TripleThreat wrote:Nalod wrote:Not a month into the season and we already decided that he can't be a part of the triangle?
I think many fans have decided that Carmelo Anthony is a DEPRECIATING ASSET.
No different than when you buy a brand new car off the lot, and then watch it's actual value plummet the minute you sign the contract and leave the dealer lot. Except the Knicks didn't get a brand new car, they paid a brand new car plus more price for a used car. Denver got the benefit of all of Melo's cost controlled years.
Several years ago, the Knicks might have gotten a nice Taj Gibson/Jimmy Butler package, before the Bulls traded off Deng. They might have been able to get a package centered around Chandler Parsons before he signed with the Mavericks. There were various trade scenarios when Melo didn't have a No Trade Clause, was younger and didn't have this coach killer/can't deal with team mates in conflict/keeps saying stupid things in the media millstone around his neck.
1) He spent most of his career out of shape. That always catches up to a player eventually.
2) He is poor mix of don't care/don't try/don't understand on defense. If you can't even defend your own weight in the NBA, as you age, your value plummets, even if you have a marketable skill set ( see Ray Allen)
3) He's horrible in the press
4) He offers zero leadership
5) He has established a reputation as a coach killer.
6) Team mates who can actually help the team win, he's driven off the franchise
7) His desire to get paid first and foremost has compromised his team's ability to build a strong roster around him
8) Instead of eating, drinking, living the game ( not everyone can be as consumed as Peyton Manning and Michael Jordan), he clearly sees his basketball career as a means to an end and nothing else.
9) He doesn't move well off the ball, he has poor shot selection, he has limited court vision/savvy as a passer, he's generally a low BB IQ player.
10) He has shown little to no propensity to thrive in a team basketball system/environment.
He's a great one on one player who offers lethal offense and can create his own shot. He'd be a great sixth man or hired gunner for a team needed an offensive push. It's a valuable skill set, but one that has limited utility when discussing the qualities needed for a "franchise player"
He's a poor fit for the current state of the franchise ( he makes the Knicks a treadmill team, he's set to play for a team ready to contend now, to amass the assets needed to build a team around him, Melo will be out of his prime and at the end of his current contract, and that's if the Knicks do every single thing right from now to the end of said contract)
As each day passes, his trade value diminishes. The Knicks holding on to him is like the Cowboys holding onto Herschel Walker a few more years than they did and then trying to trade him to the Vikings.
All his negative intangibles become more highlighted as Melo gets older, this is true for all players who other NBA players don't want to play with, not if they have a choice ( i.e. Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard)
"Better to get rid of a player a year too early than a year too late" - Bill Walsh.
Wall Poster Material.
There will always be a couple of psychos left who lose their lunch over these points, but it is just a short window of time left before almost everyone agrees with the majority of these points even if they were once staunch Melo defenders.
Everything this franchise has become is a reflection of Melo. Anyone who still lives in denial of this is incapable of seeing him for what he is. We'll always have those who think it is all purely subjective, but when there's smoke, there's fire is one thing. This is a bonfire of the vanities and the team is going up in smoke.
11/24/2014 7:54 AM
