nixluva wrote:Adding Melo and subtracting Felton was much more disruptive than it may have seemed at first sight. It took Duhon a long time to get the hang of things, took a good while for Felton to finally get the hang of the offense and develop some chemistry with STAT and clearly CB never had a chance to get comfortable. Then adding Melo to the Mix really was a shock. His style of play is the complete opposite of what the team had been accustomed to with the SSOL system. The ball stops when it gets to Melo and no one knew his game enough to know when to go or stay put. This team really could've used a full training camp and season to work out the kinks.
I just hope that CB and Melo aren't underestimating the amount of work they need to do in order to get the chemistry right. I was disappointed that CB and Melo opted not to get together with the team at IMG.
that a really nice way of just saying Melo is a dark hole. Anything he touches, you will never see again... If he can't play system basketball, its going to be tough. Does he really not see what we see? Don't forget hes been playing this way since Syracuse. I think its a combination of things, he played this style all his life. And all the money and fame he has, is all contributed to what hes doing. He is a stat whore, stats earn you respect and contracts, its sad but true. This is where I try to explain, stats are very misleading. This is part of the reason he spends his energy on offense and rebounding. He rests on defense, while hoping to get the rebound. It seems like he was just about to change things, including moving the ball towards the last couple of games when we were on the large losing streak. He even worked on defense and was huffing and puffing at first because hes not use to doing that. Then Amare and Billups go down, he gets rewarded for going back to his old ways and "giving a chance" to the Knicks.
I hope Shumpert is ready to bitch Melo out, if he was to be a true PG and not a let me "give the rock to u and run away, knowing you will probably shoot, and but not knowing when, even though the defense is knows the same exact thing" I really see them budding heads in practice. This is the real reason I want Phil Jackson to go along with the rest of his stats for W's. I don't know which Melo we are getting back, the one that was trying to change his game while on our losing streak or the one in the playoffs that got rewarded and praised for not playing team basketball. As for being a stat whore, I don't know if that's how he is really thinking but it sure seems like it at times. Meanwhile, when Stat came in, he was doing things to try to get wins. As much as he scored, and for even all those TO he made, he wasn't even half as bad as Melo. There was a team concept and a SSL system he was trying to mentor to the young ones. Stat kind of wanted that 2nd star, well, now he got it. I don't think he himself even realized it would be like that.
Amare doesn't mind giving up being the #1 guy and taking way less shots, but at the cost of taking better % shots and W's.
