BRIGGS wrote:Its pretty easy. Great players like Kevin Mchale Manu Ginobli --who were easily just as good or better than Melo were more than welcome to taking on the important 6th man role. First we should give Carmelo a chance to digest the idea before bashing him. If he comes back and says no then we kindly ask him to forward more landing spots for a trade. WE(the Knicks) tried to work with him to make sure he can have a significant contribution the way the Knicks want it and he declined(which in other jobs would get you fired). But lets give him the benefit of the doubt and see is he would embrace the role first--maybe he will. Its much better keeping him in a role like this THAN trading him in a deal like we did for Patrick Ewing. That was scattered and poor. If he fails to comply with either the premise of being a 6th man or adding more trading spots we inform him that we'd like him to stay home until the point we can achieve a trade that will be sufficient for the Knicks with NO timetable set on it. NO buyout is coming.

so your telling me you start kuz or lance over melo..phil would be ripped to threads..

when melo is 35/36 yrs old, then I can see a 6th man role, 32 is still prime time.

what 32 yr old all star is coming off the bench in the nba, unless there's flat out better player in front of him like leonard, george, labron, or kd..

BRIGGS wrote:Its pretty easy. Great players like Kevin Mchale Manu Ginobli --who were easily just as good or better than Melo were more than welcome to taking on the important 6th man role. First we should give Carmelo a chance to digest the idea before bashing him. If he comes back and says no then we kindly ask him to forward more landing spots for a trade. WE(the Knicks) tried to work with him to make sure he can have a significant contribution the way the Knicks want it and he declined(which in other jobs would get you fired). But lets give him the benefit of the doubt and see is he would embrace the role first--maybe he will. Its much better keeping him in a role like this THAN trading him in a deal like we did for Patrick Ewing. That was scattered and poor. If he fails to comply with either the premise of being a 6th man or adding more trading spots we inform him that we'd like him to stay home until the point we can achieve a trade that will be sufficient for the Knicks with NO timetable set on it. NO buyout is coming.

BULLSHIT. We the Knicks have tried to get him to embrace various roles over the years since D'Antoni was here. And he has refused all of them from playing the 4, to bringing the ball up, to making passes, to playing in the flow of the offense. This **** needs to stop. We need to bench his ass or cut home lose. Preferably the latter. I don't want this selfish me first diva anywhere near our players.

meloshouldgo wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:Its pretty easy. Great players like Kevin Mchale Manu Ginobli --who were easily just as good or better than Melo were more than welcome to taking on the important 6th man role. First we should give Carmelo a chance to digest the idea before bashing him. If he comes back and says no then we kindly ask him to forward more landing spots for a trade. WE(the Knicks) tried to work with him to make sure he can have a significant contribution the way the Knicks want it and he declined(which in other jobs would get you fired). But lets give him the benefit of the doubt and see is he would embrace the role first--maybe he will. Its much better keeping him in a role like this THAN trading him in a deal like we did for Patrick Ewing. That was scattered and poor. If he fails to comply with either the premise of being a 6th man or adding more trading spots we inform him that we'd like him to stay home until the point we can achieve a trade that will be sufficient for the Knicks with NO timetable set on it. NO buyout is coming.

BULLSHIT. We the Knicks have tried to get him to embrace various roles over the years since D'Antoni was here. And he has refused all of them from playing the 4, to bringing the ball up, to making passes, to playing in the flow of the offense. This **** needs to stop. We need to bench his ass or cut home lose. Preferably the latter. I don't want this selfish me first diva anywhere near our players.

DUDE, all of his teammates have nothing but love, good things to say about him, from young to old, the only person that has a problem with him is you, phil, and a few fans. He is not a cancer in the locker room by any stretch of the imagination, in fact it's the very opposite. you already know how lance, KP, Rose, Jennings, baker, KOQ, Noah, lee, feel about him because it's all on record.

Is it melos fault that all his teammate defer to him because he has a uncanny ability to score at will

CrushAlot wrote:

PhilinLA wrote:Clippers have nothing they can give us. The Lakers do. Boston does. I think Washington does.

I don't know if the Lakers are on the list but there is a lot of talk about the work Randle is putting in this offseason on twitter. Saw this:

Tweet was deleted or there was problem with the URL:

https://twitter.com/Carrastealth/status/867463000042512384

That's just a regular workout.... just saying. Diet is everything

Also a part of the problem is that Melo is still the best player player on this team and thus will command influence.

