Knicks · Can we rule out drugs? Can we rule out sickness. Can he handle the pressure of New York. Something is seriously wrong with Melo. (page 2)

VCoug wrote:Guys, this is getting ridiculous. He had elbow surgery before the season and hurt his thumb and his wrist on his shooting hand, that's what's wrong with him. It's why the only facet of his game that's really been affected is his shooting. His rebounding is down only about .5 rpg, his assists are up, steals and blocks are right in line with his career numbers, turnovers are down, and he's probably playing the best, most consistent defense of his career. It's not drugs, not laziness, not anything else, it's his injuries. Once he gets a chance to rest in the offseason he'll be fine.

Bonn1997 wrote:

VCoug wrote:Guys, this is getting ridiculous. He had elbow surgery before the season and hurt his thumb and his wrist on his shooting hand, that's what's wrong with him. It's why the only facet of his game that's really been affected is his shooting. His rebounding is down only about .5 rpg, his assists are up, steals and blocks are right in line with his career numbers, turnovers are down, and he's probably playing the best, most consistent defense of his career. It's not drugs, not laziness, not anything else, it's his injuries. Once he gets a chance to rest in the offseason he'll be fine.

If that's all true, he should have taken the week off instead of playing in the all-star game.

Ha, WORD!

Smfh @ at the apologists.

Bonn1997 wrote:

VCoug wrote:Guys, this is getting ridiculous. He had elbow surgery before the season and hurt his thumb and his wrist on his shooting hand, that's what's wrong with him. It's why the only facet of his game that's really been affected is his shooting. His rebounding is down only about .5 rpg, his assists are up, steals and blocks are right in line with his career numbers, turnovers are down, and he's probably playing the best, most consistent defense of his career. It's not drugs, not laziness, not anything else, it's his injuries. Once he gets a chance to rest in the offseason he'll be fine.

If that's all true, he should have taken the week off instead of playing in the all-star game.

Taking off the allstar game wouldn't have fixed what's wrong. He's going to need an entire offseason.

VCoug wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

VCoug wrote:Guys, this is getting ridiculous. He had elbow surgery before the season and hurt his thumb and his wrist on his shooting hand, that's what's wrong with him. It's why the only facet of his game that's really been affected is his shooting. His rebounding is down only about .5 rpg, his assists are up, steals and blocks are right in line with his career numbers, turnovers are down, and he's probably playing the best, most consistent defense of his career. It's not drugs, not laziness, not anything else, it's his injuries. Once he gets a chance to rest in the offseason he'll be fine.

If that's all true, he should have taken the week off instead of playing in the all-star game.

Taking off the allstar game wouldn't have fixed what's wrong. He's going to need an entire offseason.

Bonn1997 wrote:

VCoug wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

VCoug wrote:Guys, this is getting ridiculous. He had elbow surgery before the season and hurt his thumb and his wrist on his shooting hand, that's what's wrong with him. It's why the only facet of his game that's really been affected is his shooting. His rebounding is down only about .5 rpg, his assists are up, steals and blocks are right in line with his career numbers, turnovers are down, and he's probably playing the best, most consistent defense of his career. It's not drugs, not laziness, not anything else, it's his injuries. Once he gets a chance to rest in the offseason he'll be fine.

If that's all true, he should have taken the week off instead of playing in the all-star game.

Taking off the allstar game wouldn't have fixed what's wrong. He's going to need an entire offseason.

Sprains can definitely make progress with a full week off and physical therapy.

Maybe, but he's dealing with three injuries. And the allstar break was only four days not a week. Also, I don't think any sort rest during the season would have helped, not when they're playing 66 games in 126 days.

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:

VCoug wrote:Guys, this is getting ridiculous. He had elbow surgery before the season and hurt his thumb and his wrist on his shooting hand, that's what's wrong with him. It's why the only facet of his game that's really been affected is his shooting. His rebounding is down only about .5 rpg, his assists are up, steals and blocks are right in line with his career numbers, turnovers are down, and he's probably playing the best, most consistent defense of his career. It's not drugs, not laziness, not anything else, it's his injuries. Once he gets a chance to rest in the offseason he'll be fine.

Fair, but laziness is always there with him, this is a constant. We have established this.

No one has established ANYTHING. You really are a freaking idiot. Because you decide hes lazy then its established??? Learn the F'n game. Your postings SUCK. This whole topic SUCKS too. Why would you associate him with drugs? This is total crap and brings down this forum.

