draftnightsuit wrote:I don't understand how this guy isn't public enemy #1 in NY the same way that A-Rod was.
He's accomplished nothing since coming to New York except for a fluke 2013 regular season in which he flamed out early in the playoffs.
Aside from him being overrated, his laziness on D alone should be enough to get him booed mercilessly in NY.
And it's not like he came cheap. He cost the Knicks 2 valuable LOTTERY picks by forcing his way to New York instead of waiting to sign in the summer, albeit for less money. Those draft picks could've been used to further build the core around Porzingis.
Yet he seems to get a warm reception from Knicks fans. Phil got buried for basically telling the truth about him. The fans and media unanimously sided with Melo in that battle with Phil and ran Phil outta town.
I thought that New York was a tough city to make it in, or maybe Knicks just aren't as smart as advertised..?
He should be getting booed every time he steps on the Garden floor.
He's accomplished nothing because management has failed to put, or keep competent talent around him, and that fact isn't lost on Knicks fans. The one season where he had talent, and help, and veterans, and spacing(2013), they won 54 games and he was an MVP candidate. It wasn't a "fluke" season; it was simply the season in which he had the most talent around him since coming to NY, and EVEN THEN, it still wasn't as much as Lebron had in D-Wade/Bosh or what PG had in Indy, or teams out West. It wouldn't make sense to call him overrated if in essentially the lone season he had consistent, moderate help he succeeded individually and it translated to team success.
He gets a warm perception because so much of the Knicks failure(s) just wasn't on him. Phil came in and shook this team up; fired the entire coaching staff, traded away players that still had value like Tyson Chandler and Raymond Felton for next nothing, in clearly inferior players like Dalembert and Calderon. He traded Shumpert and Smith for two low level, do nothing role players. Threw THJ away to get a rookie PG, who I can't help but feel he barely even scouted because the guy is a third stringer at best. He also gave Noah a massive contract that he not only didn't deserve, but can't even earn at this point because he can't stay on the court.
There's been three head coaches under Jackson; Fisher who never coached a day in his life before, who never had any kind of behind the scenes role, was never an assistant, or anything of that nature. Rambis who was his replacement temporarily, who was actually being considered for the full time role despite being one of the worst coaches of all time really(in terms of record). Finally, Hornacek was settled on as the HC, which I didn't mind because he did do a solid job in Phoenix. With that being said though, you look at who was available for the position, that got passed up on; Tom Thibadeau and Frank Vogel, namely, and it managed to leave a sour taste in the mouth of fans to a degree. Whomever he had coaching the Knicks, be it Fisher, Rambis, or Horn, his insistence upon having them use the triangle offense and implementing that system, HIS system, was problematic on and off the court for both management and the players.
All of these things ultimately tied into the Knicks woes, much, much more so than anything Carmelo has done.
