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This STAT hate from MrONeg is perplexing. I seen some great two man game going with Melo and STAT. It'll only get better. The defense will either be the same or get better. Also what other bigs? We don't have any right now unless you really believe what Amar'e is doing is something Kurt Thomas would do the same or do better.

No excuse for rebounds but Hump is a bit of a hustler for those. At least it wasn't Reggie putting in work.
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games like this make miss Qyntel Woods so much .
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^^This. People expect dude to be Tim Duncan with the post moves/defensive presence, since the defense stepped up. He showed signs of improvement out there. Rebound here and there. Making those who drove in alter their shots. He even went for the ball that was going out of bounds after he forced the bad shot. Its only up from here. The effort is there. It seems like folks are just nit picking and rooting for his failure sometimes :smh:.
 
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Felton turning the corner and taking advantage of lob opportunities create kickouts and ball movement.

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Hoping to return on Saturday, Felton must energize stagnant Knicks
By MARC BERMAN
Last Updated: 3:23 AM, January 23, 2013

Everybody Loves Raymond now.

Who knew starting point guard Raymond Felton would emerge as the Knicks’ most indispensable player — the engine that ignites the Cadillac. Without him since after Christmas, the Knicks offense has looked like an old Buick station wagon.

The post-Christmas, Felton-less Knicks are a mediocre 5-6, allowing the Nets to crawl within a game in the Atlantic Division race.

When a slumping Felton broke his right pinkie in the loss to the Lakers, he was blamed for everything but the fiscal cliff. He was shooting too much, was hurting the team by playing hurt, was not named Jeremy Lin.


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Now the Knicks may get a gift on Saturday in Philly — as Felton eyes his return. He was cleared for practice yesterday, but won’t be permitted to scrimmage until Friday. Felton revealed his pinkie broke in three places.

Asked the chances of manning the point in Philly, Felton said, “Big chance. Big chance. But I can’t speak on that. That’s not my decision to make it. If it’s up to me I’d play [tomorrow in] Boston, but they’re not going to let me do it because there’s a possible chance if I break it again, I’d be out two, three months. I’d have to have surgery on it. Everyone looks at it as, ‘Llittle pinkie. He shouldn’t be out.’ I fractured it in three places. I have three bones that shattered.’’

Felton is as tough an NBA warrior as they come. It took his absence for fans to appreciate him. Jason Kidd couldn’t handle the starting-point guard role — too many minutes, too little penetration. The Hall of Famer — at 39 — is now better off the ball.

“We missed him a lot,’’ Mike Woodson said. “He’s a big part of the puzzle. We didn’t bring Kidd in to play 30-plus minutes a game. Jason’s giving us all he can give us, and I’m wearing him down.’’

So is Carmelo Anthony, who has shot poorly in four of his last five games. He’s been forced to handle the ball a lot more, forced to do his isolation routine too often, resulting in contested shots.

The frenetic Felton eased the scoring burden on Anthony while creating for him, too. Felton also made life easier for Kidd and center Tyson Chandler, who has missed his pick-and-roll partner, resulting in Chandler violently dunking those lobs at the rim.

“We miss Raymond,’’ Anthony said. “When he was playing, he was playing great, he was controlling the ball. With him being out, it put guys in positions they’re not comfortable with on the basketball court.’’

And then there is the wild card. It was bad luck for Amar’e Stoudemire when he finally made his return Jan. 1 that Felton had just gone down. The chance to see Felton and Stoudemire work the pick-and-roll — like they did seamlessly in 2010-11 before Felton was sacrificed in the Anthony deal — was delayed.

Stoudemire has been scoring in different ways — moving without the ball and cutting to the basket. His touches, though, are low and he’s coming off the bench. Is Woodson waiting to start Stoudemire once Felton comes back? Probably not at first, but it’s at least a stronger option with Felton.

“Raymond’s going to help us a lot,’’ Stoudemire said. “He’s our starting point guard. He helps the offense really facilitate the plays and get in our offensive schemes a lot sooner. He also brings a lot of up-tempo style and a great element back to the game.’’

