They're winning...fall back. Billips is the cat with more playoff experience and Melo is deferring to him right now. Shows maturity.

I dunno- I've seen Melo take over at the end of games. I think Billups is more of a leader but I think Melo is a lead dog. Dude could lead the league in scoring legitimately.

Posted by sebstar:

They're winning...fall back. Billips is the cat with more playoff experience and Melo is deferring to him right now. Shows maturity.

I'm with you. How can you fault Melo for being outperformed by Billups. Billups is one of the best playoff and big game performers of our time. Arguably the best player on the Detroit Championship team. Carmelo still went for 22 points and 9 assists last night. What else is he supposed to do?

Carmelo is a great player in my view. He's immature but he's also 24 years old and has 3 or 4 more years before he hits his athletic prime. If you use Lebron and Kobe and Wade as a benchmark then yes he falls short. But when you take away these NBA anomolies he's pretty darn good. I would of course prefer Lebron on my team. I would of course hope that Melo matures as he ages(most of us do), but if he came to NY I would be celebrating in the streets. That's your star right there. He would be tougher to buidl around, but you can win with him.

Melo may not be in the LBJ mold (wasn't Pippen a Robin?) but he very well could be in the Bernard King mold. The dude can take over and I really, really wish the Knicks could've landed him when he was reportedly on the market

Posted by Bippity10:

Posted by sebstar:

They're winning...fall back. Billips is the cat with more playoff experience and Melo is deferring to him right now. Shows maturity.

I'm with you. How can you fault Melo for being outperformed by Billups. Billups is one of the best playoff and big game performers of our time. Arguably the best player on the Detroit Championship team. Carmelo still went for 22 points and 9 assists last night. What else is he supposed to do?

Carmelo is a great player in my view. He's immature but he's also 24 years old and has 3 or 4 more years before he hits his athletic prime. If you use Lebron and Kobe and Wade as a benchmark then yes he falls short. But when you take away these NBA anomolies he's pretty darn good. I would of course prefer Lebron on my team. I would of course hope that Melo matures as he ages(most of us do), but if he came to NY I would be celebrating in the streets. That's your star right there. He would be tougher to buidl around, but you can win with him.

Yep. Melo carried then to a 2 seed, now Chaunce, the playoff veteran, is leading them in the post season which is a completely different animal. Melo is playing the good student.

Melo is a G. Would kill to have him in orange in blue. He's not Lebron, or perhaps even Wade, but who is? Looks like the ship has sailed on Melo being traded now.

Dumars must cry his ass to sleep every night over the 03 draft. Wade and Bosh were reaches --- But Melo was the easy pick.

You know what's funny....the Hornets are going to win both games in NO and come back and snatch game 5.
Billups will not keep up his scoring rampage.

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Dumars must cry his ass to sleep every night over the 03 draft. Wade and Bosh were reaches --- But Melo was the easy pick.
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Hey Hey Hey, lets not call Darko a bust quite yet......


Hah, no seriously Detriot would have won multiple championships if they Melo, I'm surprised that poor Dumars isnt on anti-depressants

Posted by orangeblobman:

Darko is only 24. It is very likely that he will come back and have an All-Star career.

in Europe? the D-League?

Posted by orangeblobman:

Well, I mean, he's young. And he can block shots. If he was in the right system, the right coach, he would excel. 24 is a very young age. He has averaged a near double-double in the league, do you really think he's not capable of being an All-Star? Jamal Magloire made his first all-star team when he was 28, right?

Its safe to say Darko will never be an all star.