gunsnewing wrote:This is like an episode of the twilight zone. So many passive aggressively pushing to get the posters with different viewpoints banned. Like we are a bunch of high school girls. If that's not Mob mentality I don't know what is
as i have said all along, if melo plays the right way i will be the first to sing his praises, and if he plays the wrong way i will be the first to castigate him. that's called "understanding what it takes to win" and "being objective." it's not my problem that he has been playing the wrong way up until this season. i think what people don't like about my posts is more my "tone" than the content, which clearly has been accurate i terms of the type of player he has been vis a vis what he should have been.
in other words, what these hooligans fail to accept is that the "bad melo" we have been stuck with could have been playing the right way all along, ie defending with vigor and facilitating, giving up bad shots by passing the ball to teammates with better shots. and now that he is playing the right way, they hide behind their collective error by going on the attack.
the canards of "this is who melo is, a volume shooter," and "he needs better players, players he trusts," have been disproven, and utterly. in other words, he has never "needed help" so much as he "needed to BE the help." this is the primary reason the knicks have looked their most promising since february 2011. he is playing way way WAY better than the 54-28 season.
you may not like this assertion-- i can't remember now whether you respected fisher as a coach-- but here goes: phil jackson and derek fisher have gotten through to carmelo anthony. it took about 15-20 games this season to get there, and there is no doubt that more than several of fisher's post game interviews he was speaking in veiled words about melo and the need for melo to play the right way. so if he is speaking in veiled terms with the media, you can bet your last dollar that he has been teaching melo extensively in film meetings and practices, pointing out where melo needs to change his approach. of course several here mocked me for saying that this is what has been going on, but maybe they will have learned something. or not-- i don't care. he is finally playing the way i have wanted him to play and he is earning the money he was paid. so virtually 100% of the credit goes to those two winners who understand what it takes to win, and their getting through to a player with a hitherto losing approach.
it's not my problem that posters accustomed to the castigating of the "bad melo" still want me and you and a couple of others gone.
knicks win 38-43 games in 16-17. rose MUST shoot no more than 14 shots per game, defer to kp6 + melo, and have a usage rate of less than 25%