Bonn1997 wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:He'll get credit from the skeptics if or when he achieves something that they care about - high PPG isn't one of them.

Good Lord - not even a tip of the cap, eh?

PPG is unimportant. I give him credit for improving his scoring efficiency, though - that is something that merits praise.

Tell that to Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, David Robinson, Rick Barry, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Tiny Archibald, George Gervin, Bob McAdoo, Shaquille O'Neal

What do you mean? I don't remember any of them bragging about their PPG

Huh?

Who said anything about bragging?

Scoring title is a pretty significant career accomplishment. Tell David Robinson a scoring title didn't mean anything when he poured in 71 points on the last game of the season to surpass Shaquille O'Neal in 1994.

What's the object of Basketball? To put the ball in the hoop!

Tell these players that bust their ass day in and day out through the offseason, through training camp, through a rigirous regular season that a scoring title means nothing.

So yea...I think PPG is a little more than unimportant Bonn. Maybe take a walk some where and get some fresh air.

DurzoBlint wrote:

3G4G wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:He'll get credit from the skeptics if or when he achieves something that they care about - high PPG isn't one of them.

Good Lord - not even a tip of the cap, eh?

PPG is unimportant. I give him credit for improving his scoring efficiency, though - that is something that merits praise.

To what extent did he do this, this yr?

the last 6-10 games or so, he's been around 50% or something. His efficiency of late has been pretty unreal in April.

Well you can henpeck any 6-10 game stretch and say he did this. Overall he did not for the season in comparison to his others.

He simply had his second highest VOLUME of his career, which predominantly propelled him to this accomplishment.

Melo was 3rd overall in FGA on the season only behind AchillesBe and ChuckBrick and averaged almost 2FGA more/gm than AchillesBe and ChuckBrick almost 5FGA more than Durant....

3G4G wrote:

DurzoBlint wrote:

3G4G wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:He'll get credit from the skeptics if or when he achieves something that they care about - high PPG isn't one of them.

Good Lord - not even a tip of the cap, eh?

PPG is unimportant. I give him credit for improving his scoring efficiency, though - that is something that merits praise.

To what extent did he do this, this yr?

the last 6-10 games or so, he's been around 50% or something. His efficiency of late has been pretty unreal in April.

Well you can henpeck any 6-10 game stretch and say he did this. Overall he did not for the season in comparison to his others.

He simply had his second highest VOLUME of his career, which predominantly propelled him to this accomplishment.

Melo was 3rd overall in FGA on the season only behind AchillesBe and ChuckBrick and averaged almost 2FGA more/gm than AchillesBe and ChuckBrick almost 5FGA more than Durant....

Don't forget KD had 238 FT attempts than Melobrickbe!

That's almost as absurd as Lebron getting no foul calls in that insane stretch in the beginning of the season.

ChuckBuck wrote:

3G4G wrote:

DurzoBlint wrote:

3G4G wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:He'll get credit from the skeptics if or when he achieves something that they care about - high PPG isn't one of them.

Good Lord - not even a tip of the cap, eh?

PPG is unimportant. I give him credit for improving his scoring efficiency, though - that is something that merits praise.

To what extent did he do this, this yr?

the last 6-10 games or so, he's been around 50% or something. His efficiency of late has been pretty unreal in April.

Well you can henpeck any 6-10 game stretch and say he did this. Overall he did not for the season in comparison to his others.

He simply had his second highest VOLUME of his career, which predominantly propelled him to this accomplishment.

Melo was 3rd overall in FGA on the season only behind AchillesBe and ChuckBrick and averaged almost 2FGA more/gm than AchillesBe and ChuckBrick almost 5FGA more than Durant....

Don't forget KD had 238 FT attempts than Melobrickbe!

That's almost as absurd as Lebron getting no foul calls in that insane stretch in the beginning of the season.

Which only suggest had Durant been afforded the oppo to shoot 5 more times a game....he would have not only increased his potential scoring average but he would have shot 1trillion more free throws.

Harden led the league in FTA and I'd wager he's next in line for Scoring Title

ChuckBuck wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:He'll get credit from the skeptics if or when he achieves something that they care about - high PPG isn't one of them.

