misterearl wrote:37

Vmart wrote:I would put Melo in Durant's category and maybe in James too but thats pushing it. The talent is there but Melo has to want it. To me right now he is a wanna be elite player. He showed up out of shape and not ready to play. Dogged it all season whether due to injury or not he had an awful season. Just now he decides to get in shape tells me a lot about him as a player. It tells me he isn't serious enough about winning a chip.

Why do you insist on rehashing the past?

Are you watching him represent the United States right now?

Sheesh.

Your a true fan Mrearl. It's Olympics I don't get excited about 6-6 vs Tunisia or Niger. Melo always smiles skinny or fat and that means absolutely diddly.

Vmart wrote: true fan Mrearl. It's Olympics I don't get excited about 6-6 vs Tunisia or Niger. Melo always smiles skinny or fat and that means absolutely diddly.

VMart - it is August. If you prefer that your basketball players to play video games and chill at the mall, rather than work on their game and represent their country - we will simply have to agree to disagree.

It's not just The Olympics, it is a dress rehearsal for the regular season, with the best players on the planet, coached by hall of fame minds. Do you really think Carmelo cannot learn anything from Coach K and his all-star staff?

What better pickup games could you find?

babyKnicks wrote:@usabasketball: In case you were wondering ... Melo's 37 points came in 14 minutes. No, that's not a typo.

Sick.....I thought the Nigerians would at least be able to stay within 35 points of team USA. I just

fishmike wrote:because KD goes the finals and his teams advance in the playoffs, thats why. Because KD at 23 years old is a top 5 player. Because KD is coming off his best season and shot almost 50%, and became a better rebounder and defensive player as well.

KD and Melo are NOT the same class of player. Thats what kills these "discussions" and drives them into anti-melo hater threads. In 54 playoff games MElo shoots a Jamal Crawford like .419, but his trolls here would leave you to believe its just the supporting cast and Melo = Kobe, Durant, etc etc

Durant isnt selfish because his team is one of the best in the league and thats proven. Dudes an MVP caliber player. If people are expecting Melo to be an MVP thats an unfair expectation. He's never shown in the league he's that caliber of player. Not even really in the discussion. Melo once finished 6th in MVP voting. He's never cracked the top 10 aside from that. Durant's last 3 years he was 2,5 and 2 in MVP voting. Next best player to Lebron.

Can we please stop putting Melo in these discussions? This is just reality. Im not saying Melo cant be a winner and cant win a title or go deep in the playoffs like your Paul Pierce, Ginobili, etc

Melo is good, but yea... when your shooting .419 in 50+ playoff games and have the league's worst record of any guy to have played in 50 playoff games your being selfish, or doing something wrong. Label it what you want, but the style of play isnt winning.

Durant isn't considered a selfish player becuase his team is one of the best in the league? So Ibaka, Westbrook and Harden have nothing to do with OKC being one of the best teams in the league?

So the when Melo went to the WCF with the most talented team he played on he wasn't a selfish player but all other years he was?

I'm not making a comparison of Melo/Durant..... just find it odd that Melo is considered Mr. Selfish when numberwise both play a similar game.

Number one Melo complaint on this board is Who does Melo make better? With that being the case, what player on OKC does Durant make better?

Vmart wrote:

misterearl wrote:37

Vmart wrote:I would put Melo in Durant's category and maybe in James too but thats pushing it. The talent is there but Melo has to want it. To me right now he is a wanna be elite player. He showed up out of shape and not ready to play. Dogged it all season whether due to injury or not he had an awful season. Just now he decides to get in shape tells me a lot about him as a player. It tells me he isn't serious enough about winning a chip.

Why do you insist on rehashing the past?

Are you watching him represent the United States right now?

Sheesh.

Your a true fan Mrearl. It's Olympics I don't get excited about 6-6 vs Tunisia or Niger. Melo always smiles skinny or fat and that means absolutely diddly.

I thought Melo was balling before the injuries......... maybe im wrong though.(im not)

"It's unexplainable man, it's unexplainable, that's all I can say about it."

- Carmelo to Craig Sager

misterearl wrote:They Said It

(Is it a coincidence that our Knicks have three new point guards?)

"People are getting shots for him... (Carmelo is) unguardable."

- Doc Rivers

Church!!!!!!!!

yellowboy - Carmelo has patented his timing with Deron Williams off the pick and pop.

Somewhere, Raymond Felton is sweating and smiling.

Tyson Chandler should rest.

DurzoBlint wrote:
KMart goes off on Karl, and the Melo situation

Kenyon Martin wrote:"Man, listen, George needs to keep his mouth shut, first and foremost," Martin said. "Melo don't play there no more. So Karl shouldn't be commenting on Melo. If George was such a great coach, then Melo would want to stay. He wouldn't want to leave.

"If the organization was ran right, he wouldn't want to leave, so it ain't Melo. With Melo, not one time when he was there [in the Nuggets' locker room] did he bring that in the locker room when all that stuff was going on. Not one day. Everybody made it a bigger deal than it had to be. That's a good kid.

"They act like this kid was a cancer, like he came in there and destroyed the locker room and made everybody hate him. No, it wasn't nothing like that man. And it bothers me for people to be talking about how he's a selfish player and he has to defend himself."

"They've got the team they wanted now," Martin said. "They got all us out of there. They didn't offer me an extension, they traded [Anthony], J.R. [Smith] is gone [to New York]. They've got the team they want. So why doesn't [Karl] worry about coaching them and leaving Melo alone -- bottom line? It bothers me for them to keep harping at that."

Usually I'd have a "Fugazy" comment for KMart, but he's pretty spot on. George Karl is a notorious grudge holder. He's feuded with Kendall Gill, Doc Rivers, Isaiah Thomas, Ray Allen, Big Dog Robinson, JR Smith, and Carmelo Anthony. Karl really should focus on his own team, than run off at the mouth at ex players or coaches. Sounds like a bitch scorned.