Found January 20, 2012 on All Things Nuggets:
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Melo versus the Nuggets. It’s finally happening on Saturday. But on Friday, New York lost its fifth-straight game. And the loss came at home. To Milwaukee. Here are Carmelo’s quotes to the media from after the game. Q: What’s the reason for losses? I don’t know. I can’t put my finger on it. It hurts, though. It hurts losing the way we’re losing. Tonight, frustration set in, especially with me. I don’t really know what else to say about that. At this point, we’ve got to just man up and play. One positive thing we can take from this is we play against [tonight]. We can put this game behind us, this losing streak behind us, and try to get a win. Q: Why frustration for you? Of course losing. We’ve lost some games. Tonight, just the way we lost. They were more physical than us. Whether the refs let it go or not, they were the more physical team than us tonight. I don’t like to be punked out there, so I think that’s where the frustration set in, and it just started trickling down. So mayb...
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