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Stoudemire led the Suns to a 3-0 week, with all three victories coming against Western Conference opponents. Stoudemire averaged 32.0 points on .660 shooting from the field, 11.3 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.7 blocks. The back-to-back 30-point, 10-rebound efforts on March 13 and March 15 marked the third time this year that Stoudemire recorded consecutive 30-point, 10-rebound games.

STAT is the real-deal MVP.

oh yah,

he deserved it, he played like young jesus....

He played ridiculously well since Shaq arrived, definitely deserved this.

Like I said in the game thread: my favorite player > yours

amare=beast

the guy is just playing so fluently and effortlessly on offense right now

he has his first step back, his hops are right there, hes only missing a tiny bit of power, but has gained so much else

amare now is the best he has ever been and only improving

beast

i say we KEEP him at PF from now on and look at drafting a big like hibbert to take over from Shaq when he retires so that we can keep protecting him on defense to allow him to go nuts on offense

Funny how his D has improved so much since he moved back to his natural position. Boy, none of us ever saw that coming.

Seriously though, I'm not sure there are too many guys I want with the ball in their hands around the basket late in the game. Maybe Lebron and Kobe but even they can't finish inside quite like Amare can. He benefits by having Nash feed him the ball but he is still deadly around the basket.

-SDU- wrote:i say we KEEP him at PF from now on and look at drafting a big like hibbert to take over from Shaq when he retires so that we can keep protecting him on defense to allow him to go nuts on offense

QFT.

I am a bit worried about our PG situation, though. The Suns have had a ridiculous streak of awesome point guards: KJ, Nash, Jason Kidd, and even Marbury's high-water mark was with us. That's a string of awesome point guards for twenty years. I'm concerned that we can get complacent and, say, give away all our draft picks.

*ahem*

We have a strong future in Amare (duh) at PF, and Diaw makes a perfectly good backup PF. Barbosa is still improving as our SG (with hiccups, but he is). He even has what seems to be a good, developing, more-defensive-minded backup SG in DJ.

So - we're set at 2-deep for 24-year-olds in our PF and SG spots. Unfortunately, that leaves 3 positions open in the next few years. So I say that we should draft AND KEEP young people in the next few years. We'll need to deal some contracts and trade exceptions, most likely, but eight of thirteen people on our team are over 30.

I don't expect us to keep Tucker, Marks, Piatkowski. It just smells that way at the moment, to me.

So, next year we'll have at least three spots to fill, and I don't think that finding three good, young people to develop into those spots should be too hard. Ideally, we'd find one for each of our upcoming vacancies: C, SF, PG.

-SDU- wrote:i say we KEEP him at PF from now on and look at drafting a big like hibbert to take over from Shaq when he retires so that we can keep protecting him on defense to allow him to go nuts on offense

Sign me up on that, adding another solid big definitely definitely won't hurt us anyway.

Pretty funny that even at the beginning of this season there still were so many trolls telling us that Amare is nowhere near the guy he was before the surgery and how overrated he is...haven't read anything from those in quite a while.

and the 2009 MVP is Amare Stoudemire; sign me up now. can i bet on that in Vegas yet?

and Tucker will be back next year, unless traded, he has a guaranteed contract. maybe they are sending him to NBADL so he can dominate and have some trade value in the off season. I also think Skinner is going to bounce; in addition to Marks, and Piat. Hopefully, we can resign Giricek.

He's averaged over 28ppg since Marion left, he's been a complete monster.

Resign Giricek and get Kirilenko off of wavers from Utah for the minimum. That would be sweet!

I actually hope we make a run at LBJ and/or CP3 in 2 years. Nash off of books, and Shaq off of books. That is a pipe dream that will never happen. But a lot of people even I have fantasized about it.

PG-CP3
SG-Barbosa
SF-LBJ
PF-Stat
C-Mihm??I don't know

Or maybe
PF-Kirilenko
C-STAT

It really depends on who we get as a C in the draft trade or signing.

nanoclarkology wrote:PG-CP3
SG-Barbosa
SF-LBJ
PF-Stat
C-Hibbert (Just to piss off the Lakers)

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way to go stat, keep it up.

Saw that 1 comin, he's been amazing thru our much needed winstreak.

Well deserved STAT, don't stop now