As a free agent coming off a disappointing season in Portland, the summer market for Felton was dismal. The Knicks got their summer’s biggest bargain in his 3-year, $11 million deal. No poison-pill contract that Lin got in Houston — just a below-market-value deal and the right kind of scoring point guard.

“We’re missing 15 points and six, seven assists in that spot,’’ Woodson said. “We do miss him.’’

Felton said “it’s been painful’’ being out. He has missed exactly four weeks — his career’s longest absence. Like Anthony, Felton also won an NCAA title — for North Carolina in 2005. It is looking like he’ll be the key to whether he and Anthony can win their first NBA title together.

“We’re asking a lot from those guys,’’ Felton said. “Melo’s doing a lot with the ball now — isos, coming off screen and rolls, posting up.

“I’ve talked to Melo, Amar’e, Tyson, J-Kidd,’’ Felton said. “They’re like, ‘We can’t wait to get you back.’ I’m like, ‘I can’t wait to get back.’ ’’

The Knicks lace ’em up in Boston tomorrow as the Kevin Garnett cereal soap opera takes center stage. But Saturday in Philly is when we can start to truly judge the Knicks again, when No. 2 is reinstalled as the engine.

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Knicks' Melo won’t bite on trash-talk rematch
By MARC BERMAN

Carmelo Anthony just wants a victory in Beantown — not Kevin Garnett’s scalp. That will be payback enough.

Melo isn’t trying to stir the KG pot as the rematch awaits tomorrow at TD Garden. Anthony and Garnett engaged in a vicious trash-talking war in the fourth quarter on Jan. 7 at the Garden and it spilled off the court when Anthony tried to attack Garnett in the tunnel and then later by the Celtics bus.

Sources say Anthony was attempting to send a message to Garnett that the Knicks aren’t going to back down from his serial — or cereal — trash-talking.

“I don’t care what message I sent to him,’’ Anthony said. “I just want to win. Do whatever it takes to win. Thursday’s definitely a big game for myself and us as a team to get us on the right track.’’

Anthony doesn’t want to revisit the incident after which the rumor circulated Garnett had told Anthony his wife, La La, “tasted like Honey Nut Cheerios.” The Celtics won the game and a distracted Anthony shot 6-of-26.

“We want to win,’’ Anthony said. “Do we owe them? Yes, they came here and beat us. We want to go there and return the favor on their court. We can’t get that game back. ‘’

Asked if the Garnett tiff is over, Anthony said, “Oh yeah. Honestly, it’s not even on my mind right now. It hasn’t been on my mind since that day.’’

It is not the NBA’s policy to forewarn teams before contests. But certainly David Stern will have his eye trained on Beantown tomorrow.

“It will be fun,’’ Anthony said. “It will be a hostile environment. I’m expecting that. It’ll be a fun game. Knowing what’s at stake, us playing Boston.

“As far as anything being left over, it’s a new game,’’ Anthony said.

Anthony has shot poorly in his last five games — since his heroic night in Orlando. Since that game, he is 48-of-123 — his quality of shots deteriorating, partly due to Raymond Felton’s absence.

“I almost have to [score more],’’ Anthony said. “We have to find scoring from somewhere. Until Ray comes back, we’ll continue to play the way we’re playing.’’

* J.R. Smith had a zinger directed on Twitter toward Kim Kardashian’s former husband, Kris Humphries, following Brooklyn’s win over the Knicks. Humphries started it by tweeting, “Big game tonight! The Garden got really quiet on the way out! #Brooklyn.” Smith retaliated: “Wasn’t quiet when Kanye tore it down last month!” Kanye West is now dating Kardashian. When The Post asked Smith if he responded because Humphries had rubbed it in, Smith said, “Not really. It just came to me.’’
 
