holfresh wrote:Carmelo has just been flat out balling!!!...He is playing very good defense and offensively he is just unstoppable...His all around offensive game can't be match right now...Blowing by LeBron???..Really...I saw it against lessor SF but LeBron too??..( He does use his elbow to hook a little, but a vet move, MJ did the same)...His defense is no joke as well...He isn't the liability people thought he would be....His passing skills are one of the best at the position...He is just displaying good basketball all around....Hope this continues into the playoffs...This is the guy we made the "trade" for...He has arrived!!!!Go Knicks!!!

He does that move cause most times he is getting held..so ref can't call it unless he calls the first foul by defender.

mrKnickShot wrote:If he is a top 10 then I don't want to be a knick fan

Boy do I miss Lin!! We can't win without him. I am still pissed that we did not pick up a PG. That will bite us in the ass in a big way.

Papabear Says

So does the heat miss him so they could beat him down like they did before. I call Lin the perfect storm.He came into a system that was perfect for him and he excelled because no one was watching. Now everyone is watching. Let him prove that he is one of the top PG in this league. by the way you can't compare him to Melo.

If Stat is healthy and Melo keeps playing like this, I like our chances.

Papabear wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:If he is a top 10 then I don't want to be a knick fan

Boy do I miss Lin!! We can't win without him. I am still pissed that we did not pick up a PG. That will bite us in the ass in a big way.

Papabear Says

So does the heat miss him so they could beat him down like they did before. I call Lin the perfect storm.He came into a system that was perfect for him and he excelled because no one was watching. Now everyone is watching. Let him prove that he is one of the top PG in this league. by the way you can't compare him to Melo.

Lin looked pretty good with Melo when Woody took over and he still needs to prove that he is very good but I like what I see/saw.

Lin as of now if definitely not in Melo's league!

Uptown wrote:Melo is definitely playng out of his mind. I think he can keep up this level of play when Stat comes back. Obviously, he wont be droppin 40, but I think the effeciency remains. Lin is a big piece to the puzzle when he gets back but its laughable when I think back to people arguing that the offense should have been run through Lin and not Melo.

You need a good PG like Lin to make Offensive scrubs like Fields, Jefferies, Novack, Chandler and to some degree Shumpert better scorers. Melo does a good job trying to get the players involved while at the sametime knowing that he has to put up big numbers because his teammates are inconsistent. Having a PG make these players a little more consistent. This Miami game was a little bit of a reality check.

Uptown wrote:

Vmart wrote:

Uptown wrote:Melo is definitely playng out of his mind. I think he can keep up this level of play when Stat comes back. Obviously, he wont be droppin 40, but I think the effeciency remains. Lin is a big piece to the puzzle when he gets back but its laughable when I think back to people arguing that the offense should have been run through Lin and not Melo.

You need a good PG like Lin to make Offensive scrubs like Fields, Jefferies, Novack, Chandler and to some degree Shumpert better scorers. Melo does a good job trying to get the players involved while at the sametime knowing that he has to put up big numbers because his teammates are inconsistent. Having a PG make these players a little more consistent. This Miami game was a little bit of a reality check.

We absolutely need a pg. Not arguing that. We were playing well when Lin, Stat, Melo played together after Woody tweaked the offense a bit. Woody made sure Melo touched the ball, on the elbow and in the post at least once every 2-3 trips down the floor which is a must for any star player on any team. Melo can make some nice passes but he's a pure scorer, so we definitley need a pg like Lin to help the other role players get open looks off of penetrations.

I just disagreed with the idea that we were going to use Lin like Nash and have Melo hang out by the 3 point line like Q Rich.

+1

We need a viable PG that can run the offense. Now we don't have one and its a miracle that we have played this well. We don't need Lin to be a hero and do everything. We just need him to do what he was doing before he got hurt.

VCoug wrote:

ShellTopAdidas wrote:Lin gets others involved and better, Melo makes Melo better, its always been that way. I miss Lin.

Totally agree, look how bad our record is since Lin and Amare went down.

Yeah we really suck! I love Lin fans.