BigRedDog wrote:

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:

VCoug wrote:Guys, this is getting ridiculous. He had elbow surgery before the season and hurt his thumb and his wrist on his shooting hand, that's what's wrong with him. It's why the only facet of his game that's really been affected is his shooting. His rebounding is down only about .5 rpg, his assists are up, steals and blocks are right in line with his career numbers, turnovers are down, and he's probably playing the best, most consistent defense of his career. It's not drugs, not laziness, not anything else, it's his injuries. Once he gets a chance to rest in the offseason he'll be fine.

Fair, but laziness is always there with him, this is a constant. We have established this.

No one has established ANYTHING. You really are a freaking idiot. Because you decide hes lazy then its established??? Learn the F'n game. Your postings SUCK. This whole topic SUCKS too. Why would you associate him with drugs? This is total crap and brings down this forum.

Woahh..you alright, man?

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:

BigRedDog wrote:

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:

VCoug wrote:Guys, this is getting ridiculous. He had elbow surgery before the season and hurt his thumb and his wrist on his shooting hand, that's what's wrong with him. It's why the only facet of his game that's really been affected is his shooting. His rebounding is down only about .5 rpg, his assists are up, steals and blocks are right in line with his career numbers, turnovers are down, and he's probably playing the best, most consistent defense of his career. It's not drugs, not laziness, not anything else, it's his injuries. Once he gets a chance to rest in the offseason he'll be fine.

Fair, but laziness is always there with him, this is a constant. We have established this.

No one has established ANYTHING. You really are a freaking idiot. Because you decide hes lazy then its established??? Learn the F'n game. Your postings SUCK. This whole topic SUCKS too. Why would you associate him with drugs? This is total crap and brings down this forum.

Woahh..you alright, man?

I'll still read your posts, dude.

Papabear wrote:Papabear Says

Hey let's get real!! the last time I saw something like Melo's performance was the performance of Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets.
During the 1986 World Serise Doc Gooden's performance had droped off. When confronted Doc said he was clean but then changed and he went into
rehab SOMETHING MORE THAN AN INJURY IS AFFECTING MELO!

Some fans are just idiotic. This has to take the cake for being the most outrageous ignorant post ever. This is worse than when people were saying that STAT was finished. Oh yea he's picked up his game so let's pick on Melo now. The guy is playing great defense and still averaging 20 points per game for the year. First he gets criticized for not playing team ball and now he gets criticized for not scoring enough and on top of that gets accused of having a drug problem. The guy plays hurt unlike that Euro trash player Gallinari who is constantly on IR. Will you guys ever learn to think before you post and just enjoy the six out of seven streak we're on.

FeltonandAmare wrote:

Papabear wrote:Papabear Says

Hey let's get real!! the last time I saw something like Melo's performance was the performance of Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets.
During the 1986 World Serise Doc Gooden's performance had droped off. When confronted Doc said he was clean but then changed and he went into
rehab SOMETHING MORE THAN AN INJURY IS AFFECTING MELO!

Some fans are just idiotic. This has to take the cake for being the most outrageous ignorant post ever. This is worse than when people were saying that STAT was finished. Oh yea he's picked up his game so let's pick on Melo now. The guy is playing great defense and still averaging 20 points per game for the year. First he gets criticized for not playing team ball and now he gets criticized for not scoring enough and on top of that gets accused of having a drug problem. The guy plays hurt unlike that Euro trash player Gallinari who is constantly on IR. Will you guys ever learn to think before you post and just enjoy the six out of seven streak we're on.

If you spew hate, you are not happy with yourself.

BigRedDog wrote:

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:

VCoug wrote:Guys, this is getting ridiculous. He had elbow surgery before the season and hurt his thumb and his wrist on his shooting hand, that's what's wrong with him. It's why the only facet of his game that's really been affected is his shooting. His rebounding is down only about .5 rpg, his assists are up, steals and blocks are right in line with his career numbers, turnovers are down, and he's probably playing the best, most consistent defense of his career. It's not drugs, not laziness, not anything else, it's his injuries. Once he gets a chance to rest in the offseason he'll be fine.

Fair, but laziness is always there with him, this is a constant. We have established this.

No one has established ANYTHING. You really are a freaking idiot. Because you decide hes lazy then its established??? Learn the F'n game. Your postings SUCK. This whole topic SUCKS too. Why would you associate him with drugs? This is total crap and brings down this forum.

