What I hate about Carmelo. The only thing about his game that he needs to change. Its not that he is a ball hog and ruins chemistry, it is not that he is out of shape or whatever, it is his frustration
He gets, ANGERY, SO EASILY. I can't stand it. Look we can scream and get mad all we want, we are fans that is what we do.
I know the refs made a ton of terrible calls last night, but that happens. You have to keep a level head and move on which is something Carmelo just doesn't do. He shoves guys, starts whacking getting fouls and T's.. causes turn overs, looses focus, and stops playing when something happens that he feels was either an unfair call or something happens that he doesn't like. ANd this wasn't just last night. He has been a Knick for an entire year
There were a lot of games with some bad calls when he was injured. But did Lin give up? Did Lin loose his cool and his focus? NO. In fact you could make the argument that it even made him better.
I know it is crazy and I know this is happening so fast but this season imo is do or die for Carmelo as a Knick.. If we continue to struggle with him on this team and we get outed in the first round of the play offs, trade him. I don't care what it is for just clear his salary from the books. We are now deeper than we were before we traded for him, and with his contract on the books we will most likely have to let Fields, JR Smith, Novak, Davis all go and possibly Shumpert next season when his contract is up. And to be honest, I'd rather keep all those guys, have some cap flexibility within the next 2 seasons and give Lin a contract that he deserves than keep Carmelo which we can most certainly do considering how much money he makes... Unless we see some massive improvement from him this season.
And again, I am not basing this just on what I saw last night. I am going to give him time to adapt but at some point we can't keep making excuses for him. Why should we? Its been practically proven we were better when he didn't play. That could change, he could take us to the next level.. But honestly, he has been a Knick for an entire year and for the most part we have been terrible. We went on two stretches were we lost 9/10... Now we can say oh its because of this and that, D'Antoni's fault blabala. Lin came in and showed that this team is good enough to win, and get the wins that we should be winning.. And he did it with Jefferies, walker and fields in his starting Lin up for crying out loud.
I know its a small sample.. But jeez.. From what I've seen, Lin should be the go to guy, he should be our closer and number 1 option. He is selfless, fearless, and makes everyone around him better...
We should be emulating the Bulls. Build a deep team with the PG as the main go to option. That is our best chance for success.. A deep team that plays together...And Amar'e can be an upgraded Carlos Boozer.