2015 NY Knicks offseason thread, Los Almighty appreciation thread

[johnnyredstorm]

Post a pic of Melo in the offseason back then. Son was hitting the buffet.

 

[Hank Scorpio]

I got to meet Melo a really long time ago. I think this was during his first or second season in the league. I'm not really sure.

But there was this private event for Derek Jeter over at Niketown NY and I was at the front left side where the employees enter (my NY heads know where I'm talking about) and in walks this tall black dude wearing black shades and a black fitted with the Jamaican flag on it

My boy recognizes it's Carmelo Anthony. I ended up getting my wristband signed by Melo (he just uses his damn "CA" initials as his autograph"). I think i still have the wristband somewhere

Carmelo Anthony certainly didn't look fat at all that time. I don't think Melo was ever really fat though. He wears all those pads under his jersey, so it can be a little misleading to think he's "fat".

I also go to meet Derek Jeter as well. The guy is VERY nice and speaks to you as if you're the only one in the damn room. After that day, I understood what people meant when they say he's charismatic and charming. He's def a very handsome fella.

EDIT: I found the autograph and one from Jeter that day.

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[lver of jordan]

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[johnnyredstorm]

Handsome fella

 

[arrjae2]

shoot, im kind of excited for the season now.







82-0 lets go!

 

[redd spyder]

i been told yall, 82-0 or bust!

 

[Hank Scorpio]

Samuel Dalembert is going to be a MAJOR disappointment. You guys will be calling for his head after 25 games

Shane Larkin needs a lot of work and we'll see just how poor of a defender Calderon is.

Cleanthony Early won't get much playing time, but thats okay because he's going to need a couple of visits to the plastic surgeon to fix his ugly mug.

32-36 wins, ya'll.

 

[pr0phecy718]

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[championboyz7]

Samuel Dalembert is going to be a MAJOR disappointment. You guys will be calling for his head after 25 games

Shane Larkin needs a lot of work and we'll see just how poor of a defender Calderon is.

Cleanthony Early won't get much playing time, but thats okay because he's going to need a couple of visits to the plastic surgeon to fix his ugly mug.

32-36 wins, ya'll.

did phil jackson tell you that over dinner?

 

[Hank Scorpio]

did phil jackson tell you that over dinner?

Nah, I don't personally know Phil Jackson or know anyone who knows him.

I'm just a realistic Knicks fan and refuse to be delusional and let down. A lot of you guys are in for a rude awakening.

 

[pr0phecy718]

Yes thats paul pierce in a Celtics jacket

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[flyeed]

Theres a difference between an objectional realist and someone who tries to come off as one, either to be an attention whoring contrarian, is downright pessimistic, or play both sides of the fence where if the team does well you're happy and if we don't then it's I told you so time.

Outside of Melo, the team played literally as poorly as it possibly can last season with a terrible coaching staff and front office, and we won 37 games. Who knows how the season will play out, we can by ****** luck wind up winning only 10 games, but right now in the offseason to say that our peak ceiling isn't to be as good as last season is not being objectional and realistic.

Nobody expects much from Dalembert to be disappointed by him. Tyson was out half of last season or in and hurt and *****ing. As bad as Calderon might be on defense, he is definitely better than Felton offensively and can't be worse than Felton on defense. We have a load of other guards better than Shane Larkin, he's not going to make or break our record, but hopefully just play a minor role well of bringing speed off the bench. Cleanthony Early was a second round pick, anything from him is found money.

I mean, if you're going to be telling us why you expect that at best we'll be worse than last season which was a nightmare that couldn't get worse, than bringing up players who have mostly minor roles and Calderon's defense as if we lost a lockdown defender in Felton isn't convincing.

All we need is for Melo to do him and the rest of the guys to just bring their average, expected, mediocre game and we'll be fine.

 

[Hank Scorpio]

Theres a difference between an objectional realist and someone who tries to come off as one, either to be an attention whoring contrarian, is downright pessimistic, or play both sides of the fence where if the team does well you're happy and if we don't then it's I told you so time.

