MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:Relationships.

How well you get along with people is determined largely by how they make you feel. Do you feel good around a person or do you feel bad? This decides if you will keep their company.

Carmelo Anthony makes the Knicks feel bad. They might not want to admit it. Fans might not want to admit it. But he kills flow.

On some level that we can't pinpoint, he kills chemistry.

I won't even mention Baron, I think that one is pretty clear.

No, thats how you feel. Every post that you make about Melo is negative so of course you are going to feel that way.

i'd keep melo and look to trade amar'e for ANYTHING.

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:Look it's not necessarily Melo hate. But with what we have, how the team is built, Melo is the odd guy out, sad to say.

You compare the team on Sunday to tonight? It's not a team, you FEEL this when you watch the game and everyone who tells you they don't get a different FEELING from this team with Carmelo is lying to you and to themselves.

Don't you think, to be fair, we need to give Melo 5-6 games before we want to ship him out?

mrKnickShot wrote:

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:Look it's not necessarily Melo hate. But with what we have, how the team is built, Melo is the odd guy out, sad to say.

You compare the team on Sunday to tonight? It's not a team, you FEEL this when you watch the game and everyone who tells you they don't get a different FEELING from this team with Carmelo is lying to you and to themselves.

Don't you think, to be fair, we need to give Melo 5-6 games before we want to ship him out?

No, I don't think so. We've been saying the same thing about this guy for how long now? "It hasn't been one full season", "hasn't even been a year yet".

JR stepped off the plane from China and dropped ill-nasty swag all over the Garden. Everyone happy.

Melo comes back, fork in the tire.

It's just who he is, he's a dominant presence and it throws the team off its tracks. It derails the team, derails little Jeremy Lin and everything he's trying to do here.

I feel so ugly when I see that Iso.

At one point, Baron walks the ball up, dribble dribble calmly at the top of the perimeter, shot clock ticking away, looking to throw it to Melo in the post. Hideous.

crzymdups wrote:melo or amar'e need to go. simple as that. no room for TWO guys in the front court who only score and don't play D. you can make room for one, not two.

i'd keep melo and look to trade amar'e for ANYTHING.

Melo was rusty last nite but he had 6 assists.

Nobody was hitting shots. We went toe to toe with a team that was clearly going to be physical and thats not our game. They pounded us.

Our three talented enigmas Melo-Davis-Smith were rusty and tentative. Smith looked like he smoked a joint before the game.

Melo had to be reminded who he was and get aggressive to attack. Thats going to be ok many times.

What I saw was the Nets were not going to give us the paint and we could not hit the outside shot. They fouled us and we missed our FT's.

They beat us and we failed to execute.

The feeling was not good all nite.

crzymdups wrote:melo or amar'e need to go. simple as that. no room for TWO guys in the front court who only score and don't play D. you can make room for one, not two.

i'd keep melo and look to trade amar'e for ANYTHING.

Melo's defense in that game was great. He closed out well on all his shooters (causing DWill to airball a three in the middle of his three point barrage on our backcourt), he dove for loose balls, he was active in deflecting long passes and scrambled from the perimeter to contest paint baskets. His defense was solid.

Christ, I hate it when people lump Amare's attributes with Melo because they play on the same team and it's convenient to their agenda.

jrodmc wrote:

airchibundo507 wrote:

crzymdups wrote:melo or amar'e need to go. simple as that. no room for TWO guys in the front court who only score and don't play D. you can make room for one, not two.

i'd keep melo and look to trade amar'e for ANYTHING.

Melo's defense in that game was great. He closed out well on all his shooters (causing DWill to airball a three in the middle of his three point barrage on our backcourt), he dove for loose balls, he was active in deflecting long passes and scrambled from the perimeter to contest paint baskets. His defense was solid.

Christ, I hate it when people lump Amare's attributes with Melo because they play on the same team and it's convenient to their agenda.

+1, Seriously

After being so dayummed wrong about JR (thus far), I find archibundo's comments both insightful and correct.
Thanks for adding some light and balance to the neverending suckhole that is Melo hate.

Did you see the article where MDA says he does not recall Melo suggesting that Lin should play. He's such an ass.