Source: Melo & Mike On Rocks

[cruzg24]

"As the trade deadline approaches Thursday, the relationship between Mike D'Antoni and Carmelo Anthony appears to be deteriorating.

There are several indications the alliance is getting worse, not better, and it seems inconceivable both will be back in New York next season. According to a source familiar with the situation, Anthony is disgruntled and he may have given off those signs when he didn't join the huddle during a third-quarter timeout. (Anthony claimed that occurs often).

Anything bold happening at the trade deadline would seem unlikely. D'Antoni is more likely to get fired than Anthony get traded after the Knicks dropped their sixth straight game, 104-99, to the Bulls."

Source: New York Post

 

[Giantmetfan07]

Is anyone really surprised about this? Mike didn't want Melo in the first place. Melo's isolation style doesn't fit in with Mike's 7 seconds or less offense. When the guy buys into it, he gets some good shots but he hasn't been hitting them. Then late in the game, he keeps Novak and Shumpert on the bench when he needs them for D and 3s to make a big shot, and still hasn't been giving the ball to Melo late in the game. It's ridiculous

At this point, their woes are on D'Antoni. Early this year the offense struggled, then Lin showed up and the offense improved but the Defense and turnovers worsened. Now the Defense and Offense are improving but it's the rebounding that sucks. It's one thing or another with this guy and the team -- he honestly cannot get them to play each aspect of the game consistently and seems asleep late in the game.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

Honestly, Walsh had to know Melo wouldn't fit with D'Antoni, which is why I'm starting to think Mike was brought in to make Gallo, Chandler & Felton look a lot better than they really are, as trade bait for Melo. Then once Melo is here, and the team struggles for 1 1/2 years, cut him loose and bring in a coach who can make it work. Idk who that would be, but I'm open to suggestions at this point.

 

[dez]

Ive been saying it for about 3yrs now..

Fire D'Antoni

 

[.infamous]

Should've just kept the team you had before the melo trade. That team was tons better than this team.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

a .500 team that played no Defense and didn't rebound -- sounds about the same except for Tyson Chandler and Jared Jeffries being on the team now.

 

[VC15]

John Schuhmann ‏ @johnschuhmann
The Post reports that Melo wants input like D-Will has in NJ: http://nyp.st/wLH1VN Where does that rate on the irony scale?

 

[Yankees2772]

The New York Post reported Wednesday that Carmelo Anthony would prefer to be traded in advance of the deadline.

 

[Pugz]

should have stayed in denver.

 

[Yankees2772]

I wish...

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Melo got what he wanted, now he should live with it.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

It's just frustration. He doesn't want to leave, and I've seen the Post make up crap like this before so I'm not surprised. I think he might have said something like this, but it might have been something like "This situation is so fucked up I'd prefer to be anywhere but here" but that doesn't necessarily mean he's not going to try and take up the challenge. Hell, nobody wants to be in this situation and I'm sure a lot of players on this team are frustrated to the point where they would prefer to be out -- but it doesn't mean they want to force their way out.

And like Nola said, he wanted this. He begged, and stomped his feet out in the Rockies and said there was one team and one team only that he wanted to play for, and that was it. And he got his wish. So suck it up, step up, and figure this shit out.