Melo Apparently Thinks He's still Top 10

[NY's #1 Draft Pick]

Inserting a ball stopper who doesn't play D & basically plays the same position as the Warriors best defender and swiss army knife in Draymond Green for a top 5 SG that defends the guys Curry can't and can space the floor wouldn't have made a difference in win totals? shyt even putting Melo in at SF and removing Klay hurts this team, even with Barnes struggles.


This is a brain dead statement. Curry's great but this team is the sum of their parts despite each player's individual greatness. Go look at Curry's stats when Klay doesn't play and get back to me.



Can you really picture Melo playing in the Warriors ball movement offense?

Putting melo on the Warriors atm would make em unstoppable. Do you know how much attention he commands from other teams and how well he plays off the ball? You haven't been able to see that on display recently but if you look back to the 2012-13 Knicks you'd see how the spacing was and how effective he could be with great teammates.

 

[onelastdeath]

Putting melo on the Warriors atm would make em unstoppable. Do you know how much attention he commands from other teams and how well he plays off the ball? You haven't been able to see that on display recently but if you look back to the 2012-13 Knicks you'd see how the spacing was and how effective he could be with great teammates.

That wasn't even my point. My point was, who besides Lebron James could you put on the last 2-3 Knicks teams, that would have this HUGE impact. There's no one. Not a single person.

 

[Malta]

Putting melo on the Warriors atm would make em unstoppable. Do you know how much attention he commands from other teams and how well he plays off the ball? You haven't been able to see that on display recently but if you look back to the 2012-13 Knicks you'd see how the spacing was and how effective he could be with great teammates.

No it wouldn't and the whole point of what Green brings to the Warriors is elite defense and playmaking, you remove him from the equation and add Melo and the ball doesn't move as freely and their defense gets much worse. Durant has already taken over that team as far as shots go, you add Melo to it and then you just have Curry and Thompson standing around waiting for their turn, you'd also have nobody that would be able to defend the center in their small lineup, Durant is not willing to do that and Melo can't do it.

 

[onelastdeath]

Green lmao
Give green his own team and see how he performs
Y'all overate the hell outta, players,
Butler is not better than Carmelo Anthony
Hes had a few good seasons but chill lol melo makes playoffs easy with the bulls last year If u replace dem

If your not the franchise player and proved you can carry a team, u are not in the discussion as being better as melo.

That's my only point. There's very few generational talents, that come around. Melo is one of them.

It's crazy how Kobe, Pierce, Lebron and other great players know this, and have said this repeatedly, but im supposed to take the word of some nikkas on a forum

All of the top players mention Carmelo's name with a sense of respect. All of them. Kobe, Pierce Lebron have all said that he's the hardest in the league to guard.

6'8, shoot from anywhere, elite mid range, very good 3 point shooter, post and toasts, and he's big and will bully you if you're not strong enough. Which is why Butler, PG, etc can't guard him.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

We've had 14 years to rate him quite properly A good number 2.. Nothing more

 

[Consumed]

Green lmao
Give green his own team and see how he performs
Y'all overate the hell outta, players,
Butler is not better than Carmelo Anthony
Hes had a few good seasons but chill lol melo makes playoffs easy with the bulls last year If u replace dem

If your not the franchise player and proved you can carry a team, u are not in the discussion as being better as melo.

why isn't anyone taking into account Melo's regression

he's just not as good as he used to be two years ago and can't carry a team anymore. He shouldn't even be a #1 option at this stage of his career

Big fan of the guy back in 2014 but he just hasn't been at that level since then

That wasn't even my point. My point was, who besides Lebron James could you put on the last 2-3 Knicks teams, that would have this HUGE impact. There's no one. Not a single person.

are you accounting for the games he's missed with injury? He missed 42 games in 2015, entire second half with knee surgery. Of course you can plug someone 1) actually better than him at basketball and 2) more reliable from a health standpoint and get more value out of that.

