Melo got us a nice lead in the 1st quarter, the way that we blew the game after that was pathetic. Blame Melo if you want for some big turnovers in the fourth quarter but everyone else played soft and lazy for long stretches of game. We lost by 7 and CB scored 5 points. Lawson would have gone for 20+ with more minutes. It’s just crazy man, even with Melo playing “bad” how do we still not beat the Clippers?

Chanucey had 5 and JR went 1-7 from 3….Melo was ballin’ man, you gotta give him some credit

Over the years of playing and watching basketball I’ve seen the same thing over and over. The best scorer on a team that is down, thinks “We have got to score on this possesion. Our best chance for scoring is if I’m the one who does it.” Then that guy proceeds to shoot. His teammates frequently have the same idea and try to get him the ball. You name any great scorer and I bet they’ve been in the same situation and had the same thoughts. I bet it happened to Melo last night. It will happen again. The problem is that it gets into a spiral and it gets worse and worse and feeds on itself. Generally once it gets going there’s no stopping it and most of the time the team never comes back in that game. The defense figures it out and they know what to defend. Very few teams figure out how to stop this from happening. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a team talk about it, it’s as if it works on a subconscious level and talking about it is taboo.

stop hating on melo, its really fucking annoying, like i dont get how in the world you cud blame this game on him … seriously every except for him nene and ty played like complete shit… complete 100% crap… you can not blame melo everytime they gave him the ball they pretty much said, i dont want to run a play, just score for me and watched him… if they actually moved around we could have won by 20 plus points… melo shot over 50% so you cant say he took bad shots, he went to the free throw line a lot (refs missed a lot of calls tho)…
really like stop fucking complaining about melo… hes playing great

it shouldn’t be for his offense. melo is a scorer. the ball will be in his hands. if you watched his first couple years in the league and you are complaining about his offensive performance last night, you don’t know much about basketball. Anytime Melo is being aggressive on the post or driving the lane to draw fouls, I’ll take it. Yes he was dominating the basketball, but he was not forcing bad shots like you make it sound.
To become the superstar that he should be he needs to rebound better especially and play D like a man. The whole team needs to improve defense and rebounding

Offensively, Billups has not looked good this whole season. This is a continuation of the Lakers WCF series as well. Irrespective of him missing shots, he is forcing shots, accumulating uncharacteristic turnovers and basically not controlling the pace of our offense like he did last year. CB knew when to push the ball, how to stop opponent scoring runs, when to penetrate and create fouls when we fell into jumpshot mode. Melo’s job is to score and score from anywhere. CB’s job is to know when and how to get points from the rest of the guys. He needs to play better and more importantly smarter. Frankly I’m glad lawson has been getting more minutes. Chauncey needs to step up in a big way as he is the vet presence which prevents us from losing these games we should be winning.

Every loss you jump on Melo’s back, but in the wins you have nothing to say about him. Would you have rather we sit Melo in the fourth and watch the Clips reel off another 17-0 run like they did in the second? No thanks. I put this one on an overall lack of intensity, poor shooting from everyone not named Melo/Nene and No bird. One player does not lose your team the game, especially when its your best player and he puts up 37 points. Oh you say it was the fourth quarter run that Melo messes up and loses us the game, well with out his brilliant first quarter we would have been blown out by half time.

but kept the team in it with his scoring. His supporting cast should take a lot of the blame for getting schooled on the defensive end.

But when we were closing the game to single digits it wasn’t Melo throwing up horrific shots it was JR. He shot a 360 layup if no one else recalls. I mean the guy was 0 for before that shot and was pulling up shooting 3s in the first five seconds of a possession. Im not blaming the loss on JR but you cannot blame melo for shooting if no one else on the team is hitting and you can’t question his shot selection without looking at JR also. The team as a whole played horrible uninspired basketball and came out as if the NBA already put this game down as a win. You can’t blame Melo for this loss when everyone (besides maybe Nene) had horrible games.