Seriously, how did Melo age so badly?
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SadimirPutin
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It really goes to show you how the claims of whose game will and wont age well is really just bullshyt
SadimirPutin
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Look athleticism aside....part of continuing to score well is ...wait for it.............judicious shot selection
But basketball fans love unrepentant shot chuckers and try to couch it on some killer instinct/heart/will to win/want it more/mamba mentality psychobabble
But basketball fans love unrepentant shot chuckers and try to couch it on some killer instinct/heart/will to win/want it more/mamba mentality psychobabble
It really goes to show you how the claims of whose game will and wont age well is really just bullshyt
You're on point there.
Think about this - from 2000-2007, Mike Bibby and Ray Allen were both peaking.
Around the end of that period both of them had some injuries hit, but Bibby completely fell off while Ray Allen was pumping out all-star appearances all the way until 2011.
Bibby was borderline useless by 2010 and retired by 2012. Ray was a vital part of a title team in 2013 and retired in 2014.
Ray was three years older than Bibby this whole time...which means he retired at 38 while Bibby retired at 33, and Ray looked better his last year too.
Was anyone going to predict that solely off of their games in 2000?
Could he ever, tho?
I mean sure Melo could jump enough to dunk but let's not act like he was ever a leaper like Wade in his early years. Now you wanna talk about someone who cant jump anymore... Wade is it. He can still dunk but for the most part it takes a lot out of him these days
Dilltastic VolWon(derful)
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It is
Seeing your favorite point gawd (Jason Kidd) go scoreless in playoff games when he would fill up a box score like it was nothing just the other day (which in actuality is probably 5-6 years before they go to
)Plus most of us haven’t seen a players entire progression from up and coming to superstar to star to role player to
And these young nikkas ain’t got the same heart as the original players I stanned had at that same age.
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BK The Great
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maybe he should work on his cardio, most of the time if that isn't good then you can't keep up with everything else 
i always thought he was kind of overrated.
i always thought he was kind of overrated.
Lol, some of these posts lack so much truth.
Melo washed, he was never in shape
threattonature
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As has already been said he just hasn't taken care of his body. He has no first step which lets defenders play even closer up on him to defend his shot. He can't create any separation to get his shot off. He needs to drop probably a good 15-20 pounds which would help with his knees as well. Him playing the four was supposed to be to give him a quickness advantage but he doesn't even have that anymore and he can't muscle around PFs. If he's not being an above average scorer at this point he's useless and needs to come off the bench.
A friend of mine was telling me about that. Each pound of weight loss takes 4 pounds of weight off of your knees. If he lost 20 lbs it'd do him a lot of good(then again, he might have an arthritic condition already in his knee... then it's game over anyway)
UserNameless
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Shyt is amazing
The_Third_Man
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By this time, I thought Melo was going to be one of the best pure shooters in the league because shooting is one of the main basketball skills that gets better with age and he was already good at it (compared to his draft class stars).
GnauzBookOfRhymes
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And he's gonna make another 28M next year. If he knows he's going to retire at that point then good for him for not risking catastrophic injury that might affect his retirement 