nooooo, the free throws are the reward..."effective aggressiveness" as I stated in my "rant".....
Right - and it's measurable via efficiency. Which Carmelo was bad at in Game 2.
nooooo, the free throws are the reward..."effective aggressiveness" as I stated in my "rant".....
Right - and it's measurable via efficiency. Which Carmelo was bad at in Game 2.
jimkcchief88 we will just have to agree to dissagree! I want Melo to play team ball b/c that would make the knicks 1000 times better imo.You have a right to feel how you feel b/c its a free country and I respect your opinion.I hope you respect my opinion even thow you don't agree with it.
So are you saying we all should expect not only a win tonight BUT a series win againist the heat?
I am saying one game at a time; it's pivotal game three; do or die; and we ain't going out like that against the damn HEAT... Look for double-nickels in the garden from MELO tomorrow night...He's a melofellow
Melo people, Dolan people, and Anti-D'antoni people are peas in a pod, and go hand in hand. This is all typical, James Dolan bull****....the only difference is some fans deluded themselves to deeply into thinking D'antoni was the issue, that they lost site of all perspective, and actually believed that he would leave and we would become champs overnight.
What happened to us competing against anyone right away following D'antoni leaving?
A quick historical recap:
*Walsh and D'antoni didn't want to do the Melo deal. Dolan did. We lost players Walsh and D'antoni wanted; Dolan chose Melo.
*Walsh wanted to re-assert control of his vision and the D'antoni's, Dolan resisted. Walsh left.
*Melo quits on the team and D'antoni, D'antoni after proving huge success with Melo out and a reasonable PG, implores Dolan to move accept the past mistakes (see: above) and move forward, Dolan resisted, Dolan sided with Melo and against D'antoni. D'antoni, like Walsh, leaves.
*Melo magically starts playing like Melo, despite playing in an offense that was virtually identical to what was there as D'antoni offense: centered around ball movement, players committing as a team, creating and taking lots of 3pters, and small lineups being used to great success.
People are burying their heads in the sand if they don't wanna recognize the deep probs we got, and don't wanna open their eyes to what has gone down. The excuses for Melo, the hatred for D'antoni.......whatever, it can ALL be summarized by referring to it as one thing: Dolan's Plan.
I am going to enjoy MELO wheeling and dealing with my fresh MELO swingman jersey on....get hip to the fact....it's gonna be poetry in motion.... watch the man out put boys on his back...it's where AMAZING happens...take advantage
No, but it's completely irrelevant in our current situation.
If he did what you said he did you are 100% right and I couldn't agree more with you, but Miami are still raping us and would have raped us.
Melo is who he is, Amar'e is who he is, Chandler is who he is.
It's the combination of players/coaches on our team that is just absurd and wack as hell.
If everything was sunshine and rainbows the Heat would still rape us.
We don't have a point guard, our center can't score apart from alley-op and the occasional putback, our power forward has no post game at all and is a below par rebounder, our small forward is a chucker on offense and a subpar defender, our shooting guard is in hospital with a torn ACL and our bench is a bunch of bull****.
This roster is a chemical experiment gone horribly wrong.
I'd cut everyone but Shumpert and Lin and maybe Jordan and start from scratch next season if I could.
Try to emulate the Spurs way of building a team, because there is a reason they're good like forever.
The noise of a dying animal. 8 out of 9 years dead in the first round. Hope all you Melo fans are happy. This is what you will get year after year with a selfish iso garbage player.
Carmelo isn't a playoff player. He showed how useful he can be during the regular season, he was named player of the month for a reason. But he's been underachieving when it really counts - in the playoffs. He makes $20M/year and he's supposed to carry the team even if he constantly gets doubled or if other major pieces of his team are injured. I'm not saying he should win the series against a top seeded team completely on his own. But I do expect him to win ONE DAMN GAME, to play like he played in G2 in Boston. I understand Miami plays some great defense and knows how to shut him down, but FFS if he didn't play like **** for a huge part of the season maybe we wouldn't face the Heat but Indiana, Orlando or Atlanta!
Of course, it's not solely his fault, Amare underachieved as well, we played without a respectable point guard for a good few months, D'Antoni failed, some injuries occured, but still, if you want to be considered a superstar, you have to make things happen.