WaltLongmire wrote:

fishmike wrote:After last night's game? Anyone? You know the one where the ESPN guys asked him what the keys to his success were this season? KP said really two things were key for him... anyone catch that?

The Feed2all feed I was watching froze after he said something about benefiting from his 2 years in the Spanish league and I did not see the need to refresh it to see the end of the interview.

So this was only a rhetorical question?? I never answer such questions...much too manipulative, IMO.

More suited for a speech or sermon, than a thread, I would think.

The best answer would have been Fisher and Sasha...now that would have turned some heads.

As long as he doesn't give credit to a Supreme Being for his success after every good game he has, I'm not that concerned about his answers.

He seems to be well schooled as far as interviews...it will be interesting to see if any interviewers can get him to say something bulletin board worthy during his career. He's very Jeter-like or David Wright-like in how he fields questions.

You have to understand the mentality.
I grow up in Latvia and was leaving among Latvian nationals 33 years.
They are very calm people and not emotional at all.
It is all slow out there. The nature is calm. All is flat.
The weather is almost same most of the year - 255 days of rain (more drizzle than rain which can go for weeks).
Long nights in the winter and long days in the summer.
Nothing going on socially most of the time.
The education, especially non-technical is stellar.
Arts are blossoming - paintings, poetry, music, crafts are all over.
Violence seems odd and remote.
People are not intruding in each other space physically and mentally. Its considered a bad taste.
What you see from Kristaph looks completely ordinary and normal to me.

ChuckBuck wrote:

arkrud wrote:

WaltLongmire wrote:

fishmike wrote:After last night's game? Anyone? You know the one where the ESPN guys asked him what the keys to his success were this season? KP said really two things were key for him... anyone catch that?

The Feed2all feed I was watching froze after he said something about benefiting from his 2 years in the Spanish league and I did not see the need to refresh it to see the end of the interview.

So this was only a rhetorical question?? I never answer such questions...much too manipulative, IMO.

More suited for a speech or sermon, than a thread, I would think.

The best answer would have been Fisher and Sasha...now that would have turned some heads.

As long as he doesn't give credit to a Supreme Being for his success after every good game he has, I'm not that concerned about his answers.

He seems to be well schooled as far as interviews...it will be interesting to see if any interviewers can get him to say something bulletin board worthy during his career. He's very Jeter-like or David Wright-like in how he fields questions.

You have to understand the mentality.
I grow up in Latvia and was leaving among Latvian nationals 33 years.
They are very calm people and not emotional at all.
It is all slow out there. The nature is calm. All is flat.
The weather is almost same most of the year - 255 days of rain (more drizzle than rain which can go for weeks).
Long nights in the winter and long days in the summer.
Nothing going on socially most of the time.
The education, especially non-technical is stellar.
Arts are blossoming - paintings, poetry, music, crafts are all over.
Violence seems odd and remote.
People are not intruding in each other space physically and mentally. Its considered a bad taste.
What you see from Kristaph looks completely ordinary and normal to me.

I can buy it. Just a polite respectful kid saying respectful things.

He's probably from the school of "If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all". His family made sure of that. He probably had similar things to say about his coaches and teammates at Sevilla too.

Don't over analyze media savvy as KP saying Melo is big brother mentor number 1. That's his manager and big brother former bball pro Martin and current bball pro overseas Janis job, not Melo's. He's just kowtowing respectfully while Melo's still on board, before he takes the reins.

Chuck, no matter how much you try to generalize and downplay it, it won't work. KP says over and over again that Melo is his mentor, is the reason for his development, not anyone else on the team. Not the coaching staff, not Phil, not Jose, it's Melo. He is not just saying it to be polite. It doesn't fit your agenda, but for once just admit you are wrong and this situation does not tailor to your agenda. Melo, for all of his flaws, is well-liked by his teammates and a great mentor to KP, which he reminds us of every time he is interviewed. He is not saying it to prove a point or change anyone's perception, he's saying it because its true. Simple as that.

Too funny.

arkrud wrote:

WaltLongmire wrote:

fishmike wrote:After last night's game? Anyone? You know the one where the ESPN guys asked him what the keys to his success were this season? KP said really two things were key for him... anyone catch that?

The Feed2all feed I was watching froze after he said something about benefiting from his 2 years in the Spanish league and I did not see the need to refresh it to see the end of the interview.

So this was only a rhetorical question?? I never answer such questions...much too manipulative, IMO.

More suited for a speech or sermon, than a thread, I would think.

