Either Melo or Lin has to go! The two can't co-exist

Since when did you care to rationalize/defend the Knick players (minus Lin)?

LOL

 

How did he play that game? He blew by Lowry to go 3 for 9 from the field? OK..... He turned the ball over as many times as he hit a shot. Sure sounds like he got the best of Lowry there. LMFAO.

Judging by the scoreboard alone, all I can see is the Rockets blowing out the Knicks.

 

Just find it funny that people think that Jeremy Lin "blew by" Kyle Lowry, Rajon Rondo and Tony Parker. It's hilariously sad. Especially after what they did to the Knicks.

What's more sad is that no one will embrace the fact that the schedule got tougher and maybe thats a proponent for the losses. If you remember, I said this would happen. I also said Melo would get blamed when it did.

Lets be objective here.

Jeremy Lin 8 for 24, 6 turnovers, 20 points against Toronto. Hero. Just a Linsane performance!
Carmelo Anthony 12 for 24, 2 turnovers, 27 points against San Antonio. Melo played awful!! Its all his fault!!

 

Epic fail! He literally blew by Lowry, dribbling with speed - slicing and dicing through the lane, leaving Lowry in his wake

 

You're not getting it.

it's clearly melo's fault that lin is playing against better defenses on the road with teams actually game planning against him (trap the PnR ball handler and force him to go left). it's melo's fault that lin is playing poorly lately.

 

All the while preceding to make a total of 3 baskets. The same number of times he turned the ball over. Sure left Lowry in his wake, with a grand total of 9 points on 9 shots.

Your argument is a video of the Knicks getting blown out by the Rockets.
And I fail....

 

They won in Toronto, while in San Antonio they didn't....

 

Now that was just plain trolling.

Lin vs Toronto, scored 6 straights point in the last min, shot the winning 3s, team got the W.

Carmelo vs Spurs, was 4 for 12 in the first half, got hot when team was down 24 pts, Knicks was blown out.

Don't tell me you didn't see the difference.

 

Face palm - look at 0:30 "gets by Kyle"
http://youtu.be/8mBOFu34-sU?t=30s

He did the same to Rondo, Parker, Deron, Wall, and on and on it goes. I guess all these PG suck on defence

 

@ Spooner,
You know you were doing very good up and making valid points until you brought up the Toronto game, lol...

 

I haven't watched every game but I did watch the Toronto one, and the difference is the Raptors suck, can't hold a lead and turned the ball over like 5 straight times to close that game.

 

It's Melo's fault that Lin is playing against better defenses on the road. That is what you said.

Pretty sure David Stern has more to do with the scheduling than Melo.

Whatever floats your boat man..... I'm done talking about this.

 

I actaully more impresses by the 20 assist. Rondo isn't a good shooter you should be able to force him into bad shots, but on the pick and roll Lin was lost leading to easy buckets every time. You realize with those assist Rondo was still respondsible for 68 points? And how do you allow a point guard 17 rebounds? That basically means that no one was boxing out and Lin's assignment was sneaking in for long rebounds. That doesn't sound like solid fundemental defense to me.

 

Melo is the new McGrady

 

What are you talking about? They went from a perrienial 3rd or 4th seed to fighting for a playoff spot. How have they improved? They improved slightly last year after the trade but that was probably because (like the Magic this year) everyones play is being dragged down by the trade talk.

I can't believe you guys are actually making the argument that a guy like Melo who has average 25 point a game for his career should be traded to make way for a kid who has one good week in two years as a pro.

 

Melos fault i got a budweiser

 

I ordered a ****ing Heineken

 

Honestly, I think Melo's days of being considered an "elite" player are just about over. The statheads have mostly agreed on this for a few years already, and now even casual watchers can see that he bogs down his team's offense.

Here is one of the better explanation of why.
http://offthedribble.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/gauging-anthonys-potential-impact-on-knicks/

More or less, it comes down to his taking too many long jump shots. No one can deny he has all-world athleticism, a great handle, tremendous strength, etc. But it is just bizarre that he has still refused to play winning basketball. To win you take good shots and play good defense, and he just cannot bring himself to do either of those things.

 

What team is going to give you back equal value for Melo? This is reality not NBA2K. Besides, we're Rockets fans, we want NY to lose.

My only point is that Lin's body of work is still pretty questionable. Do you guys really have this short a memory?

 

stat is terrible, a shell of what he once was
chandler has heart, but he is super stiff
melo at least can make plays