Bonn1997 wrote:Hersports85 wrote:dk7th wrote:AnubisADL wrote:dk7th wrote:AnubisADL wrote:dk7th wrote:carmelo hits his career average with 54.7TS% the knicks will struggle like they did. 24FGA too many but 16FTA helps. 1 assistknicks as a team also shot 54.7
gallo 70.2%TS 9 boards 3 assists; but their problem is iguodala underachieving (5 TO) and that lawson turnover killed them
nuggets as a team 62.5%TS
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Gallo played a good game but it is other players fault that Denver lost. Uh huh. If Gallo is so good he should be able to put the team on his back to win.
What Gallo is doing is called STAT PADDING. See Shareef Abdur Rahim. Great stats lots of losses.
gallo played a very efficient good game. melo made a couple of great baskets on him late. it was a good duel.
22 points off turnovers for the knicks: that is a key statistic.
faried 0 offensive boards this is underachieving for faried as he is the second best offensive rebounder in the league.
iguodala 5 turnovers and 3 assists it is usually the other way around isn't it. he, like melo, could also afford to be more efficient.
gallo fired up an air ball. that was the only glaring error.
lawson lost the ball at the end while the nuggets had a chance. that was the game right there.
Felton and Smith didnt have good games and Melo picked up the slack.
If Gallo saw Igoudala and Faried weren't having good games why didn't he try to compensate? He just essential let his team lose.
melo did very little to pick up the slack. he remains a volume shooter whose positive impact on the game remains overhyped. jason kidd picked up the slack, again.
the game was close right to the end and the knicks went on a 12-0 run with both gallo and melo on the bench. you need to see the whole game and digest the goings-on. sounds like all you did was look at the points he scored and not how he scored them, and that he made a very nice drive on gallinari from the left side to help seal a victory. yay melo. you seem like a fool's gold viewer, looking for shiny stuff and believing it has genuine value.
gallo let his team lose? nah i don't see it that way. he is a role player, a borderline all-star reserve, and played his role as dictated by his coach. it's lawson's role to orchestrate and he falls short in that area which holds the nuggets back. notice that lawson's shooting has gone down and he can't make up for it in other areas.
now how does gallinari help iguodala from committing 5 turnovers? or help faried from getting his usual number of offensive rebounds?
i understand that gallinari is a sensitive touchstone and we all know how important this game was to melo and gallo.
like i said it was a good duel between those two and the knicks won.
I guess you know more than the NBA analyst, Ex-players, some who are going to the HOF, and coaches. Why even bother listening to them break down Melo's impact on the game, we should just listen to you.
He knows more than the people you think are experts, yes. He may not know more than the real experts though like David Berri and Bill James. I sure don't.
to whatever degree these dudes are beholden to the stern hype machine they cannot be trusted to be truthful even if they know better. jon barry got demoted and i bet most posters here hated his take on things.
i am not a fan of the so-called experts. i do like the tnt crew for the most part but they are like rashomon. all three of those guys plus chris weber are very good.
most of these web writers are terrible. and yes i am better than they are at this stuff.
i have never been much of a stat guy and have almost exclusively gone by the eye test. nowadays there are a lot of stats that are supposed to be good measures in basketball but in this fluid a sport it is really tough to use them properly. you have to be able to synthesize experience/empirical evidence and then see which stats give the best support for what the eyes see.
it also doesn't hurt to know something about human nature and have strong mental faculties.
my use of words leads people to believe that i am sort of geeky computer nerd who was a mere towel boy back in the day. that is amusing.
i will make an effort to remain a gentleman here but i guess i am going to have to start checking guys when they get too out of line. realgm couldn't handle it-- me not being rah-rah i mean.
if anyone wants rah-rah from me they're going to have to wait until we get to the eastern conference finals. that's the floor of everyone's expectations for this team and if it isn't then i guess some dudes want a built-in excuse for failure.
knicks win 38-43 games in 16-17. rose MUST shoot no more than 14 shots per game, defer to kp6 + melo, and have a usage rate of less than 25%