 

[onelastdeath]

No it wouldn't and the whole point of what Green brings to the Warriors is elite defense and playmaking, you remove him from the equation and add Melo and the ball doesn't move as freely and their defense gets much worse. Durant has already taken over that team as far as shots go, you add Melo to it and then you just have Curry and Thompson standing around waiting for their turn, you'd also have nobody that would be able to defend the center in their small lineup, Durant is not willing to do that and Melo can't do it.

You're a basketball mind, besides Lebron
Who does any better on the Last few Knicks Squads? You put Draymond or Klay in place of Melo these last few years do they do any better? Who does Dray and Klay become when you can load up on them with no other options to kick too?

 

[knickscrusaderm]

yeah cause jimmy butler is fukking 5 years younger
only a generational talent would make a difference on the knick rosters the last few years
no other players short of a mvp talent would make an impact to make melos teams better
not one of them nikkas would take the knicks to the playoffs short of lebron, kd, russ, steph.
melo definitely has his flaws...but all these nikkas you named...their flaws would be highlighted to death on rosters with less talent...be real

Exactly what I'm saying. These nikkas kill bougie for never making the playoffs with his subpar roster WTF would he do with last few knick teams? nikkas is bugged

 

[Malta]

You're a basketball mind, besides Lebron
Who does any better on the Last few Knicks Squads? You put Draymond or Klay in place of Melo these last few years do they do any better? Who does Dray and Klay become when you can load up on them with no other options to kick too?

Who does better with Last years Knicks?

Curry
KD
Russ
CP3
etc

Curry, Russ and CP3 running the PnR with Kristaps pretty much all game would have been ridiculous. The biggest issue I have with Melo is that he's a number 1 for a team, yet his skillset is not really conducive to people playing off him. He operates from the mid post and baseline and his team just stands around watching him go to work half the time. If you plugged an elite PG into last years Knicks team they'd be better than they were with Melo because you'd have continuity on offense, and KD is a better defender & passer than Melo so I'd also say the Knicks would be better with him too.

 

[knickscrusaderm]

Kyle Lowry is one of the worst playoff performers of all time yet he's better than Melo.

TheColi.

 

[Kd35brah]

Let's see how many nikkas get roasted this season by a player that they're all supposedly better than.

Melo's gonna have a great year. Seems to have an actual NBA roster around him too for the first time in a few years.

Ima bump this thread every time he roasts or has a better game Than someone mentioned here that's "better" than him.

Last Time Melo had an NBA roster, he went to the second round. And prior to the Knicks made the playoffs damn near every year as a #1 option.

So we'll see. As someone who's watched damn near every Knick game since he's come to the city. I've watched as teams have been able to load up on him, and when he passes out of doubles he's passed to ... Oh yeah thats right. Being the #1 option and only reliable option on your team night in and night out has to be rough. Melo, Rose, Year 2 KP, Jennings off the Bench. Noah, Courtney Lee.



We'll see this year.

Don't want to hear shyt if they win less than 45 games this year.

He has an "actual nba roster" around him again according to you.

 

[bigrodthe1]

what do yall want him to say? I never understand this overreaction when some athlete considers himself one of the best in the league. It's the mindset every athlete needs to have. If they dont consider themselves great then why the fukk are they even playing the game?

Ummm why should he even care??? Just go out and ball

 

[Steezy]

I have a challenge for all knicks capos..whoever loses more games between the hawks and knicks gets their off season and next season thread relocated to the bushes..


Any takers

 

[NY's #1 Draft Pick]

No it wouldn't and the whole point of what Green brings to the Warriors is elite defense and playmaking, you remove him from the equation and add Melo and the ball doesn't move as freely and their defense gets much worse. Durant has already taken over that team as far as shots go, you add Melo to it and then you just have Curry and Thompson standing around waiting for their turn, you'd also have nobody that would be able to defend the center in their small lineup, Durant is not willing to do that and Melo can't do it.

Ok I agree with you. Green is a special player in which he brings offense and can guard different positions. Melos defense is not on par with greens. But if you were to have a line up with melo (without Durant) on the Warriors I believe they'd be very successful. I mean we can go back to 2012-13 and see how effective he was in the post and from the 3pt line and the notion of him being a ballstopper went away for a bit.

 

[intruder]

Crab dribble, maybe?