congrats...now lets keep it up for the playoffs

Although Durant does a cut throat brings hands together move(which he got fined 25k by the league for) which translate to..."Kill Em Now Pray For Em Later"

It's like dude you're not that kind of a player still. Durant is rapidly approaching Lebron level not having it all there yet. The major difference for him going forward who can he collude with to get him over the hump?

but

He understood it doesn't mean anything to him anymore and took the role of improving his facilitating game with Harden gone
Might not be a triple double threat like Lebron but he is up there in points, rebounds, assist, steals, and blocks, as well

Melo just doesn't have the same athleticism, size, skills, to do some of the things they do
I hope he works on setting screens off the ball, moving WITHOUT the ball more, know when to cut/go fight for position, and playing off the ball vs trying to always get the ball

He has to use deception much more so we do not play right in to our opponents strategy on defense
Exert his energy/focus in all area's of game, not exhausting himself on mainly scoring, so that he can be a much more complete All Star
He could use the *perception that he will always try to score* against these defenses as they will not expect it, but this is something that Woody the TEAM/Players ont he floor must impliment together, it would be coming from left field, as no one will see it coming

Like it did for JR's game, it would make him and the team much harder to defend, and improve his game while able to give the chance of letting his team get in rythme with more touches on the ball

Bonn1997 wrote:He'll get credit from the skeptics if or when he achieves something that they care about - high PPG isn't one of them.

Division title?

Congrats Melo.

MaTT4281 wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:He'll get credit from the skeptics if or when he achieves something that they care about - high PPG isn't one of them.

Division title?

Congrats Melo.

MaTT4281 wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:He'll get credit from the skeptics if or when he achieves something that they care about - high PPG isn't one of them.

Division title?

Congrats Melo.

Boston doesn't hang Division Ttiles...Clippers just won a Division Title.... Blake Griffin said it's not getting hung we have our eyes on bigger goals....

CHIP OR BUST at the time of trade I said 3 PEAT OR BUST

DurzoBlint wrote:

Uptown wrote:Typical BS from the anit-Melo crowd. Instead of giving this man his due, you guys babble on about how the scoring title doean't mean anything anymore, or that Durant gvae up weeks ago. Durant didn't give up, Melo just went on an extraordinary run (avering 40pts over 6 games) and 35 for the month. Is it really that hard to give the man credit. Sheshhh!!!!

Exactly. Also they act like Melo actually cared too. If Melo truly cared, he wouldn't have sat out as many fourth quarters as he did. Stop hating and give this man his due. Had he not been a Knick, many of them would be riding his jock.

Melo cared because when they played OKC....comments were made prior to Tip-Off.... when he was injured Melo said he thought he had no shot but when he returned and went on a scoring tear, said he most certainly wanted to win it. It was on his mind when he wasn't in the lead and on his mind as he approached the lead.

Actually it was on his mind before any game was played this year when he said he would sacrifice his scoring average to 23-27ppg as long as we won....Scoring Matters to Melo...always has, always will.

Uptown wrote:Typical BS from the anit-Melo crowd. Instead of giving this man his due, you guys babble on about how the scoring title doean't mean anything anymore, or that Durant gvae up weeks ago. Durant didn't give up, Melo just went on an extraordinary run (avering 40pts over 6 games) and 35 for the month. Is it really that hard to give the man credit. Sheshhh!!!!

I was just about to hammer out a response but thank you for taking care of that for me

"but he's inefficient and the stats indicate that he isn't very good and blah blah blah!"

whatever - I don't understand the point of posting here if you can't even get excited about the biggest news this team has had in a very, very long time. People did backflips here when David Lee made the All Star Game yet now a scoring title is ultimately a notch above meaningless. Whatever

3G4G wrote:

DurzoBlint wrote:

Uptown wrote:Typical BS from the anit-Melo crowd. Instead of giving this man his due, you guys babble on about how the scoring title doean't mean anything anymore, or that Durant gvae up weeks ago. Durant didn't give up, Melo just went on an extraordinary run (avering 40pts over 6 games) and 35 for the month. Is it really that hard to give the man credit. Sheshhh!!!!

Exactly. Also they act like Melo actually cared too. If Melo truly cared, he wouldn't have sat out as many fourth quarters as he did. Stop hating and give this man his due. Had he not been a Knick, many of them would be riding his jock.

Melo cared because when they played OKC....comments were made prior to Tip-Off.... when he was injured Melo said he thought he had no shot but when he returned and went on a scoring tear, said he most certainly wanted to win it. It was on his mind when he wasn't in the lead and on his mind as he approached the lead.

Actually it was on his mind before any game was played this year when he said he would sacrifice his scoring average to 23-27ppg as long as we won....Scoring Matters to Melo...always has, always will.

So what that it matters? Is that a bad thing? The admiral, David Robinson cared. If he didn't he wouldn't have went out and scored 70. Shaq cared, the Iceman cared, so did David Thompson. Does that put all these hall or famers in the same nagative light as you view Melo? And you can bet your Classic #4's that Jordan cared too.....