loweyecue wrote:Lots of overpaid players in the league but Melo is tops. He only does one thing well that is to SCORE and he is not efficient at it. Its not that hard. Naming a bunch of injured players means nothing - Strawman argument because it doesn't in anyway address the points made in the article. Clearly there are people even outside of UK board who thinks Melo is the most overpaid player in the NBA - deal with it.

Sometimes your eyes can tell you things that statistics can't quite describe. Anthony is scoring at a prolific rate, but it has been exactly what the team has needed, when the team has needed it. The metrics also reward his teammates for the work he does, the wins in the win shares are his, and the players who can't create their own offense live off the double- and triple-teaming Anthony absorbs.

nykshaknbake wrote:

loweyecue wrote:Lots of overpaid players in the league but Melo is tops. He only does one thing well that is to SCORE and he is not efficient at it. Its not that hard. Naming a bunch of injured players means nothing - Strawman argument because it doesn't in anyway address the points made in the article. Clearly there are people even outside of UK board who thinks Melo is the most overpaid player in the NBA - deal with it.

Few top scorers have really high FG% like Durant or James. But 44% with the usage he gets is actually pretty decent. This number is actually probably higher for practical purposes(not by a huge amount) from all the offensive rebounds and put backs of his own shots that Melo gets. I wouldn't call him inefficient. Not sure how Joe Johnson who makes more money per the article is less overpaid than Melo too.

"with the usage he gets"

what does this really mean? given his lack of actual playmaking for others this statement is a misleading excuse. his usage is high because he doesn't have the playmaking skills to create. happily for his fans he is actually moving the ball much much better over the last good number of games. so while not actually creating to justify his usage he at least is creating some cohesion for the team as opposed to destroying it.

this is the best we can expect from him and it might be enough to put the team over the top. but the better teams have a number of games to adjust. i still have visions of lebron james's ball denial from last year and i wonder what woodson and melo are going to cook up this time around, should the knicks make it to the ecf.

dk7th wrote:

nykshaknbake wrote:

loweyecue wrote:Lots of overpaid players in the league but Melo is tops. He only does one thing well that is to SCORE and he is not efficient at it. Its not that hard. Naming a bunch of injured players means nothing - Strawman argument because it doesn't in anyway address the points made in the article. Clearly there are people even outside of UK board who thinks Melo is the most overpaid player in the NBA - deal with it.

Few top scorers have really high FG% like Durant or James. But 44% with the usage he gets is actually pretty decent. This number is actually probably higher for practical purposes(not by a huge amount) from all the offensive rebounds and put backs of his own shots that Melo gets. I wouldn't call him inefficient. Not sure how Joe Johnson who makes more money per the article is less overpaid than Melo too.

"with the usage he gets"

what does this really mean? given his lack of actual playmaking for others this statement is a misleading excuse. his usage is high because he doesn't have the playmaking skills to create. happily for his fans he is actually moving the ball much much better over the last good number of games. so while not actually creating to justify his usage he at least is creating some cohesion for the team as opposed to destroying it.

this is the best we can expect from him and it might be enough to put the team over the top. but the better teams have a number of games to adjust. i still have visions of lebron james's ball denial from last year and i wonder what woodson and melo are going to cook up this time around, should the knicks make it to the ecf.

I agree that the inefficiency argument is a bit played this season. His true shooting percentage is above the league average for small forwards and his turnover rate is below average. We don't need him to be Andre Iguadola when he's able to score so effectively.

nykshaknbake wrote:It's no excuse. Focal points of the offense get more defensive attention. It turns average to above average offensive players into momentum killing chuckers who shoot 40% from the field. You think if teams keyed on stopping Tyson Chandler he'd have a high FG%? He's an afterthought. Melo's usuage is high because he's good. If he wasn't he'd be a J Craw back when he was a Knick or JR Smith for most of the season. No he's not Lebron or Durant. But that's doesn't mean he's the most overpaid player.

dk7th wrote:

nykshaknbake wrote:

loweyecue wrote:Lots of overpaid players in the league but Melo is tops. He only does one thing well that is to SCORE and he is not efficient at it. Its not that hard. Naming a bunch of injured players means nothing - Strawman argument because it doesn't in anyway address the points made in the article. Clearly there are people even outside of UK board who thinks Melo is the most overpaid player in the NBA - deal with it.

Few top scorers have really high FG% like Durant or James. But 44% with the usage he gets is actually pretty decent. This number is actually probably higher for practical purposes(not by a huge amount) from all the offensive rebounds and put backs of his own shots that Melo gets. I wouldn't call him inefficient. Not sure how Joe Johnson who makes more money per the article is less overpaid than Melo too.

"with the usage he gets"

what does this really mean? given his lack of actual playmaking for others this statement is a misleading excuse. his usage is high because he doesn't have the playmaking skills to create. happily for his fans he is actually moving the ball much much better over the last good number of games. so while not actually creating to justify his usage he at least is creating some cohesion for the team as opposed to destroying it.

this is the best we can expect from him and it might be enough to put the team over the top. but the better teams have a number of games to adjust. i still have visions of lebron james's ball denial from last year and i wonder what woodson and melo are going to cook up this time around, should the knicks make it to the ecf.

"good" as in "hot." as long as the shots are falling then the usage is justified. but when either (a) melo cools off or (b) the defense is stifling, then melo is not so good.

similarly, the knicks offense has been "good" as in "hot" lately. yet the defense has been just average. what happens when the knicks cool off, as they probably will? two things have to happen: (a) the defense has to get better and (b) both melo and jr need to get to the line more and pass the ball more.