Good game from Melo but probably bigger impact Galloway. He made some huge shots and hustle plays.
Melo who? The Washington Bullets/Wizards game last night were the best stats Melo had as a Knicks, and this is Melo 6th season as a Knicks. The morning sports page on the Knicks are PHONEY ...
"Anthony's 37 points lead Knicks to 117-110 win over Wizards" PHONEY!
Our last 6 games vs the Wizards they beat us badly in all 6 games do to Melo's poor leadership, and Melo's poor decision making in the final quarter.
This game was different .. In the forth-quarter Fisher finally put our win-win 3 guard offensive lineup on the court "Grant GALLOWAY and Sasha" to produce STOPS on the Wiz offensive trio weapons "Wall, Beal, Porter" to out-score the Wizards 30-20 in the 4th quarter for the WIN. Knicks Defense Won the game.
You know Clyde said in one of those pre-season games that the team wouldn't score much more than the 91ppg they scored last season. I said he was wrong, but even a guy that bleeds O&B like Clyde can be wrong.
Tiger .. Clyde was right! If Fisher let Melo control the offense then the Knicks would never PUSH the ball.
Melo ONLY knows how to play half-court offense, fast-break hustle points are not in Melo's b.ball talent.
Its our 2nd unit that push the ball to give us 30 pts in a quarter to score above 100 pts a game when the bench players are averaging 50 or more points, plus our bench are out-playing our starters on the defensive-end of the court is being notice, their defensive-STOPS contribute to Knicks WINS.
I dont know who is more shook n scared the most from our starter bigs Lopez or KP because in every first-quarter Lopez n KP look lost on both side of the court, until O'Quinn come off the bench n show them what a dominating BIG does on offense n defense to opposing bigs. In the 2nd half of the game Lopez n KP perform like they just stepped out of a phone-booth lol
The Spurs coach Pop and David Robinson were very wise to let a NBA-Ready Star rookie Tim Duncan live in David Robinson house throughout his rookie season, so Tim Duncan could be 100% ready to be a starter his rookie season.
KP does not have any of the resources Tim Duncan had as a rookie to be a starter in the NBA as a rookie.
Phil & Fisher know KP is way over his head as a NBA starter yet they are putting KP in danger-zone (of catching a injury) as the Knicks starter for the season by never putting Lopez and O'Quinn in a lineup together in the past 3 games played.
O'Quinn has only been Lopez backup.