The Knicks look to bounce back after a teeth grinding aggravating game one loss to the Celtics
Amare Stoudemire is one of the most humble and professional athletes in the NBA especially when his team loses. He always shows a winning attitude and has a fun loving persona about him. But after a game one 87-85 loss which saw him score 28 points and grab 11 rebounds but not see the ball in the Knicks final six possessions he should get a little upset. Or does the argument come that Amare isn't ready to be the star? Is he fine in letting Anthony take the lime light in the MSG the mecca of basketball? I don't think so. That's why he went to the Knicks in the first place because he wanted to be the biggest star in the biggest city.
He is a premier post player in the NBA, he has the moves in the block to go along with a much improved mid range game and ball handling skills. He showed how dominating he was during the first half of the season and was almost the run away for the MVP during the first two months. Now the Knicks have become an even faster paced team with the addition of Chauncey Billups and Carmelo Anthony.
No doubt Billups and Anthony make the Knicks more formidable but they seem to go to them more when the game inevitably comes to its crucial climaxes. Amare Stoudemire could not and would not be stopped last night and when leading late in the fourth quarter of a playoffs series between a conference rival you need to go to you're most reliable and efficient play maker on the night and that was Amare.
I know that Billups went out late in the fourth with an injury and some may say the Knicks like taking quick shots that's how they got the lead. But I say you got the lead with Amare banging away at a high energy but aging Kevin Garnett and over matched Glen Davis. So if they want to run their system and not run through the best player that night then they must want to walk out of the playoffs in round one.
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