Amare Stoudemire averaged 37 pts against prime Tim Duncan in the playoff

[iamgine]

Good thing Phoenix lost the series or else it'd really put a damp on Duncan's defensive reputation.

[Dbrog]

Was literally Pops game plan just like against the Lakers when he let Kobe "get his." Specifically with Phoenix the idea was if you collapse, there are just too many shooters that were going to light you up. Didn't you watch back then?

[ShawkFactory]

Yea I mean the Spurs won in 5 and it was clear that the Spurs were lent trying to slow the game down and we’re saving for the offensive end where they knew they had more options and were better.

It was a strange series and showed the Spurs adaptability as a team.

Having said that. Amare was an amazing offensive player. Kind of like the Tmac of PFs in that sense. But he did absolutely nothing the stop anything the other way and the Spurs knew that.

[Norcaliblunt]

Amares most impressive play in that series wasn’t even on offense. It was his game winning block on Duncan in game 4.

[SouBeachTalents]

spurs allowed it. they wanted Amar'e to go off because it would mean the rest of the team isn't going to run their best in the league offense style.


but that one year...when the jew decided to suspend amar'e for a pivotal game, that series was going to be won by phoenix if the jew didn't step in. spurs knew they were going to lose as well, they saw the writing on the wall and pop put a bounty on Nash. league never cared to investigate dirty behaviour like that, it's actually very suspicious how the league operated back then, on certain things they were on some dictator shit, but on actually shady things they looked the other way.

Looking at the stats from that series, Nash went off too, and Joe Johnson met his regular season averages. But what jumped out to me, after averaging 19 in the regular season & 20+ on high efficiency in the first 2 rounds, Marion averaged 8 ppg on 41%TS I honestly never noticed how atrocious his offensive output was in that series.

As for the rest

[tontoz]

Didnt JJ miss some games in that series with a broken face? Sucks that team was only together for 1 yr.

[Norcaliblunt]

That Suns team wasn’t deep enough to beat the Spurs and Joe Johnson going down basically assured a loss.

Amare pre micro fracture surgery was something else as a finisher. One of the best ever.

[tpols]

Was literally Pops game plan just like against the Lakers when he let Kobe "get his." Specifically with Phoenix the idea was if you collapse, there are just too many shooters that were going to light you up. Didn't you watch back then?

Letting Amare go off like that was definitely not in the spurs game plan. Shawn Marion was the weak link with his awful spacing, shooting, scoring, and passing. The suns probably would've won with a PJ Tucker or Robert covington type in his place. Anybody that could shoot a jumper and play defense.

[Norcaliblunt]

Phoenix never really had a secondary playmaker behind Nash. As good as Amare was finishing the ball he wasn’t collecting assists, or manufacturing points all by himself isolated in the half court. It’s all pick and roll, pick and pop. He did get to the free throw line a lot which was great. But the Suns needed a legit shot creator or playmaker as the second option. Just look at SA they had 3 dudes who could actually handle the rock, playmake, or isolate and score.

And not to mention the defense. Lol.

[RRR3]

no its not.

How

[Spurs m8]

Was literally Pops game plan just like against the Lakers when he let Kobe "get his." Specifically with Phoenix the idea was if you collapse, there are just too many shooters that were going to light you up. Didn't you watch back then?

Lol ethered him.

[tontoz]

JTA — Amar’e Stoudemire has officially finished his conversion to Judaism.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/amare-...on-to-judaism/

[rmt]

Spurs' game plan was always to let Nash and Amare have theirs and shut down Suns' 3 point shooters. And it worked - Nash/Amare couldn't score enough and Suns couldn't stop Spurs on the defensive end either.

[warriorfan]

xcept for that one year where pop had to physically hurt nash and beg david stern to suspend amare. you guys were getting creampied that year.


then of course dragic creampied tony parker in 2010.

thank god you were there to eat all the pies afterwards

[dankok8]

Amare was incredible to watch. If only it weren't for all the injuries...