The best answer would have been Fisher and Sasha...now that would have turned some heads.

As long as he doesn't give credit to a Supreme Being for his success after every good game he has, I'm not that concerned about his answers.

He seems to be well schooled as far as interviews...it will be interesting to see if any interviewers can get him to say something bulletin board worthy during his career. He's very Jeter-like or David Wright-like in how he fields questions.

You have to understand the mentality.
I grow up in Latvia and was leaving among Latvian nationals 33 years.
They are very calm people and not emotional at all.
It is all slow out there. The nature is calm. All is flat.
The weather is almost same most of the year - 255 days of rain (more drizzle than rain which can go for weeks).
Long nights in the winter and long days in the summer.
Nothing going on socially most of the time.
The education, especially non-technical is stellar.
Arts are blossoming - paintings, poetry, music, crafts are all over.
Violence seems odd and remote.
People are not intruding in each other space physically and mentally. Its considered a bad taste.
What you see from Kristaph looks completely ordinary and normal to me.

Might seem ordinary and normal for you, but for me, it is something to enjoy, and it is not something you always see with American players, unfortunately.

For what it's worth, Grant is also old school in many ways, and carries himself well.

Both have basketball bloodlines, as does Hernangomez, who we hopefully get to see next year, and I think they all reflect the way they were brought up.

Hopefully KP does not change.

ChuckBuck wrote:

arkrud wrote:

WaltLongmire wrote:

fishmike wrote:After last night's game? Anyone? You know the one where the ESPN guys asked him what the keys to his success were this season? KP said really two things were key for him... anyone catch that?

The Feed2all feed I was watching froze after he said something about benefiting from his 2 years in the Spanish league and I did not see the need to refresh it to see the end of the interview.

So this was only a rhetorical question?? I never answer such questions...much too manipulative, IMO.

More suited for a speech or sermon, than a thread, I would think.

The best answer would have been Fisher and Sasha...now that would have turned some heads.

As long as he doesn't give credit to a Supreme Being for his success after every good game he has, I'm not that concerned about his answers.

He seems to be well schooled as far as interviews...it will be interesting to see if any interviewers can get him to say something bulletin board worthy during his career. He's very Jeter-like or David Wright-like in how he fields questions.

You have to understand the mentality.
I grow up in Latvia and was leaving among Latvian nationals 33 years.
They are very calm people and not emotional at all.
It is all slow out there. The nature is calm. All is flat.
The weather is almost same most of the year - 255 days of rain (more drizzle than rain which can go for weeks).
Long nights in the winter and long days in the summer.
Nothing going on socially most of the time.
The education, especially non-technical is stellar.
Arts are blossoming - paintings, poetry, music, crafts are all over.
Violence seems odd and remote.
People are not intruding in each other space physically and mentally. Its considered a bad taste.
What you see from Kristaph looks completely ordinary and normal to me.

I can buy it. Just a polite respectful kid saying respectful things.

He's probably from the school of "If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all". His family made sure of that. He probably had similar things to say about his coaches and teammates at Sevilla too.

Don't over analyze media savvy as KP saying Melo is big brother mentor number 1. That's his manager and big brother former bball pro Martin and current bball pro overseas Janis job, not Melo's. He's just kowtowing respectfully while Melo's still on board, before he takes the reins.

Fishmike was being sarcastic about KP's programmed answer and thought you'd get a kick out of it.
You respond with your programmed answer which is "Hey, Im that guy that knows that which is obvious but Im going to say it again so nobody forgets that IM THAT GUY"........

We all know chuck that NBA players mouths open and its a canned response. And if somebody wants Melo to be their hero why ruin it? Cuz you have to be "THAT GUY"?
Your have diluted the melo hate into a boring response.
But then, your "THAT GUY" so why expect anything different.

ChuckBuck wrote:

Knixkik wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:

arkrud wrote:

WaltLongmire wrote:

fishmike wrote:After last night's game? Anyone? You know the one where the ESPN guys asked him what the keys to his success were this season? KP said really two things were key for him... anyone catch that?

The Feed2all feed I was watching froze after he said something about benefiting from his 2 years in the Spanish league and I did not see the need to refresh it to see the end of the interview.

So this was only a rhetorical question?? I never answer such questions...much too manipulative, IMO.

More suited for a speech or sermon, than a thread, I would think.

The best answer would have been Fisher and Sasha...now that would have turned some heads.

As long as he doesn't give credit to a Supreme Being for his success after every good game he has, I'm not that concerned about his answers.