Outside of Melo, the team played literally as poorly as it possibly can last season with a terrible coaching staff and front office, and we won 37 games. Who knows how the season will play out, we can by ****** luck wind up winning only 10 games, but right now in the offseason to say that our peak ceiling isn't to be as good as last season is not being objectional and realistic.

Nobody expects much from Dalembert to be disappointed by him. Tyson was out half of last season or in and hurt and *****ing. As bad as Calderon might be on defense, he is definitely better than Felton offensively and can't be worse than Felton on defense. We have a load of other guards better than Shane Larkin, he's not going to make or break our record, but hopefully just play a minor role well of bringing speed off the bench. Cleanthony Early was a second round pick, anything from him is found money.

I mean, if you're going to be telling us why you expect that at best we'll be worse than last season which was a nightmare that couldn't get worse, than bringing up players who have mostly minor roles and Calderon's defense as if we lost a lockdown defender in Felton isn't convincing.

All we need is for Melo to do him and the rest of the guys to just bring their average, expected, mediocre game and we'll be fine.

I think we're going to have a bad season, because the Knicks don't have an identity and we don't have impactful players. Dalembert isn't an upgrade or even the same player Tyson is. Amare is another year older and Bargnani is back. JR Smith hasn't proven to anyone why we should be optimistic about him and Calderon is notoriously known to be one of the poorest defenders in his position. Unfortunately, it's a position that has PLENTY of explosive, game-changing players.

We have no depth in our roster and Iman Shmpert who's supposed to be our most promising player has regressed and hasn't shown a sign of improvement at all.

Yeah, we brought in Fisher, but he's a rookie coach and we all know he's a puppet to Phil jackson. The Triangle offense may have worked when Phil coached using it, but we don't the players he's had.

Melo will have to carry the load AGAIN for us this season and we have no one else reliable to lean on.

You're meaning to tell me we upgraded and can win MORE games than 37 games? PLEASE, tell me why you're so high on the Knicks this year? What did we do that's a significant impact? Maybe you're seeing something I'm not. Or maybe I need to change the way I see basketball games. it's only been 22+ years of me watching the organization.

i'm an arrogant attention *****, because i'm not riding the boat with other people who thinks we'll have a great season just because we re-signed Melo, brought in Fisher running a Triangle and we traded our PG who can't guard for **** for someone who is possibly just as poor of defender?

Yeah, Okay If that makes me unrealistic then IDK what to tell you, man.

The East is weak, but it's not like we're any better than most teams in the East.

 

[Hank Scorpio]

All we need is for Melo to do him and the rest of the guys to just bring their average, expected, mediocre game and we'll be fine.

If this is your recipe for 37+ wins then you must be one Hell of a GM on 2K's MyTeam mode

There might even be a front-office position open for you in the NBA. I hear Milwaukee and Philly are looking for a change.

 

[ballinsam23]

Who cares about Samuel Dalembert when we have Cole World and Jason DaGoon Smith .

Feltons and Caldos defense cancels out, but Caldos shooting and decision making >>>>>>>>>

We have 7 dudes that can average 10ppg+. With the triangle they're all gonna have an opportunity to score.

48 wins bro

 

[Hank Scorpio]

I will admit that Calderon is a better decision maker than Felton, but it's wildly inconsistent. His best ball is played on the international level though.

I want to see the Knicks do well. Trust me, I really do. I go to almost every damn home game and it sickens me to have to defend this garbage organization every day at work or during games. But I just don't see any significant additions to this team that warrants significant/substantial reason to be optimistic.

Sure, we brought in Phil Jackson is one of the greatest basketball minds and we brought in Fisher who wants to run an offense that's shown success in the past. But both Phil and Fisher are rookies in their respective positions and they have no track record. How can anyone forcast 40+ wins?

I'll be impressed if we make to .500 and sneak into the 8th seed. Anything more would be a HUGE surprise for me.

 

[ballinsam23]

Unless an injury happens, I dont understand how we could possibly be worst than last year. We're better and much smarter as a team.

You're telling me that when we had Kidd he single handedly gave us 10-15 wins? Because this team is better than that 54 win team too.

