Knicks forward Amar’e Stoudemire is contacting his teammates to organize team workouts next month in Los Angeles, reports Alan Hahn.A source indicated that Knicks Chauncey Billups, Carmelo Anthony, Roger Mason Jr., Landry Fields, Andy Rautins, Iman Shumpert, and Josh Harrellson received invites.
Via Newsday
Read more: http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/214769/Stoudemire_Organizing_Team_Workouts#ixzz1SSnNzZ6q
How weird does it feel to finally have a true leader on our team ? I'm impressed !
Word, +1 to that. Stat is the anti-LeDouche.
Or reading endlessly about how he's running the Hollywood hills by his lonesome...
Will there be defense taught during these workouts?
GodSaveTheKnicks wrote:Will there be defense taught during these workouts?
since D'Antoni can't have any contact with the players, there is a good chance there will be defense practiced and talked about!
First Billups coaching experience?
franco12 wrote:GodSaveTheKnicks wrote:Will there be defense taught during these workouts?
since D'Antoni can't have any contact with the players, there is a good chance there will be defense practiced and talked about!
So true.
Hopefully Shawne Williams will get an invite soon!
What about TD, Williams, etc. Seems odd that you would not just invite the entire team. He probably did and the reporter just did not report it.
It is good to see the team willing to continue to work. The should schedule a 3-4 day session and just run through the offensive play book. It will be hard to practice defense in that kind of setting though and hopefully we will have a defensive assistant who will change our defense anyway this year.
I'm glad that the players are still serious about the season even tho they don't know if there will even be one. This team seems to me to want to get to another level after the bad taste of last post season. If they take this seriously there's no reason they can't be one of the top teams next year. It starts with the preparation and STAT has that great work ethic to help the young guys learn what it takes to get in NBA shape and be a pro.
I believe that STAT is able to go, but is using his back as an excuse right now. It's a bit harsh but think about it. He's been real active this summer traveling and making deals for his fashion line. We all know he was legitimately hurt, but all he's waiting for is medical clearance and since he's been talking so definitively about his get together with teammates I think he's just using the time to do more off the court things this summer before he has to shut all that down and prepare for the season. As long as he's medically unable to workout, he can use that to turn down anything he doesn't want to do. But as this bit of info brings out he has not qualms about a long flight overseas:
According to Newsday, Amare Stoudemire is still planning to go on his Nike-sponsored trip to China on Aug. 17. But Stoudemire's back continues to bother him, and he has not been cleared to resume basketball workouts. A long flight to Asia probably will not help.
Stoudemire also seems to want to get his Knicks teammates together and -- gasp -- play basketball. This unofficial Knicks minicamp could take place in Florida or California.
There was also a tweet that Billups is now cleared to workout. Just waiting on Melo and STAT.
