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crzymdups wrote:Melo seems to float through games and play worse as it goes along if he's not touching the ball on every play. Some systems allow for this, some don't.

I've been saying this for a while, but now it's becoming glaring - I don't think D'Antoni and Melo work. One of them needs to go. It'll probably be MDA. But if the Knicks don't get Phil Jackson, who will they get?

I wish we could bring in Rick Adelman or JVG.

Paul Westphal is available.

JVG would have a hard time dealing with Melo’s defense.

JVG handled Tmac and Allan Houston pretty well.

I think he'd have a harder time with Amar'e's D.

Totally agree, however, Amare, Allan and Tmac are more willing and cooperative than Melo.

The blame is on the wrong guy. Melo played ok last night the Knicks lost because of rebounding and last I looked he had 8 rebounds. The Knicks pf/c Amare had 3 rebounds that is the reason the Knicks lost. Not because of Melo.

While I agree that Amare is also at fault, did you watch the game? Melo had like 5 or 6 rebound in the first quarter alone, and 2 or 3 rebounds the rest of the way. When you combine that with his poor 8 of 21 shooting against Kyle Korver, to me he is just as guilty as Amare.

No the blame goes to the entire team there isn't one players fault. You can even say Chandler missed to many free throws it is not fair to target one player when all the players didn't play up to par. This game can be chalked up to what amounts to as a team loss.

While technically correct since it is team game, to me the role players played like what they are, ROLE PLAYERS, the only two guys underperforming so far are our suppose to be SUPERSTART.

I don't know why you are saying they are underperforming. Last night Melo had 21 points, Amare was hot and was frozen out in the fourth quarter. Even Melo was frozen out he gets low post position and he isn't given the ball. Tell me what is the requirement for them? Because if the go off for 30 and lose everyone will say they were hogging the ball. If they scoreless than they are underachieving.

For me I want Amare averaging 25 points a night and Melo also. Defensive effort needs to increase and that challenge is for all the Knicks player not just Melo and Amare.

While 21 point from Melo looks decent, the fact of the matter is that he made only 8 out of 21 shots, for a guy that don’t play defense, lacks intangibles and rally solely on his offensive game, this is unacceptable. Do you know that for the entire season Melo is shooting 40% from 2 and 30% from 3, this is equal to having Ben Wallace not playing defense, so what’s his purpose?

As far as Amare, I have said it many times; he is also at fault obviously for not playing better defense and underperforming on the offensive end badly.

Rose shot 12-29 and he is on a pedestal.

Yesterday yes, but for the season Rose is shooting 45% from two with 8 assists per game, HUGE DIFFERENCE.

While I do admit that Melo sometimes do get frozen out on offense, whenever he gets the ball, he has being an ineffective scorer for the Knicks this season, shooting very poorly must games.

I just can’t believe someone is actually disagreeing that our two best players have underperform this entire season, seriously do you watch NBA games?

earthmansurfer wrote:I wasn't totally unhappy with Melo. He is clearly playing better. I was disappointed in the 4th quarter though. People say Melo needs more shots in the 4th quarter but the guy (outside of one post up I remember, where he wasn't hit by Fields) disappeared. He was on the left side of the court facing left and the ball was often on the right.

Then suddenly when we are down in the last 2 minutes he is moving around and active. It was like he just got on the floor.

Now, I will say Lin can try to do more there as well, but Melo needs to position himself for an entry pass. Melo and Lin on the P&R is deadly, they had no answer for it and we stopped running it. I don't get it. Even without the coach Lin has to see it's working and him and Melo both need to get it going. Really weird, in a way it's like a destructive plan out there.

I noticed this as well in th 4th Quarter...Lin would have the ball on the right side and Melo would be on the left side. Coach's fault? Melo's fault? Lin's fault...I don't know...but it was odd. Melo is usually on the right side. Unfortunately, the one time he was, Fields didn't get that ball to him...and then Melo got pissy. They ran pick and rolls with Melo earlier in the game and it worked well...why not more of it?