the mantra of suffering always maintains...

it's the way it is. sports...thems the breaks...uh!

imho, hard to argue anything other than dude has a been a top player who has carried this team in so many games this year, and as can even be seen by the most recent grantland article:

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/58126/courtvision-so-this-is-what-carmelo-anthonys-prime-looks-like

those who say he 'hasn't done what he has to' YET are perhaps reaching for variables that fit one's line of belief...it is more than clear, statistically, that the man has upped his game this year, when it was already very, very good.

if we lose in the playoffs, (most likely the knicks will) i struggle to see how we can resort to the same 'ewing didn't win us a title' route and act like it's 'one player's' fault, which i personally feel is how some are gearing themselves up for to tout with melo, regardless. he's a failure.

it's so simple. just accept it. not the right player to win. as some of y'all continue to wait for godot...

Let the games begin and the music play!

StarksEwing1 wrote:I think Melo is really motivated this year to go deep in the playoffs. We all know that his playoff record isnt good so he definetly needs to get us to the ECF. I think he will.

ECF or bust for this year. Losing in the ECF will pacify a lot of people. Fans and haters alike. Next year Knicks need to get to the Finals. 3rd year they better win it all.

Consistent play is what will win. Melo is notorious for following up big playofff games with these 8-24 shooting nights. Ewing's teams advanced every year for a decade. Melo's teams have advanced once in a decade. What the doubters are expecting is Melo is play like a star as he has been and take over a series (or two or three or four). Not have a couple great performances where he gets his that are sandwiched around these bad shooting games where he shoots us right out of the playoffs. Lets see him impress his will on a SERIES and take us deep into it. This is what Knick fans have waited for. This offseason certainly has a good feel to it. Looking forward. Lets get it going.

I think this team is ready. I predict a deep series against the Heat in the ECF. Fingers crossed.

Hell Gallo had a tendency to get hot here.... at season's end, Lody Freakin Do!

CHIP or BUST Melo!

And when I see us going from .300 ball and no playoffs to .600 ball and a 2 seed.

When I see a broken down SF who's been overhyped since his first summer league run in with the late great Tractor Traylor compared to a current scoring champion who carries us on his back and drives the ball to the hole like no Gallo ever was or could.

Denver: nice run that's been done before, draft picks, flexibility not gotten out of the first round since 2010.
Knicks: incredible run, incredible increase in winning percentage, not much in flexibility, not much in draft picks, not out of the first round since 2010.

On the whole, I like being a Knicks fan. Better.

tkf wrote:

3G4G wrote:When I see the Nuggets continue their torrid pace of winning without the STAR..... when they've had 2 of our former players plagued with injuries throughout their tenure there, and our team maintain a winning record without our STAR, and our STAR not put together sustainable performances in the playoffs leading to 1st round exits, I'm just not impressed with our STAR.

Hell Gallo had a tendency to get hot here.... at season's end, Lody Freakin Do!

CHIP or BUST Melo!

+100

OGkush121 wrote:

3G4G wrote:When I see the Nuggets continue their torrid pace of winning without the STAR..... when they've had 2 of our former players plagued with injuries throughout their tenure there, and our team maintain a winning record without our STAR, and our STAR not put together sustainable performances in the playoffs leading to 1st round exits, I'm just not impressed with our STAR.

Hell Gallo had a tendency to get hot here.... at season's end, Lody Freakin Do!

CHIP or BUST Melo!

so any player that has failed to drive his team towards the NBA title is supposed to be a bust?

and Denver might have a good record, but they won't go far...2nd round AT BEST....Knicks actualy have a chance of making it to the Finals, or atleast ECF.

Based on what evidence other than what your pressure heart beat tells you?

3G4G wrote:

TeamBall wrote:

tkf wrote:

3G4G wrote:When I see the Nuggets continue their torrid pace of winning without the STAR..... when they've had 2 of our former players plagued with injuries throughout their tenure there, and our team maintain a winning record without our STAR, and our STAR not put together sustainable performances in the playoffs leading to 1st round exits, I'm just not impressed with our STAR.

Hell Gallo had a tendency to get hot here.... at season's end, Lody Freakin Do!

CHIP or BUST Melo!

+100

So you guys never got excited when Gallinari went on any sort of streak? It was just as unimpressive as Melo's right?

Actually I didn't think too much of it at the time because back then the heated discussions were Gallo vs Chandler. Chandler went down with season injury one who of which I vouched as talented, if not more so than Gallo and thought his hot stretch should have been kept in perspective. But it was a hot stretch nonetheless.

TeamBall wrote:

3G4G wrote:

TeamBall wrote:

tkf wrote:

3G4G wrote:When I see the Nuggets continue their torrid pace of winning without the STAR..... when they've had 2 of our former players plagued with injuries throughout their tenure there, and our team maintain a winning record without our STAR, and our STAR not put together sustainable performances in the playoffs leading to 1st round exits, I'm just not impressed with our STAR.

Hell Gallo had a tendency to get hot here.... at season's end, Lody Freakin Do!

CHIP or BUST Melo!

+100

So you guys never got excited when Gallinari went on any sort of streak? It was just as unimpressive as Melo's right?

Actually I didn't think too much of it at the time because back then the heated discussions were Gallo vs Chandler. Chandler went down with season injury one who of which I vouched as talented, if not more so than Gallo and thought his hot stretch should have been kept in perspective. But it was a hot stretch nonetheless.

People are doing the same with Melo's stretch too though. No ones saying he surpassed Lebron with his latest streak.

They're equating it to ECF appearance based on what? He got hot last yr and we could barely win a game against the Heat? They had no Bosh when we played them? Why didn't the hot streak lead to a 4-2 or 4-3 series against them?