Carmelo apologizes for frustration

MILWAUKEE -- Before he took the court for Sunday's game against the Bucks, Carmelo Anthony owned up to "a rare day that I allowed myself to get frustrated." On Saturday, he told his teammates not to get used to the moody Melo they saw in Friday's loss in Detroit.

"What I was frustrated about is neither here nor there," said Anthony, who had six points and shot 2-for-12 in the 99-95 loss to the Pistons, his lowest scoring performance since the trade to the Knicks and his lowest of the season in games in which he has played more than three minutes.

"That day is over with. I was happy [Saturday], got a chance to talk to Coach, got a chance to talk to the guys, just letting them know that, don't get used to that, me getting frustrated out there. It happened. All around, it was just a bad day -- us losing, the way we lost. That stuff is frustrating at times."

Anthony -- who scored 23 points in Sunday's 100-95 loss to the Bucks -- showed visible frustration throughout Friday's game, especially toward Toney Douglas, about not getting the ball. Anthony said he and Douglas shared a laugh about it during the team's video session Saturday at the team hotel in Milwaukee. "I don't take that stuff personally," Anthony said of not getting the ball.

D'Antoni also accepted some of the blame for Anthony's frustrations because the coaching staff didn't recognize the issue earlier in the game.

"Everybody has a viewpoint, and most of the time it's right in the sense of I should have seen it earlier and we should have gotten on that earlier and then it gets a little frustrating and we lost and that complicates things," D'Antoni said. "But there's no drama. This is still a work in progress."