crzymdups wrote:Uptown wrote:HugeKnick4 wrote:ChuckBuck wrote:HugeKnick4 wrote:Look...this game was a barometer for nothing. I'll take the win...but let us get real...this performance is indicative of jack. If the Knicks can beat the pacers twice in the home/home...then we can hold our heads up. The only thing I was impressed with was Woodson's time out calls and his press conference. MDA...always let things get out of hand too much before he called timeouts.The game itself was a joke. I think the Blazers would have turned the ball over if they were running drills with no defenders on the court.
You're a joke!
Every game counts right now. Doesn't matter against who. This is our playoffs right now. Bucks just acquired Ellis(good/bad who knows) to try to make a run at the playoffs, and we're still behind them for the 8th seed at this point. We won't win every game from here on out, but we need to treat every game as a must win, to get out of this hole D'Antoni dug us.
ChuckBuck...you are the joke. Of course we needed the game...but there is nothing that can be discerned from this game whatsoever. Please! If you don't understand that, you are embarrassing yourself. Again, I cannot get excited until I see us perform against the Pacers. Change always has an impact short term. A much needed win...but this game would have been won if you were coaching it.
So now people want to bring up the opposing team and not give the Knicks the proper credit for winning. But when Melo came back and we lost some games, all anyone could say was "Melo is 2-8 since he came back, so its his fault why we are losing." Not one time did the Melo bashers mention that we were losing at Dallas, San An, Chi, Boston, etc. Funny how people use whats convenient...
funny how they beat dallas a few weeks earlier without melo.
any way you want to slice it this was about melo vs mda. melo played with more energy tonight than he had since early january for d'antoni.
to me - that's more an indictment of melo than d'antoni.
whatever, time to move on. but it's gonna take a while before i feel good rooting for melo again. as he said at one point 'when the grass is cut the snakes will actually try on defense.'
We beat Dallas at home. Think they didn't gameplan for Lin and Knicks, at home, after seeing Lin up close and personal just a few weeks earlier? Thats what good coaches do. Leran from the previous game, tinker and prepare for the nxt go around. Melo has played with this kind of energy before, came out guns blazing against the Bucks.....
But I agree, it was about MDA and Melo. Nothing personal, just a philosophical difference. Couldn't understand why MDa seemingly wanted a pure scorer like Melo who's most effective elbow-in, to hang out by the 3 point line in decoy mode like Sean Williams. But, I digress. MDA is no longer here. Time to move on and hopefully get enough W's to get into the second season.