Too often, the debate over Melo appears to be all or none. He's either THE problem, or, he's faultless, in fact a victim...
I agree with those posters who see both sides. Roster is flawed, and Melo working incredibly hard, under a coach who has absolutely no guiding offensive structure, to, do his best to win. Admirable, and, this year, even with his bizarre 1-20? on late and close, its been his best year in NY.
However, I totally believe that, knowingly or not, he is a big reason this team is dysfunctional. The trade, inability to co-exist with Amare when he was still somewhat healthy, running MDA out of town,seeming to pout under Linsanity,i and, as the star of the team, seemingly show no effective leadership on defensive effort, or, shutting down knucklehead behavior.
Front office tried - mortgaged the future to put three All Stars (melo, Amare, Tyson) together, had some success last year. Time to move on, and signing him to a max deal is wrong for reasons of cap, age, and, mostly, as I honestly don't see - beyond Olympics or All Star teams (where he can be the brilliant shooter he is), what collection of players would gel with his game.
