At this time the knicks should be doing all they can to either improve this season's Chance at the playoffs or scrap this ship down to prepare for a complete rebuild around Melo.

We are doing nothing and probably will stand pat.

I will not hold anything against Melo if he leaves. I wish I could

Knicks22 wrote:
Respect his talent and this year's greater effort, but, i don't buy the "melo as victim" premise.

THe reason they 'can't build around him' is simple: he forced a trade which required Knicks to overpay, then, is unable to blend his game with Amare, he's unwilling to work for MDA, and, appears to have been unwilling to play with Linsanity.

He came here, couldn't work with the reigning ALl Star, coach, and, later, Lin. Victim? think not

Why are people struggling with this point you made. It's the results of him thinking he was in college when coming to NY. No cap space in college to build two-way role players around him.

Rolling my eyes shaking my head

EnySpree wrote:

Knicks22 wrote:
Respect his talent and this year's greater effort, but, i don't buy the "melo as victim" premise.

THe reason they 'can't build around him' is simple: he forced a trade which required Knicks to overpay, then, is unable to blend his game with Amare, he's unwilling to work for MDA, and, appears to have been unwilling to play with Linsanity.

He came here, couldn't work with the reigning ALl Star, coach, and, later, Lin. Victim? think not

How you gonna blame him for everything then start talking up this "melo is a victim" non sense.

The Knicks made the trade for melo. They are the ones that decided to stay put and not build around the team. Coach Woodson is the one that can't figure out a better plan to mix this rosters talent better.

Melo isn't a victim. He's playing extremely hard even though we are losing. He's a free agent after this season. This organization has not tried to improve the situation. So he absolutely should leave and find a team that will.

Eny he's doing what JR Smith did, play hard in contract year. This isn't who he is, it's all business this yr for him.

playa2 wrote:

EnySpree wrote:

Knicks22 wrote:
Respect his talent and this year's greater effort, but, i don't buy the "melo as victim" premise.

THe reason they 'can't build around him' is simple: he forced a trade which required Knicks to overpay, then, is unable to blend his game with Amare, he's unwilling to work for MDA, and, appears to have been unwilling to play with Linsanity.

He came here, couldn't work with the reigning ALl Star, coach, and, later, Lin. Victim? think not

How you gonna blame him for everything then start talking up this "melo is a victim" non sense.

The Knicks made the trade for melo. They are the ones that decided to stay put and not build around the team. Coach Woodson is the one that can't figure out a better plan to mix this rosters talent better.

Melo isn't a victim. He's playing extremely hard even though we are losing. He's a free agent after this season. This organization has not tried to improve the situation. So he absolutely should leave and find a team that will.

Eny he's doing what JR Smith did, play hard in contract year. This isn't who he is, it's all business this yr for him.

Eny has the right idea. It's not Melo, it's the other parts that are weak. Starts with Dolan. Our downfall this year was getting Bargnani. That was all Dolan and I believe that was the reason Grunny left/was let go. He strongly disagreed with that move and what we gave up. (i.e. 1st round pick). To stay as the Knicks GM, one has to be a "Yes man".

I'd love to keep Melo and be able to build around him. But we don't have a GM who has any experience in doing this.

BRIGGS wrote:and while I don't think he needs help--he truly does have Carmelos ear.

Markji wrote:

playa2 wrote:

EnySpree wrote:

Knicks22 wrote:
Respect his talent and this year's greater effort, but, i don't buy the "melo as victim" premise.

THe reason they 'can't build around him' is simple: he forced a trade which required Knicks to overpay, then, is unable to blend his game with Amare, he's unwilling to work for MDA, and, appears to have been unwilling to play with Linsanity.

He came here, couldn't work with the reigning ALl Star, coach, and, later, Lin. Victim? think not

How you gonna blame him for everything then start talking up this "melo is a victim" non sense.

The Knicks made the trade for melo. They are the ones that decided to stay put and not build around the team. Coach Woodson is the one that can't figure out a better plan to mix this rosters talent better.

Melo isn't a victim. He's playing extremely hard even though we are losing. He's a free agent after this season. This organization has not tried to improve the situation. So he absolutely should leave and find a team that will.

Eny he's doing what JR Smith did, play hard in contract year. This isn't who he is, it's all business this yr for him.

Wrong Playa. Melo played hard last year as well.

Eny has the right idea. It's not Melo, it's the other parts that are weak. Starts with Dolan. Our downfall this year was getting Bargnani. That was all Dolan and I believe that was the reason Grunny left/was let go. He strongly disagreed with that move and what we gave up. (i.e. 1st round pick). To stay as the Knicks GM, one has to be a "Yes man".

I'd love to keep Melo and be able to build around him. But we don't have a GM who has any experience in doing this.

Melo had to get a rep with Kurt Thomas, J.Kidd and R.Wallace who he took the 3 fingers to the head from. That was his audience and motivation.