Melo Still Melo

Move along nothing to see here. Just when you think the guy finally gets it. He wakes up and goes, “are you kidding?” The guy has the highest usage rate of his career. But he is not shooting too much?

Let’s see Denver has played 47 games without him and won 31. The Knicks have played 49 games since he showed up here and have won 20. Yet he doesn’t think changes need to be made. Hmmmm By the way Gallo scored 37pts on 19 shots. Carmelo 25 pts on 30 shots. Clearly things are working.

please, please, please do not tell me how Melo is beasting and what we need to do is trade Amare and Fields for 3 legged pigs. The team was 2 games over .500 with Amare and Fields. We are 9 games under with Carmelo. That is a swing of -11. So if anyone needs to be traded for a 3 legged pig right now it is ______.!

now you mention it he does wear the same number and the same headband. perhaps he is al chuckington in a paedo moustache disguise?

We’re at the very beginning of the season without our starting point guard. Just think how all those Giants fans feel who jumped ship when they were getting pounded by the Redskins etc… Just sayin’. They were trashing Eli too just like you’re trashing Melo. Relax. We’re working it out. These guys will crush Denver by the end of the year. We’re holding teams under 100. We got that down right from the start – and there is still room for improvement. That is a very big accomplishment come playoff time. Remember last year? We couldn’t stop anyone? The offense will come. Dump Melo? Are you serious?

Beat me to the punch, just wrote somethin similar.

Anywho…. Well, there isn’t much to say. Melo is a knucklehead. Hopefully somebody, other than the Garden crowd, mans up and calls him out on it when he pulls what he’s been doing what he has over the past few games

Trade this, trade that, dump the coach – etc… then complain about how good all those traded pieces are everywhere else. You’ve got to build a team! This is Carmelo Anthony you all are talking about. Come on! He’s not a superstar but he is a guy who’s going to be draining the last shot against the gaddam Celtics, Pacers, Heat or Sixers in the playoffs. No one is even talking about how sweet it is to have Chandler in the middle. Shumpert was a steal and is going to develop quickly. Get Baron in there working the pick and roll with Stoudemire and tutoring Shumpert and we’ve got 20-25 points more per game. Add that to the fact that Tony, Landry and Amare are all in a slump that will end, or is ending, some day soon. We also have a defense that can stop another team (something we haven’t had in ten years – but who cares about that). This offense is complicated – as Baron pointed out today. It’ll come and it’ll be worth the wait. Go Knicks!

a culture of cliche’s. we finally hear some authenticity from the guy… and then the ego kicks in and he retracts it and replaces it with false bravado thinking that’s leadership.

c’mon melo… be real.

it doesn’t mean much that he’s downplaying his post-game melancholy to the media now. He’s a proud guy and doubt he liked the way he was open about everything.

So in preaching optimism: maybe he does finally get the issues at hand, but letting us know about that would make him seem weak so he backtracked. (but I have my doubts)

Every time he touches the ball.

Every time.

Sumtimes I forget what its like to be a knick fan but ive been reminded. I dont understand the “we hate melo” talk. Ppl are actually entertaining "lets trade him talk"? Lets not act like we didnt kno who/what we got in “the trade”. It was “im a scoring machine” melo. Do I blame him for the knick woes? No way. How bout we look at that picture and ask why the fuk are fields and douglas just standing at the 3 pt line?? U kno why? Mike D’antoni! He is the one who hasnt changed. He has basically the entire team hovering around the 3 point line ready to shoot. No cuts to the lane, no back picks, no flashing at the foul line, jus iso’s and badly executed pick and rolls, and shooting 3’s until they fall which is uhhh sumtimes never. We need a coach who can alter his plan to fit his talent not a coach who has no problem with his starting pwr fwd, the backup pwr fwd, & all the guards shooting threes. We still suck at rebounding for that reason. We still suck at points in the paint for that reason and its a shame with front court we have. Im hoping B. Davis can help but im sure the 3’s will still rain in bunches. Name a team thats gotten far with that philosophy. Even with a good pg. I’ll be waiting

as Charlotte is only a few hours from my house. anybody want me to watch for anything? i know we are all in a state of misery right now but i’d be happy to keep an eye on anything yall want me to

The bottom line is and always will be is Melo is not a playmaker. In fact Melo needs a playmaker to make him better. When i say better i mean he will get better shot selections and wont have to force things like he feels he has to for some outer space reason.

Where’d all the Melo-lovers go on here? Ya’all are buggin now.

Look the Knicks have been violating Biggie’s Ten Crack Commandments.

Ok, first off, running the O thru Melo was like giving an unlimited supply of crack to a crackhead and telling him to be a drug dealer. Just was never and will never work.

Melo is all about getting his. Getting his points, getting his max money so we can’t add any quality bench players, getting his fame, getting his wife to the media capital of the world so she can pursue her career (which is what exactly?) and that means always being the man that gets the last shot with the game on the line.

So now, after a hideous 6 game losing streak, you all are just realizing this? Too bad.

You didn’t realize it from before the trade when he was being proclaimed as our savior?

You didn’t see it when he berated Toney Douglas on the court in a game right after the trade when he didn’t pass the ball back to Melo for the last second shot?

Man will pay lip service to wanting a better team, but his actions speak louder than his words. He don’t give a chit about getting his teammates more involved, he’s totally disrespected Amare from Day 1 (and Amare has let it all happen, like a biatche), and he’s going to do whatever he damn well wants to do on the court because he knows Mike D is a lame duck anyway.

A healthy Baron will help, in that any amount of time the ball is not in Melo’s hands is a good thing. But, Melo gonna be Melo, that’s the way it is and that’s the way it will be.

So no jumping off the Melo bandwagon now, it’s too late. He’s a Knick, so deal with it and shut up.

And yeah, that was Gallo dropping 37 on his headbanded noggin the other night. Our still only 23 yr old Gallo and Felton’s running the show real nice out in Portland. We added a Tyson Chandler and one other piece to our old Knicks crew, a tweak or two here and there, and we’d all have been in Knick heaven now, lockout or no lockout.

But, it is what it is now, so deal with it. It’s going to take a real coach with a strong personality and balls to force him to change, that’s the long-term hope now.