The thing is that AR may just not have been a good fit here with what we want to do. I think he's better in a more freewheeling style and not a very precise and technical offense that relies on players knowing what is going on and what they need to do.

nixluva wrote:Who gives a flip about AR and his couple of good games? This is what happens when you're on a team that isn't playing for anything and can just let you get out there and play regardless. We didn't have that luxury. It's not fair to the other players to have a kid out there messing up game after game, while they're trying to make the playoffs. Minny is 17-55 and has lost 5 games in a row. As bad as we've been at least we're still playing for something.

The thing is that AR may just not have been a good fit here with what we want to do. I think he's better in a more freewheeling style and not a very precise and technical offense that relies on players knowing what is going on and what they need to do.

LOL

nixluva wrote:Who gives a flip about AR and his couple of good games? This is what happens when you're on a team that isn't playing for anything and can just let you get out there and play regardless. We didn't have that luxury. It's not fair to the other players to have a kid out there messing up game after game, while they're trying to make the playoffs. Minny is 17-55 and has lost 5 games in a row. As bad as we've been at least we're still playing for something.

The thing is that AR may just not have been a good fit here with what we want to do. I think he's better in a more freewheeling style and not a very precise and technical offense that relies on players knowing what is going on and what they need to do.

crzymdups wrote:to be fair, if we'd fired Mike D'Atoni for not playing AR, Dolan still would have happily shipped Anthony Randoplh as part of the Melo package.

MDA is a stubborn old fool, but Dolan is just an idiot. So, it's really lose lose for Knicks fans.

Had Randolph played more and had better numbers, he wouldn't have been included in the trade or may have but we would've probably kept another asset.

Melo is not a superstar, not even close and we gave up our entire team and just tossed a 21 year old away. You just don't do things like this. We need a player like him, but can't get one. We just lost twice to the bucks, cavs, pacers and supposedly have two superstars.

Funny thing about Minnesota- you look at some of their players, and see that guys like Beasley, Love, Ridnour, and even Darko have some decent numbers for all you armchair GMs out there, but then I take a look at their record and I see that they flat-out suck. Guys go ga-ga over Love, but his stats have a hollow ring to them if he can't his team out of the lottery.

Randolph fits in perfectly with this group, although there may not be enough balls to satisfy everyone on that team when everyone is healthy.

franco12 wrote:Rambis would be a great option for us at coach - he clearly seems to find a way to get production out of players that D'Antoni fails to.

And he isn't afraid to bench his starters in the 4Q if they aren't giving an effort.

LOL. That is the truth. We sent them Darko and AR and both are putting up decent numbers but could not crack the rotation here. At some point, Walsh has got to see that MDA is a great offensive mind, but he is not a great NBA coach.

Paladin55 wrote:

STARTERS	        MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
Anthony Randolph, PF	17	0-5	0-0	3-6	1	3	4	0	1	0	3	4	-4	3

Uh-oh... results against the bad boys from Boston.

Since nobody else was going to post this...

Big deal....it's just one bad game. It's not like this is his usual stat line or anything.