knicksosmoove wrote:AggO wrote:1)
Amare has definitely played better defense this year by virtue of simply exerting himself. I think this is clear, he's absolutely been mindful of playing "more defense" than he has in the past. Whether or not it's been effective is debatable, but I definitely can see for sure that he's put more effort into it this year
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I'd say 25-33% of the issue with Amare's defense is that he simply doesnt have a high BBIQ on the defensive side. He gets caught out of position so much. Caught sleeping on the backdoor. Losing his man on rotation, horrible traps up top on pnrs.
If someone would just sit him down and spend time cleaning up his mental mistakes on positioning, spacing, and technique, he'd fix up SO MANY of his mistakes without expending a ton more effort than he's normally used to on the defensive side.
That's what is infuriating with Amare. He makes stupid mistakes on defense that are easily correctable that have gone uncorrected for his whole career.
yep. he simply doesn't know what he's doing. that's why you can put in mediocre defensive player like novak who at least understands defense and get the team defense to be a lot better. it's frustrating with amar'e because it seems as though he's a big reason teams can easily score in the paint against the knicks.
That is most correct! It is shocking to me that a guy like Stat who is supposedly "all about winning" would not have long-ago hired a personal defensive coach. I mean with $100M, you can't spend a few thousand to improve your game, thus helping your team?
I'm afraid the problem is Amare is just not that bright. Not having ever gone to college sure doesn't help! Just compare Amare's lack of education to what Lin has accomplished. If Lin were a lousy defensive player don't you think he'd find a way to improve?
I sincerely doubt it!