He seems to be well schooled as far as interviews...it will be interesting to see if any interviewers can get him to say something bulletin board worthy during his career. He's very Jeter-like or David Wright-like in how he fields questions.

You have to understand the mentality.
I grow up in Latvia and was leaving among Latvian nationals 33 years.
They are very calm people and not emotional at all.
It is all slow out there. The nature is calm. All is flat.
The weather is almost same most of the year - 255 days of rain (more drizzle than rain which can go for weeks).
Long nights in the winter and long days in the summer.
Nothing going on socially most of the time.
The education, especially non-technical is stellar.
Arts are blossoming - paintings, poetry, music, crafts are all over.
Violence seems odd and remote.
People are not intruding in each other space physically and mentally. Its considered a bad taste.
What you see from Kristaph looks completely ordinary and normal to me.

I can buy it. Just a polite respectful kid saying respectful things.

He's probably from the school of "If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all". His family made sure of that. He probably had similar things to say about his coaches and teammates at Sevilla too.

Don't over analyze media savvy as KP saying Melo is big brother mentor number 1. That's his manager and big brother former bball pro Martin and current bball pro overseas Janis job, not Melo's. He's just kowtowing respectfully while Melo's still on board, before he takes the reins.

Chuck, no matter how much you try to generalize and downplay it, it won't work. KP says over and over again that Melo is his mentor, is the reason for his development, not anyone else on the team. Not the coaching staff, not Phil, not Jose, it's Melo. He is not just saying it to be polite. It doesn't fit your agenda, but for once just admit you are wrong and this situation does not tailor to your agenda. Melo, for all of his flaws, is well-liked by his teammates and a great mentor to KP, which he reminds us of every time he is interviewed. He is not saying it to prove a point or change anyone's perception, he's saying it because its true. Simple as that.

Really it's his brothers Martins and Janis, no debate there. On the Knicks you can even debate that's it's Sasha over Melo:

“Sasha’s my mentor,” Porzingis said a few days before his NBA debut. “I’m hanging out with Sasha all day.”

Yes, the 31-year-old Vujacic has taken the 20-year-old Porzingis under his wing early on this season. Vujacic has provided Porzingis with advice on life in the NBA to try to ease his transition from a relatively anonymous teenager to one of the most-scrutinized athletes in New York.

“If he sees me like that, it’s a privilege,” Vujacic says, seemingly looking to downplay his mentorship of the rookie. “I had the opportunity to learn from a couple of great vets when I got to the league. I’m more than willing to be there for him -- or for anybody – anytime, so it’s great.”

The Porzingis-Vujacic relationship – like many others between two guys in their 20s and 30s – involves a lot of video game playing. Specifically, Vujacic and Porzingis play the soccer video game FIFA – and it sounds like the battles are intense.

Knixkik wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:

Knixkik wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:

arkrud wrote:

WaltLongmire wrote:

fishmike wrote:After last night's game? Anyone? You know the one where the ESPN guys asked him what the keys to his success were this season? KP said really two things were key for him... anyone catch that?

The Feed2all feed I was watching froze after he said something about benefiting from his 2 years in the Spanish league and I did not see the need to refresh it to see the end of the interview.

So this was only a rhetorical question?? I never answer such questions...much too manipulative, IMO.

More suited for a speech or sermon, than a thread, I would think.

The best answer would have been Fisher and Sasha...now that would have turned some heads.

As long as he doesn't give credit to a Supreme Being for his success after every good game he has, I'm not that concerned about his answers.

He seems to be well schooled as far as interviews...it will be interesting to see if any interviewers can get him to say something bulletin board worthy during his career. He's very Jeter-like or David Wright-like in how he fields questions.

You have to understand the mentality.
I grow up in Latvia and was leaving among Latvian nationals 33 years.
They are very calm people and not emotional at all.
It is all slow out there. The nature is calm. All is flat.
The weather is almost same most of the year - 255 days of rain (more drizzle than rain which can go for weeks).
Long nights in the winter and long days in the summer.
Nothing going on socially most of the time.
The education, especially non-technical is stellar.
Arts are blossoming - paintings, poetry, music, crafts are all over.
Violence seems odd and remote.
People are not intruding in each other space physically and mentally. Its considered a bad taste.
What you see from Kristaph looks completely ordinary and normal to me.

I can buy it. Just a polite respectful kid saying respectful things.

He's probably from the school of "If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all". His family made sure of that. He probably had similar things to say about his coaches and teammates at Sevilla too.

