Silverfuel wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:I Am still waiting on Melo to be a reason why the Knicks won. Tonight it was about Orlando not matching up well.

Did you miss the game?

Luvasarcasm

Fixed

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jrodmc wrote:

eViL wrote:

BasketballJones wrote:

eViL wrote:

jrodmc wrote:Does anyone just hate Melo's groin?

melo's groin hates knicks fans. we're just not good athletic supporters.

Just so you know at least one person here appreciates your wit.

thanks

cudos to me for the assist...

we got the best board. hands down. best posters. great analysis. hot chick pics. and funny ****.

nixluva wrote:I'm glad that Melo has stepped up the last 2 games cuz we were desperate to win and he's finally leading the team when they need it.
However, all of you guys need to relax just a bit. For one thing the guy has played 2 good games after stinking so much that the team is just now getting to a game over .500 and it's still a perilous situation the team is in, due to the early struggles. We aren't really out of the woods even after winning 8 of 9 games. The schedule is tougher down the stretch and our margin for error is slim. Let's not go off on a tangent celebrating just yet. Winning is great, but let's also try to keep things in perspective. There was a lot of poor play and losing before this recent turn and the season isn't over yet.

don't know what to tell you if you think it's only been 2 good games. they don't beat indiana twice and philly without melo being a very good all-around player. now he's a very good all-around player who has found his scoring touch again.

nixluva wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

nixluva wrote:I'm glad that Melo has stepped up the last 2 games cuz we were desperate to win and he's finally leading the team when they need it.
However, all of you guys need to relax just a bit. For one thing the guy has played 2 good games after stinking so much that the team is just now getting to a game over .500 and it's still a perilous situation the team is in, due to the early struggles. We aren't really out of the woods even after winning 8 of 9 games. The schedule is tougher down the stretch and our margin for error is slim. Let's not go off on a tangent celebrating just yet. Winning is great, but let's also try to keep things in perspective. There was a lot of poor play and losing before this recent turn and the season isn't over yet.

don't know what to tell you if you think it's only been 2 good games. they don't beat indiana twice and philly without melo being a very good all-around player. now he's a very good all-around player who has found his scoring touch again.

We all know that Melo has started playing with a different energy since MDA left, but his offense has only recently been worth talking about. So yea I do believe that Melo hasn't had a lot more than 2 good games. Just cuz the team won doesn't mean Melo had good all around games. I don't know how long it's gonna take before people stop acting like I post lies or make stuff up. If Melo had played with this kind of effort all year we wouldn't be fighting for the 8th seed!!! He's a scorer and that's what he hasn't been giving this team. Thank goodness he has found his game the last 2 cuz we need him to start playing like this. We shouldn't be praising a guy for finally giving a full effort on both ends.

STATS	             MIN	FG%	REB	AST	BLK	STL	PF	PTS
This Game	     26	        .600	5	6	1	1	2	25
Previous 10 Games    30.5	.392	6.7	3.3	0.3	1.2	3.1	16.9
March	             31.9	.392	6.4	2.9	0.4	1.1	3.0	17.8
DATE	OPP	SCORE	MIN   FGM-FGA	 FG%	3PM-3PA	3P%	FTM-FTA	FT%	REB	AST	BLK	STL	PF	TO	PTS
3/28	ORL   W 108-86	26    9-15	.600	2-5	.400	5-6	.833	5	6	1	1	2	3	25
3/26	MIL   W 89-80	35    8-20	.400	0-2	.000	12-12	1.000	12	1	1	1	3	3	28
3/24	DET   W 101-79	29    5-12	.417	0-1	.000	5-6	.833	3	1	0	1	3	1	15
3/23	TOR   L 79-96	30    6-15	.400	0-4	.000	0-0	.000	9	3	1	2	4	4	12
3/21	PHI   W 82-79	34    5-15	.333	0-2	.000	0-1	.000	5	2	0	0	4	2	10
Last 5 Games	       30.8   6.6-15.4  .429	0.4-2.8	.143	4.4-5.0	.880	6.8	2.6	0.6	1.0	3.2	2.6	18.0

