Part of the problem is Woodson and his love affair with putting melo at the 4. Injuries put him there but everyone us healthy now. They can't start games white at the 3 with melo at the 4 and then complain about defense and rebounding.

EnySpree wrote:I can't cheer for a guy that bangs his chest after a tough inside bucket...yet finishes the Gabe with 6 rebounds.

In defense he turns his back and literally runs away from the ball leaving the lane wide open.

I just can't get behind him

Agreed sorry you make $20mil and you show desire to pound the ball inside to score but won't play D and won't rebound consistently although you can slam the ball in the rim and you're 6'10"?

Only thing I can hope for, he plays well enough to get himself traded. It's simply a disgrace players force you to henpeck what they do well to like them...when they are severely flawed in so many other areas of their game by choice.

Nope give me basketball players who play as hard as they can on both sides of the ball, given their abilities especially those who take the biggest pieces of pie/cake.

gunsnewing wrote:He looked really good defensively last night. No breakdown and great weakside shotblocking. We will see if hes finally turning the corner. Sucks he wasnt on the floor vs the Heat. We should be 3-0 if not for woodson playing right into the heats hand. Play Amare and force the heat to matchup. Not the other way around

No he didn't Speights and Thompson had relatively good games. Wasn't Speights like 10-10 in the first half? Really if it wasn't for Kyrie absolutely laying down in the 3rd qrt and they stopped going to Speights and last but not least Carmelo going down with injury... I doubt we would have pulled out the W.

Amar'e came on offensively and had a hand in a couple key stops late but if you're....."what have you done for me lately I only remember the last thing you did type of fan and you homer the player" then sure he played great or looked good last night.

gunsnewing wrote:He looked really good defensively last night. No breakdown and great weakside shotblocking. We will see if hes finally turning the corner. Sucks he wasnt on the floor vs the Heat. We should be 3-0 if not for woodson playing right into the heats hand. Play Amare and force the heat to matchup. Not the other way around

And you could just as easily be posting about how Woody's an idiot for overplaying Stat while we wonder if he'd be back in time for the playoffs...the guy's too fragile.

Back on topic, how come DLee can rebound but he can't play defense? We have an efficient scoring machine who can defend in spots, but can't rebound.
You would have thought all that time with Hakeem would have gotten Stat some increase in rebounding skills.

gunsnewing wrote:He looked really good defensively last night. No breakdown and great weakside shotblocking. We will see if hes finally turning the corner. Sucks he wasnt on the floor vs the Heat. We should be 3-0 if not for woodson playing right into the heats hand. Play Amare and force the heat to matchup. Not the other way around

Agreed. You are never going to beat the Heat trying to match their small ball. Lebron and Wade are better than anything that anyone in the league has. You have to pound them into submission like Boston did before the riculous Perkins trade