Don't over analyze media savvy as KP saying Melo is big brother mentor number 1. That's his manager and big brother former bball pro Martin and current bball pro overseas Janis job, not Melo's. He's just kowtowing respectfully while Melo's still on board, before he takes the reins.

Chuck, no matter how much you try to generalize and downplay it, it won't work. KP says over and over again that Melo is his mentor, is the reason for his development, not anyone else on the team. Not the coaching staff, not Phil, not Jose, it's Melo. He is not just saying it to be polite. It doesn't fit your agenda, but for once just admit you are wrong and this situation does not tailor to your agenda. Melo, for all of his flaws, is well-liked by his teammates and a great mentor to KP, which he reminds us of every time he is interviewed. He is not saying it to prove a point or change anyone's perception, he's saying it because its true. Simple as that.

Really it's his brothers Martins and Janis, no debate there. On the Knicks you can even debate that's it's Sasha over Melo:

“Sasha’s my mentor,” Porzingis said a few days before his NBA debut. “I’m hanging out with Sasha all day.”

Yes, the 31-year-old Vujacic has taken the 20-year-old Porzingis under his wing early on this season. Vujacic has provided Porzingis with advice on life in the NBA to try to ease his transition from a relatively anonymous teenager to one of the most-scrutinized athletes in New York.

“If he sees me like that, it’s a privilege,” Vujacic says, seemingly looking to downplay his mentorship of the rookie. “I had the opportunity to learn from a couple of great vets when I got to the league. I’m more than willing to be there for him -- or for anybody – anytime, so it’s great.”

The Porzingis-Vujacic relationship – like many others between two guys in their 20s and 30s – involves a lot of video game playing. Specifically, Vujacic and Porzingis play the soccer video game FIFA – and it sounds like the battles are intense.

Yes the answer is all of the above. But singling out Melo is not a PR move, he's not doing it for anyone else's benefit or approval, he's doing it because its true. It's time to accept that Melo has been an integral part of his development and move on.

After listening to KP he seems genuine in his endorsement of Melo. After all Melo has to mend fences with KP after the draft day fiasco. Here is to Melo for trying to be a better teammate.

Vmart wrote:

Knixkik wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:

Knixkik wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:

arkrud wrote:

WaltLongmire wrote:

fishmike wrote:After last night's game? Anyone? You know the one where the ESPN guys asked him what the keys to his success were this season? KP said really two things were key for him... anyone catch that?

The Feed2all feed I was watching froze after he said something about benefiting from his 2 years in the Spanish league and I did not see the need to refresh it to see the end of the interview.

So this was only a rhetorical question?? I never answer such questions...much too manipulative, IMO.

More suited for a speech or sermon, than a thread, I would think.

The best answer would have been Fisher and Sasha...now that would have turned some heads.

As long as he doesn't give credit to a Supreme Being for his success after every good game he has, I'm not that concerned about his answers.

He seems to be well schooled as far as interviews...it will be interesting to see if any interviewers can get him to say something bulletin board worthy during his career. He's very Jeter-like or David Wright-like in how he fields questions.

You have to understand the mentality.
I grow up in Latvia and was leaving among Latvian nationals 33 years.
They are very calm people and not emotional at all.
It is all slow out there. The nature is calm. All is flat.
The weather is almost same most of the year - 255 days of rain (more drizzle than rain which can go for weeks).
Long nights in the winter and long days in the summer.
Nothing going on socially most of the time.
The education, especially non-technical is stellar.
Arts are blossoming - paintings, poetry, music, crafts are all over.
Violence seems odd and remote.
People are not intruding in each other space physically and mentally. Its considered a bad taste.
What you see from Kristaph looks completely ordinary and normal to me.

I can buy it. Just a polite respectful kid saying respectful things.

He's probably from the school of "If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all". His family made sure of that. He probably had similar things to say about his coaches and teammates at Sevilla too.

Don't over analyze media savvy as KP saying Melo is big brother mentor number 1. That's his manager and big brother former bball pro Martin and current bball pro overseas Janis job, not Melo's. He's just kowtowing respectfully while Melo's still on board, before he takes the reins.

Chuck, no matter how much you try to generalize and downplay it, it won't work. KP says over and over again that Melo is his mentor, is the reason for his development, not anyone else on the team. Not the coaching staff, not Phil, not Jose, it's Melo. He is not just saying it to be polite. It doesn't fit your agenda, but for once just admit you are wrong and this situation does not tailor to your agenda. Melo, for all of his flaws, is well-liked by his teammates and a great mentor to KP, which he reminds us of every time he is interviewed. He is not saying it to prove a point or change anyone's perception, he's saying it because its true. Simple as that.