Keeps reminding me of my favorite movie scene :

fishmike wrote:Melo is playing great and through pain. Groin injuries even just a tweak are very painful and really takes away your lateral movement. Good job. We need the wins and the momentum

Wait wait wait wait...you were identified in other threads as a card-carrying Melo trade hater. Doesn't this comment put you in some type of trouble with the authorities in here?
Fishmike, this post could cause unrest and possibly civil disobedience among the Gallo faithful...hope you realize what you're doing...

jrodmc wrote:

eViL wrote:

jrodmc wrote:

eViL wrote:

BasketballJones wrote:

eViL wrote:

jrodmc wrote:Does anyone just hate Melo's groin?

melo's groin hates knicks fans. we're just not good athletic supporters.

Just so you know at least one person here appreciates your wit.

thanks

cudos to me for the assist...

we got the best board. hands down. best posters. great analysis. hot chick pics. and funny ****.

And all the damn Melo hate you can handle.

The mother's pedaling on the sidelines trying to stay in the game while he's hitting everything he's throwing up, scores 25, gets six dimes, keeps Shump's head in the game, and instead of mild comparisons to Willis (Reed), we get:

Definitely! Kar-Melo needs underwear for his fat ass from KMART

I'm not just hating on Melo. I'm stating FACT. The guy has a lot to make up for and the last winning streak and good stretch of games doesn't make up for all that he has failed to do so far.

For one thing the guy has played 2 good games after stinking so much that the team is just now getting to a game over .500 and it's still a perilous situation

What took this lazy sac of poop so long to get going. We should be in 1st!

we won despite melo

possibly missing a smiley on this one, but you never can tell

We are 8 of 9 people. Channel some of your hate down to Miami for awhile and let the rest of us Knick fans enjoy our starphucque.

+1,000,000

Bonn1997 wrote:If Melo can get reasonably healthy, I would expect his play to return to his career numbers. Any criticism of him based on this season alone is short-sighted. Any substantial praise of him based on the past 2 games is even more short-sighted though.

It has been proved that Carmelo plays better when he is injured.

Who cares about long or short-sight? We are 8-1 since we got a coach who directs with his talent. Not at them.

Bonn1997 wrote:If Melo can get reasonably healthy, I would expect his play to return to his career numbers. Any criticism of him based on this season alone is short-sighted. Any substantial praise of him based on the past 2 games is even more short-sighted though.

I agree with this. But it seemed people who were criticizing him were discarding his career before this season. This is a guy who is like 28yrs old and already has multiple seasons where he's scored over 28ppg. He's one of the transcendent scorers in the game when he's on and showing that he is a complete player - very good rebounding and a surprisingly good passer, too. And he's gotten to a Western Conference Finals, for all the talk of his playoff struggles. And 3 of his first round losses were to the eventual NBA champion, so some of his struggles have been a result of tough seeding.

crzymdups wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:If Melo can get reasonably healthy, I would expect his play to return to his career numbers. Any criticism of him based on this season alone is short-sighted. Any substantial praise of him based on the past 2 games is even more short-sighted though.

I agree with this. But it seemed people who were criticizing him were discarding his career before this season. This is a guy who is like 28yrs old and already has multiple seasons where he's scored over 28ppg. He's one of the transcendent scorers in the game when he's on and showing that he is a complete player - very good rebounding and a surprisingly good passer, too. And he's gotten to a Western Conference Finals, for all the talk of his playoff struggles. And 3 of his first round losses were to the eventual NBA champion, so some of his struggles have been a result of tough seeding.

His career before this season has also shown him to be a volume a scorer, a ball hog and someone who can definitely score with the best of them but doesn't play hard on defense etc.

Now for the last two games he has been exactly what the team needs him to be, so kudos to him
for showing up and most importantly playing defense. While I am happy to see us blowing out playoff contenders and willing to forget the Raptors loss as a one game aberration this team has a long way to go and show they can ALL keep doing this at this level to earn any real respect. If they can hold up this level of play we can challenge the Bulls with or without Rose. But it still a pretty big "IF".

Woodson's definitely improved the defense. I think our real test will be again great defensive teams that will hound Lin and try to lockdown on Melo. Can we get enough offense going to win those games? I don't think we can hold Miami to 70 pts for us to win on defense alone.