Allanfan20 wrote:Broken logic. Nobody never said Melo is not great. He is. He's just not the superstar we need him to be. Not necessarily his fault. He is what he is. A prolific scorer.

So the NBA only has one superstar. Lebron James?

AnubisADL wrote:

Allanfan20 wrote:Broken logic. Nobody never said Melo is not great. He is. He's just not the superstar we need him to be. Not necessarily his fault. He is what he is. A prolific scorer.

So the NBA only has one superstar. Lebron James?

No, there's
Durant (on his way out of the playoffs)
CP3 (out of the playoffs)
Dwight Howard (out of the playoffs)
Deron Williams (out of the playoffs)

Those are the true superstars!

jrodmc wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:

Allanfan20 wrote:Broken logic. Nobody never said Melo is not great. He is. He's just not the superstar we need him to be. Not necessarily his fault. He is what he is. A prolific scorer.

So the NBA only has one superstar. Lebron James?

No, there's
Durant (on his way out of the playoffs)
CP3 (out of the playoffs)
Dwight Howard (out of the playoffs)
Deron Williams (out of the playoffs)

Those are the true superstars!

Don't forget Harden and Curry!

NYKBocker wrote:Yup. Melo is a great scorer. He just needs another very good player to be successful. Emptying the cubbard to get Melo really put this team in a bind.

Another way to look at it:

Having a guy who gets paid $20MM with no kness is what's putting this team in a bind.

Take Amare's $ and give it to a few solid role players or to someone who actually deserves that kind of money and we smack the Pacers around.

jrodmc wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:I think Melo is the cause of all his issues. He should have not helped his team get to the playoffs for 2 straight years so Denver could collect high lottery picks to add to the core. Instead, Denver was stuck with low first rounders to build around.

Durant did it smart. He didn't get his team to the playoffs his first 2 years in the NBA allowing OKC to draft Russell Westbrook and James Harden.

If he had just simply not been good enough to get his team anywhere those 2 years he might have gotten to play with Dwight Howard and Chris Paul/Deron Williams.

He comes here and leads this team to the 2nd seed in the East when really we needed a high lottery pick.

Melo was/is too proficient for his own good.

+1
You might also note that Melo went with "Coming Home" party theme instead of "The Decision" theme, where he might have been able to starphucque with real stars instead of second tier glass punchers and DPOY Offensive geniuses.

And we are seeing just how great Mr. OKC Efficiency is without both of those draft picks when it counts, aint we?

Makes sense as KD is better in every way, so the #s reflect that. Sorry.. what were we talking about?

fishmike wrote:

jrodmc wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:

Allanfan20 wrote:Broken logic. Nobody never said Melo is not great. He is. He's just not the superstar we need him to be. Not necessarily his fault. He is what he is. A prolific scorer.

So the NBA only has one superstar. Lebron James?

No, there's
Durant (on his way out of the playoffs)
CP3 (out of the playoffs)
Dwight Howard (out of the playoffs)
Deron Williams (out of the playoffs)

Those are the true superstars!

I guess this year's superstars are Hibbert, Paul George, Zack Randolph, Andrew Bogut and Mike Connely. Thats the great thing about the playoffs... its a time when a guy can elevate and take his game to the next level. One thing you can count on though is that Melo wont be in that group. Sucks. I wish I was wrong.

Too elite indeed.

Only superstar in the league is Lebron. At this point, as good as KD is, I don't have them in the same category. He has officially put himself on a level of MJ as far a play ... still have have a lot of winning to do though.

ChuckBuck wrote:

jrodmc wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:

Allanfan20 wrote:Broken logic. Nobody never said Melo is not great. He is. He's just not the superstar we need him to be. Not necessarily his fault. He is what he is. A prolific scorer.

So the NBA only has one superstar. Lebron James?

No, there's
Durant (on his way out of the playoffs)
CP3 (out of the playoffs)
Dwight Howard (out of the playoffs)
Deron Williams (out of the playoffs)

Those are the true superstars!

Don't forget Harden and Curry!

I'm sure all these teams are dying to trade these guys after the post season failures just like us trying to trade Melo. It's unreal.

NYKBocker wrote:

Knixkik wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:

jrodmc wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:

Allanfan20 wrote:Broken logic. Nobody never said Melo is not great. He is. He's just not the superstar we need him to be. Not necessarily his fault. He is what he is. A prolific scorer.

So the NBA only has one superstar. Lebron James?

No, there's
Durant (on his way out of the playoffs)
CP3 (out of the playoffs)
Dwight Howard (out of the playoffs)
Deron Williams (out of the playoffs)

Those are the true superstars!

Don't forget Harden and Curry!

I'm sure all these teams are dying to trade these guys after the post season failures just like us trying to trade Melo. It's unreal.

Thing is, all these other teams have better younger talent surrounding their best player. We have a bunch of players eligible for Medicare.

Our core players Chandler, Shumpert, Felton, and in some ways Stoudemire are not old. The only old players we have are ones that were designed to fill out the roster with veteran play, but none of those players are part of our core. Who cares if our 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th guys need to retire. They are all 10-15 mpg guys if they play at all.