Good Lord - not even a tip of the cap, eh?

PPG is unimportant. I give him credit for improving his scoring efficiency, though - that is something that merits praise.

Tell that to Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, David Robinson, Rick Barry, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Tiny Archibald, George Gervin, Bob McAdoo, Shaquille O'Neal

What do you mean? I don't remember any of them bragging about their PPG

Huh?

Who said anything about bragging?

Scoring title is a pretty significant career accomplishment. Tell David Robinson a scoring title didn't mean anything when he poured in 71 points on the last game of the season to surpass Shaquille O'Neal in 1994.

What's the object of Basketball? To put the ball in the hoop!

Tell these players that bust their ass day in and day out through the offseason, through training camp, through a rigirous regular season that a scoring title means nothing.

So yea...I think PPG is a little more than unimportant Bonn. Maybe take a walk some where and get some fresh air.

the object of basketball is to WIN

Uptown wrote:

tkf wrote:

Hersports85 wrote:

CashMoney wrote:

jrodmc wrote:"Look at Melo, he doesn't have any cool patches on his warmup!"
"Oh, look Melo's got a stupid patch on his warmup!"

"How dare ye mention Melo in the same breath as Ewing!"
"Division Title? You're just as meaningless as Ewing was Melo!"

The Somber-tics have spoken! Please, bring them a goblet of something meaningful!

Screw them! CONGRATS TO MELO FOR THE SCORING TITLE AND THE ATLANTIC DIVISION TITLE!!!!!

Exactly, people act like it wasn't 13 years + that we had won the Division Title... like the last scoring champ the knicks had wasn't 28 years ago... complete BS to just dismiss this years accomplishments for this team and Melo

this team hasn't won a title in 40 years why so much emphasis on scoring title?.. if some people are not impressed then so be it...

The lack of being impressed has nothing to do with the Knicks recent string of unsuccessful seasons....but has everything to do with personal likes and dislikes, I.E. those who are Sh*ting on Melo's accomplishments do not like him (period). You guys were clear with your dislikes of Melo in the past, why sugar-coat it now?

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dk7th wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:He'll get credit from the skeptics if or when he achieves something that they care about - high PPG isn't one of them.

Good Lord - not even a tip of the cap, eh?

PPG is unimportant. I give him credit for improving his scoring efficiency, though - that is something that merits praise.

Tell that to Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, David Robinson, Rick Barry, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Tiny Archibald, George Gervin, Bob McAdoo, Shaquille O'Neal

What do you mean? I don't remember any of them bragging about their PPG

Huh?

Who said anything about bragging?

Scoring title is a pretty significant career accomplishment. Tell David Robinson a scoring title didn't mean anything when he poured in 71 points on the last game of the season to surpass Shaquille O'Neal in 1994.

What's the object of Basketball? To put the ball in the hoop!

Tell these players that bust their ass day in and day out through the offseason, through training camp, through a rigirous regular season that a scoring title means nothing.

So yea...I think PPG is a little more than unimportant Bonn. Maybe take a walk some where and get some fresh air.

the object of basketball is to WIN

ChuckBuck wrote:

dk7th wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:He'll get credit from the skeptics if or when he achieves something that they care about - high PPG isn't one of them.

Good Lord - not even a tip of the cap, eh?

PPG is unimportant. I give him credit for improving his scoring efficiency, though - that is something that merits praise.

Tell that to Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, David Robinson, Rick Barry, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Tiny Archibald, George Gervin, Bob McAdoo, Shaquille O'Neal

What do you mean? I don't remember any of them bragging about their PPG

Huh?

Who said anything about bragging?

Scoring title is a pretty significant career accomplishment. Tell David Robinson a scoring title didn't mean anything when he poured in 71 points on the last game of the season to surpass Shaquille O'Neal in 1994.

What's the object of Basketball? To put the ball in the hoop!

Tell these players that bust their ass day in and day out through the offseason, through training camp, through a rigirous regular season that a scoring title means nothing.

