Melo easily, he was the best player on a conf finals team

doesn't say much when you compare the overall roster quality. best teammate arenas had was larry hughes? jamison?


edit: i think it's a tough comparison b/c of how young arenas was when he got injured


just kinda popped into my mind. i would tend to think melo was better in his late 20s than arenas was when he was 23-25, but when you put their best #s side by side idk

You'd take Lillard now over peak Melo, right?

Siiiii

There's your answer.

somehow rodney hood is -16 and the cavs are up 21 loool

LMA killing Jazz

Peak Melo was a fun time. I'll let AIM post his fond memories of such a great player.

Raps-Nets 2 point game with 3 mins left?

I had wolves -6.5 and Burke's 3 with 5 seconds left ended me, but why did Mudiay play 5 minutes? That's a bad beat that they finally bench him the game I bet them. Go figure.

Spurs-Jazz like the most important 4th quarter of the entire regular season right here

This is an interesting question.

Frank played a season high 37 mins - after having been restricted by coaching decisions to ~20 the last couple of games, whilst Trey Burke played 31. (Both from the bench.) But, otoh, rookies Dotson and Hicks, who have had reasonable showings in ~10mins each over the last 3 games, both had DNP-CDs. And of the starters, Beasley, Kanter, TimHardawayJr had 27, 33, and 36 resp. So it wasn't exactly "let's play the kids/bench and see what happens."

One possible answer is that with Charlotte winning last night the Knicks as an organization think it is now very unlikely that they can drop to 10th (pre-lottery), but it's also (to a lesser degree) unlikely that they can move up to 8th. So Hornacek was given the green light to do whatever he wanted. (Which presumably is to win.)

Another answer being floated on the internet is that Hornacek went rogue - that he knows he's getting the sack at the end of the season and just wants to (carry on) playing to win as far as possible, just as he has done almost all season (according to his weird ideas of what maximises game EV & season record).

There's a remote possibility, I suppose, that the Knicks as an organization have thrown in the towel on Mudiay - though that seems pretty unlikely given he's the first player voluntarily traded-for by Perry. (Taking it that Melo had to be traded somehow.)

Whatever, it's pretty clear that there is no - or precious little - coherent planning, per se, going into the Knicks line-ups/minutes splits from either coaching or GMing points of view.

On the other other hand it could all just be randomness. The Knicks went through quite a long spell (between 20 and 4 games ago) where it was entirely unclear whether they were trying to win or to lose. Now it appears obvious they are currently trying to win. But when I say that it could just be the "tendency for the human mind to try to discern patterns in chaos" speaking.

[edit] I mean, the literal answer is pretty clearly that the front office have had him playing as a starter since the ASB for raisons (presumably because they traded for him and want to play with their new/2nd hand shiny(ish) toy) and he's still - to today - officially the starter, which makes it hard for him to play less than 5 minutes. But he's been consistently terrible on defence and very iffy on offence. He certainly doesn't merit > 5 minutes. Your question is really why those facts were acted on tonight.

Shane Battier > Melo

DONOVAN TIME

Melo has been dead to me since he gutted the team to get to NY in the first place.

Plus he got so ****ing jealous of JLin7 during LINSANITY.

Like chill the **** out.

#AIMrant

Terrific

**** you ref, Gobert got hacked and you don't give the and-1 in a 1 point game with 10s to go ?

DOONOVAAANA GOAAAATTTTTTTT

Sea

Dood

33 points on 30 shats... 1 rebound. -6

Those shots were pretty awesome though.

You also a huge Westbrook fan?

It was utter trade rape too. The deal was finalized and then Denver bent the Knicks over the table and demanded they include Mozgov.

Who later got traded to the Cavs for TWO first rounders.

The Knicks had a fun team before the Melo trade. Exciting basketball. D'Antoni is a great offensive coach but even he can't turn water into wine. So you give him the PMSing ***** Melo and no knees Amare and you expect results?

**** you James Dolan. **** you straight to hell.

Clutch 1-5 performance in OT for the cool 35 points on 34 shots... He did double his rebound output to 2 and had 3 assists to go along with those 35 shots at least.

Maybe if he hadn't missed so many or passed once in a while they never go to OT.

Sweet miss by Jingles... Perfectly done with GOATbert there.

[edit] 35 Shats.

get ball in the post: top of the key, RHS as facing the basket, 3ft from the lane. face up defender. 20s on the shot clock