Bill Pidto wrote:It's a shame, OKC would have been much better off keeping Kanter and McDermott who have both been excellent for the Knicks. Both have proven to be great team players. Both still have youth and mobility. Both score more efficiently than Melo. Both willing to do the little things to help the team. Keep Westbrook and PG with those guys and I can almost guarantee the Thunder have a better record.
Melo is just living off his name at this point. His game is so one-dimensional and unenjoyable to watch. He sucks so much fun out of the game even for the fans, I can imagine how much fun he sucks out of it for his teammates.
A lot of fans will be fooled by some of the pretty shots he still makes. The jab steps and fadeaways still do it for some people. But if you ask me, the game has totally passed this dude by. Nobody wants to play like that anymore. Teams want to get up and down and move the ball. Everyone wants a little piece of the action. That's how you get the whole team playing scrappy defense. And we all know Melo treats defense like he does passing... it's just a little below his paygrade.
Good luck with this guy and his NTC. I thought if any player in the league besides LeBron or CP3 could keep Melo in line, it would be Westbrook. Maybe not. I do feel bad for Billy Donavan. He may not be a great or even good coach, but if he is, he'll never get a chance to show that with Melo on the roster. Melo will just straight up refuse to do anything that makes him feel uncomfortable. Whether it's try harder, share more, come off the bench, or simply be a willing participant in an offensive system that isn't catered to him.
There can't be a single more delusional player in the NBA. Has he never seen a Warriors game? Has he ever watched the Spurs play? Has he ever watched the way his buddy LeBron has shared the ball throughout his career? I really don't get it with Melo. As a bball junkie, you just wanna grab him by his shoulders and shake some damn sense into him.
Don't know if you are or not. But this sounds like typical Knicks fan/organization garbage to me. ”Right kind of guys”, loving Scrappy players and scrubs, but always turning against their stars. It will be Porzingis next, after he falls for the money and re-signs with the Knicks.
The Knicks had and currently do have a garbage roster, because they are a garbage organization. The blame begins and ends there.
They paid 60 million dollars to a person who intentionally tried to damage their greatest asset and threaten to trade KP7, AND forced coaches who did not want to run his outdated offense (that breeded the isolation that you seem to hate, and slow the game down which limits possessions for which to share the ball) . When his entire purpose was to present a stable winning organization and recruit Talent.
I do think the Knicks look better. Porzingis has clearly taken the step that people hope for, and as he continued to take steps in his first two years. The coach has actually installed his own system. But at the end of the day the team is still at around the same record or worse than they were with Carmelo last year. The so-called disgusting teammate, that was so bad that he helped Porzingis develop his game in his own image, and had teammates taking out full-page ads in newspapers when he left. A guy that is also been a model teammate here.
So pardon me if I don't buy into the thought process that a team would be better off with two career bench role players, that get limited minutes while they're in their prime because they don't deserve more. Once the Knicks start to stick around their .500 mark, and possibly miss the playoffs all together in a terrible Eastern Conference. We will continue to see what they've been seeing for years. A single star, unhappy playing around scrubs while losing and they will blame Porzingis as if it is his fault. While trying to recruit the next Carmelo Anthony, which they will never get. We always see Star players coming to their own and throw out amazing stats as KP is for 13 games. The future is sooooo bright, until the expectations rise and everyone turns on said young player when .500 isn't a surprise anymore. And he starts running for the hills, as fans and local reporters crucify him
) but if Russ had already signed his extension, do you think the Thunder would have traded for Melo? I think Russ signed 4 or 5 days after the trade.
, Roberson being needed 30mpg, Russell Westbrook being washed up, despite years of great play.) Throw on that Roberson jersey, continue your poor attempt at being Colin cowherd, which nobody is finding funny, and go find some other misleading stats to post.
