Knicks22 wrote:
Too often, the debate over Melo appears to be all or none. He's either THE problem, or, he's faultless, in fact a victim...I agree with those posters who see both sides. Roster is flawed, and Melo working incredibly hard, under a coach who has absolutely no guiding offensive structure, to, do his best to win. Admirable, and, this year, even with his bizarre 1-20? on late and close, its been his best year in NY.
However, I totally believe that, knowingly or not, he is a big reason this team is dysfunctional. The trade, inability to co-exist with Amare when he was still somewhat healthy, running MDA out of town,seeming to pout under Linsanity,i and, as the star of the team, seemingly show no effective leadership on defensive effort, or, shutting down knucklehead behavior.
Front office tried - mortgaged the future to put three All Stars (melo, Amare, Tyson) together, had some success last year. Time to move on, and signing him to a max deal is wrong for reasons of cap, age, and, mostly, as I honestly don't see - beyond Olympics or All Star teams (where he can be the brilliant shooter he is), what collection of players would gel with his game.
That statement I have a problem with.. because it tends to give the impression that he is working hard and others aren't.. Is carmelo working hard on defense? NO!! I can point out that guys like pablo, JR smith, chandler, all work hard on defense.. This impression that carmelo is the only one working incredibly hard buys in to the "victim" defense for him.. For the most part, all of these guys are working hard.. they are just not that good collectively, that seems to be the bigger problem..
Anyone who sits around and waits for the lottery to better themselves, either in real life or in sports, Is a Loser...............
TKF