Felton being back would help a lot. If he manages to cut down on the bad shot attempts like the excessive floaters and him and Amare pick up where the left off chemistry wise 2 years ago I think we can be just as good as we were before the slide. We aren't going to reach that level of 3PT shooting again but we can make up for that with Raymond cutting down on the crazy shots and focusing on Melo and Amare.
 
im hoping rose messes up the chemistry and starts taking 30 shots

it feels liek whenever celtics are in a slump, they beat us :smh:
 
Master Zik said:
This STAT hate from MrONeg is perplexing. I seen some great two man game going with Melo and STAT. It'll only get better. The defense will either be the same or get better. Also what other bigs? We don't have any right now unless you really believe what Amar'e is doing is something Kurt Thomas would do the same or do better.
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That's the thing, Amare is almost addition by subtraction right now. There's nothing he's doing right now that Tyson wasn't doing without him and that he's just taking away from him. Add the points and rebounds he's giving up on the other end and it's just rough. I see him finding his form again. I see shades of MVP Amare. But I see a net negative. He gave a bench player a double double in like 10 minutes. And our spacing when I Melo, Stat and Tyson out there. :smh:

I don't think old Amare is coming back, and we'd need 100% of that guy to make it worth his defense and rebounding. Cuz what he's doing now, we did just as well or better with Melo at the 4.
 
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I really think people are being a bit too hard on STAT. Like everyone was expecting and preparing for his return to be terrible so much that a lot of people are biased and judging off of prejudice, if that makes any sense. He's been playing short minutes and scoring well. His defense and rebounding have always been lacking but he's been more active than I've ever seen him. I'm not mad at how he's been playing. He looks better than he did last year.
 
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Master Zik said:
This STAT hate from MrONeg is perplexing. I seen some great two man game going with Melo and STAT. It'll only get better. The defense will either be the same or get better. Also what other bigs? We don't have any right now unless you really believe what Amar'e is doing is something Kurt Thomas would do the same or do better.
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That's the thing, Amare is almost addition by subtraction right now. There's nothing he's doing right now that Tyson wasn't doing without him and that he's just taking away from him. Add the points and rebounds he's giving up on the other end and it's just rough. I see him finding his form again. I see shades of MVP Amare. But I see a net negative. He gave a bench player a double double in like 10 minutes. And our spacing when I Melo, Stat and Tyson out there. :smh:

I don't think old Amare is coming back, and we'd need 100% of that guy to make it worth his defense and rebounding. Cuz what he's doing now, we did just as well or better with Melo at the 4.
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I'm not fooled by Tyson like some of yall are. He puts in his hustle but he's nowhere near the offensive asset and I've seen him take games off on defense or just stand there as an opponent puts in work.

The spacing has improved imo, plus we haven't seen a whole lot of Melo-STAT-Tyson to have a clear judgement on it like seasons before. Woody hasn't gone to it a lot and I can only recall 2 games where I saw a good dose of it. I'm not seeing an overall net negative by Amar'e's inclusion and if there is one statistically Woody needs to find a way to change that and make it work cuz I've seen more positive things
 
I just hope Felton can get Amare more involved. And help shore up our perimeter defense. It's not like we got a Lakers situation or anything, and I know it's early, but it feels like we had Bulls-like rotations and effort on defense early on, and he's the opposite of that. Add in Kidd not being able to keep Truth in front of him, let alone an NBA guard and that's us building a highway.
 
My only fear with this team, again, is that there are too many dudes. And Woodson going to a Melo/Amare/Tyson lineup already in spots scares the crap out of me. He's gotta get that out of his head, I know what their paychecks say but they can't play together.
 
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Anyone feel that in addition to his play, that we're missing sheeds attitude and toughness both on and off the court?

Dude brought a personality and identity to the team and had a contagious work ethic on the defensive end IMO.
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qft I miss Sheed badly.
Stat needs to step it up ASAP as we are now at the midpoint of the season. And I agree with most on here, Melo, STAT and Tyson shouldnt share the floor.

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Stop hating on STAT, he's done very few things wrong this season and most of it is from just not playing for a long *** time.

You guys probably only look at STAT the entire possession trying to pick at every little thing he does. Not every player is a defensive specialist, lets just be happy he can still give us 15 a game.
 
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