I keep saying - but if Melo really is this All Star caliber player, even with a collection of misfits, we should be better.

If Melo is so great, who is holding him back? Who is sabotaging him from winning us a few more games?

Is Fisher this bad of a coach? I mean, if Melo really is this great, then you should be able to pull any coach- someone off the street even- and we would win more than 5 games.

If you believe Melo is this great player, deserving of his massive contract, explain how we are so bad.

mreinman wrote:uh ... the one into five rule?

I like that rule. Here's 5,000 bucks. I expect my 25 grand by the morning.

TPercy wrote:NNobody believes his worthy of the contract.I am honestly getting tired of this Melo bashing crap

Just say what you like about him instead of focusing on what others say. What is he worthy of?

mreinman wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:You're right. It doesn't add up. Melo is simply the highest PPG player on the team and so he'll get way too much credit for our wins and way too much blame for our losses. He doesn't actually have a big impact on team's W-L records. If you track how his teams do season to season, it's easy to spot the players whose arrivals and departures actually did correspond to changes in the W-L records. His arrival and departure doesn't really impact his teams much though.

vacuuming?

His WS48 is 166 as a knick. Thats pretty damn good.

I guess we can say that WS is completely flawed (not just rebound inflation)

arkrud wrote:It's simple - put any other max player in his place or 2-3 solid 2-way players for the same salary and the result will be much better.
Basically it is better on 23-25 NBA teams at minimum.
But to be fair it is not Melo fault by any stretch.
I would say it makes him a good businessman and his agents team a great business.
May be it is not so hard to be that great with so many idiotic organizations in NBA but still some good peace of work.
He is celeb and entertainer also. Even his stupid statements makes him money by putting him in more spotlights.
Great guy I would never want on my organization of any kind.

that is the key ... he prints cash for D

alwaysaknick wrote:

mreinman wrote:

arkrud wrote:It's simple - put any other max player in his place or 2-3 solid 2-way players for the same salary and the result will be much better.
Basically it is better on 23-25 NBA teams at minimum.
But to be fair it is not Melo fault by any stretch.
I would say it makes him a good businessman and his agents team a great business.
May be it is not so hard to be that great with so many idiotic organizations in NBA but still some good peace of work.
He is celeb and entertainer also. Even his stupid statements makes him money by putting him in more spotlights.
Great guy I would never want on my organization of any kind.

that is the key ... he prints cash for D

That's why he stays with us too.

true ... though with him wanting to be respected, he must really be torn

smackeddog wrote:Replace Melo with Durant- how many more games do we win? yeah, exactly. We're a bad team that doesn't defend well or rebound- Melo is mainly a scorer, but if the team isn't defend, rebounding or shooting well, then it renders his contribution pretty much irrelevant.