dk7th wrote:Red1976 wrote:dk7th wrote: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
Melo is lucky to even be playing in the NBA due to the gamesmanship around. He is a better version of Chris Smith, but not so much ... right ? 
no need to go off the deep end. coach b was laying it on thick. that is clever. i should think an opposing coach would love to have one guy jacking up 25 shots for 25 points and 2 assists, especially in the playoffs where defenses tend to be stouter and 3-point shooting tends to cool off appreciably-- you know... kinda like what happened last year? praising melo only encourages him to continue that pattern instead of tightening up his game properly.
Yes, and I'm sure the look coach b had at the end of the game was gamesmanship as well. As everyone knows, Pop loves losing games early in the season, right? Especially at home to 2-4 teams that just got their heads handed to them. I mean that's why the Spurs are ummm....8 and 1, right?
Off the deep end indeed.
It's okay, dk7th, you can let some loser coach praise our resident cancer. It won't hurt you. Really.
LOL