Best thing for everyone is a trade.

knicks1248 wrote:

meloshouldgo wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:Its pretty easy. Great players like Kevin Mchale Manu Ginobli --who were easily just as good or better than Melo were more than welcome to taking on the important 6th man role. First we should give Carmelo a chance to digest the idea before bashing him. If he comes back and says no then we kindly ask him to forward more landing spots for a trade. WE(the Knicks) tried to work with him to make sure he can have a significant contribution the way the Knicks want it and he declined(which in other jobs would get you fired). But lets give him the benefit of the doubt and see is he would embrace the role first--maybe he will. Its much better keeping him in a role like this THAN trading him in a deal like we did for Patrick Ewing. That was scattered and poor. If he fails to comply with either the premise of being a 6th man or adding more trading spots we inform him that we'd like him to stay home until the point we can achieve a trade that will be sufficient for the Knicks with NO timetable set on it. NO buyout is coming.

BULLSHIT. We the Knicks have tried to get him to embrace various roles over the years since D'Antoni was here. And he has refused all of them from playing the 4, to bringing the ball up, to making passes, to playing in the flow of the offense. This **** needs to stop. We need to bench his ass or cut home lose. Preferably the latter. I don't want this selfish me first diva anywhere near our players.

DUDE, all of his teammates have nothing but love, good things to say about him, from young to old, the only person that has a problem with him is you, phil, and a few fans. He is not a cancer in the locker room by any stretch of the imagination, in fact it's the very opposite. you already know how lance, KP, Rose, Jennings, baker, KOQ, Noah, lee, feel about him because it's all on record.

Is it melos fault that all his teammate defer to him because he has a uncanny ability to score at will

Well DUDE, first off try reading what was written before going off on someone. I didn't say anything about locker room cancer. I said he is selfish me first player. He holds the ball, takes bad shots and is a volume scorer. He doesn't play defense and had never done anything to change his game on the many times the Knicks and before that Denver asked him to. This has nothing to do with how his teammates feel about him.

Its Melo's fault that he went off and sulked for two weeks the last time a teammate didn't defer to him. In fact some of you still bitch about it.

meloshouldgo wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:

meloshouldgo wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:Its pretty easy. Great players like Kevin Mchale Manu Ginobli --who were easily just as good or better than Melo were more than welcome to taking on the important 6th man role. First we should give Carmelo a chance to digest the idea before bashing him. If he comes back and says no then we kindly ask him to forward more landing spots for a trade. WE(the Knicks) tried to work with him to make sure he can have a significant contribution the way the Knicks want it and he declined(which in other jobs would get you fired). But lets give him the benefit of the doubt and see is he would embrace the role first--maybe he will. Its much better keeping him in a role like this THAN trading him in a deal like we did for Patrick Ewing. That was scattered and poor. If he fails to comply with either the premise of being a 6th man or adding more trading spots we inform him that we'd like him to stay home until the point we can achieve a trade that will be sufficient for the Knicks with NO timetable set on it. NO buyout is coming.

BULLSHIT. We the Knicks have tried to get him to embrace various roles over the years since D'Antoni was here. And he has refused all of them from playing the 4, to bringing the ball up, to making passes, to playing in the flow of the offense. This **** needs to stop. We need to bench his ass or cut home lose. Preferably the latter. I don't want this selfish me first diva anywhere near our players.

DUDE, all of his teammates have nothing but love, good things to say about him, from young to old, the only person that has a problem with him is you, phil, and a few fans. He is not a cancer in the locker room by any stretch of the imagination, in fact it's the very opposite. you already know how lance, KP, Rose, Jennings, baker, KOQ, Noah, lee, feel about him because it's all on record.

Is it melos fault that all his teammate defer to him because he has a uncanny ability to score at will

Well DUDE, first off try reading what was written before going off on someone. I didn't say anything about locker room cancer. I said he is selfish me first player. He holds the ball, takes bad shots and is a volume scorer. He doesn't play defense and had never done anything to change his game on the many times the Knicks and before that Denver asked him to. This has nothing to do with how his teammates feel about him.

Its Melo's fault that he went off and sulked for two weeks the last time a teammate didn't defer to him. In fact some of you still bitch about it.

He has he flaws no doubt, but he is he is, sometimes you gotta take the nice body with very little brains, or the brains with the flat ass and flat chest, but once you commit you have to adjust.

I know how to use melo, and i know the type of players to put around him, and I wouldn't let my EGO getting in the way i see fit. If you think phils EGO isn't larger than life(melo's is up there too), you haven't been paying close attn.