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  1. cly2tw

    Suns offer Amare maximum contract extension worth an estimated $110 million

    When it comes to signing Amare to a max-like contract and fear of no contender after Nash retires, the better comparison would be Pierce before KG/Allen joined him, Pau Gasol on Grizz, McDyce on Nuggs, JONeal on Pacers, JJ in Atlanta and Bosh in Toronto, etc. Without injury, any of them would...
  2. cly2tw

    Suns offer Amare maximum contract extension worth an estimated $110 million

    The Amare hatred is getting into the realm of unprecedented ridiculous state now. Amare was still playing in the playoffs, unlike the tier-1 superstar FAs, when they announced those summit! It's not an issue that you have to talk about everyday over your summer vacation on the Caribean islands...
  3. cly2tw

    Suns offer Amare maximum contract extension worth an estimated $110 million

    By that time, Kerr would have traded him for rebuilding assets elsewhere. Only with a signed Amare could you ever get anything in return. At least, you'd have the choice whether you wanted to go the route like Celtics with Pierce holding the forte, or just dismantle and rebuild after Nash retires.
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    Playoffs 2010: Western Conf Finals, Game 6 – Lakers At Suns Game Thread

    DA knows that the only motivation his players had and would be playing for on that NY team was pepping up stats for the ensuing FA. He rewards those who are not in his dog house as his carrot and stick. We might be disappointed by Amare not doing better than he did in all the playoffs he...
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    Suns offer Amare maximum contract extension worth an estimated $110 million

    I know some fans might be on the suicide watch for now. But the number may be just imagination out of the fact that "the financial part be taken care of". First, if it's 6 year 110m, it's not the super max. It'd be even slightly below the regular FA max of 5y/96mil some reported, extended to 6...
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    Playoffs 2010: Western Conf Finals, Game 6 – Lakers At Suns Game Thread

    JO is just an example. You could replace him with Amir Johnson, Gooden, Ratliff, and who else could play true center. As with Garcia. I'd have no problem with Bass+Redick for LB. Let's take your Lee+Gooden in place of Amare. Add on another MLE level player of your choice. Let us see your...
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    Were we that close?

    Bench production is just part of the Suns great mantra this season, chemistry + resourceful. As I put in other posts, the strength and weakness of the Suns has been that they have been constantly re-inventing itself over the course of the season till the end of WCF. Its success implies that...
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    Playoffs 2010: Western Conf Finals, Game 6 – Lakers At Suns Game Thread

    joshst and stefan, Lee at 12m is better Amare at 20m, but for what purpose? Give me any team with Lee as the 2nd scoring option and you could consider it a contender, like the Suns, at least in hindsight, proved they were this season. I believe the following team under Gentry is a contender...
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    Playoffs 2010: Western Conf Finals, Game 6 – Lakers At Suns Game Thread

    After all the discussion about Lee, I believe he'd make a great Odom type impact on a contender. In fact, Lee replacing Frye on the current Suns team may have given us the edge to beat the Lakers, with his rebounding and all-around smarts. But Lee replacing Amare on the same team makes us at...
  10. cly2tw

    Possible Replacement for Amare?

    Celtics will beat them in the finals.:D
  11. cly2tw

    Ok, I'm jumping the bandwagon. I officially hate Amare too

    Maybe Nash himself partied some place that night too. After all, it's still a quite improbable achievement to get thus far in a season of no expecation. Maybe his tears were because he knew Amare were leaving and that game was his own last chance to the finals.
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    Playoffs 2010: Western Conf Finals, Game 6 – Lakers At Suns Game Thread

    I have one word for you "less is more"! OK, that's 3 words, but the way we florished starting after ASB was to reduce Nash's dribbling, which vitalized JRich and Amare. As to Diaw, 1) he won't have a contract year any time soon for him to give any effort on the court, 2) with Nash in his prime...
  13. cly2tw

    Were we that close?

