Yo... why does Melo keep getting called out like this still. He hasn't been held in that regard for a few years now. Hell, wasn't he left out of the top 15 rankings of players a few years ago? I think that ship has sailed. His ceiling might be (as far as regard) Charles Barkley levels at this point... ceilingI still don't understand how he passing people that started in 97 and still playing that is mind blowing......melo where you at? You the prototype small forward ........ Right?
Lebron will be Top 10 in NBA All-Time Scoring if he averages 25 PPG the rest of the season
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I still don't understand how he passing people that started in 97 and still playing that is mind blowing
Fukk is you hating on Melo for in a thread about Bron.
And Melo is at 22k for his career and top 30 which is fukking great as well. He will probably finish his career around 27 28k. Yall hate on Melo just cause he ain't Bron you know how hard it is to avg 25 ppg for 13 years in the association.
He ain't Bron we known this since 04. Bron is a once in a generation talent, but Melo special as well. He gonna be a first ballot hof.
I don't know why people think this. It's just like people who say he's not an elite scorer. You don't score like this for this long by happenstance. If he had continued playing with inferior talent his average and total would be higher. But you see, no matter what, no matter how he doesn't let that shyt dip below 25
. I highly doubt he mounts a serious challenge to the record. I think the whole idea behind teaming with younger guys was so that he could eventually fall back and hand over the reigns ala Duncan or Kareem.
Cause he's way better then all them nikkasHow the fukk is Lebron so close to Duncan????This really makes no sense what so ever!! Vince the truth a KG are monsters !!!! How did he pass and about to pass them
Nah, it was 100% Dirk Nowitzki carrying a bunch of bums to the championship. That's what I was told.
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It's because I keep hearing he the best scoring threat at small forward .... All the post moves and triple threat jump shot .... It just does not make sense plus Lebron played with bosh and wade .... In all realty he should not be where he is at at all
Another reason he's unlikely to reach the record...I don't know why people think this. It's just like people who say he's not an elite scorer. You don't score like this for this long by happenstance. If he had continued playing with inferior talent his average and total would be higher. But you see, no matter what, no matter how he doesn't let that shyt dip below 25
Kareem kept playing all of those extra years because he was essentially broke and needed the money. Karl Malone played at least as long as he did because he was chasing that elusive championship. Neither one of these will be the situation with LeBron; I don't really see him still playing while being more or less a role player.
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Not according to the coli .... Lebron has no jump shot no post game no foot work and don't score in the 4th even tho the numbers and games says the complete oppositeCause he's way better then all them nikkas
If this team breaks through and wins a chip I don't think Bron would have a problem taking a lesser role while still being the king of the city and getting broke off with zero pressure ala Wade during the Heatles era. I maintain that that was what he was going for last year and that's why he was so lackadaisical early on. Conversely if they don't win soon, I think he will still be striving to bring that elusive chip to Cleveland, and he might actually score more points (not enough to challenge the record though).
Logically, it actually does make sense. Bron has played in a lot more games than Melo. So he has an opportunity to score more points. And even with Wade and Bosh, Bron was always the number 1 option. So if he was affected, it was minimally. It's also not like there is a cap on how many points a team can score. If you have more scorers on your team, you're going to score more points as a whole. You're not just redistributing the same points you were scoring before. And in reality, the people who are probably gonna suffer the most are those 10-12 ppg guys.
Edit: Also, being a more versatile scorer doesn't mean you're gonna score more points. Lebron is so athletic he can put himself in a position to score better than Melo a lot of times. Melo can't power through the lane or run fast breaks like Bron because he just didn't have the athleticism to pay like that. Bron gets a lot more "easy" buckets because of it.
I never said he wasn't an elite scorer but scoring wasn't his whole focus on the court. 21-25 year old LeBron could have easily averaged 30 plus a game for several seasons if he truly wanted.I don't know why people think this. It's just like people who say he's not an elite scorer. You don't score like this for this long by happenstance. If he had continued playing with inferior talent his average and total would be higher. But you see, no matter what, no matter how he doesn't let that shyt dip below 25
I'll stand by that. You don't think guys like KD and Bron could score more a game if they wanted and just decided to shoot everytime they touched it. Those last 3 things I don't think Bron could truly do but averaging 30 plus a game could have been done easily. The man averaged his career high at 21 with 31 ppg. It's not like he got worse as a scorer and couldn't put up numbers like that every season.Bron stans forever talking about "if he really cared."
"He could average a triple double if he wanted"
"He could shoot 90% from FT if he wanted"
"He could shoot 60% for the season if he wanted"
give me a break
Don't forget about Bron bytching up that seriesNah, it was 100% Dirk Nowitzki carrying a bunch of bums to the championship. That's what I was told.
I didn't say you did. I was just drawing a parallel between two divergent arguments based on the same faulty premise. Dude is top 5 in PPG and passing active legends with 5,6, 7 years on him every day. I think people underestimate what it takes to put up 30 plus year in and year out like that. Another thing that people don't recognize is that people who do score like that, generally aren't winning shyt. Kobe was focused on scoring and certainly an elite scorer and he only went for 30 plus 3 times in 20 years, the majority of which were played without Shaq and he never won a ring while doing so. I think it is oversimplifying all of the factors at play here to just say "he coulda scored more if he wanted to".
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MJ pretty much only played 13 full seasons, two of which when he was 38-40 years old on the Wizards
Cool thread tho
