Nothing wrong with Melo either. They all get labeled selfish until they win a championship. Jordan included. Melo proved he can put a team on his back in high school and college. Possible at the NBA level too. The knicks will need a few years to see how it works out. Not Lin's fault. It's just what happens to you if the expectations are high. And for Carmelo, be dat true.
The last thing we need is for Lin to join the Chinese National Team. We've already been down that road before, and it was a nightmare. The Rockets should put their foot down if Lin even hints at playing for China.
Lol.... I understand your fear but no way a guard will suffer that kind of foot injury no matter what his name is ..... A lot of NBA players do play for their national team
stfu melo u suck u have never won a championship and u will never win 1 in ur life and just because lin actually was winning games in new york was more then u cood ever do u coodnt even win 2 straight games :
Jordan was selfish alright. But he was so good at being selfish he actually won. Melo has always been selfish. But he was Jordan-esque good on the high school and college level. I am not sure if he is that good on the NBA level. He had a talented team at Denver, and a good coach. He couldn't win there. The moment when he asked to be traded to the Knicks, and no other team, he has shown the world that what he wanted was not winning. The only talent the Knicks had was Amare (and an injury prone over the hill Baron Davis). He wanted to leave a good Denver team to play for a poor New York team with a dumb coach and a dumb FO. That says it all.
Melo is both right and wrong. First of all, notice that in the original quote he said "when it comes to the Knicks". Based on that, he is wrong because as a knick, prior to Linsanity, fans and the media had already started to talk about him being selfish. But he is right in the sense that it was because of Linsanity that the drum beat got a lot louder. But that drum beat wouldn't have been as loud as it was during Linsanity if there wasn't talk of it before by fans and the media. Nonetheless, I never understood why there was a negative connotation attached to the word selfishness. To be one of the better athletes in the NBA you have to have a certain amount of selfishness in you. Thing like wanting the big shot, demanding the ball etc. Lin himself has some selfishness in him, in the fourth quarter he likes to take over, whether it be being more of an aggressive facilitator or through scoring.
There is a negative connotation to "selfishness" because it typically means looking out for yourself at the expense of the team. Big difference between that and just plain self-interest Melo was certainly stinking it up shooting only 39%. He was making 20 mil a year along with Amare, and the Knicks were only 8-15 with 2 bonafide superstars? Absolutely atrocious.
^ Yeah, Melo totally forgot that without Linsanity, he and the Knicks might have missed the playoffs which would be more disastrous for his reputation than any supposed "selfish" lable. He should be thankful for Linsanity instead. He really got it all wrong.
On the same token, Melo has only been out of the first round, once. LeBron James has never failed to lead any team out of the first round, while Kobe has only lost in the first round twice and missed the playoffs once (coincidentally he was injured in the last quarter of the season, funny you didn't mention that). I also forgot to mention that the other guys have 6 titles combined to zero.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/leaders/ast_per_g_career.html There are centers and backup small forward who averaged more assists per game than Carmelo does.
I'm going to pretend that I never heard the word "selfish" and "Carmelo Anthony," pre-Linsanity". Hell, critics were saying that six years ago and even bringing up the same thing when the Nuggets were in the Western Conference Finals.
This will never happen. Lin is an Asian-American. To play for China, you have to give up your citizenship. Like Lin would ever give up the awesomeness of being an American.
You can have dual citizenship. The olympics doesn't care as long as you don't play for one country and then try to play for another.
I don't know why people are pushing for this. It's not going to happen. He's smart enough to know that it would NOT go down well that he played for China. Sorry, he's American, not Chinese/Taiwanese.
Ironically, I think the problem with Melo is that he's not selfish enough. He achieves the perfectly craptacular balance between not taking over the game enough, yet still hogs enough possessions to phase out your teammates. Melo is capable of dropping 15-20 points every quarter at an above average rate. If he actually does that all game, then everyone else can play defensively and they win that way. But Melo disappears too, going streaking hot to streaking cold easily. So in the end, he ends up putting his teammates out of rhythm but doesn't score enough to make up for it. And that's why he hasn't achieved Durant/Kobe/Lebron/Wade stature.
Right on the money! But don't let Melo know. He still thinks he's neck-and-neck with LBJ (absolutely delusional).