    You have to be good, in order to be lucky. It's why everybody condemned Amare's comment on Odom's luck. ;)
  14. cly2tw

    Playoffs 2010: Western Conf Finals, Game 6 – Lakers At Suns Game Thread

    It's not about trashing his PPG. Lee is solid player, a good 3rd fiddle on a championship team. He'd be really good for Magics or Cavs or Lakers. But signing him as the replacement for Amare means we give up the hope of contending while Nash is here. Simple as that. Murphy got insane stats...
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    Vujacic: Dragic "LOW HUMAN BEING"

    It was a flop that the refs after carefully reviewing the tapes had to give a flagrant-1 to! From the same refs who rewarded the cruntch time real flop by Gasol with an offensive foul on Amare, not to mention the questionable moving screen call on him seconds earlier on a Fisher flop. The crews...
  16. cly2tw

    Possible Replacement for Amare?

    I wouldn't argue about that in principle. Dirk and Melo have proven to be more reliable 1st option offense indeed, while Howard's offense is far worse than Amare's to carry a team. Bosh is the smoother player with better rebounding. But next to a dominant guard like Nash, Wade, Ellis, Rose, Paul...
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    Were we that close?

    We won and lost in the post season in a similar manner to the earlier years with Nash's team here. We won on actually quite superior talent, and lost because we were forced to play styles we had not prepared ourselves for during regular season plays. And in this particular regular season, we...
  18. cly2tw

    Possible Replacement for Amare?

    That's astute observation indeed. The explanation is, our defense particularly against their bigs sucked big time, particularly in first 2 games, and particularly with Amare losing focus then and Frye lacking confidence then. Kobe just thredded us by passing on high post to their cutting and...
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    Possible Replacement for Amare?

    Against emotional hatred, there is nothing to do about. The higher the expectation, the deeper the disappointment. ODMG, 1. Nash hits FT by 94% but can't win games with FT as MJ with less than 80%. His shooting 72% in the paint is a testament of his smarts and shot selection. My point is that...
  20. cly2tw

    Possible Replacement for Amare?

    Especially, anyone has yet to come up with an argument that Amare signed at market price this offseason would not yield very good assets next year in a trade or two, with good enough likelihood. So, why not go for that 5% and break it up with better asset in your hands then than now! PS: as an...
  21. cly2tw

    Possible Replacement for Amare?

    I said Nash didn't have the fall-away, fall-down, jumper in the paint anymore. He is much slower than 2 years ago to have enough legs after 20 seconds of dribbles through paint, bumping the bigs and smalls and still hit that last moment lying-down jumper. He gets increasingly more often blocked...
  22. cly2tw

    Possible Replacement for Amare?

    So, you thought Marion was as good as Melo's potential?;) Were you among the guys who blasted me for wanting to trade Marion for the 7th pick that turned out to be Nene?:D Back then, Pierce wasn't playing much defense and many fans wanted him gone for the same reason: they didn't believe he...
  23. cly2tw

    Playoffs 2010: Western Conf Finals, Game 6 – Lakers At Suns Game Thread

    Why do you think Amare would go along with the idea of playing for DA again? Just for not playing defense? Despite his shortcomings, Amare has wanted to become a more complete player all along. His appreciation for Gentry is genuine. He just doesn't have enough milage yet to play the 'right'...
  24. cly2tw

    Possible Replacement for Amare?

    So, what you are saying that Amare is indeed the player you thought he was in the second half of regular season before playoffs? What ever was concern to him to withhold himself, would he become that player of 2nd half next years and next playoffs? Nash was that transcendent player (whatever...
  25. cly2tw

    Amare Ought to be Embarassed

    For all my limited math skill, it's about less than 8 months and with Amare fully getting his conditioning back for about the later 4-5 months. That's learning on the job towards contending for a NBA championship within a team concept, the highest achievement for any team. And people ask him to...

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