Melos quote sums up everything wrong with this generation

[Jesus Is Lord]

Big homie!!!!!!!

He did. Dude had contenders looking to bring him so they could be better and he chose the money. It seems like it's finally hit him that maybe it wasn't a good idea to cash all the way out.

And the total opposite can be said for Dwight Howard. Dude probably feels like a complete doofus for leaving Orlando high and dry.

Missed you fam

Melo chose the money, so he made his bed so he should be quiet. Dwight is all-around stupid. My point is this, players have their own preference, no one is right or wrong, what I'm saying seems to go over some people's head.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Yeah melo could have waited that was crazy I'm a Knicks fan that team could have been loaded....
25 year old melo (I think) with a younger mozgov Italian stallion and some others I can't think about that could have stayed or flipped for a true 2nd star

A friend of mine who works for the union in Manhattan was told some time ago by his foreman I think it was "I'm gonna call you Carmelo "

"Why, because I ball ?"


"No, because you don't give a fukk about anyone but you "

 

[BRUHMANE]

mambaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

With him leaving this closes the chapter on the alpha ball hog scorer jack of all trades hoop master.

 

[Jesus Is Lord]

You're free to live in a fantasy land where Kobe liked playing with Kwame Brown more than with Shaq or Pau

Yeah, Kobe never wanted to go join a team to win rings. Also, Shaq came via agency and Pau came via trade, neither wanted to make a super team. You went from presenting a point to telling me how Melo speaks for 100% of the players, not realizing that he had his chance to go somewhere to win but chose money, now to telling me about Kobe. You're everywhere, that's why I
But you go 'head breh.

Listen to Melo even though he killed his own opinion by taking the money over rings brehs.

 

[SchoolboyC]

Yeah, Kobe never wanted to go join a team to win rings. Also, Shaq came via agency and Pau came via trade, neither wanted to make a super team. You went from presenting a point to telling me how Melo speaks for 100% of the players, not realizing that he had his chance to go somewhere to win but chose money, now to telling me about Kobe. You're everywhere, that's why I
But you go 'head breh.

Listen to Melo even though he killed his own opinion by taking the money over rings brehs.

You do know that before the Lakers pulled off the trade for Pau, Kobe wanted out and the list of teams he preferred to be traded to included the Spurs & Suns right?

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

It's really disgusting to see so called competitors/rivals who are so buddy buddy with each other.

But when Boogie did this?

 

[mson]

You're not going to win without another all star.

 

[Suleiman Bey]

You do know that before the Lakers pulled off the trade for Pau, Kobe wanted out and the list of teams he preferred to be traded to included the Spurs & Suns right?

LOL@including the SUns. The fukk did the Suns ever win?

 

[Jesus Is Lord]

You do know that before the Lakers pulled off the trade for Pau, Kobe wanted out and the list of teams he preferred to be traded to included the Spurs & Suns right?

Yes, however, he was on his way to the Bulls. During that time there was a recording of him saying, "Get your Bulls jerseys ready". Bringing up the Spurs and Suns doesn't mean he wanted to join a super team breh, he wanted to play with better players and team management, and in order for a TRADE to happen those teams would've had to get rid of most of their good/great players, so he wouldn't have been joining a super team. It was all a ploy anyway and it worked, it forced LA to make a better team with WHO THEY ALREADY HAD plus Pau. Why didn't he leave after he became a FA a few years ago even though he team looked bleak? Poor choice in using Kobe. So far you're basing your stance on Melo and Kobe, who BOTH DURING FREE AGENCY chose money over winning. The closest he was to forming a super team was when Dwight and CP3 wanted to COME TO LA and was denied due to "basketball reasons". Like I said so many other times, no one is wrong, it's about preference. Accept it already

 

[Suleiman Bey]

You're not going to win without another all star.

All-Star is not the same as superstar/mega-star, all-world player. And all-stars are overrated. That Pistons team of the 2000's had 4/5 all-stars. None of which you'd pick to build around.Just a bunch of cast off and rejects But they played well together and accepted their roles. Once they started feeling themselves they imploded.

 

[SchoolboyC]

Yes, however, he was on his way to the Bulls. During that time there was a recording of him saying, "Get your Bulls jerseys ready". Bringing up the Spurs and Suns doesn't mean he wanted to join a super team breh, he wanted to play with better players and team management, and in order for a TRADE to happen those teams would've had to get rid of most of their good/great players, so he wouldn't have been joining a super team. It was all a ploy anyway and it worked, it forced LA to make a better team with WHO THEY ALREADY HAD plus Pau. Why didn't he leave after he became a FA a few years ago even though he team looked bleak? Poor choice in using Kobe. So far you're basing your stance on Melo and Kobe, who BOTH DURING FREE AGENCY chose money over winning. The closest he was to forming a super team was when Dwight and CP3 wanted to COME TO LA and was denied due to "basketball reasons". Like I said so many other times, no one is wrong, it's about preference. Accept it already

Prime Kobe & Duncan on the same team wouldn't have been a super team? Kobe in Phoenix with Nash & prime Amare wouldn't have been a super team?

And I said that everyone wants to play with other great players. That's practically a fact. I used Kobe as an example

 

[Goat poster]

People have different understandings of this thread. We all can agree that most championship teams have 2 or more stars, what Melo is expressing comes off totally different. He's talking about players purposely wanting to join up a form a super team, totally different than what most championship teams have done.

So what the hell is a player in Melo's position supposed to do?

Everybody can't be lucky enough to have an amazing front office and coach.

Yall dudes stay romantising the 80/90's yet shyt on certain players for never winning rings.

As if taking THEIR career in their own hands is a bad thing.

Melo has CARRIED NUMEROUS shytty teams but never once played for a TRUE contender, and as much as people want to call him a loser or fat the FACT is he's NEVER had a good front office.


Who has he ever played with???
Out his prime AI, Jeremy Lin......


I wish one of my favorite players of all time Dominique Wilkens would have bounced from the Hawks sooner to go to a Contender. Then maybe he would be higher in the ranks like he SHOULD BE!!!

Instead of CARRYING the Hawks to an eventual loss while giving Bird AND THE REST OF HIS HOF TEAMMATES THE BUSINESS.

Year after year.

WE NEED MORE VOLTRONS...MOST GM's ARE SHYTTY fukk em.

 

[Suleiman Bey]

Prime Kobe & Duncan on the same team wouldn't have been a super team? Kobe in Phoenix with Nash & prime Amare wouldn't have been a super team?

And I said that everyone wants to play with other great players. That's practically a fact. I used Kobe as an example

Nash and Amare never won shyt. Steve Nash wasn't shyt until he was like 30 years old.

 

[SchoolboyC]

Nash and Amare never won shyt. Steve Nash wasn't shyt until he was like 30 years old.

I'd go out on a limb and say if Kobe was their starting SG instead of Raja Bell and Jason Richardson they would've had more success

 

[mson]

All-Star is not the same as superstar/mega-star, all-world player. And all-stars are overrated. That Pistons team of the 2000's had 4/5 all-stars. None of which you'd pick to build around.Just a bunch of cast off and rejects But they played well together and accepted their roles. Once they started feeling themselves they imploded.

I knew someone would bring up the Pistons.