Who would you rather have right now: Melo or Gallinari?
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I'd rather have ANYONE who would play team basketball and do their best at MAX EFFORT to play the game the RIGHT WAY
I'd rather have Rick Brunson or Brian Scalabrine on this roster instead of Melo.
Win or lose, play the game the right way.
blkexec says, well that's just the way Melo is, everyone should just know better. It's everyone elses fault, blame the fans. Way to set expectations low. ( Who the flying f**k says to blame the fans, I mean what kind of senseless happy horsesh*t is that? I'm usually of the vein to "let everyone have their opinion" but WTF? Why not just take a big fat piss on the faces of all the fans here....)
I accept players have deficiencies in their game.
It is UNACCEPTABLE for anyone wearing a beloved Knicks jersey to give anything less than max effort.
It is UNACCEPTABLE for anyone wearing a beloved Knicks jersey to do anything other than everything possible to win basketball games, up to and including sacrificing one's personal game.
It is UNACCEPTABLE for anyone wearing a beloved Knicks jersey to not work on their game relentless to correct those deficiencies as much as humanly possibly.
This should be the BASELINE behavior of a player on this roster.
Chris Rock said it best, never congratulate someone or make them out to be a hero for THINGS THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO ANYWAY.
If someone applauds because Melo once in a while gives some kind of effort on defense, to me, that's repugnant. It's insulting to every Knicks fan. Its insulting to the game itself. It's insulting period.
There was a Twilight Zone episode, an old one, where a couple has a car break down in a small town, and everyone is terrified of one kid. Because he has supernatural powers, to make people disappear and he's basically a spoiled out of control child throwing temper tantrums and killing people left and right. This is Melo. Basically an out of control child who no one can drag into any kind of discipline because he has a guaranteed contract, a NTC, a trade kicker and basically no desire to help this team win.
Yes, yes, blame the fans. How completely out of touch do you have to be with any kind of reality to blame the fans? Without the fans, Melo would be driving a truck for a living ( not that there is anything wrong with honest work) Without the fans, Alonzo Mourning and his fried kidneys would be DEAD. Only NBA players are that stupid as to have Patrick Ewing say, "We make a lot of money, but we spend a lot of money too" when there are people out there losing their homes and struggle to pay for their basic medicine and food.
Here's something once you get past the most vocal minority of fans, I'd wager most of the fanbase would UNDERSTAND a team losing and losing a lot if that team was giving max effort and playing the right way. Because if you do that, if you stay the course, you won't lose forever. Things can change for the better. It won't happen overnight, but it's the nature of the game itself. If you give everything you have into the game, the game gives everything it has back into you.
I truly think many people fail to understand Jeremy Lin and Linsanity in New York. It's not because he was Asian. It's not because he was an underdog story. He represented such a contrast to the selfish BS me first diva player typical of the NBA, he was like a breath of fresh air. Or course he got criticism, he showed more as basically a rookie player, the poise, the relentlessness, the leadership, the sacrifice, than many decade long veterans. In a game marketed to sell the most shoes and see who can dunk over a car, it still came down to playing the game the right way, for the right reasons, for the greater good of winning.
It's not just the losing this season, it's that so many of the player, esp the veterans, played in a way no reasonable fan could be proud of in any way. Melo wants to come to NY but carries none of the grit that defines New York.
It's insulting how Melo plays the game.
It's pathetic that he apparently has no shame for his disgraceful play.
It's mind boggling to try to negotiate with a child to do the THINGS HE'S SUPPOSED TO DO ANYWAY
Every single time Melo puts on a Knicks jersey and doesn't play in a manner to befit the HONOR that should mean, he's saying F**K YOU to all of you. To every single last fan here. He's saying EAT MY SH*T AND DIE. And some of you are cool with it, want to defend that behavior, and the question has to be asked, because Melo has no dignity, does that mean you have to have no dignity as well?
There's nothing wrong with expecting someone to act like a professional.
There's nothing wrong with expecting someone to act like they belong in New York.
