Go Big Or Go Home
Sometimes, the game simply boils down to tenacity and resilience. Mental toughness under duress. The Pacers have a quality that our beloved Knicks displayed during an enjoyable 54-28 season. The difference was their ability to assert their will on the game. In rerospect, with the Miami series as a prism, the Pacers took our best shot and diverted us from what we do best, by imposing a dominant physical presence.
three things
1. Indiana has a curious mix of size and understated swag, if there is such a thing
2. Paul George is a calm superstar. He hit some pivotal shots. His dunk last night was majestic.
3. Tyson Chandler was absolutely, positively dominated by Hibbert. 2 points and 6 rebounds ain't gonna cut it.
4. George is going step for step with Lebron. The dap was a sign of ultimate respect. He would have abused Copeland with his feline quickness. Cope would have had to match him hoop for hoop, and play Gary Payton-like defense, which he does not. Somebody call an ambulance.
5. 6'5 Lance Stephenson is too crazy (and too big and fast) for Prigioni, Kidd or Felton to stay with. Crazy I tell you. He played the Knicks with the revenge mindset-fire of Ron Artest returning to The Garden. No one saw that coming. No one.
Crazy.
LOL! I'm sure if TKF or 3G posted this it would be called "Melo-hate." Melo is the better scorer but George is better at everything else. When you factor in age, you'd have to take George over Melo.
Boon1997 - not that it is any consolation,
Miami should be down 0-2.
Basketball is, and will always be, a big mans game. Going small was a by product of necessity. In this sense, we missed Rasheed Wallace more than we will ever know.
The good news is that the Knicks are officially in the conversation of exceptional teams. If Glen Grunwald can manage our assets properly, and select Erick Green like The Answer Man told him to, we can gird ourselves for a few more years of meaningful, high quality hooperation.
Life am good.
Bonn1997 wrote:LOL! I'm sure if TKF or 3G posted this it would be called "Melo-hate." Melo is the better scorer but George is better at everything else. When you factor in age, you'd have to take George over Melo.
yep, and 3g and myself had said from the start we would take George over melo.. but we were called crazy haters of course.. lol
misterearl wrote:Go Big Or Go HomeSometimes, the game simply boils down to tenacity and resilience. Mental toughness under duress. The Pacers have a quality that our beloved Knicks displayed during an enjoyable 54-28 season. The difference was their ability to assert their will on the game. In rerospect, with the Miami series as a prism, the Pacers took our best shot and diverted us from what we do best, by imposing a dominant physical presence.
three things
1. Indiana has a curious mix of size and understated swag, if there is such a thing
2. Paul George is a calm superstar. He hit some pivotal shots. His dunk last night was majestic.
3. Tyson Chandler was absolutely, positively dominated by Hibbert. 2 points and 6 rebounds ain't gonna cut it.
4. George is going step for step with Lebron. The dap was a sign of ultimate respect. He would have abused Copeland with his feline quickness. Cope would have had to match him hoop for hoop, and play Gary Payton-like defense, which he does not. Somebody call an ambulance.
5. 6'5 Lance Stephenson is too crazy (and too big and fast) for Prigioni, Kidd or Felton to stay with. Crazy I tell you. He played the Knicks with the revenge mindset-fire of Ron Artest returning to The Garden. No one saw that coming. No one.
Crazy.
Did you just put your rose colored glasses and pom-poms away.
This board always goes crazy for an emerging player...Let's see the effort and results over a period of time before I jump off the cliff..George is a talent tho no doubt..Makes u rethink all those max contract u throw at the Joe Johnson and Blake Griffins of the world...
I think you would have no choice but to take George over Melo.
Just for the record and all future discussions..I would take any great emerging young top 10 talent over any of our players...
holfresh wrote:Just for the record and all future discussions..I would take any great emerging young top 10 talent over any of our players...
So you're calling George an emerging top 10 talent?
Just wondering - Would you take Hibbert over Melo?
Bonn1997 wrote:holfresh wrote:Just for the record and all future discussions..I would take any great emerging young top 10 talent over any of our players...
So you're calling George an emerging top 10 talent?
Just wondering - Would you take Hibbert over Melo?
No but over your boy Chandler, yes...I also doubt Ill take George over Melo, Ill have to see him perform like he did last night in more games...I was just being facetious given everyone's tendency to front run...
That's impossible. Everyone here was telling me that Melo's a top 2 or top 3 player in the league. I was told that anyone who who doesn't think Melo is a top 5 player is a hater/idiot/Net fan. What happened?
VCoug wrote:That's impossible. Everyone here was telling me that Melo's a top 2 or top 3 player in the league. I was told that anyone who who doesn't think Melo is a top 5 player is a hater/idiot/Net fan. What happened?
Everyone other than Anubis and Holfresh is a hater now!
Front running is glorious...
VCoug wrote:That's impossible. Everyone here was telling me that Melo's a top 2 or top 3 player in the league. I was told that anyone who who doesn't think Melo is a top 5 player is a hater/idiot/Net fan. What happened?
Either stop with all this hyperbole or find the quotes.....I think most agreed that Melo is top 10.
George is an up and coming player. Has two things working for that is much better than Melo and that is his handle and passing ability. Has anyone realized that LeBron' s defense is average especially man to man.
Playing out of position has to be taking a toll on Melo' s health. He only played 66 regular season games. He was banged up all playoffs. I want the Knicks to go conventional next year.
Uptown wrote:VCoug wrote:That's impossible. Everyone here was telling me that Melo's a top 2 or top 3 player in the league. I was told that anyone who who doesn't think Melo is a top 5 player is a hater/idiot/Net fan. What happened?
Either stop with all this hyperbole or find the quotes.....I think most agreed that Melo is top 10.
Calm down Frances, it's slight hyperbole. Obviously I'm not the only one but there were a whole hell of a lot of posters who were screaming and shouting that anyone who thought Melo's not on the same level and Lebron and Durant was just a hater.
Dudes want player we cant get.
Very good young players will not be available on the market for 8 years minimum. So by the time they become unrestricted they are who they are. Then its on to the next one.
One thing tho..Melo dropped 39 on George and gets no respect around here...He was also getting by George in other games but ran into Hibbert..Lots of no calls there...
holfresh wrote:One thing tho..Melo dropped 39 on George and gets no respect around here...
Melo has dropped 40+ on LeBron. He can score, I don't think many deny that.
VCoug wrote:Uptown wrote:VCoug wrote:That's impossible. Everyone here was telling me that Melo's a top 2 or top 3 player in the league. I was told that anyone who who doesn't think Melo is a top 5 player is a hater/idiot/Net fan. What happened?
Either stop with all this hyperbole or find the quotes.....I think most agreed that Melo is top 10.
Calm down Frances, it's slight hyperbole. Obviously I'm not the only one but there were a whole hell of a lot of posters who were screaming and shouting that anyone who thought Melo's not on the same level and Lebron and Durant was just a hater.
Again, I disagree...With the exception of maybe 2-3 rogue posters, no-one put Melo on Durant's level, and none with put him on Lebrons level. No need to exaggerate to make a point....
