Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 at 9:30 am  |  29 responses

Amar’e Stoudemire Accepts Total Blame for Knicks’ Loss to Magic


New York suffered yet another humiliating loss at home yesterday afternoon, and Amar’e Stoudemire (10 points, a ghastly 2 boards, and foul trouble) said the defeat was his fault. Per the NY Post: “Stoudemire said he was to blame for yesterday’s Martin Luther King Day matinee fizzle, a 102-93 loss to the Magic, because of his foul trouble. In truth, there’s plenty of blame to pass around the Knicks’ locker room. The Knicks proved yesterday they aren’t good with or without Carmelo Anthony right now. Coach Mike D’Antoni’s club went stone cold in the final minutes in a discouraging defeat at the Garden on an afternoon Dwight Howard could hardly pass as Superman, fouling out with 40.3 seconds left after eight points, 10 rebounds and six turnovers. But neither Stoudemire nor Anthony could pass for superstars right now. Anthony made a surprisingly early return from his twin sprains, posted a terrific first half, but petered out in the fourth quarter. Anthony, who tweaked his ankle again late, shot 9 of 27 for 33 points, but scored just six in the fourth quarter. The Knicks’ third straight loss dropped them to 6-7. Stoudemire was in foul trouble all game, finished with 10 points in 22 minutes and was phased out after a fourth-quarter dunk with 7:42 left. The superstar duo ain’t working. Still, Stoudemire wanted this loss on him, not Anthony or D’Antoni. There were a few fans chanting ‘Fire D’Antoni’ at the buzzer, but it was barely audible. ‘Basically [it was] my fault out there,’ Stoudemire said. ‘I’m taking all the blame for the loss. I got into foul trouble. I didn’t get many minutes in the first half. It definitely won’t happen again.’”

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  • Justin G. Posted: Jan.17 at 9:36 am
    Of course it won’t happen again. Usually it’s hard to foul someone with matador defense. This keeps up and the Knicks will have trouble making the playoffs, let alone hold down a number 7 or 8 seed. I would love it if they finished out of the playoffs. Serves Stoudemire and Anthony right

  • DFrance21 Posted: Jan.17 at 9:45 am
    I guess its admireable that he’s willing to say that, but its bullcrap. The Knicks have problems up and down the roster and on the bench. D’Antoni is in over his head and they need to can him. The “Carmelo Anthony ISO, with 6’10″ Amare coming off screens shooting elbow jumper” offense is NOT working.

  • T-Money Posted: Jan.17 at 9:53 am
    i’d argue that neither of them are superstars. kobe, bron, d-wade, d-rose, dwight, durant, cp3. that’s the exhaustive list of superstars. that’s why i never thought that the miami model would spread out – there aren’t enough superstars to go around. the knicks has as much money invested in stat-melo-tc than miami in bron-wade-bosh…

  • Pve_2 Posted: Jan.17 at 9:55 am
    Repeated games where carmelo shoots sub-40% is unacceptable. He needs to be at least 45%

  • DFrance21 Posted: Jan.17 at 10:00 am
    @T-Money no argument they aren’t superstars, but i don’t think the way they run their offense helps matters. They are both 20ppg scorers, but without fluid offensive sets, and a decent point to run them they’re just out there running and gunning. The Knicks as a team and Amare individually were playing much better ball with him and Felton playing pick and roll. With Melo being the black hole he is, Amare is lost out there.

  • Fat Lever Posted: Jan.17 at 10:12 am
    At least one NY Nicks(Hakeem) performed well this weekend.

  • Da-Meat-Hook Posted: Jan.17 at 10:18 am
    Well said Fat Lever!

  • Maniac Posted: Jan.17 at 10:36 am
    How do you guys feel about DWill and Dirk being superstars? I think it’s no debate that the 7 guys named are top 7 in the league.

  • Pais Posted: Jan.17 at 10:56 am
    @Maniac, how’s about Dirk’s a star and Dwill is a really good pg who on occasion plays great?

  • Maniac Posted: Jan.17 at 11:00 am
    @hmmmm makes sense. Well my only thing is: would we be saying the same if deron were on a good team? Idk.

