fishmike wrote:mreinman wrote:crzymdups wrote:newyorknewyork wrote:yellowboy90 wrote:mreinman wrote:yellowboy90 wrote:ChuckBuck wrote:If this was hockey, the first star would go to Porzingis. Best game of his young career.2nd star, to Jerian Grant. What a steal for THJR. All the makings of our PG for the long haul.
Negative stars, Carmelo Anthony. Had Kawhi, Defensive Player of the Year, Leonard and still tried to shoot over him at will. It's like if Tom Brady sees an all out blitz and doesn't audible out of his original play to counter. Melo has no basketball IQ whatsoever. Didn't make any adjustments...
What kind of adjustments should he have done. Should he have stopped shooting, tried to get to the line more, or let the team take control in the 4th?
don't force shots against the best defender in the league? This is not a pissing contest.
He went 2/6 in the 3rd. It's not like he started jacking up jumper after jumper. In the 3rd he was also 7/8 from the line. In the 4th he took 2 shots. One was open after he passed it to Kris on the PnP for an open three but Kris passed it back to Melo for an open 3. The other shot was a poor attempt to sneak one up when he landed on Kris. His 2nd half was different than his 1st but his shooting results were similar.
And 17 shot attempts isn't crazy, especially with 12ft attempts. He had 2 ast in the first half but didn't pick up any in the 2nd. He had 1 turnover even with a 29% usage.
One thing about Melo - ever since he's been here, the Knicks have been really good with not turning the ball over. Really good.
I think he made a few adjustments - got to the line more in the second half, crashed the boards more for offensive rebounds.
Kawhi shut down Kevin Durant on opening night - held him to 6-19FG. Did Durant shoot too much? Was he being selfish? Was he not making adjustments?
perhaps he did shoot to much. That does not absolve melo.
it does. When your offense is struggling what do you propose? These are the kind of anti-Melo posts that tell me guys simply dont get the game. Spurs are a world class team built on defense. Your going to have bad shooting nights. Melo was matched against the leagues premier defender, and as mentioned struggled. What do you propose? If the defense is too tough just stop shooting? Maybe the Knicks pass the ball around the perimeter for 24 secounds for a few possessions until they get their confidence back?
KP shot 5-15
Sasha shot 1-7
KOQ hit his first 3 and missed everything after that.
James Harden shot 6-13, 6-21, 4-18, 2-15 and 12-26 to star the season. This happens. This is part of the game.
Do you tell powerhitters to stop swinging so hard because they are striking out too much?
You seem to cling to stats and just cant get your head around bad shooting. Maybe we should just let Jose shoot 60 3's a game? Based on his career %s we should be a great team. 
Watch the games Melo passes plenty. He absolutely 100% takes at the very least 2-3 bad shots a game. He is also the only player on the roster capable of really taking over, and you need that. You dont get that when scorers are told to stop shooting. There was no hot hand on the Knicks. They went cold. The Spurs do that.
Melo was also not getting any calls, but he most certainly was attacking the basket and getting into the paint when the jumper wasnt falling. That didnt work either. The Melo Jihad crew would have people believe that Fat Melo is just getting his while thinking about hats and saying F*ck New York.
Guys on this board just cant move on. Nobody is saying go buy his jersey, but the stuff people post here is a joke.
fishmike, you don't have to tell me I dont understand the game. I know exactly what I am seeing and though I love stats, nobody watches the game as closely as I do (or not many). I follow exactly what he does. And, he does not take just 2-3 bad shots a game. C'mon ... you are sounding like a silly apologian.
No need to make excuses for him. Come to the game thread and lets judge him shot by shot if you'd like. He is still missing the team concept in his game (though a bit better) and perhaps you are missing it too.
No more of the stupid excused from 10 years ago "well who else should shoot? X?". Keep moving the ball and you will always find a better shot.
I would love to see the stat on how long melo holds the ball compared to other players.
And though you may try to excuse him, I am sure that phil and coaching staff are working feverishly to change his game. Listen to the fisher post games, he keeps making suble comments about this. "melo was going for the home run shot tonight ...".
I actually believe that I am balanced on melo and far from just a hater. I don't care if he scored 37 or 10 as long as he is taking smart shots and moving the ball quickly.
so here is what phil is thinking ....
