fans everywhere. Assuming those suckers have any hopes and dreams left.

Stoudemire cowers from defensive rebounds the way Ron Artest shrinks away from giant snake eggs. And his answer to "defense" is to either leap out of the way matador style or reach in with the awkward clumsiness of a teenage boy groping his first real breast, which is why he ranked 5th in personal fouls last season (281).

The point is: If Amar''''''e is the foundation of your team -- the unquestioned heart and soul -- then your team is officially f***ed. I fully expect Stoudemire to become this season's premier 20-10-50 guy.

Knicks hopefuls might want to point out that Donnie Walsh flipped David "All O, No D" Lee for Anthony Randolph, Ronny Turiaf and Kelenna Azubuike. I would remind those people that the team's starting point guard is Raymond Felton (a poor pick-and-roll player) and the team doesn't have much in the way of consistent, high-percentage three-point shooting. These things do not play to Stoudemire's strengths.

In other words: Expect New York's playoff drought to continue."

Sweet, no more d-leaguers! While obviously the team isn't going to be in midseason form, I think this game should provide a better idea of what kind of team we're going to be.

Sucks that this isn't gonna be televised. I might check out the radio stream for a bit, but if Gentry throws in the scrubs again, I've got better things to do with my ears.

grumpysaddle wrote:Sucks that this isn't gonna be televised. I might check out the radio stream for a bit, but if Gentry throws in the scrubs again, I've got better things to do with my ears.

I am new to this. How can I listen to this game?

Sign up for a free account on nba.com . Then go to the link for NBA League Pass and click on Audio League Pass or whatever... it will have give you a pop up with all the games that day with radio broadcasts.

Can't wait til these games are on tv starting next week. I'm so ready for the basketball season to start up.

ginobiliflops wrote:Can't wait til these games are on tv starting next week. I'm so ready for the basketball season to start up.

Ugh I'm not because the Suns don't have all their marbles together yet.

JohnVancouver wrote:looking for a stream guys - I do know the All The Damn Hedo Enquiries one, and they don't have it listed

Google NengGeulis.

I'm not sure if I'll watch this game. May just watch the highlights.

SUN wrote:I'm not sure if I'll watch this game. May just watch the highlights.

I'm not sure you have a choice. Don't think it's televised.

The good news? We're holding them to 26 percent shooting in the first quarter. The bad news? We're only up by 2

and also Lopez has 7 boards in 10 minutes! but i guess that comes with the poor shooting...

The bad news we can't make a shot.

Horrible shooting for both teams.