So yea...I think PPG is a little more than unimportant Bonn. Maybe take a walk some where and get some fresh air.

the object of basketball is to WIN

How do you go about WINNING though? Don't you have to do score more than the opposition to win?

Funny world.

Melo had the kind of season many dream, including us fans. He scored because we needed him to score, but he backed up his comments about sharing the ball more and doing more on the court. He rebounded. He defended like we hadn't seen him do for an extended period. He passed well and kept the ball moving. He was a leader when we got many injuries and struggled.

The guy came from the Olympics motivated and carried that to an amazing season. Only a surreal season by LeBron keeps Melo from seriously being an MVP possible winner.

I think that any accomplishment that celebrates the amazing season this man has had is worth cheering up.

ChuckBuck wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:

dk7th wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:He'll get credit from the skeptics if or when he achieves something that they care about - high PPG isn't one of them.

Good Lord - not even a tip of the cap, eh?

PPG is unimportant. I give him credit for improving his scoring efficiency, though - that is something that merits praise.

Tell that to Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, David Robinson, Rick Barry, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Tiny Archibald, George Gervin, Bob McAdoo, Shaquille O'Neal

What do you mean? I don't remember any of them bragging about their PPG

Huh?

Who said anything about bragging?

Scoring title is a pretty significant career accomplishment. Tell David Robinson a scoring title didn't mean anything when he poured in 71 points on the last game of the season to surpass Shaquille O'Neal in 1994.

What's the object of Basketball? To put the ball in the hoop!

Tell these players that bust their ass day in and day out through the offseason, through training camp, through a rigirous regular season that a scoring title means nothing.

So yea...I think PPG is a little more than unimportant Bonn. Maybe take a walk some where and get some fresh air.

the object of basketball is to WIN

How do you go about WINNING though? Don't you have to do score more than the opposition to win?

Or do you have to hold your opponent to fewer points than you put up?
Regardless, you are confounding team with individual scoring. I don't really think you mean what you're saying. Guys like Chris Paul or Steve Nash in his prime would be just mediocre players since their PPG is mediocre.

Uhh, you still have to score more than the opponent. No way the Bull's of the 90s, defensive juggernauts as they were, win without MJ pouring 30+ a game.

Lakers needed either Shaq or Kobe to pour in 30+ a game to win.

Guys like Chris Paul and Steve Nash are great great players, they've just never been matched with their scoring machine counterpart, apologies to Griffin and Amare.

Can't remember a recent championship team that didn't have an individual that went absolutely nuts in the NBA Finals.

Maybe 2004 when Chauncey won Finals MVP with a modest 21 pts average?

Knicksfan wrote:Anybody else and its an accomplishment. Its Melo and its a controversy.

Funny world.

Melo had the kind of season many dream, including us fans. He scored because we needed him to score, but he backed up his comments about sharing the ball more and doing more on the court. He rebounded. He defended like we hadn't seen him do for an extended period. He passed well and kept the ball moving. He was a leader when we got many injuries and struggled.

The guy came from the Olympics motivated and carried that to an amazing season. Only a surreal season by LeBron keeps Melo from seriously being an MVP possible winner.

I think that any accomplishment that celebrates the amazing season this man has had is worth cheering up.

If KD had won it again it would have been a major accomplishment only to the degree he would have done it 4 times straight. Matter of fact Durant won it 3 times straight and Knicks fans still felt Melo>>>>>>Durant overall as a player.

So keep this in perspective, it's relevance overall as Melo embarks on his 1st scoring title

Ask yourself how often do you think about who the scoring champ is at season's end? I'd wager most fans are interested in this accomplishment the least, except if the player is on your team. Laker fans last year looked at it as no big deal when Kobe said Durant could have it and they are some of the most Hero Worshipping fans in all of sports.

But now Melo can be referred, to a very small degree as BEST PURE SCORER(although it wasn't that efficient of a season) in comparison to his other seasons

Funny how Melo is the Scoring Champ but Durant had a more rare Historic Season

MELO IS GOING TO HOIST THAT SCORING TITLE ALL THE WAY TO THE GREATEST KNICK EVER BANK!!!!!