JR is what he is. I can live with the good and the bad.

We don't need an excuse. They have Supeahman!

smackeddog wrote:

fishmike wrote:JR has totally regressed. He still plays hard but simply doesnt help the Knicks win games. He's a 40% shooter. That sucks. Its like the power hitter that bats 230. Sure the 30 HRs and 90 RBIs are nice but most of the time you need him he's swinging and missing.

He didnt so much regress- he just flipped a coin and bad JR Famine came up.

The loss wasn't devastating. Frustrating, yes, but it wasn't devastating- just needed one other player to show up or a few less turnovers and we would have won. Don't get why the forums gone in to meltdown.

I mean we have looked at various runs when MDA was here, Linsanity, etc... and folks have written off that off as small sample size. Seems like 18-5 is a smaller sample than 17-16 since.

mrKnickShot wrote:

holfresh wrote:Right now Melo is the only guy able to compete with the big three..A much as Melo gets knocked on this board, he is the only guy that has been battling these teams the last couple of years...As great as people say Bron is with Wade and Bosh at his side, give Melo a Chris Paul type guy, just one more player who can compete, and who is going to bet against the Knicks???

We should bring back Iverson to be that guy

U need help..

smackeddog wrote:

fishmike wrote:JR has totally regressed. He still plays hard but simply doesnt help the Knicks win games. He's a 40% shooter. That sucks. Its like the power hitter that bats 230. Sure the 30 HRs and 90 RBIs are nice but most of the time you need him he's swinging and missing.

He didnt so much regress- he just flipped a coin and bad JR Famine came up.

The loss wasn't devastating. Frustrating, yes, but it wasn't devastating- just needed one other player to show up or a few less turnovers and we would have won. Don't get why the forums gone in to meltdown.

When the playoffs roll around these same guys who are yapping will forget the reg season play. LOL

Uptown wrote:A few things about the game that were a bit perplexing.

1. With Kidd and Felton (2 faclitators) in the game down the stretch, why is Melo and JR (2 finishers) bringing the ball up and initiating offense?
2. Stat needs to play down the stretch of games to give us an inside presence and an additional finisher. I understand Woodson is trying to limit Stats minutes, but he needs to do a better job of managing them better that he can finish games. Also, if he'e trying to save Stat for the playoffs, why is he trying to wear Melo out? Whats the point of him playing 40+ mins a night?
3. Woody seems content on a 9 man rotation. If thats the case, why play James White 9 token mins which takes away a slot from Camby and K Mart? Camby's 9-10 mins would be way more impactful in the game. Hell, Copeland would be more productive in 9-10 mins. This James White experiment is a a waste.

He's not trying limit Amare's minutes and he's not saving him for the playoffs; if he was then Woodson would be balancing Amare's minutes so he can finish games instead of pulling him with 5, 6, 8 minutes left in the game. Woodson isn't playing Amare because he either doesn't like him out there or he doesn't trust him out there. And, you can see and hear that this is starting to affect Amare so we might have a problem on our hands similar to last year's with Melo and MDA.

SlimChin wrote:it's funny how the knicks who beat the heat in 2 previous meetings are deemed failures because they lost yesterday.

It's not about the last game it's about the last 33 games. We've been playing mediocre basketball since the middle of December and really several of us have seen problems with the team going back to the offseason.

Uptown wrote:A few things about the game that were a bit perplexing.

1. With Kidd and Felton (2 faclitators) in the game down the stretch, why is Melo and JR (2 finishers) bringing the ball up and initiating offense?
2. Stat needs to play down the stretch of games to give us an inside presence and an additional finisher. I understand Woodson is trying to limit Stats minutes, but he needs to do a better job of managing them better that he can finish games. Also, if he'e trying to save Stat for the playoffs, why is he trying to wear Melo out? Whats the point of him playing 40+ mins a night?
3. Woody seems content on a 9 man rotation. If thats the case, why play James White 9 token mins which takes away a slot from Camby and K Mart? Camby's 9-10 mins would be way more impactful in the game. Hell, Copeland would be more productive in 9-10 mins. This James White experiment is a a waste.

VCoug wrote:

Uptown wrote:A few things about the game that were a bit perplexing.

1. With Kidd and Felton (2 faclitators) in the game down the stretch, why is Melo and JR (2 finishers) bringing the ball up and initiating offense?
2. Stat needs to play down the stretch of games to give us an inside presence and an additional finisher. I understand Woodson is trying to limit Stats minutes, but he needs to do a better job of managing them better that he can finish games. Also, if he'e trying to save Stat for the playoffs, why is he trying to wear Melo out? Whats the point of him playing 40+ mins a night?
3. Woody seems content on a 9 man rotation. If thats the case, why play James White 9 token mins which takes away a slot from Camby and K Mart? Camby's 9-10 mins would be way more impactful in the game. Hell, Copeland would be more productive in 9-10 mins. This James White experiment is a a waste.

He's not trying limit Amare's minutes and he's not saving him for the playoffs; if he was then Woodson would be balancing Amare's minutes so he can finish games instead of pulling him with 5, 6, 8 minutes left in the game. Woodson isn't playing Amare because he either doesn't like him out there or he doesn't trust him out there. And, you can see and hear that this is starting to affect Amare so we might have a problem on our hands similar to last year's with Melo and MDA.