Papabear Says

In 1986 Dwight Gooden of the Mets swoor that he was not using dregs was his picting had started to fall off. But we found out later that it was.I was not saying he was taking drugs. I just put it out there.

Papabear wrote:

BigRedDog wrote:

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:

VCoug wrote:Guys, this is getting ridiculous. He had elbow surgery before the season and hurt his thumb and his wrist on his shooting hand, that's what's wrong with him. It's why the only facet of his game that's really been affected is his shooting. His rebounding is down only about .5 rpg, his assists are up, steals and blocks are right in line with his career numbers, turnovers are down, and he's probably playing the best, most consistent defense of his career. It's not drugs, not laziness, not anything else, it's his injuries. Once he gets a chance to rest in the offseason he'll be fine.

Fair, but laziness is always there with him, this is a constant. We have established this.

No one has established ANYTHING. You really are a freaking idiot. Because you decide hes lazy then its established??? Learn the F'n game. Your postings SUCK. This whole topic SUCKS too. Why would you associate him with drugs? This is total crap and brings down this forum.

Papabear Says

In 1986 Dwight Gooden of the Mets swoor that he was not using dregs was his picting had started to fall off. But we found out later that it was.I was not saying he was taking drugs. I just put it out there.

How about Roid withdrawal ... Ever think of that? Hmmmmm - He does seem to have a bigger head and a smaller PACKAGE.

BigRedDog wrote:

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:

VCoug wrote:Guys, this is getting ridiculous. He had elbow surgery before the season and hurt his thumb and his wrist on his shooting hand, that's what's wrong with him. It's why the only facet of his game that's really been affected is his shooting. His rebounding is down only about .5 rpg, his assists are up, steals and blocks are right in line with his career numbers, turnovers are down, and he's probably playing the best, most consistent defense of his career. It's not drugs, not laziness, not anything else, it's his injuries. Once he gets a chance to rest in the offseason he'll be fine.

Fair, but laziness is always there with him, this is a constant. We have established this.

No one has established ANYTHING. You really are a freaking idiot. Because you decide hes lazy then its established??? Learn the F'n game. Your postings SUCK. This whole topic SUCKS too. Why would you associate him with drugs? This is total crap and brings down this forum.

But during his current scoring slump, he has been MUCH more active on D, boards, steals. I like what I'm seeing. Hopefully, he is just a tad out of shape and using more energy than ever before on parts of his game he previously neglected.

Moonangie wrote:Melo has certainly been lazy at times this season. Old habits die hard.

But during his current scoring slump, he has been MUCH more active on D, boards, steals. I like what I'm seeing. Hopefully, he is just a tad out of shape and using more energy than ever before on parts of his game he previously neglected.

If Anthony wants to be a complete player, he has to do the type of training program Lin did in the offseason.

My biggest regret as a high school and college athlete is that I didn't do an ounce of weight lifting or training in the offseason, but then I was not under a public microscope like Anthony, a star athlete, is.

Nothing drastic can be done during the season, but Anthony must understand that to reach the next level he has to compete (with himself) in the offseason and transform his body.

Papabear wrote:

BigRedDog wrote:

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:

VCoug wrote:Guys, this is getting ridiculous. He had elbow surgery before the season and hurt his thumb and his wrist on his shooting hand, that's what's wrong with him. It's why the only facet of his game that's really been affected is his shooting. His rebounding is down only about .5 rpg, his assists are up, steals and blocks are right in line with his career numbers, turnovers are down, and he's probably playing the best, most consistent defense of his career. It's not drugs, not laziness, not anything else, it's his injuries. Once he gets a chance to rest in the offseason he'll be fine.

Fair, but laziness is always there with him, this is a constant. We have established this.

No one has established ANYTHING. You really are a freaking idiot. Because you decide hes lazy then its established??? Learn the F'n game. Your postings SUCK. This whole topic SUCKS too. Why would you associate him with drugs? This is total crap and brings down this forum.

Papabear Says

In 1986 Dwight Gooden of the Mets swoor that he was not using dregs was his picting had started to fall off. But we found out later that it was.I was not saying he was taking drugs. I just put it out there.

1986 dwight gooden won a world series.

also, this is one of the dumber topics i've ever seen on this board.

holfresh wrote:I gotta say we are a panicked bunch...Left up to this board Amare would have been traded 50,000 times for the likes of Elton Brand..

