fwk00 wrote:fishmike wrote:Uptown wrote:MS wrote:Let's take a quick step back here.So the GM publically disrespects him. Tweets about him being selfish and devalues his player at every turn. He's lost every trade he's made miserably.
10-11 - 26.3pts 6.7rbs 3.0 ass 46%
11-12 - 22.6pts 6.3rbs 3.6ass 43%
12-13 - 28.7pts 6.9rbs 2.6ass 45%
13-14 - 27.4pts 8.1rbs 3.1ass 45%
14-15 - 24.2pts 6.6pts 3.1ass 44%
15-16 - 21.8pts 7.7rbs 4.2ass 43%
16-17 - 23.3pts 6.0rbs 3.0ass 44%
He's played well here. Has he won. No. But, who has in the last 15 years. Jim Dolan is nightmare and free agents don't want to play here. Too much pressure, to many taxes, to many inept coaches and the worst management in the NBA.
The GM gave the worst contract out of the entire offseason and we lost a max slot because of it. It's ok for him to question the organization after they just dragged him through the mud.
Stop Making Sense!!!
Melo also has the highest usage% in the league for a non guard every year. Go look... he's always in the top 10 in the league and top 2 or 3 for non guards. He literally has held the ball longer than anyone in the NBA over that time. So one can show his pts/rebs/assists and say he's been productive, but he hasnt. We have run the ball through him over and over and the record stinks. Biggest failure was the Bargs deal. Knicks have done a very poor job putting players around Melo. We got the one good year. He quit on MDA. I let it go after watching what he did with Woodson but Im pretty sure he quit on Phil also.
Quit is the wrong word. He stopped working at it.What's missing in this discussion is the fact that these comments basically throw the rest of the team under the proverbial bus. This is Melo saying I can't fly with eagles when surrounded by turkeys". Like so many of you, I feel Melo can't leave soon enough. He simply doesn't belong on the court anymore.
And anybody who is pointing a finger at Phil needs therapy. NOTHING Phil has said or done is a surprise to anyone but a basketball idiot. Phil isn't even speaking the truth, he's just saying the obvious. Melo is a poseur.
The basketball being played by our highest paid players is pathological. Watching the Cavs game was like watching any of the last thirty losses. Knicks go under by 12-20 points and exchange baskets for the second half. Melo in the fourth is no more effective than a towel waver. ITS UNWATCHABLE AND INEXCUSABLE. Bench these mofos - send him to the D_League until he learns to pass the ball.
And let's not kid ourselves about the NTC - it has nothing to do with loyalty or basketball. This is all about business. Mail in the basketball and tend to being a venture capitalist on the side. That's why MELO "loves" NY. That's why Durant is with Golden State. That's why Jordan wants to stay close to Ballmer. The game is secondary to MONEY.
Dolan is criticized only because he has a modest lifestyle - play guitar, have some fun, spend whatever is necessary to win. But for these high-roller investment banker players that doesn't cut it - they want to schmooze with tycoons.
This is all on Melo [and Rose]. Get with the program or just bench them.
These two career losers are not going to get with the program. They have made a whole career of putting their own interests ahead of everything.
Just look at all the drama this guy created because Phil tweeted the TRUTH about him in the media. Then he goes and talks about not knowing the vision in the media? Did he ask the front office to share their vision and meet with him, before going to the media and taking a dump on them. NOPE
Also the same set of fans that mercilessly attacked Phil for tweeting completely ignore Melo going to press with his gripes instead of talking to the front office. This is the type of fan base that has destroyed this sport. They care more about ALL STAR appearances than they do about basketball.
Time to move on, the irrelevant players and their impotent fans will continue their barrage of hatred towards the team, that's on them.
I am very happy we didn't make any trades just to make trades. If Melo won't waive his NTC he can sit on bench with Rose. Not saying it would matter to either of them, but I doubt Hornacek has the balls to make that call. But letting rose walk and making sure we keep our picks are the two best decisions we could have made.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only try to make them think - Socrates