MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:Very bad feeling right now. That's 2/3 we lost since The Return.

4th game in 5 nights

airchibundo507 wrote:Lin was worse than Douglas in the first half.

And your point? Should we send him back to the D League so he can figure out the trap????

airchibundo507 wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

airchibundo507 wrote:Lin was worse than Douglas in the first half.

And your point? Should we send him back to the D League so he can figure out the trap????

Did I say that?

Why can't Lin have a bad game without us jumping on him for it. It happens to everyone and this is the HEAT!!

CashMoney wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

airchibundo507 wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

airchibundo507 wrote:Lin was worse than Douglas in the first half.

And your point? Should we send him back to the D League so he can figure out the trap????

Did I say that?

Why can't Lin have a bad game without us jumping on him for it. It happens to everyone and this is the HEAT!!

Have you not been to this forum before?

Haha - I have vented too at times but Lin? He should be untouchable at this point. He made us relevant - he saved us from hell.

mrKnickShot wrote:

airchibundo507 wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

airchibundo507 wrote:Lin was worse than Douglas in the first half.

And your point? Should we send him back to the D League so he can figure out the trap????

Did I say that?

Why can't Lin have a bad game without us jumping on him for it. It happens to everyone and this is the HEAT!!

Jesus, did I say trade him? Bench him?

Melo gets crucified for bad shooting nights and Lin can't get any criticism.

airchibundo507 wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

airchibundo507 wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

airchibundo507 wrote:Lin was worse than Douglas in the first half.

And your point? Should we send him back to the D League so he can figure out the trap????

Did I say that?

Why can't Lin have a bad game without us jumping on him for it. It happens to everyone and this is the HEAT!!

Jesus, did I say trade him? Bench him?

Melo gets crucified for bad shooting nights and Lin can't get any criticism.

Melo does get unfairly crucified but he is a Max guy who we traded the world for.

Tough comparison.

Lin is the Mesiah.

CashMoney wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

CashMoney wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

CashMoney wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

airchibundo507 wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

airchibundo507 wrote:Lin was worse than Douglas in the first half.

And your point? Should we send him back to the D League so he can figure out the trap????

Did I say that?

Why can't Lin have a bad game without us jumping on him for it. It happens to everyone and this is the HEAT!!

Have you not been to this forum before?

Haha - I have vented too at times but Lin? He should be untouchable at this point. He made us relevant - he saved us from hell.

He was bound to have a bad game at some point. He's a smart kid and will learn from this one no doubt. Just going to hate all the BS about the Heat curing Linsanity and all that BS. I'm still all in for Lin.

And I am sure it will happen again.

The question is: what happens to the Knicks when they take away the PnR ...

Move the ball and hit open shots.

It seemed like they kept trying to force the PnR instead of running other plays (other than a few Melo-ISO's)

Trapping pnrs should effectively take the ball out of Lin's hands and force others to step up. But turning the ball over 6 times in one half? inexcusable. And a couple of those were just Chalmers and Cole poking the ball out of Lin's hands once he crossed the halfcourt line. You turn the ball over against Miami and you might as well forfeit the game. 15 first half TOs? Really?

And I don't blame Lin as much as I do D'Antoni. Was he fcking blind? Lin was useless in the first half but he left him in the game after Davis managed to do so well with the second unit. Same in the third quarter, with Lin playing until 2:00 left in the quarter when I thought he should have been yanked sooner.

D'Antoni left the bench in the game too long in the fourth. The bench cut the lead to 8. At that point he should have brought Melo and Amare back in the game. What ended up happening? The offense went stagnant. Baron started chucking 30 foot threes and we couldn't convert baskets. Even worse, we played defense and couldn't secure a rebound with Novak at PF. Then what happens? D'Antoni decides to play Novak at SG on the floor with Lin, Melo, Amare and Chandler. After Smith had been going off.

D'Antoni pulled this same sht in the Nets game leaving the bench unit too long on the floor in the second quarter which gave the Nets the momentum they needed to control the game the rest of the way.

When you have a deep bench, now you have to be smarter about which players need to play at certain times.

Everyone is smiles and smooth sailing when things are going good, like in a blow-out win against an uninspired Hawks team.

When things get hairy, the team concept goes out the window and we see One on Three ISOs; Melo doesn't react well. His first reaction is to forget the team and go at it alone, that's his TRUE nature. And that's why this experiment can't work.

In Phoenix, when MDA's Suns were in a tight spot, did they scratch the plan and start dumping it to Joe Johnson for ISOs? No.

Verdict: Fail.

Cut MDA loose or ship Melo, this has to be clear by now.

And because I know you will say "Hater", I will call out your IRRATIONAL LOVE AFFAIR with Melo!