 

[8pm at msg]

A) We don't know if this team is truly better until we hit the court. Anything can happen fellas, not to mention the Triangle is not easy to learn. It takes time. This team looks better on paper but paper ain't worth much.

B) That 54 win team overachieved, true. I can't say this team better though based on expectations. Rasheed and Kidd added a dimension of veteran knowledge and helped spread the floor and they were vital defensively against appropriate match ups. J.R. played at a level he never hit before, Melo had taken it up a notch and so on. It's no coincidence that we came back down to earth once Sheed got hurt. We lost our best post defender and defensive coordinator. We had an almost perfect storm of things happen but two major flaws showed themselves and those were: 1) these boys couldn't play through adversity 2) they assumed they could just hit the on/off switch and dominate when needed. And that's a problem we STILL have just based off of last season.

C) We did so well because we took the small ball approach. Sn went away from that. Phil and by extension Derek, as far as i know, have never been pro-small ball. That's what our lineup is suited for still based on the majority of the roster. Are they going to adjust to that or go back to a more traditional styling?

 

[hsalem]

We're going to be a lot better than some of y'all think.

 

[kingfoamnyc]

Samuel Dalembert is going to be a MAJOR disappointment. You guys will be calling for his head after 25 games

Shane Larkin needs a lot of work and we'll see just how poor of a defender Calderon is.

Cleanthony Early won't get much playing time, but thats okay because he's going to need a couple of visits to the plastic surgeon to fix his ugly mug.

32-36 wins, ya'll.

We won't be calling for anyone's head. Tyson Chandler was our center the last few years and he stunk

 

[arrjae2]

Samuel Dalembert is going to be a MAJOR disappointment

Shane Larkin needs a lot of work and we'll see just how poor of a defender Calderon is.

LOLWUT? whos expecting Dalembert to do anything? just use his 6 fouls and grab some boards

Calderon is horrible. but its not like Larkin is any better. just quicker, good hands maybe



1st couple games is going to be interesting though.
Rose, Kyrie, Wall.

im assuming Shump will start on the 'star' 1 guards, and Calderon take the 2.

i dont have much hope for our defense this year.
as long as our offense is much better than ISO Melo, and we have a consistent offensive production (Tim, Shump) ill be happy.

im looking to see who will consistently help Melo score. whos our 2nd option?
JR, Stat, even Bargs?




i can see us making a run for the division tho. Raps are pretty much the favorites to win our div.

 

[you go boy]

i think we will be better than last year... everything about last year was worse from the coaching staff and to the front office... now everything is replaced with a new organization and its better for a change... last year there was no plan and no chemistry and with the new players this year it should be a lot better... felton was trash and tyson had 1 good year but after that trash... now we got calderon a better pg and dalembert who cant be any worse than tyson but also picked up early who should be a decent player... and signed jason smith but dont expect much but to rebound and play defense... i think larkin can be a good second option for pg if pablo is hurt or not playing well and travis outlaw will be decent off the bench if he can get like 7-8 points a game... just need melo to play in the triangle well and it will make everyone better like when kobe had smush parker on his team but still made the playoffs

 

[pr0phecy718]

Not having Jason Kidd, Rasheed, Camby, Kurt Thomas and Novak was the difference....yes you read correct

Leave me alone

 

[al3xis]

This team is better than the '13 Knicks...? I get that hating Tyson Chandler now is the thing to do - but he played at a high level prior to last season. The rotation of bigs on the current roster is disgusting. That's enough to make this team worse in itself compared to the 54 win. It's a roster full of poor passers and off ball players that will be trying to implement a system based on space, cutting and passing. It's going to be very interesting seeing some of these tunnel visioned players play in a read and react system.

I'll say anywhere from 33-40 wins. I'll enjoy it more because Woodson's incompetent *** isn't around and there's a long term vision in place. But I don't expect an uptick in the win column this year.

 

[ballinsam23]

Are we saying that Camby for 10 min a game (24 games) and Rasheed for 14 mpg (21 games) were a pivotal part on the court in the 54 win season?

Because I STRONGLY disagree with that.