  • Ctk Posted: Jan.17 at 11:07 am
    @Maniac …i dont think no PG is a superstar as a basketball player..Magic was a special case cuz of the size n u could move him all over the court to diff. positions on D dependin on the matchup…if u startin a team from nothing fantasy draft style..Cp3,DRose,DWill,or Westbrook shouldnt go top 10
    Just Bron,Howard,Kobe,Dirk,n Wade r superstars for me
    Durant n Griffin on the way n MAYBE LaMarcusAldridge

  • T-Ray Posted: Jan.17 at 11:33 am
    How about you take some damn pride on the defensive end. When he apologized I’m sure he means I let my team down by not scoring because I was on the bench. This team is pathetic and it starts with the coach. They need a coach that will make them buy into playing defense for 48 minutes. That’s the real problem.

  • Maniac Posted: Jan.17 at 12:14 pm
    Wow you don’t think a PG can be a superstar? CP3 or Rose wouldn’t go top 10?! Are you kidding me? Smh…

  • jimmer Posted: Jan.17 at 12:26 pm
    Marbury 2.0 Team imploder extraordinaire, and I don’t mean Amare. I bet he wishes he never left Phoenix. What a mess.

  • JML-G Posted: Jan.17 at 1:25 pm
    @Jimmer yeah, Pheonix def got bright future ahead of them… *roll eyes*

  • spit hot fiyah Posted: Jan.17 at 1:35 pm
    amare makes brook lopez look like charles oakley

  • T-Money Posted: Jan.17 at 1:41 pm
    pais: you’re right, i would add dirk to the list but not deron. / dfrance: it’s really embarassing for melo that denver got way better and nyc got way worse since the trade. let’s hope it will make more fans realize that points scored are the not the only criteria to juddge a player.

  • dfrance21 Posted: Jan.17 at 2:00 pm
    I didn’t have achance to analyze it when he was in Denver, but Melo is a team killer. That sounds harsh, but his brand of basketball is 99.9% 1 on 1. He has no interest in making his teammates better and it shows in their record. Box scores look great “Oh Melo scored 33 last night” but he also looked off 8 teammates and forced 10 shots. He’s not the only one to blame, but he plays a large part.

  • Backboard Posted: Jan.17 at 2:00 pm
    he accepts blame and cites Foul Trouble and Not enough minutes as the reasons?! that right there shows stoudemire’ s mindset and everything thats wrong with it: he doesnt think it was his Play, when really it was. this, coupled with his pre-season comments Show how far from Reality he really is…

  • ctk Posted: Jan.17 at 2:07 pm
    @maniac point guards dont win u titles as your best player ..Isiah got his 2 n at the right time..Magic n Scott was injured for the finals ..n Pippen was just startin out with the Bulls his 2nd n 3rd yr..Bird back was startin to act up ..Magic was a special case with the size n everything …if u buildin a team to win a title than no u dont take a pg top 10..big man n wings is the way to the ring ..LaMarcusAldridge isnt a better player than the top 3pgs n the league rt now..but more valuable to buildin a franchise

  • ShiQ Posted: Jan.17 at 2:44 pm
    Amar’e it WILL happen again…and again…The KNicks are not a good team..Signing Chandler did not fill all the many holes they have…and someone’s gotta understand that no defense isn’t gonna take you very far..

  • ShiQ Posted: Jan.17 at 2:46 pm
    @Maniac What Rose, Cp3 not superstars? I beg to differ….

  • ShiQ Posted: Jan.17 at 2:47 pm
    Sorry I meant CTK…

  • l2ising Phoenix Posted: Jan.17 at 2:51 pm
    They do play defense… It’s the offense …. Melo shoots horribly some nights ..under 40% . That’s turrible. Plus Stat is playing like a bum. 2 rebounds ? Hurrible.. toney Douglas plays bi-polar offensively and cannot run a offense. We need b diddy, or else were not makin the playoffs. Stat is playing likie a little gurl … That’s frustrating for a Knicks fan.

  • Maniac Posted: Jan.17 at 3:52 pm
    LOL ctk you are wrong on so many levels that it’s not even worth me responding…

  • bike Posted: Jan.17 at 4:39 pm
    Amar’e is simply not the player he was before that knee surgery. He still has a lot of game but it’s not franchise player game.

  • ctk Posted: Jan.17 at 5:36 pm
    @shiq n maniac im speakin purely on bein the best player n winnin titles ..not marketing n bein a playoff team yr in n yr out

  • Justin G. Posted: Jan.18 at 3:39 am
    ctk, it doesn’t matter what you’re “speakin’ purely on”. You’re just straight up wrong.

  • ctk Posted: Jan.18 at 12:48 pm
    based on what?

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