The answer to the rotation when amare and shumpert return
What would you do?
Kidd
Jr smith
Carmelo
Rasheed
Chandler
Then if you use not only amare but Felton and shumpert to play with him- that's the best bench in the league when you add in novak as their next shooter, Camby as the next big, and brewer as the next wing defender
Felton and shumpert would probobaly play more minutes a game still than both starting guards but that would put each individual player in the situation that would be best for them except maybe Felton and chandler. When amare comes back he needs to play the 2 man game with a pg, and jr needs a quicker hook when it's not working and more different opportunities seeing if he ccoukd get hot. Kidd would make a huge impact on jr, and the deduction making taken out of hrs hand by being w Kidd and Carmelo would make him that much more lethal as for the first time ever a 3rd ball handler instead of a primary ball handler.
The way you should look at it is do you continue to put Felton and chandler in the best positions to succeed and ask Carmelo and jr smith to fit around or do you put Carmelo, amare, and jr smith in the best positions to succeed.
The most important reason in your rotation should be to put your best players in the best position to succeed. The way Carmelo could play inside the 3 and around the hoop would blow your mind if he played with 3 shooters the caliber or Rasheed, jr, and Kidd
Last edited by el gringos : 12-18-2012 at 03:03 AM.
Re: The answer to the rotation when amare and shumpert return
I would start Amare until he proves he can't co-exist with Melo and Chandler. I think it was greatly exaggerated. Im going to need more than a few bad games under a terrible head coach to convince me to bench my second best player... especially on a team devoid of skilled players.
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Re: The answer to the rotation when amare and shumpert return
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Originally Posted by franchize
I would start Amare until he proves he can't co-exist with Melo and Chandler.
All threads that start talking about this should just have your quote Franchize. Although Amare because of injuries is a 25 minute player I agree with your statement.
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I mean is it out of the realm of possibility that Amare Stoudemire could you know...be the top 5 PF he's been for a nice chunk of his career? Why are we just assuming he'll come in and screw everything up? I think everyone is basing things of what happened during the D'Antoni era but this team's psyche is 100% different than that team.
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I dont know about I Amare but this lineup with Prigioni and Thomas is horrendous. Those two should not be on an NBA court...especially Thomas. Im sorry but that guy is done. Even stuff he was doing a year or two back like rebounding and hitting open 15 footers is over with. He's about as washed up as you can get.
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prigs shud get max 10 mins off the bench, i think hes really effective in those 10 minutes and amare will really give that bench some much needed fire power.
i like our starting 5 and when shump returns, id like to see him replace brewer.
i dont trust felton at all at pg so id rather keep Jkidd at the 2 spot to help stabilize the ball movement
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Originally Posted by bluechox2
prigs shud get max 10 mins off the bench, i think hes really effective in those 10 minutes and amare will really give that bench some much needed fire power.
i like our starting 5 and when shump returns, id like to see him replace brewer.
i dont trust felton at all at pg so id rather keep Jkidd at the 2 spot to help stabilize the ball movement
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When Shump gets back, I don't wanan see this Felton/Kidd lineup anymore. Go with one or the other. I'd personally go with Felton and split minutes with Kidd but I'm not against it being the other way around. I want Shumpert to be our Sg. Period. He's an excellent perimeter defender and a nice slasher on offense.
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Originally Posted by franchize
When Shump gets back, I don't wanan see this Felton/Kidd lineup anymore. Go with one or the other. I'd personally go with Felton and split minutes with Kidd but I'm not against it being the other way around. I want Shumpert to be our Sg. Period. He's an excellent perimeter defender and a nice slasher on offense.
I agree. We can just hope his knee injury didn't take away too much of his athletic ability.
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I would try something like bringing Felton, JR, and Amar'e off the bench together, with maybe Sheed at stretch 4/5. Start Kidd and Melo and maybe Brewer or Camby.
You could literally structure it so there's an All-Star (Amar'e, Melo) on the court at all times, with decen supporting talent.
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How come Conley, Rudy Gay, ZBO, Marc Gasol can work? How come Bosh, Wade, LBJ can work?
This is the most puzzling thing to me.
Marc Gasol is interesting because he can shoot mid-range jumpers (like Z-Bo) and he's an amazing passer. Chandler doesn't have anything approaching that skill set. Chandler is either catching lobs or getting in the way. And Amar'e and Melo are both at their best facing up mid-range and down.
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