JohnStarksFan wrote:Lots of communication tonight between the players, but also a number of faces that seemed disengaged. Shump is clearly not happy, no doubt he knows about this trade rumor BS. But his line was 5/6/9/4 - his shot wasn't there but he comes up big. He plays big.

Horford had his way down low with zero resistance, no one bodying him up. Then KMart came in, and changed the tone completely. He alone made the team think twice about going inside and down low, Bargs and Melo started following suit and bodying, and Smith started jumping around everywhere. KMart is clutch.

3rd quarter was full of some of the ugliest shots I have seen in my life. What the hell was that? Give Bargs the credit he is due, but that dude makes me want to throw the remote at my TV with his shots at times.

MWP is slow. And takes tiny steps everywhere. Anyone notice this besides me?

I should just be homer-happy with a win, but it was unsettling. One game away from starting over at even steven. Maybe we can steal one away tomorrow. Stat better show up, and they better have a double team plan in place for Howard.

If Bargs wants to make you throw the remote at the TV, Melo must make you want to throw your TV. Melo settles to much for jump shots he needs to go the basket more and with purpose. I felt the turning point of the game came in the 4th with THJ playing and Melo sitting. Knicks won in spite of Melo. Melo shoots way to much someone needs to reign this guy in.

Vmart wrote:
If Bargs wants to make you throw the remote at the TV, Melo must make you want to throw your TV. Melo settles to much for jump shots he needs to go the basket more and with purpose. I felt the turning point of the game came in the 4th with THJ playing and Melo sitting. Knicks won in spite of Melo. Melo shoots way to much someone needs to reign this guy in.

Oh, Melo's bad shots? I'm used to those. I used to cringe 4 out of 5 times the dude even looks like he's going to go for the shot. But, over time I just got used to it, and settled into the fact that that's Melo's game now, that's who he is. With that said, many of his misses looked better than Bargnani's makes.

Ho-hum, we won. I should stop mitching.

JohnStarksFan wrote:

Vmart wrote:
If Bargs wants to make you throw the remote at the TV, Melo must make you want to throw your TV. Melo settles to much for jump shots he needs to go the basket more and with purpose. I felt the turning point of the game came in the 4th with THJ playing and Melo sitting. Knicks won in spite of Melo. Melo shoots way to much someone needs to reign this guy in.

Oh, Melo's bad shots? I'm used to those. I used to cringe 4 out of 5 times the dude even looks like he's going to go for the shot. But, over time I just got used to it, and settled into the fact that that's Melo's game now, that's who he is. With that said, many of his misses looked better than Bargnani's makes.

Ho-hum, we won. I should stop mitching.

The ref's were weird this game- they seemed reluctant to call anything on either team. Lots of blatant swipes and pushes that didn't result in fouls. I actually prefer this than when they call everything.

Liked Bargs hustle and rebounding.

Feltons hamstring is obviously still bothering, he limped a few times during the game. We can only pray that is why his defense has been so terrible!

Enjoyable fourth Q. I'm glad we've cut back on the turnovers. We still can't defend, shoot, drive or rebound, but if we can limit the TOs and get lucky with our 3s, hopefully by the time Tysons back we'll be at 50%.

We do look a rusty old mess though! I don't understand how we won!

gunsnewing wrote:Melo is the best pure scorer in the Universe what are you guys talking about

fishmike wrote:

"He's a heck of a player," said Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer.

"I feel like a lot of the night we made Carmelo work for his shots, but because he's a great player he was able to make some of those tough shots. At that big moment, they needed him to step up and he did. It's a credit to Carmelo."

Funny, at the end of the day thats what the opposing coach says. Didnt gush over Shump's 'little things' or Barg's big shots... no, it was trying to stop Melo and the coach walks away saying they lost because they didnt stop him enough.

I thought it was a good win. I picked them to lose, I thought our frontcourt would get pushed around but they battled well. The thing that killed the Hawks IMO was their bench. Minute Teague went out of the game they were terrible.... their backup PG made Tony Douglas look like Chris Paul.

or it could be good old popovich-style gamesmanship

fishmike wrote:

"He's a heck of a player," said Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer.

"I feel like a lot of the night we made Carmelo work for his shots, but because he's a great player he was able to make some of those tough shots. At that big moment, they needed him to step up and he did. It's a credit to Carmelo."

Funny, at the end of the day thats what the opposing coach says. Didnt gush over Shump's 'little things' or Barg's big shots... no, it was trying to stop Melo and the coach walks away saying they lost because they didnt stop him enough.

I thought it was a good win. I picked them to lose, I thought our frontcourt would get pushed around but they battled well. The thing that killed the Hawks IMO was their bench. Minute Teague went out of the game they were terrible.... their backup PG made Tony Douglas look like Chris Paul.

how dare this coach say something nice about Carmelo !

Lucky the Knicks division is pretty crappy top to bottom.