Melo came in about the 6:30 mark and missed a 15 footer, got blocked on a layup, missed another one and made a terrible pass to Zinger not what you want from your super star for sure. Chris Herring of the WSJ was tweeting this was Melo's best game by far for because he wasn't forcing anything and had 6 assists, wonder if he changes his mind now. Melo was invisible in crunch time.
A shame too, because he played a solid game until the fourth... Melo hasn't been a closer in years now... And, since we get nothing from the back court... NYK cannot win when Melo scores under 25 points.
Melo has been
20% After School Special
&
80% Struggle Story
This yr. He needs his minutes limited to the extent he falls into a state of misery and then wants out
Yeah, still early but those computers and analytics programs that said the Knicks only win 28 games and the off-season acquisitions were no more than role players are looking awfully smart after today.Our only hope is it gets so bad that Melo begs to be dealt. Otherwise, another 22 win season and TOR gets our lottery pick and we all puke. Anyway, CLE and MIL are bad match ups for us... I'll still wait to see what Melo is like come mid DEC, and how this team looks when Affalo returns. I won't hold my breath tho.
Still, in best case scenarios... I don't see NYK beating out TOR, ATL, CLE, CHI. Then teams like WAS, MIA, IND, MIL are probably better. So, we are in the scrum with everyone else hoping to catch one of the aforementioned teams for the eight seed. And then get eliminated by Lebron. But, plz, I think even DeT and BOS and ORl are better than us.
What's worst? What burns more? The fact we dealt our upcoming first round pick for bargnani or the fact we didn't trade it for Lowry?
The trade of the first round pick for Bargnani is maybe the single hardest thing to swallow at this point in recent Knicks' history. We could be looking at adding another piece like Porzingis or Grant in the next offseason, instead, we get our usual 'sucker' sandwich.
Melo has been
20% After School Special
&
80% Struggle Story
This yr. He needs his minutes limited to the extent he falls into a state of misery and then wants out
Porzingis had NINE offensive rebounds. MIL, as a team, had 13 off rebounds... Another double double for the Latvian Llama...
in the post game presser... And think about this response....Derek Fisher said if we have to rely on Calderon and Sasha to score than we are doing something wrong anyway. Wow. How many NbA teams employ that game plan: not expecting their starting back court to score points. This is a guard driven league, no?