Amare almost at the deadline/More likely to pick Houston than Bosh??

Don't want!

Doesnt play any defense, and doesnt help his team win. Only produced big offensive numbers b/c Nash gets him great looks.

 

Except his rookie and sophomore years, where he produced big time numbers when Nash wasn't there.

 

Amare is the PF of Kevin Martin: efficient volume scorer who does not play defense.

BUT, defense is a lot more important for the big man, and unlike Martin, Amare is a selfish prima dona.

 

I would take Amare in a heartbeat.

 

for everybody who says he doesnt play defense. He came Straight from high school into the nba, sure his high school coach really stressted def. Then he ends up on the suns with mike d as his head coach and we all know how much def he tries to instill in his players. Give the guy a real coach and real def system and after a couple years judge how he plays def

 

VERY TRUE....however...like another poster said... he's a 23-9 guy (and that's it) and Scola's a 16-9 guy.

I'd much rather have SCOLA because he does things that are never in the stat sheet (charges, hustle for loose balls, etc.) and he can be had at a much cheaper rate. Just cuz he cant jump more than 2 inches off the ground doesnt mean he's not a bigger asset than Amare.

 

Amare's been a very good offensive player who has shown the ability score 25 a night without taking more than 15 or so shots. That's pretty freaking good.

That said, a lot of that is the product of the Suns' PNR game with Nash. I don't think he'd be able to replicate his success here, and if he's averaging 18-20 ppg on ~50% shooting, pulling down 8 boards a night and playing zero defense, he's not going to be worth the max. At least not to me.

I don't really want Bosh for the max either, to be honest.

 

Amar'e will be going to South Beach imo

 

This, and only this.

Our three PFs combined would be the best "single" PF in the game right now.

It's like when we had Carluis Scolandry. That tandem was ridiculously good. Why break it up?

 

Tell that to Chad Ford.

 

Well if we get Amare, Brooks will have to perform like a REAL Point Guard.
Can Brooks be this or would we have to start Lowry who is a better playmaker already?
PS Possibly that is is why we need Rubio

 

Sorry, it wasnt. I dont want to go into detail, but there was more reasons besides not waiving a physical why the clown deal didnt go through. Let me ask u to use common sense so i can keep everything closed, but why would the rockets care about a physical when they were reportedly giving up scola and a bench player? Scola is restricted and battier is a 7m bench player, but it was turned down because of not waving a physical? I got some water by galveston to sell you if you believe that one,lmao.

 

It was turned down because the Rockets had no assurance that Amare would stick. Amare wants to play the field. I doubt he has any specific place he wants or doesn't want to play outside of places like Memphis and Toronto.

 

Phoenix wanted more and wanted houston to take more and houston backed off because amare was indifferent to resigning. Just like before the season when they had a real shot, they wanted too much and wanted to overload the rockets with contracts. Those who know, know what and whom I'm talking about.

 

Silly Leeb and his crazy "stories"

 

FYI, it's 10.5% vs 8% in the current CBA, the previous CBA was 12.5% vs 10%. I'm well aware of the financial implications of a sign and trade, as well as the trade exception that the team losing the free agent will generate. Sign and trades are mutually beneficial to both sides, I agree.

As to the more salient point of whether having a bunch of bidders vs a limited market will increase or decrease the compensation a team will get by a sign and trade, historically, teams who are able to sign a free agent outright will have to give up very little, while teams over the cap will have to give up king's ransoms' in trade. The more teams with space under the cap, the more likely it is that a potential free agent falls in love with a particular team under the cap, and the team losing the free agent gets nothing.

I'd personally rather be holding Amar'e's rights when there's only one team that can offer a max contract, rather than 6 or 7.

 

Adelman has a defensive system?

 

Everybody talks about how Nash makes Amare better but what if its Amare who makes Nash better? Nobody will ever know until this duo is split up. Nash was nowhere near an MVP caliber player when he played with Dirk because he was a perimeter player. Not until he teamed up with a low post player was Nash an MVP. Just something to think about.

 

Maybe not necessarily a new center, but we could get an upgrade for Chuck Hayes?

Spoiler

 

Yeah, look at how much Nash struggled in 05-06 when Amare only played 3 games in the regular season.

Oh wait... He won the MVP and took the Suns to the Conference Finals...