misterearl wrote:All of the Miami Heat players dined with Lebron in Akron.

smackeddog wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

misterearl wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

misterearl wrote:Thanks

knicks1248 wrote:this team is out on the road for THANKSGIVING and wouldn't sit down with each other and break bread, just a hand full of players ..Take a loook

https://twitter.com/MettaWorldPeace/status/406190038616006656/photo/1/large

That to me this is a HUGE problem

Exactly. You mean to tell The Answer Man that Melo does not have a better hook up in Denver than some cheesy hotel cafeteria?

They could at least have rented out Welton Street Cafe (Wings N Tings) or Chubby's Authentic Mexican.

Queen Latifah sang about Unity

It's funny how people interpet things. I thought the tweet and photo had a positive spin to it both from metta's message and the article that linked to it.

CrushALot - Ron's tweet was cute. Where was everyone else?

It appears more than half the roster was missing.

I completely agree. Literally no one MSG markets was in the photo either. Team 'leaders' not being there is a little upsetting

Take a closer look- the guys that are there are Beno, Prigs and Bargs- they are european players i.e. Thanksgiving is meaningless to them. MWP just invited them to his luch/breakfast because they probably didn't have anything else to do. everyone else is with their families- it's no big deal.

Euro or not, the Knicks were not, and are not, together.

CrushAlot wrote:

misterearl wrote:All of the Miami Heat players dined with Lebron in Akron.

smackeddog wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

misterearl wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

misterearl wrote:Thanks

knicks1248 wrote:this team is out on the road for THANKSGIVING and wouldn't sit down with each other and break bread, just a hand full of players ..Take a loook

https://twitter.com/MettaWorldPeace/status/406190038616006656/photo/1/large

That to me this is a HUGE problem

Exactly. You mean to tell The Answer Man that Melo does not have a better hook up in Denver than some cheesy hotel cafeteria?

They could at least have rented out Welton Street Cafe (Wings N Tings) or Chubby's Authentic Mexican.

Queen Latifah sang about Unity

It's funny how people interpet things. I thought the tweet and photo had a positive spin to it both from metta's message and the article that linked to it.

CrushALot - Ron's tweet was cute. Where was everyone else?

It appears more than half the roster was missing.

I completely agree. Literally no one MSG markets was in the photo either. Team 'leaders' not being there is a little upsetting

Take a closer look- the guys that are there are Beno, Prigs and Bargs- they are european players i.e. Thanksgiving is meaningless to them. MWP just invited them to his luch/breakfast because they probably didn't have anything else to do. everyone else is with their families- it's no big deal.

Euro or not, the Knicks were not, and are not, together.

Nice. He is a super guy. Spend sometime in Cleveland and see what the community thinks. Maybe the keys to the Knicks lack of success lie hidden in Metta's tweets.
https://twitter.com/MettaWorldPeace

Ask the hundreds of kids of Akron who participate in The Lebron James Foundation.

The Knicks are not successful because the Knicks have substandard talent at every position, except one. Basketball games are decided by superior talent.

It's all about the matchups.

CrushALot - we both know that many factors contribute to winning.

In the past, Knicks teams have used road trips as bonding opportunities, Even when we had our asses handed to us last season, the Knicks hung tough and Kurt made a sacrifice in Utah, playing while injured. Result? We finish strong.

None of us can qualify segregation or bad vibes, because none of us are on the road, or at the Thanksgiving table, or in the locker room...

... but we also know that talent deficits are never a good thing ... combined with internal cliques.

CrushALot - Metta tweeted because he was sharing a meal with his "family" of six.

It ain't that deep, but...

Where were the other eight?

Pass the sweet potato pie

smackeddog wrote:

misterearl wrote:CrushALot - the only conclusion is that we are one game away from being 3-12

Pass the sweet potato pie

I like sweet potato

Melonoma - you don't shake things up. You want to win a championship or go on Soul Train?

If you want a ring, then your GM devises a sound long term franchise strategy amd playing personality and he makes every decision accordingly.

Shaking things up, just for the sake of shaking things, is for the dance floor.

misterearl wrote:The team that learns to share dinner rolls together... Calls out picks together

CrushAlot wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

misterearl wrote:CrushALot - the only conclusion is that we are one game away from being 3-12

Pass the sweet potato pie

I like sweet potato

Me to but I don't like to share so I am eating by myself.

"Right now it seems like we have no chemistry with one another, we're out of sync and the energy is very low. I think we can start with having high energy, putting forth some more effort. I think that stuff will start working its way around."

- Carmelo Anthony

Forget the closed door meetings, order a pizza

Have you considered that they might have wanted some time alone with their families? It would have been nice if they ate together but I wouldn't put too much stock in it. To riff on that famous line from "North Dallas Forty", sometimes its a business, and sometimes its a game. They don't need to be connected at the hip to play smarter. When they do the love will follow, Donny Hathaway

Vmart wrote:

misterearl wrote:The Stat Book

As a team we are shooting 42 percent. JR Smith (32 percent) Ron World Peace (36 per cent) and I Man Shumpert and Raymond Felton (both 39 per cent) are killing us on offense.

Our three point shooting as a team is 32 percent.

We are out rebounded. on average, by 4 boards per game. That confirms our lack of quality frontcourt depth

You do the math.

This is the system and Woody calls it. Apparently Knicks are allowed to do what ever on offense as long as they play defense. No ball movement and no player movement a lot of jump shooting nothing easy. The team is not being put in a position to succeed and that is in Woody.

+10000000

he has a history of being annihilated in second round playoff series for starters-- that alone should have given every knick fan pause. why? because that is where the challenge of coaching truly begins. he is a terrible strategist. and then he shows how badly he wants the job by acquiescing to dolan's condition of changing his agent. he is in a compromised state from the get-go.

now look at the clumsy roster he has to deal with-- it scared off phil jackson LOL. but no-- thanks to jason kidd and sheed the knicks appear to be a legit contender in spite of woodson being a terrible strategist. trouble is, ironically, that woodson is loyal to felton who at this point has been universally recognized as a scrubby tweener incapable of running an offense. he is loyal to melo whose shot selection and defense should have him benched almost every game if the coach has any stones but all we get is the dyed goatee scowl and the arms folded across his chest... and he is loyal to smith who is a train wreck.

woodson is a lousy leader but dolan creates a situation where this is ensured-- another reason why any coach with any sense of pride and self-worth will stay far away from this franchise.

but yeah all we hear is how awful stoudemire is and now how bad woodson is. amazing how hard it is to see that actually the clock is ticking on the epic fail of the melo era.