jrodmc wrote:

dk7th wrote:1)he has a beautiful stroke.

2)he has a really sweet spin move to the right baseline where he then fades away-- an unstoppable shot that is faintly reminiscent of both jordan and ewing.

3)he shoots a very high percentage when two rub screens are set for him and he dribbles from the right to the left.

4)he's very strong under the basket rebounding his own misses.

You sig is ruining the moment.

jrodmc wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:His selfishness by forcing a trade and not waiting to free agency cost the Knicks and insane haul of players and assets and hurt all chances for Carmelo's time in NY to be successful. If I could make a trade for pick #2 in this draft if I had pick #1 for Carmelo--Id do it before I sat in a chair.

Thanks Briggs. Next you can tell us of the 14 grade schoolers with vid highlight reels right now you would trade him for. Provided the school board accepts cash as well.

The point is 100% valid. If Carmelo wasnt selfish we couldve kept a core of Chandler Gallinari Mosgov all of our picks and we wouldve had the goods to compete. By eradicating it all in the trade--we left our cubbard dry to build the team around him--instead we continued to mortgage off assets that is still hurting us today. Truth will set you free my man--tell me this is not material fact? How many games below 500 were we before Melo got hurt this year? What was our record last year with Melo? Since we committed all of these assets for Carmelo 4.5 years ago--tell me about our playoff success?
Funny Cleveland with Lebron James Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love were NOT a good team until they got Mosgov.

So while his physical abilities could decline with this surgery, I think he will still be a very good shooter and a effective player if he lets his ego go and is surrounded by versatile talents on OFFENSE and multiple verastile/mobile defenders with some veteran leadership players that he respects that can play on the court with him

His best career year was with Billups when he took the least shots and also had Nene as a post options and also has all round skills in terms of mid post/deep post/ability to hit the 17 footer, beat his man off the dribble for a PF, and has the ability to facilitate
Like Billups said, he needs a true leader as he lacks the leadership for a team, and needs 2way talented verastile/facilitators/defenders as well

BRIGGS wrote:

nyk4ever wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:

jrodmc wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:His selfishness by forcing a trade and not waiting to free agency cost the Knicks and insane haul of players and assets and hurt all chances for Carmelo's time in NY to be successful. If I could make a trade for pick #2 in this draft if I had pick #1 for Carmelo--Id do it before I sat in a chair.

Thanks Briggs. Next you can tell us of the 14 grade schoolers with vid highlight reels right now you would trade him for. Provided the school board accepts cash as well.

The point is 100% valid. If Carmelo wasnt selfish we couldve kept a core of Chandler Gallinari Mosgov all of our picks and we wouldve had the goods to compete. By eradicating it all in the trade--we left our cubbard dry to build the team around him--instead we continued to mortgage off assets that is still hurting us today. Truth will set you free my man--tell me this is not material fact? How many games below 500 were we before Melo got hurt this year? What was our record last year with Melo? Since we committed all of these assets for Carmelo 4.5 years ago--tell me about our playoff success?
Funny Cleveland with Lebron James Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love were NOT a good team until they got Mosgov.

no **** it's valid briggs, but it's a conversation for another thread. why can't you respect splat's wishes and keep this thread to what it's meant to be? i mean you're willing to quit the forum over him being banned, but you won't allow him to have his thread stay on topic?

Splat has posted about 100 threads why Carmelo scks. I didnt agree with him there either.

BTW Briggs....Don't you think the bold comment was slightly over the top?

Also, for the last 10+ years, nobody stayed 100% honest to the thread titles. I always found that to be annoying, which is why I stopped posting new threads.

nyk4ever (off subject, my name used to be NYC4Life, not sure who came here first)....If you are going to protect a thread created by a rookie who joined in July 2014, then you just set yourself up to be the UK thread police for the entire site, especially for the OG's. Otherwise, there will be complainst of showing favortism.

OK, back to the thread....What I like about Melo?

His wife is banging!
He has enough money to give his kids everything they want, including a full ride education.
I don't know what he drives, but I'm sure it's nice....with a nice house.

Top scorer in the NBA, when he's on his game.
Is well respected by his peers.
He's an actual brooklyn born player.
He's taking on the challenge of bringing a championship back to NY.
He's willing to do whatever it takes to win. He ran the point for MDA. He's learning the Triangle system.
He's one of a few players with legit inside / outside game.
He's a good rebounder.
Seems like a good dude to hang with. I should know since I saw him in the club years back. Man, can't believe how tall he is in person.

gunsnewing wrote:Was it Islesfan? I know he hated Dantoni and eventually he went to far and got banned

Naw..Wasn't Isles..Seemed like someone from Melo's camp sniffing interest and sentiment at the time...