Aight, I'ma keep all the way 100 bout these NY Bricks, even though I'm a Sixers fan...just cause I live in Brooklyn and I have to see these mafuckas on TV every day I go to the gym...you may "wack" or "feeling" the shit, but whatever:
The Bricks will NEVER win with Melo and Amare there in the starting line-up together.
The biggest reason is simply this: these are two of the most selfishly-offensive, lazy-oriented defensive players in the league. And they cannot compliment each other under any circumstances. But what's fucking them both is that is how their game HAS to be in order for either of them them to be effective. Peep this:
Think back to the beginning of last season when Amare was in NY on his dolo...The Bricks were good, something to be at least respected, right? Melo gets there, what happens? Chemistry gets all fucked up offensively. Defensively, neither can pick up their part of the slack for it...so, as a result, the Bricks are ass ass ass for the rest of that season, and get swept vs. the Cs in the 1st round. By then, it was to late for Melo to salvage anything after Amare and Chauncey went down.
Now, start this season with both of them in...ass ass ass ass. NO one knows why...they had all offseason to work together, and all this shit, but they still suck. BOOM.....Melo goes down and all of sudden, the Bricks win seven straight, and show some life again. Fuck Jeremy Lin. He was an anolomoly to this shit...not a driving force. The Bricks are winning or losing with or without him: why else do you think nigg....excuse me, chink nigga (for 'political correctness') could turn the ball over THAT much, and they still win? Melo comes back, what happens again: ass ass ass ass ass.
"How?" "If we got Melo, Amare, AND Lin, how could they suck again?", New Yorkers wonder. NO chemistry, stupid bitches. Didn't matter who was the coach: Dumbtoni or Mike Woodson, the shit always felt awkward with both of them there, trying to be top dog. Melo can create his own shots, but Amare cannot. And the combo of B-Diddy/Lin/Shumpert, was no where near as good as Steve Nash on his own. Because Nash was willing to make Amare a star and let him score all he wanted. Nash didn't care; more assists for him. So, Amar'e can survive on his own in a system that caters to him, but Melo being there shifts the whole system to HIS skillset and leaves Amare to fend for himself. And when the system demanded that Amar'e be fed the ball, Melo gets shut out, so someone ALWAYS loses between the two.
So then, Amare AND Lin go down...and guess what? The Bricks look like last year's Denver Nuggets before Melo got traded....so naturally, they start winning shit again. Now, Amare comes back, and we're back to Square Two...with them losing tonight at cLEAVEland, who's lost their last two, once being blown out at one point by 50 to the goddamn Washington Generals (the other to my Sixers, who pretty much surrendered the fuckin #7 seed to New York, cause we know Miami will stomp the shit out of us)....
Honestly, one of them between Melo and Amare have to go. There's only room for one no defense playing, shot-hogging gloryhound on that team and it's willing to work. And since Amare has a no-trade clause on the other three years of his five-year deal, Melo has to be moved.....again. Woodson can't fix this. James Dolan can't fix this. Jeremy Lin DAMN sure can't fix this. Hell, I don't think Phil can even work this shit out.
But, this experiment proves you can't just put good, high-priced talent on a team and expect it to work. They have to fit together.
*I know it's a bit of a titangraph, but I had to get that shit off my chest, living in this shithole called New York, and being subjected to this bullshit night in and night out.*
