Let's be real about Melo here

[Brozay]

Come to Chicago Melo

 

[AVXL]

melo would b the goat #2 option.
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what team would work around melo? shooters/D/Offensive rebounders

Nah the homie George Paul got that on lock ain't that right @O RLY

Best case scenario for Melo is that he goes to a team that basically just asks him to score and be slightly less inefficient b/c everybody else on the team plays defense, rebounds & shoots exceptionally well. We all see that Melo isn't gonna make his team better or raise his level of play to overcome his team's deficiencies so you're stuck with this fat fukk nikka unless he's on a perfect team.

Knicks fans

 

[who_better_than_me]

Knicks should've resigned Lin if the local media and fans would've let him accept a role as a complimentary player to Melo. Exactly what Melo needed. Somebody who could help take the load off of him and be consistent as a secondary scorer. He's much better than felton

 

[tremonthustler1]

Melo plays an awful brand of basketball. That's why he gets hated on. He's out of shape, a ball hog, inefficient, coach killer, doesnt pass, doesnt create easy buckets for teammates, doesnt get back on defense, cries to the refs and the Knicks gave up the entire kitchen sink to get him. Oh, also, Denver's getting a lottery pick in the best draft since 2003 because of this trade.

He did ALL of this in Denver and Knicks fans still celebrated his arrival like he was gonna lead y'all to the promised land

 

[Reid2Achieve]

Knicks should've resigned Lin if the local media and fans would've let him accept a role as a complimentary player to Melo. Exactly what Melo needed. Somebody who could help take the load off of him and be consistent as a secondary scorer. He's much better than felton

When they were winning with Linsanity, Melo was salty about not getting his ISOs where he wanted it. Especially once Woodson took over. It's not what they wanted smh...but it's what they need. They just didn't respect Lin.

 

[Jax]

Nah the homie George Paul got that on lock ain't that right @O RLY

Best case scenario for Melo is that he goes to a team that basically just asks him to score and be slightly less inefficient b/c everybody else on the team plays defense, rebounds & shoots exceptionally well. We all see that Melo isn't gonna make his team better or raise his level of play to overcome his team's deficiencies so you're stuck with this fat fukk nikka unless he's on a perfect team.

Knicks fans

 

[who_better_than_me]

When they were winning with Linsanity, Melo was salty about not getting his ISOs where he wanted it. Especially once Woodson took over. It's not what they wanted smh...but it's what they need. They just didn't respect Lin.

Link?

 

[mastermind]

Melo is a lower level superstar with the likes of Paul George, etc

But this Knicks mess is not his fault.

Saying Melo is like Glenn Robinson is a dumbass thing to say. Melo steps up in the postseason.

 

[Street Knowledge]

Melo is a lower level superstar with the likes of Paul George, etc

But this Knicks mess is not his fault.

Saying Melo is like Glenn Robinson is a dumbass thing to say. Melo steps up in the postseason.

What years did melo ever improve In the postseason?

His game almost always declines

 

[godkiller]

Melo is a star that simply has no pieces around him. Lebron has Wade and Bosh in MIA. Take away Melo's history and just looking at his statistics, he isn't the problem. To sustain a title push a team needs more than one dependable contributor. And by dependable contributor, I mean a player that can score on a regular and efficient basis. If nothing else Melo is a great scorer which itself a valuable commodity in this league. Like any other role player he needs help.

 

[mastermind]

What years did melo ever improve In the postseason?

His game almost always declines

nearly every year in his career his points and rebounding goes up

Melo about to be this generation's Dirk

Brehs just slander his game with no thought.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

When they were winning with Linsanity, Melo was salty about not getting his ISOs where he wanted it. Especially once Woodson took over. It's not what they wanted smh...but it's what they need. They just didn't respect Lin.

This. You KNOW Melo felt some type of way when Lin came thru and had the Knicks on a run. All he (and Stat) could do was watch from the bench because they got similar love from the fans/media when they signed but Lin had motherfukkas convinced that the Knicks were legit competitors. Now, that Lin hype was mostly smoke/mirrors, but when you're beating Kobe/Lakers at the GArden and dropping like 35 on their asses, it's kind of a big deal, even if for that night.

