I did not get to see tonight's game but generally the team has been way to relaxed (ie. not playing as hard as possible) the last week or two.

And once again, Novak does nothing yet somehow leads the team in +/- How?! How does he keep doing this?!

As for Kidd, we only signed him 3 years as a courtesy- if he keeps playing like this he'll retire well before then. We can offer him a coaching spot.

smackeddog wrote:Great to win and to see Amar'e dominating again. Why did Woody take him out when he picked up his 5th foul? He wasn't going to put him in at the end of the game anyways so why no just let him play until he got his 6th?

And once again, Novak does nothing yet somehow leads the team in +/- How?! How does he keep doing this?!

I was only listening to the game on the radio, but even the Philly announcer was picking out the "other" things Novak was doing while he was on the floor.
Yeah, I don't understand how getting burned repeatedly on D gets you great +/- numbers.

How does Kidd get worse at three's as the season wears on? It's not like he shoots with his legs. It sounded like he was 0-10 while JR was lighting it up.

On a side note, nice to knock off Philly 3 games to 1 here in 2012-2013. And trust me, soft ass Spencer Hawes wanted NOTHING to do with Tyson Chandler, despite the tough guy act while he was being held back. Melo wasn't about to back down either. But you just know Melo was thanful of Tyson Chandler. Guys like Shumpert and Kidd were ready to do nothing, but not Tyson Chandler.

gunsnewing wrote:It was good to see someone finally stick up for our star player. Whar I dont understand is why Melo punched Hawes in the head when all he was doing was boxing Melo out. All Tyson saw was Hawes going after Melo so he jumped in

Because he is evil!

jrodmc wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:It was good to see someone finally stick up for our star player. Whar I dont understand is why Melo punched Hawes in the head when all he was doing was boxing Melo out.

Reaction to the elbow to the face while getting boxed out; watch the beginning slowly. Even on the Philly radiocast, they mentioned Hawes trying to clear out Melo with his arms. I read somewhere you're supposed to box out with your azz and legs.

And Melo's been reading all the posts on here about how soft and whiney the Knicks are.

Our StarMooby ain't taking that crap from the likes of Spenser Hawes. Cheerio, mate!

Fair enough. I will have to watch it again. Anyone have video?

gunsnewing wrote:OK just watched it closely for the first time. Hawes was wrong. I was listening to WFAN this morning and Mark Malusis who despite being a Syracuse alumn and former Melo fan who has been killing Melo since he arrived in NY was thrashing Melo on the radio. Saying how could be punch him in the head. He is lucky he didn't get tossed. Michael Kay said the same. Not one caller defended Melo

Melo took an elbow to the face. He didn't like that. Understandable, but like others posted, I didn't particularly care for him smacking Hawes in the back of the head and possibly getting tossed for a few games.
Suddenly this is now big news.

They said on the radio broadcast that Tyson approached Hawes after the game was over and made nice.