3toheadmelo wrote:spree2kawhi wrote:3toheadmelo wrote:Showing your true colors with your insults as usual. Very immature for such an old man.
just glad you won't be quoting me again. Mission accomplished
This isn’t worth it guys. I’ve said often enough that I actually like Randle‘s demeanor, just not the ball-stopping player. Your hero really isn’t all that, Melo. This Knicks team is fun, they may even make a lot of noise in the playoffs. There is still room aboard this ship…
It's just my opinion, you guys shouldn't take it so personal. I'm good over here. I'm not calling you guys names like you are to me. I just firmly believe if we stayed on course with we had last year we would be a championship contender. I've been seeing more people on Knicks twitter echo those statements as well. That team had an identity. This new team hasn't proved me wrong at all. I thought we were turning a corner with that Denver win but it turns out Denver is just as bad as us and that's why we looked so good. So it is what it is. I don't really see anything fun with this team cause our defense sucks, no one can really create besides Brunson and he himself is struggling to be the lead facilitator with Randle gone. And now we got guys like Trae disrespecting us with no one doing anything. It's a soft team. We only celebrate blow out wins against awful teams. That's all we have. Again this is just my opinion, I can be wrong about everything and we win it all. But you guys shouldn't take it so personal and start calling me names and stuff like that. It's just basketball talk.
Though I agree with you on the front that last year’s team had an identity Melo, I dont think that would have been enough to win a ring. For instance, that team really started to click when Julius and Mitch went down, opening up spots and time for ihart, Deuce and Divo. But that team from last year (post January) without Julius, (and even with Julius as a matter of fact) was not going to beat the buzz saw that was Boston. In a perfect world, the lineup would have been Brunson, divo, OG, hart, ihart with a bench of deuce, precious and sims off the bench was not enough to win a ring, and certainly not enough to outscore them.
There was no way we could have realistically stayed the course, as you said, with the team from last year. Ihart was gone, and that was not due to any fault of our own, but rather due to CBA league rules. We had to make up for his rebounding some way, and at the end of the season, Julius was due for a new contract. Would you have paid Julius Randle now 30+ years and post shoulder injury a max contract at the end of the season? (He was not going to give NY a hometown discount the way Brunson did)… Or would you have flipped him for something to remain competitive, the way we got KAT for him?
I agree with you, that team had an identity, but the goal each year is to win a ring, there was no way we could have beat Boston last year. Defense is one thing, they would have held their own against Boston, but scoring has to come from somewhere as well, and there’s only so much Brunson could have done alone with divo, and that’s including with and without Julius.
RIP mags