Really it's his brothers Martins and Janis, no debate there. On the Knicks you can even debate that's it's Sasha over Melo:

“Sasha’s my mentor,” Porzingis said a few days before his NBA debut. “I’m hanging out with Sasha all day.”

Yes, the 31-year-old Vujacic has taken the 20-year-old Porzingis under his wing early on this season. Vujacic has provided Porzingis with advice on life in the NBA to try to ease his transition from a relatively anonymous teenager to one of the most-scrutinized athletes in New York.

“If he sees me like that, it’s a privilege,” Vujacic says, seemingly looking to downplay his mentorship of the rookie. “I had the opportunity to learn from a couple of great vets when I got to the league. I’m more than willing to be there for him -- or for anybody – anytime, so it’s great.”

The Porzingis-Vujacic relationship – like many others between two guys in their 20s and 30s – involves a lot of video game playing. Specifically, Vujacic and Porzingis play the soccer video game FIFA – and it sounds like the battles are intense.

Yes the answer is all of the above. But singling out Melo is not a PR move, he's not doing it for anyone else's benefit or approval, he's doing it because its true. It's time to accept that Melo has been an integral part of his development and move on.

After listening to KP he seems genuine in his endorsement of Melo. After all Melo has to mend fences with KP after the draft day fiasco. Here is to Melo for trying to be a better teammate.

Melo stated he was taking the kid under his wing from day one..why would this be a PR move.

Melo and Porzingis have also spent a lot of court time at Terminal 23, an exclusive basketball gym run by Jordan Brand in midtown Manhattan. This is significant because, throughout his career, Melo wasn't known to spend a great deal of time with teammates (aside from travel buddies JR Smith and Iman Shumpert), especially in the offseason. But this summer, KP has been his running mate.

"I guess he likes to play with me," Porzingis said. "He calls me all of the time and says, 'Let's go, me and you, me and you.'"

So, what's Melo like?

"He's a great passer," Porzingis said.

Come again?

"Yeah," he replied. "Just for me playing with him . . . We play 5-on-5 and he always finds me. He just finds me. You know, he draws so much attention and he always finds me when I'm open."

newyorker4ever wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:

arkrud wrote:

WaltLongmire wrote:

fishmike wrote:After last night's game? Anyone? You know the one where the ESPN guys asked him what the keys to his success were this season? KP said really two things were key for him... anyone catch that?

The Feed2all feed I was watching froze after he said something about benefiting from his 2 years in the Spanish league and I did not see the need to refresh it to see the end of the interview.

So this was only a rhetorical question?? I never answer such questions...much too manipulative, IMO.

More suited for a speech or sermon, than a thread, I would think.

The best answer would have been Fisher and Sasha...now that would have turned some heads.

As long as he doesn't give credit to a Supreme Being for his success after every good game he has, I'm not that concerned about his answers.

He seems to be well schooled as far as interviews...it will be interesting to see if any interviewers can get him to say something bulletin board worthy during his career. He's very Jeter-like or David Wright-like in how he fields questions.

You have to understand the mentality.
I grow up in Latvia and was leaving among Latvian nationals 33 years.
They are very calm people and not emotional at all.
It is all slow out there. The nature is calm. All is flat.
The weather is almost same most of the year - 255 days of rain (more drizzle than rain which can go for weeks).
Long nights in the winter and long days in the summer.
Nothing going on socially most of the time.
The education, especially non-technical is stellar.
Arts are blossoming - paintings, poetry, music, crafts are all over.
Violence seems odd and remote.
People are not intruding in each other space physically and mentally. Its considered a bad taste.
What you see from Kristaph looks completely ordinary and normal to me.

I can buy it. Just a polite respectful kid saying respectful things.

He's probably from the school of "If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all". His family made sure of that. He probably had similar things to say about his coaches and teammates at Sevilla too.

Don't over analyze media savvy as KP saying Melo is big brother mentor number 1. That's his manager and big brother former bball pro Martin and current bball pro overseas Janis job, not Melo's. He's just kowtowing respectfully while Melo's still on board, before he takes the reins.

Or.......you're the one that's wrong (won't be the 1st time) and he meant every word he's said about Melo.....just sayin.

Nope. Guess why he picked the number 6 for his jersey number. It'll tell you all you need to know about KP.