I agree that the Rockets would have had more success with him but at the same time, Harden is just a better player. I think that Melo has to realize he's not as good as he was and look into fitting into a team. He has to Vince Carter his career...he won't though...so he'll continue to be mostly irrelevant.
Melo sucks. Seeing him and Rose play together is just bad. They put up shots without a care in the world whether it goes in or not. They don't care about their teammates. Hard to believe he once was talked about in the same breath as Lebron. Now since LeBron has the ships Melo just gave up cuz he knows he can't amount to even close to LeBron
The Knicks are trying to pawn Melo off to the Cavs. No dice! http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...thony-kevin-love-rebuffed-cleveland-cavaliers
Melo has never made an effort to improve his game and doesn't particularly care about winning, terrible player to watch
It's easy to blame everything on Carmelo, but no one has been able to make the Knicks a stable franchise for like 20 years now. The issue is the organization more so than Carmelo. Check him out in Denver or with the Olympic team. He is a terrible fit with their current roster.
Melo won't retire for the reasons you described, he's doesn't care about winning or about improving his own play so why will he retire? He'll only retire when teams stop paying him enough money to continue playing.
Knicks haven't had a stable franchise because their FO makes a habit of getting players like Carmelo. Starbury, Eddy Curry, Vin Baker, Larry Hughes etc. basically every player they've had since their JVG days have been totally selfish POS which is why that franchise is always dysfunctional. Even now they lucked into Porzingis, but surrounded him with Melo and Rose who don't know how to make plays for him. Melo has been a cancer everywhere he went, even in Denver his team and coach hated him. I don't think there's a player I like less than Melo, he's just bad for the sport.
He was a winner in college when he won a national championship, right? He won a lot of games on the Nuggets and certainly in the olympics. When I watch the Knicks I see a Kobe-esque, pure isolation scorer that plays mediocre defense at best and hits the boards like a beast. He needs the right team around him because he does NOT see the floor like Lebron or James. He does NOT make his teammates better. He absolutely plays hard every single night though. He is simply not a number 1 option in the modern NBA.
Derrick Rose to me is way more court blind and inefficient than Carmelo, and Kristaps isn't ready to takeover, period. He still makes tons of rookie mistakes and is a central part of the problem this year. Knicks need to sell everyone. (Except Zinger)
Well first of all college Melo is different from the current Melo, just like every person your personality, views in life and temperament is different in college and 12 years later. Just like Ty Lawson who is an alcoholic now but was actually a good player in college, Melo was one of the best ever college players. There were few people as talented, skilled and smart as he was in the college stage of their careers. Melo's talent, bball IQ and skills were never really a question, as some people have noted he started his career on par with Lebron and IMHO he should have won the ROY because he had a slightly better. The difference is Lebron locked himself in the gym every day and worked on his game whereas Melo just coasted, and 12 years later his innate talent isn't enough to offset the deterioration brought on by his age which is why we're seeing the drop in his stats. Olympic Melo is also a different person from NBA Melo. Just imagine a couch potato going to a boxing trial session with his friends, he'll probably do his best in the training session right? But once the trial session is over and his friends stop pestering him to go, you think he'll continue working out? Probably not, he'll just continue what he's been doing so far. The same is true for Olympic Melo, this is basically Melo realizing his potential. But Olympics only happen every 4 years, the rest of the 3 years he's just been sitting on his ass as always. And even in the Olympic years, once the Olympics are done Melo starts coasting again which is why he loses the training's effects by midseason or so. I just had to bold your statement because I don't even know if you watch Melo. Melo doesn't play hard every night, in fact the reason he takes so many mid range jumpers is because he is slacking and would rather take a mid range J than drive to the hoop and use his post moves. Rebounds like a beast? WTF? Melo gets just 6 rebs a night, that's just average for the SF spot. **** Westbrick and Harden are pgs but they get more rebs than him a night.
Don't be silly. He's never going to lead a decent team again, but he certainly has the potential to follow Paul Pierce's late-career trajectory until he's a dude who can still score double digit points at 37 while doing nothing else. If he can go five more years at 70 games a season, 18 points a game, that puts him at #9 all time in scoring (assuming that Lebron moves up to top 5 and Dirk at least finishes the season). That's a nice legacy that holds up for the next 50 years, even if the people who actually watched him play like us do a double take every time we see him on the list above Shaq, Hakeem, Duncan and Oscar.
Clippers trade for 'Melo They don't have the success they want/are hoping for Blake & CP3 leave Clippers stuck with 'Melo At least he'll be in Hollywood.
"Carmelo Anthony has taken off his sneakers and is wearing flip-flops on the bench with 30 seconds to go in the Knicks-Sixers game." Sat out the entire 4th... Fitting end to a memorable season for him, lol.
Melo would actually be a great stretch 4 for the rockets if he were willing to take a backseat to Harden. He shoots almost 43 percent on catch and shoot 3's.
