crzymdups wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:Hmm...is it still a small sample size?

small sample size... that's probably what joe dumars said to defend his picking darko over melo in the draft. "he only played one year at college. sure, he won it all, but lets see him do that five more times before i use the second pick on him."

melo has been an elite player for years. the idea that anyone needs to defend melo from posts like 'small sample size'... melo has averaged 29ppg for an entire season before.

to quote seinfeld: he's real and he's fabulous.

I guess some people need to see and touch the hole in the side before they think it's real.

ChuckBuck wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:Hmm...is it still a small sample size?

small sample size... that's probably what joe dumars said to defend his picking darko over melo in the draft. "he only played one year at college. sure, he won it all, but lets see him do that five more times before i use the second pick on him."

melo has been an elite player for years. the idea that anyone needs to defend melo from posts like 'small sample size'... melo has averaged 29ppg for an entire season before.

to quote seinfeld: he's real and he's fabulous.

I guess some people need to see and touch the hole in the side before they think it's real.

ha was shown the same painting at mass today

crzymdups wrote:

statandmelo1234 wrote:He is now averaging 29.9 ppg, 7.9 rpg, 2.7 apg, 1.6 steals per game, about a block a game since Lin's and Amar'e absence..OMFG

small sample! and he sucks!

just kidding.

people have given me crap for saying this before - but melo is clearly the best player to wear a knicks uniform since patrick ewing. there's just not much argument.

Bonn1997 wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

statandmelo1234 wrote:He is now averaging 29.9 ppg, 7.9 rpg, 2.7 apg, 1.6 steals per game, about a block a game since Lin's and Amar'e absence..OMFG

small sample! and he sucks!

just kidding.

people have given me crap for saying this before - but melo is clearly the best player to wear a knicks uniform since patrick ewing. there's just not much argument.

It is a small sample but even before this year he was a better PF than SF. I think he'll keep playing like a star if not superstar at the PF position but think he'll return to his career numbers if they move him down to SF.

WHy what makes him a better PF than SF.

Bonn1997 wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

statandmelo1234 wrote:He is now averaging 29.9 ppg, 7.9 rpg, 2.7 apg, 1.6 steals per game, about a block a game since Lin's and Amar'e absence..OMFG

small sample! and he sucks!

just kidding.

people have given me crap for saying this before - but melo is clearly the best player to wear a knicks uniform since patrick ewing. there's just not much argument.

It is a small sample but even before this year he was a better PF than SF. I think he'll keep playing like a star if not superstar at the PF position but think he'll return to his career numbers if they move him down to SF.

WHy what makes him a better PF than SF.

He can beat defenders and finish much better when he is a PF than an SF. At SF, he barely got by defenders and then got blocked by the team's PF or C. When he plays PF, he flies by his defender (leaving him on the perimeter and thus taking the other team's PF out of the picture for shot-blocking). He also can get more space on his jump shot against PFs. In contrast, there's nothing that he does better against SFs.

He seems to always give Lebron, Granger, and Iguodala all they could handle. Not sure what you're talking about.

Bonn1997 wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

statandmelo1234 wrote:He is now averaging 29.9 ppg, 7.9 rpg, 2.7 apg, 1.6 steals per game, about a block a game since Lin's and Amar'e absence..OMFG

small sample! and he sucks!

just kidding.

people have given me crap for saying this before - but melo is clearly the best player to wear a knicks uniform since patrick ewing. there's just not much argument.

It is a small sample but even before this year he was a better PF than SF. I think he'll keep playing like a star if not superstar at the PF position but think he'll return to his career numbers if they move him down to SF.

WHy what makes him a better PF than SF.

He can beat defenders and finish much better when he is a PF than an SF. At SF, he barely got by defenders and then got blocked by the team's PF or C. When he plays PF, he flies by his defender (leaving him on the perimeter and thus taking the other team's PF out of the picture for shot-blocking). He also can get more space on his jump shot against PFs. In contrast, there's nothing that he does better against SFs.

Melo has played SF his entire career in the NBA and put up allstar numbers. He struggled with injuries and his shooting this year and all of a sudden he's better off at another position? There you go with the small sample sizes again.....

BTW, Deng, was matched-up against Melo the entire time yesterday....

The Knicks have relied heavily on Carmelo Anthony with Amare Stoudemire and Jeremy Lin out -- and he's responded.

Anthony's scored 29.9 points on 49 percent shooting over the past seven games (39 percent from beyond the arc) -- a significant increase from his season averages of 21 points per game on 41 percent shooting.

Of course, it's only natural for Anthony's numbers to increase with Lin and Stoudemire out.

But there's another factor at play: Mike Woodson is using Anthony in isolation much more frequently with Stoudemire and Lin on the sideline.

In the past seven games, Anthony's gotten the ball in isolation for an average of 13.1 plays per game, according to ESPN Stats & Information. In the 17 prior to that (10 of which were coached by Mike D'Antoni), Anthony got only 4.2 plays per game in isolation.

In the past seven games, he's scored 13.6 points per game on 46 percent shooting in isolation. In the 17 before that, he was scoring 3.4 points per game on 31 percent shooting. The difference in points per game is expected. But his shooting percentage increase is indicative of Anthony's effectiveness of late.

And a more telling stat is this: in the past seven games, he's averaging 1.03 points per play in isolation. In the previous 17, he was scoring 0.79 per play.

Thanks to ESPN Stats & Information for the statistics.