But it's hard to see Melo sharing that ball and/or being cool with Lin getting a million touches and going to the basket whenever the hell he felt like.

 

[Reid2Achieve]

Link?

There were quite a few reports like this one out there:

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8...melo-anthony-master-getting-way-espn-magazine

At the beginning of last season, this was Anthony's team: a slow, listless, losing and, yes, much-criticized unit, with a clogged-artery offense that featured weak point-guard play and a generally sour air. It's telling that Lin's breakout moment -- 25 points in a win over the Nets on Feb. 4 -- came when Anthony went 3-for-15. Two nights later, Anthony suffered a groin injury, and the Knicks' season changed. With Anthony out and Lin all over the court running a far better representation of Mike D'Antoni's freewheeling offense, the Knicks won seven of eight. Teammates played with the passion of high schoolers. On the night Lin scored 38 to ignite an upset of the Lakers in Madison Square Garden, Spike Lee said it was the loudest he'd ever heard the old building. Chants of "M-V-P" rang out when Lin stepped to the foul line in the fourth quarter. The Garden was suddenly the place to be -- rollicking, euphoric and containing an emotion many Knicks fans might have forgotten existed: pure, uncut happiness.





Then Anthony returned in mid-February, to a team vastly different from the one he had left. "Carmelo's dream was to go to New York and be the man," says a source close to several Knicks players. "That's why he fought to get out of Denver, and all of a sudden this little guy nobody's ever heard of is living his dream."





The change was immediate. Anthony was accustomed to the ball running through him on the wing, and the offense went back to its old plodding self. The Knicks lost eight of 10 after his return, including six straight. At one point, Anthony refused to enter D'Antoni's huddle -- a move he defended by saying that going solo was nothing new for him -- and turned the coach's offense, the five-man improv, into discord. On March 13, Howard Beck of The New York Times wrote, "The Knicks are not a unified team. On one side is Anthony. On the other is everyone else." It wasn't personal between Anthony and Lin -- each professes to like the other -- but Carmelo simply went back to the way he felt things ought to be. He is a phenomenal offensive player, but there's no denying reality: Linsanity died out on that wing.





During this stretch -- of Melo vs. the Knicks -- one player was asked why the team had returned to isolation plays for Anthony after D'Antoni's up-tempo, less structured game had been so successful. A source who was privy to the conversation said the player responded by saying that the coach wasn't calling those plays; Anthony was isolating himself and demanding the ball.





D'Antoni's conflict-averse style allowed the situation to fester. Teammates prodded Anthony to give more effort in practice. "Jeremy is a tough guy," says a source close to the team. "He told Carmelo under no uncertain terms, 'I'm not going to give you the ball unless you create space and run the plays.' None of the other guys had a problem with it. Tyson [Chandler] didn't, Amar'e didn't. They knew they had a better chance with the ball in Lin's hands in the last few minutes."

 

[Street Knowledge]

nearly every year in his career his points and rebounding goes up

Melo about to be this generation's Dirk

Brehs just slander his game with no thought.

But his efficiency goes into the tank almost every year in the playoffs. Dirk's went up. This year was a perfect example

RS 28.7 PPG/44% from the field/37% from 3 / 56%TS
PS 28.8 PPG/40% from the field/29% from 3/ 49%TS

That's early 2000's iverson status. When your primary value is scoring and you don't do that efficiently in the PS it's like....what's the point? And it's not like Melo is a great playmaker or an elite defender

 

[FTBS]

No excuses...he didn't get drafted into this mess or traded against his will. Amare being hurt is definitely a blow but they weren't exactly setting the world on fire with them both out there.

If he wanted help he couldve done what it took to get said help. Superior players (at the time) in Wade and Bron took less money and adjusted their games. If Bron can do that no superstar or star making more money than him warrants any pleas being copped.