Melo is The Time Step

Melo is The Time Step: Perhaps the day will come when Carmelo Anthony is fortunate that we have to focus on things much trouble in the New York Knicks - instead of Carmelo Anthony.

Maybe Mike D'Antoni's coaching distraction in a timely manner, or the inability to command, to get the key stops to defend when it is most important. But now, the Knicks continue to fall, as leaves fall, where else can see except the person who asked the lights of Broadway?

"I love pressure. I want to me," said Anthony week when Linsanity officially supported in the world of basketball. "To be elected in this game, you should want that pressure."

This is actually part I.

Part II, however, a little fatter. He is doing something constructive, when the pressure reaches and fixtures.

We can not accuse Anthony of many things, but inhibit the growth of pressure in his way is not what he has done well, not at all. Shooting nearly 40 percent of the total of the season and provide a look at his greatness only sporadic occurrence of the Knicks 12-18 in games Anthony. A picture does not do much more pleasant.

Statistics tell us everything, Anthony averaged 20 points per game - again! The fact that he never spent a day in his nine-year career, averaging less than 20 points. It will point to his 6-foot-8 frame, 230 pounds, his ability to go from the inside out, shoots threes, jumpers or medium through the mail.

It will detail everything but success - and championships.

After watching Anthony shooting 7-of-17 from the field against the Bucks on Friday night to another inexplicable loss, there are no question marks, but it gives its name these days, and they became too alarming to ignore.

Anthony then affect the game in a different way than the notation? Is he willing to do? The problem is really with the game, Anthony D'Antoni or coaching? Anthony adapt to Jeremy Lin, or vice versa? In the end, is what plays an important role in the team led by Anthony?

Listening to some people: "It is very important. I am absolutely convinced, Carmelo Anthony," Nuggets GM Kiki Vandeweghe, former told me recently in Los Angeles. "Like most other guys in the today's game, there's always more to learn. But he can score from anywhere at all. If you have a player of his size, you understand these things. You can not cut bait. "

On the other hand, "It will not matter, but because it is so that (Carmelo) will be," former coach Anthony, George Karl Denver Nuggets, told me. "Most of the time, he thinks he is the best striker in the sex, and it's usually right. But your ability to get the ball must not only define the game is sometimes not enough. At one time, most players know that. "

Let's face it: Melo did not have much time.

With the Knicks to 18-22, after losing four straight road games, they're only two games ahead of Milwaukee, who currently owns the tiebreaker because they beat the Knicks twice this season.

For those who believe that the Knicks felt some heat after the Boston Celtics swept them in the first round of the playoffs last year, imagine what would have been like the off-season.

D'Antoni's departure would be warranted. Please note that changes in the front office, and - as James Dolan is actually leave most decisions basketball for them. But when the dust settles, you still have no choice but to look at the stars of this team.

With Melo, who is a true performance?

"This is true for all call me that because it's true," Anthony impassively in the All-Star break, alluding to its appearance only after the first round of the playoffs in his career. "The fact is, I can not break the mold in February or March. I have to do, when necessary, in April and May."

In fact, it will not. If he does not win the game now, it does not happen in late April or May. And after taking into account the heroism of Antony, as a striker, the idea of ​​a series of inactivity should be considered no less intolerable.

One could easily observe the Knicks 26-31 in the regular season, as Anthony has Knick. They could easily brag about feats of Lyn and the revival of the Knicks later and ask, 'Melo, who are in need? "

Personally, I prefer to point to a career 24.7 point scorer and the man who, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, is the second in Chicago, Derrick Rose (four times) for the game-winning shots or less than 30 seconds left to put his team ahead for good .

Anthony made three times since joining the Knicks in February last (tied with Kevin Durant Oklahoma City and Cleveland Kyrie Irving).

However, "all that means nothing in the end," he said. "I know my business. Trust me. We need to do if ..."

He did not finish. Not because he does not need all this because he knows that it's over for him.

This time, Melo. It's time!