knickscity wrote:jrodmc wrote:Bonn1997 wrote:SupremeCommander wrote:Bonn1997 wrote:That's the last thing I'd complain about with Carmelo. At this stage, he's basically a good scoring specialist. I'd love to see him contribute in other ways more.
he has the ability to contribute big with rebounds or assists in bigger games but I'd certainly like to see a consistent contribution in those areas as well
he certainly is a prolific scoring specialist though, and referring to it simply as 'good' ain't cutting it. Basketball Reference gives him virtually the same HOF probability as guys like Tony Parker and Dwight Howard and that seems fair. He has to do more to be considered - but he has plenty of career left. He has a 70 percent chance at the HOF almost exclusively for his ability to score.
I just looked at that info. on basketball reference. It's a prediction of how hall-of-fame voters will vote on the player; it's not a validated assessment of the player's contributions. It also gives guys like Stephon Marbury and Glenn Robinson a shot at being in the hall-of-fame because they got a lot of PPG.
I'm starting to actually love basketball-reference.com.
Must be the Bonn effect.
Better increase my meds.
Yeah folks don't trust their eyes anymore.
But real talk.....Melo is shooing too damn much.
Worst part about it is he can't see it because he insulted by single coverage.
Teams don't mind Melo shooting.
are you serious? You're saying Melo doesn't get doubled?...
and just so we're clear, yes I'm aware that Melo's not playing as well of late as he did earlier on in the season, but it's not only him, it's the whole team.
Melo's shots are not as good as earlier and are lately in larger numbers because 1) He needs to do it since we often look like we don't have a clue about what to do on offense and 2) he doesn't get as many good shots due to us not having a PG that's actualy able to run past a defender and create some space.
Felton isn't one of the best PGs in the game, but his importance to this team becomes noticable when he's out. I like Felton and I wouldn't want to get rid of him, but it's more like we're missing that part of our game rather than a specific player.
Couple our PGs inabilities to get past a man with us having 2 centers out and only having to rely on Chandler to tip missed shots back out and there's your problem.
What I'm trying to say is that yes, Melo isn't currently at his best, and part of it is on him, but it's hardly all on him.
We finaly got a perimiter defender back and our defense has looked much better, we're going to get Felton back soon and our offense will get better (even if Felton will still frustrate us sometimes with his ill advised shots), and when we get Camby/Sheed back (hopefully for good) our rebounding is going to improve as well.
There are definitely improvements to be made, but I'm not looking at this Knicks team as the finished article so that is to be expected, and if I'm being quite honest with the amount of injuries the Knicks have had I'd say Woodson and Melo have led this team to a pretty darn good record.
IF the Knicks won't be cursed by injuries the whole season then I expect them to have an even stronger 2nd half of the season.
EDIT: One thing I'd also like to add. With Felton playing we won't be burning out Jason Kidd anymore. And it's very apparent that he's much more efficient when not being forced to play heavy minutes.
... Nahhhhhhh
1/24/2013 12:29 PM