Amare is on a lil' roll

hold on Keemo-sauby to the end of Season before we crown Amare

He's playing well, but 4-5 games dont make a season for this 100 Million dollar man

Bad back or healthy back I want to see him in playoffs and consistency and still maintain
when Amare gets a boxer's left hook to chin early in game he's out & down rest of game for the outcomes.

Give Stout credit he finally showing up
fall-feet bad feet and hands & all when Knicks need the PF the most during playoff run attempts.

crzymdups wrote:

Papabear wrote:

BigRedDog wrote:

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:

VCoug wrote:Guys, this is getting ridiculous. He had elbow surgery before the season and hurt his thumb and his wrist on his shooting hand, that's what's wrong with him. It's why the only facet of his game that's really been affected is his shooting. His rebounding is down only about .5 rpg, his assists are up, steals and blocks are right in line with his career numbers, turnovers are down, and he's probably playing the best, most consistent defense of his career. It's not drugs, not laziness, not anything else, it's his injuries. Once he gets a chance to rest in the offseason he'll be fine.

Fair, but laziness is always there with him, this is a constant. We have established this.

No one has established ANYTHING. You really are a freaking idiot. Because you decide hes lazy then its established??? Learn the F'n game. Your postings SUCK. This whole topic SUCKS too. Why would you associate him with drugs? This is total crap and brings down this forum.

Papabear Says

In 1986 Dwight Gooden of the Mets swoor that he was not using dregs was his picting had started to fall off. But we found out later that it was.I was not saying he was taking drugs. I just put it out there.

1986 dwight gooden won a world series.

also, this is one of the dumber topics i've ever seen on this board.

Yes the Mets won the world series but Doc Gooden didn't win a game during the final series. I don't know what happen.

DJMUSIC wrote:

holfresh wrote:I gotta say we are a panicked bunch...Left up to this board Amare would have been traded 50,000 times for the likes of Elton Brand..

Amare is on a lil' roll

hold on Keemo-sauby to the end of Season before we crown Amare

He's playing well, but 4-5 games dont make a season for this 100 Million dollar man

Bad back or healthy back I want to see him in playoffs and consistency and still maintain
when Amare gets a boxer's left hook to chin early in game he's out & down rest of game for the outcomes.

Give Stout credit he finally showing up
fall-feet bad feet and hands & all when Knicks need the PF the most during playoff run attempts.

Yeah, seriously - for the year as a whole Brand has played better. And he has a much shorter contract. If the trade were done in the context of real rebuilding, I'd still gladly trade Amare for Brand. That would have to be followed by getting out of Melo's contract too.

crzymdups wrote:

Papabear wrote:

BigRedDog wrote:

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:

VCoug wrote:Guys, this is getting ridiculous. He had elbow surgery before the season and hurt his thumb and his wrist on his shooting hand, that's what's wrong with him. It's why the only facet of his game that's really been affected is his shooting. His rebounding is down only about .5 rpg, his assists are up, steals and blocks are right in line with his career numbers, turnovers are down, and he's probably playing the best, most consistent defense of his career. It's not drugs, not laziness, not anything else, it's his injuries. Once he gets a chance to rest in the offseason he'll be fine.

Fair, but laziness is always there with him, this is a constant. We have established this.

No one has established ANYTHING. You really are a freaking idiot. Because you decide hes lazy then its established??? Learn the F'n game. Your postings SUCK. This whole topic SUCKS too. Why would you associate him with drugs? This is total crap and brings down this forum.

Papabear Says

In 1986 Dwight Gooden of the Mets swoor that he was not using dregs was his picting had started to fall off. But we found out later that it was.I was not saying he was taking drugs. I just put it out there.

1986 dwight gooden won a world series.

also, this is one of the dumber topics i've ever seen on this board.

No one's mentioned:
- He's possibly abusing children
- He's possibly spending too much time with farm animals
- He's secretly running for State Senate in Maryland
- He's dealing with self esteem issues
- He's busy tracing Tiger's footsteps with various ho's
- He's converting to Scientology

Just throwing these out there.

"When Lyndon Johnson ran for Congress, legend says, he wanted to spread the rumor that his opponent was a pig-f*&%^r. Johnson's campaign manager said, "Lyndon, you know he doesn't do that!" Johnson replied, "I know. I just want to make him deny it."