NYCLakerfan
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Way too premature if Melo plays that bad all series then maybe you have a case
With such a lax work ethic, I predicate a dramatic drop-off in Carmelo's play over the next few years. As he gets closer to 30 and then crosses that hill, he won't be able to overcome the donut eating.
I was unhappy with Woodson's lack of use of Stoudemire. Amar'e's stats doesn't look good in that game, but he was good. He had to sit out a lot because of fouls, and wasn't getting the ball in the second half.Melo was exposed yesterday? Then Woodson was stripped down naked son. Yesterdays game had more to do with woodson then anything else. We kept trying to run the offense through a guy getting fronted, and was always covered. Our whole offense was to get Melo the ball, and even when he was covered theyd still try to lob the ball over the defender from the arch to the low post resulting in turnover after turnover. Melo never got into a rhythm. His shots were sporadic, contested, and rarely was he given the ball in a sweet spot or in a manner in which to be successful. This had to do with Miamis fantastic defense, fouls making him less aggressive, and the lack of a healthy PG yes, but woodsons inability to adjust and adapt to miamis defense killed us. Theres too many reason on why we lost yesterday, but for someone to say melo was exposed because he had a bad game yesterday is ridiculous.
There are so many factors involved in any game, in any sport,Yesterdays game had more to do with woodson then anything else.
I was unhappy with Woodson's lack of use of Stoudemire. Amar'e's stats doesn't look good in that game, but he was good. He had to sit out a lot because of fouls, and wasn't getting the ball in the second half.
Until yesterday, there was this notion floating around the media and a lot of fans that Carmelo is a player closer to LeBron than to Tracy McGrady.
I don't think anyone thought Melo was on LeBron's level, but simply that, if you put their faces on a line, you would put Melo's face closer to LeBron's than to McGrady's on that line.
But all this was crushed yesterday. LeBron came in and did the dirty. Carmelo floundered like a fish.
To my mind, this comes down to their off-season work. LeBron, no doubt in my mind, works on his game and his body in the off season. Carmelo looks like he eats donuts.
With such a lax work ethic, I predicate a dramatic drop-off in Carmelo's play over the next few years. As he gets closer to 30 and then crosses that hill, he won't be able to overcome the donut eating.
Guy can still save himself, put some work in, and become a great player.
But the sun is setting fast.
Look, bottom line, this is our team. This team, as it is constructed, is what all the deals and trades were aimed at. I know Lin is out, but Lin might have made that game a 20 point instead of a 33 point laugher.
Knicks got blown the **** out by a team with two legitimate superstars.
Knicks got two fugazy stars.
Real talk.
bro it was just game one, why are you over reacting... yes it was a ugly horrible disgusting massacre.Guys calling it a knee-jerk reaction might be in denial about the severity of yesterday's ass-whooping.
It's one thing to drop game 1 by 10 points, even 15. But by 33? To be so thoroughly dominated after the way Melo finished the regular season?
It's not called knee-jerk, it's called Reality.
bro it was just game one, why are you over reacting... yes it was a ugly horrible disgusting massacre.
This is what we have coaches for, we go to the tapes see what we did wrong & try to work out the kinks. The heat did their homework and they were prepared. Now we have to do our homework and comeback twice as hard as they came at us. Nobody said this was going to be a peace of cake series, we just have to figure out what works for us on the court. Maybe the passes to Melo have to be adjusted, maybe the spacing has to be adjusted. If anyone can make this work Woodson can, if anything that blowout just made us stronger.
100% serious about it call me lunatic,weird, stupid or whatever tough guy internet words you need to use... thats not going to stop me from being a knick fan and supporting them, if your going to talk all this negative $hit about how the Knicks are never going to win with Melo, Melo sucks, We dont have a chance etc etc you might as well hop onto the Heat Bandwagon and cheer Lebron and the Heat on, i didn't see you complaining when Melo was dropping 30 point games, and giving the effort to help us even reach the playoffs. Im not saying you cant speak your opinion but everything you say seems to have some kind of negativity to it... and for what??? because the heat slit our throat in game 1??? It's not the end of the world and its not the end of the series get over it stop crying and get ready for game 2Heh, I'm not sure if you're serious with this!
"yes it was a horrible disgusting massacre"
Yea, it definitely was. And it was dramatically juxtaposed to the hype surrounding this team going into the playoffs. I think the way it went down blew the socks off of even the most ardent supporters.
"If anyone can make this work Woodson can,..."
If anyone CAN'T make it work, it's Woodson! Woody is a coach with a terrible playoffs history and a large part of this history is his inability to make any sort of meaningful adjustment over a series.
I do believe you're joking with me. Or you're a lunatic! (I mean that in the friendliest way possible)
"If anyone can make this work Woodson can,..."
If anyone CAN'T make it work, it's Woodson! Woody is a coach with a terrible playoffs history and a large part of this history is his inability to make any sort of meaningful adjustment over a series.