This is why you trade for a guy like Carmelo, stupid. Melo with another buzzer beater tonight. We'll ignore the fact that the Knicks almost choked away a 17 point lead (maybe having a real veteran point guard in the lineup would have helped) and just enjoy the fact that there is a legitimate closer on the Knicks.
That was money
ReplyDeleteMelo may be the second best clutch player in the league behind Kobe. That shot was a thing of beauty.
ReplyDeleteTo add to your point, after making that shot, Melo looked over to the Memphis bench and said, "I do this." Any winning team needs a player with a pair like that. He thinks he should make that shot and wants to take that shot. That attitude becomes very contagious and becomes a very scary thing for any team they would face in a playoff series.
ReplyDeleteYeah, i read that. Good swagger. We have Billups too, hitting big shots. Can't blow leads like that though. According to Mad Scientist and some others there's no such thing as clutch though.
ReplyDeleteOf course there is such a thing as being clutch.
ReplyDeleteI agree, there's a reason you don't let just anyone take the last shot and there's a reason certain guys are great practice players but in a real game they fold. I'll save it for the post.
ReplyDeleteYou Jeffries looking terrible in the backdrop? He really is an awful person.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that almost kept me from posting that pic. They gotta start airbrushing him out of photos.
ReplyDeleteMelo practices that shot and get more opportunities at it, that is why it goes in more then not. NOT cus of some clutch juice he had before the game.
ReplyDeleteJesus.
ReplyDeleteM@D, if you don't believe in clutch performances, can we agree that certain players play much better than some player of equal talent when put in big situations against good competition(not just stat padding situations)?
ReplyDeleteWe have moved this argument to the clutch athlete thread...
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