<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (clangus @ Oct 6 2006, 09:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Thats disapointing. Maybe he has been reading too many articles in the press saying that he cant be the same player. That might be f'ing with his head. If its true, I hope he snaps out of it. He is too good of a player to give up like that. If he keeps it up maybe a mid-season blockbuster is on the cards. The suns survive because they have some of the best chemistry in the L. Some one getting the kind of money he is not putting in the effort could really break a team. Cmon Amare get your sh*t together, play through pain, stop crying and take a look at what the guys that struggle to get in the L are doing and the injuries they play with, just to sit on the bench. They should inspire you.</div>Yeah, I agree. However, if this isn't how it is, Amare might just not have the same passion for b-ball anymore. Who knows...? :no1:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Amare Has Best Practice Of Trip 9th October, 2006 - 9:04 am East Valley Tribune - Amare Stoudemire had an excellent practice on Sunday, his best since the team left the States, to cap a week in which he didn't practice on Thursday and sat out the Suns' game on Friday. ?We?ve got a lot of wild swings going on with Amar? right now, but Sunday was a positive,? D?Antoni said. ?He said he felt good and he looked like he was moving better. Now we?re looking for some consistency in practice, for him to string together good days and build on the positives.? D?Antoni said if Stoudemire has similar results in practice on Monday, he will play in Tuesday?s game against the Philadelphia 76ers . [READ]</div> Yeah...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>by John SchuhmannCOLOGNE, Oct. 9 -- No player in the league will have more eyes on him this year than Amare Stoudemire. With the Phoenix Suns thinking this is their season, and with their surprising success last year despite his absence, it's difficult not to think about how good they could be with the man they call STAT back in the linuep ... and playing like he used to.Whether that is possible at this point in time is the question.If you're looking for signs that he is making a full (and speedy) recovery from his knee problems (the non-microfracture knee is causing more trouble these days), Stoudemire has not had the best camp. He has pulled himself out of practice. He did not play against Lottomatica Roma last Friday and he hasn't been considered a starter at all in camp.But things may be turning around. Amare has looked strong and even explosive the last two days of practice and he says that he will play against the Sixers (and perhaps send a message across the league) here in Cologne Tuesday night (3 p.m. ET, ESPN 2)."Today, I feel 110 percent," Stoudemire said. "Yesterday, I felt 110 percent. So, if I can feel 120 percent tomorrow, then the 76ers are in for it."His coach is happy about the last two days as well, but he realizes that it will take a lot of more days like this for his big man to be ready for the season."It's a little bit of a roller coaster and right now, we're on the upslope," Mike D'Antoni said. "The last two days have been great. If he keeps doing that another 20 days with no setbacks, he'll be 100 percent."You can hear a little doubt in the way D'Antoni speaks, but Amare speaks like the pain is a thing of the past. And he doesn't fear the future."I'm too spiritual to be afraid of anything," he affirmed. Amare hopes to stretch expectations this season.Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE/Getty Images Of course, he will tell you that he'll always take a "recovery day" if needed, because it was the recovery day he had just recently that has him feeling so good right now."I had a day off and I was able to recover and it was like night and day," he said.So, fans will have to be patient. Heck, they've waited a full year at this point. And that year was tougher on the man himself than it ever could have been on those waiting for his return."You guys don't know how hard it was this summer to stay motivated," he said, "because it got to a point where I thought I wasn't gonna be able to come back. I thought I wasn't gonna get healthy, but I stayed motivated to keep working, to keep pushing through. And to have that feeling back to where I was before the injury, it feels great and I just can't wait to improve."To clarify, when he says that he doubted his ability to come back, that doesn't mean that his career was almost over. He just wasn't sure that he would be able to return all the way back to where he was at his peak, the 2005 Playoffs, when he averaged 37.0 points and 9.8 rebounds in the Conference Finals against the Spurs.And that's his goal. He's not satisfied with just playing again. He wants to be an All-Star. And he wants to be an All-Star this year. But right now, it's still October, and Cologne, Germany is a long way (both literally and figuratively) from Las Vegas. So, he's willing to accept coming off the bench for the time being."Whatever the role is," he said. "I'm down for it."But he's certainly excited to feel better than he has in a long time, attacking the rim like it's a manifestation of all the frustration he's felt over the last year."Any opportunity I had today," he said, "I wanted to rip it down. I definitely tried to tear it down each opportunity. There was no second-guessing, no second-thoughts, no pain, no favoritism. Just strictly basketball." It's a great thing to watch, and we'll continue to do just that.</div>lol, gimme a break man... Just shut up and play.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ASUFan22 @ Oct 10 2006, 01:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>It's mostly just his arms, he's pretty lean for a big man. No fat on that man! He looks frightening!</div>I agree, he does look frightening. His arms look bigger than Ben Wallace's there.
