I’ve come to a couple of conclusions since we last communicated. After the first day of the NCAA Tournament, there isn’t enough available chlorine to disinfect my pool, and Carmelo Anthony is rapidly developing into this decade’s Stephon Marbury . . . as in making his former team better.

Bad enough since Melo’s change of venue Denver is styling at 9-2 and New York had flattened out to 6-6 going before last night’s 120-99 walkthrough against Memphis. What’s worse, the Knicks’ atmosphere has lost its aroma, whereas the Nuggets are now enjoying the sweet smell of success. By all means, don’t rush to judgment, but one needs to research no further than the latest pulled quotes for some telling testimony. If the court pleases, I shall enter these exhibits into evidence:

After George Karl’s troops tattooed the Hawks in their own coop Wednesday night (eight players took 6-12 shots and scored 9-20 points, thanks to 26 assists on 39 field goals), Kenyon Martin had this to say:

“It’s fun to play basketball the right way. It always has been, always will be. When everybody’s out there sharing the ball, everybody’s involved, it just makes everyone want to play that much harder on the defensive end.”

Even the opposition praised the Nuggets’ passing of ammunition.

“They really spread [the other team] out,” Al Horford said. “They have six or seven weapons [minus Danilo Gallinari, who notched 30 points before breaking his big toe and missing the next eight games; due back tonight against Orlando] . . . We play like that at times. Other times, we don’t. We’d be a better team if we played like them.”

As for the Knicks, they, make that Melo, couldn’t have handled the ignominy of Indiana’s home-and-home hijacking less professionally.

Immediately following Jared Jeffries’ futile lob to Landry Fields for the tie (0.3 seconds), the camera caught Melo scolding his teammate for not finding him open beyond the arc.

Clearly, Jeffries should know better than to think he has to abide by his coach’s diagrammed scheme.

Surely he’s been around long enough to know that breaking plays is cool.

Wasn’t Jeffries paying attention when Deron Williams blew off Jerry Sloan’s floor plan? That turned out OK, didn’t it?

Melo knows best; what part of that doesn’t Mike D’Antoni understand?

Surely, James Dolan’s revised “Megastar Handbook” covered that and left no ambiguities.

Isn’t Jeffries supposed to be a textbook role player? How could he have looked off Melo?

Maybe Renaldo Balkman should have inbounded.

Maybe it’s time for Isiah Thomas to talk to Jerome James, brother-to-brother, and convince him to re-sign with the center-less Knicks.

OK, maybe that’s not a good idea, but Thomas assuredly would’ve gotten Melo the ball in plenty of time for a game-winning offshore 3 . . . just as he did a few years ago when he devised a brilliant buzzer-beating victory tip for David Lee with one-tenth of a second left.

Clair Bee sat up in his grave on that one and gave Thomas a sitting ovation.

Don’t mistakenly doubt Thomas’ Immaculate Conception in this instance. It’s not like it can’t be done within league rules or hasn’t been done. Column contributor John Siciliano advises us to go to YouTube and check out J.J. Redick’s jumper (1-12-2010; Kings-Magic) on an inbounds play with three-tenths of a second to go.

The sole snag is, Melo is not Redick or Eddie House or Ray Allen or Derek Fisher. His offensive specialty is not catch-and-shoot and he’s not that quick on the draw . . . unless he redirects the pass with his nose.

However, give Melo three or four dribbles and a couple pirouettes to get comfortable, and he can drill it from any precinct.

While on the subject of Melo, before Dolan secured his excuse to gouge ticket buyers (that’s what an owner of a stable NBA franchise does), the Knicks were bloody awful defensively. With his help, as it were, the team has become second only to Minny Ha-Ha (106.06) in surrendering (105.96) points.

To Melo’s credit, he neither forgives those who trespass against him nor pardons the one responsible for wiring, in a manner of speaking, the team’s security system.

After the Knicks’ second pratfall, Melo called out D’Antoni for failing to fine tune, sort of, the thinking behind covering Tyler Hansbrough. Sunday he went for a career high 29 points. Two days later, he topped it by one. “I don’t think we made adjustments to him at the top of the key, especially after the game he had in the Garden. I’d think we’d have made adjustments after that,” Melo zapped.

At least that’s what Melo was purported to have said. I figure he must’ve been misquoted because, in his next spew, he reasoned the Knicks need to simplify their defense. That sounds a lot closer to the truth, although I’m not sure how much simpler Knicks’ resistance could get given its next-to-nothingness every other game at minimum. Other than hiring Tom Thibodeau or suiting up Bill Russell, Dennis Rodman and Joe Caldwell, there’s only one guaranteed way to make Melo and his teammates regularly bend their backs and that’s play “winners’ out.”

In the meantime, isn’t all this sniping coming from a guy who said, upon arrival in New York, he would do whatever to win a championship?

Well, Melo could start by being more guarded, you might say, about what he says about teammates and his coach. Afterthought: What’s great about the NCAA’s and its (Manson) family of nitworks . . . they take Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith away from the environs where they ought to have a clue but don’t and put them into one where they admittedly are oblivious.

peter.vecsey@nypost.com

