Mario Chalmers addresses Ray Felton

Posted by Unknown on Monday, April 01, 2013 with 44 comments

Tuesday the Miami Heat will face off against the New York Knicks and recently Knicks point guard spoke of the Heat's "weakness".

"I'm not just saying that just because I'm a New York Knick and just being biased," he said. "I just feel like we really cause matchup problems for them offensively, and then we match up well with them defensively. Like I said, I like our chances. Right now, we're winning the [season] series and we've got one more game left. So we'll see what happens." 

"I'm not saying that's a weak point [for the Heat] because [Mario] Chalmers has been great for Miami. He's won a championship there and he's a solid point guard," Felton said. "But I think that's one of the weaknesses of their team. Not saying that Chalmers is a bad player, because he's not. He's great. He's won a championship. A lot of point guards in this league can't say that. He has that. But if you look at LeBron, Bosh and D-Wade and then you look at Chalmers, you're like, 'OK, this is maybe where their weakness is at....But they really don't have too many weaknesses. I'll just say that we match up well with them, that's all." 

Chalmers spoke to Ethan Skolnick of the Palm Beach Post about the comments made by Felton.  

"I don't think I've got everyone's respect. I'm still working on that. But everybody's entitled to how they feel...People are going to say whatever. The only thing that matters to me is I got my teammates' respect, my coaches' respect..I know him (Felton) pretty well. Yeah, I'm a little shocked about that comment."