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Melo Clarifies

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"I think when I said I needed some more help, I think it was took out of context,'' Anthony said Tuesday. "I need help trying to figure this thing out. I've always told you I can't do it by myself. I don't want to try to do it by myself. I've been there. I didn't try to do that before. It don't work. I'm not going to be able to do this by myself without them other guys out there. So when I said I needed help, I was coming from that standpoint of wanting everybody to get together and let's do it together.'' "I didn't feel any friction in there in practice [Tuesday],'' said Anthony, who admitted he's surprised the Jazz have beaten the Nuggets three straight times after a Game 1 loss. "Everybody was on the same, talking about what we've got to do [Wednesday]. As far as J.R.'s Twitter, I haven't been on Twitter in so long, like a couple weeks, so I don't know what's being said and I don't want to try to harp on that. "We're positive. [Monday] was probably a day of, 'What's going on? What could we do?' 'I think a lot of people took what I said when I said I needed help the wrong way. But I talked to my teammates. They know what I meant. We talk basketball every day, so they know I'm not pointing nobody out individually. I'm in there with them. I'm not saying I'm playing the best that I can play. I'm in there with them. We're all losing together.'' Anthony, though, said Tuesday he had no problem with Dantley singling him out. "He said it,'' Anthony said. "It is what it is. If that's how he felt, then maybe I've got to do a better job of taking care of the basketball, not getting so many charges and just being aware of what's going on out there. I can't dispute what the head coach is saying. If he's on the sideline, he sees that problem; I've got to fix it."