That's exactly what he is except iverson was better. You surround those players with defensive oriented players because they can't mix with others.
And after Dwight leaves you're left with Melo and a gutted team. I couldn't think of a worst case scenario. Parsons is more valuable than Melo. Yeah not as talented but he plays both sides of the court and he contributes more to winning. If he gets his 3 point shot into the high 30's the kid blows Melo away. No thanks.
Carmelo is just not a winner, do we really need another one of those guys? He's a taller version of Kmart.
Not on the Lin train. I would bench him and move Dragic into the starting five. Lowry is one of my favorite players and probably the most valuable on our team. Including him was the only way I could think to potentially entice NY to basically swap Anthony for Martin, and avoid gutting our team. Also, I would force Anthony to the two since he doesn't defend anyway and leave Parsons at the three.
Carmelo's pre-knick +/- numbers are fantastic. New York is the problem, not Anthony... if we can get him for anything reasonable, do it.
Of course. Probably not at the price that NYK want, but I'd give up a lot of people on this team to get Carmelo.
Well then how do you explain the Nuggets playing better without him then? Are they also playing terrible defense collectively and poorly coached? Linsanity didn't expose Melo, it verified the fact that he's a loser who won't ever be part of a winning NBA b-ball team, unless the team was already knee-deep in talent like the Nuggets or the US Re-deam team. The dude who said CarmHELLNO Anthony is correct, Melo is in Akbar's words "A trap". He's a trap for everyone who has watched too many MJ highlight reels and thinks of Bball as stars dueling it out with each other one on one rather than whole teams fighting each other. Yes he's averaging 25 pts, but he destroys the offense of whatever team he's in, and the fact that he has to ISO every single damn time and can't hit 3s to provide spacing makes it hard for his teammates to score efficiently.
Maybe L.A. would like Carmelo? Would a three-way sending Melo and Scola to L.A., Martin and filler to the Knicks and Gasol to Houston be possible?
Well, D'Antoni was fired probably right around the time you were writing this. So I guess you stand corrected. All anyone on this board ever complains about is that we don't have a star caliber player. If Carmelo is not up to your standards, please tell me who is a star in this league?
Last season I wouldn't mind going for Melo. But Melo has already established himself as a chemistry killer after a season with New York, that doesn't bode well for any franchise player. There are are reports that it's the locker room vs Melo. So yes, given that Melo hasn't even spent a full season's worth of games and there are already reports that the whole locker room hates him, yeah I don't think that's good news.
We need some lotto players . . .so it might be a good thing or we let him make our NY pick better by having him stay in NY at least til the end of the year Rocket River
