The Knicks have had more team meetings than wins.
Team meetings aren’t going to change their fate, they just have a badly constructed team. I think at some people they will snap out of it, win some games and might even make the playoffs in a very weak Eastern Conference, but they aren’t close to being a championship caliber team.
Melo might be plotting his escape as we speak.
After the New York Knicks lost their seventh consecutive game Wednesday night to fall to 3-11 on the season, players and coaches held a 20-minute, closed-door meeting.
“The easiest thing for us to do is just to crumble right now,” Carmelo Anthony said. “We are in a dark place but we have to get out of this. We just have to get out of it.”
“We talked. Everybody talked,” Anthony said. “The players had a meeting, the coaches — everybody had a meeting after the game. We had to talk. We’re trying to figure it out together. We have to put four quarters together. We got to do it for one another. Right now the game is not for nobody. We’re just not making it happen.”
Metta World Peace added his two cents, even though I am not exactly sure what he is talking about.
“We’re not struggling,” World Peace said. “It’s part of life. You know how life is. We had a bad hair day, you know?”
World Peace signed with the Knicks in the offseason, passing up an opportunity to stay in Los Angeles with the Clippers, largely because of the lure of winning in New York.
“I honestly didn’t even know who the coach was when I was coming to New York,” World Peace said. “I just wanted to win a championship; I didn’t even know who was coaching. I didn’t care. It could have been Aunt Jemima. They could have had the syrup coaching. I was coming here regardless. I just wanted to win a championship here.”
Good luck.