MELO!!! The guy is beasting for us right now. Has Big Dog ever put together a consistent month like this? While I don't think Melo has played at this level long enough yet for us to call him a top 3 player in the league, if it continues he could stake that claim. And any way you slice it, he's leaps and bounds beyond Big Dog. So while you don't need to eat crow on him not being a top 5 player (yet) Metro certainly should admit that Melo is well above Glenn Robinson level (and i think he has?)
Also, who gives a FUKC about Blake Griffin??? The guy is basically a young STAT with no jump shot. STAT is BG's Ceiling. So thats good, but he's not there yet. He's a great highlight player so he gets a lot of visibility.
for the real historians and basketball purists ill lay it out there very simply for you
Glenn Robinson was more Glen Rice
Carmelo Anthony is more
Bernard king/Alex english with a little bit of larry bird mixed in
I say bernard king because in the open court at his size he can get to the basket at will, and has the mid range game as well put together as any offensive weapon to ever come into this league.
I say Alex English, which im not sure if any one even remembers lol
but he was a beast btw
I say Alex English aka the blade because of his ability to score from multiple spots on the floor, while english wasnt a three point threat, being that small fowards in the 80s other than larry bird (Next) werent expected to shoot three point as much as they were expected to work the elbows and corner mid range spots on the floor.
I say Larry bird for one reason and one reason alone
at the small forward position, melo is now proving he can excel at the power forward position as well, which is something that was unheard of until larry bird came to bean town
bird was able to threaten being a 10 + rebounder, 10 + assist guy and 30 + point scorer on any given night. but not in the fashion that lebron james is where its sheer athletic ability, but from mid range, behind the arc, the foul line, in the post, on the elbow, from the corner.
There has not been a small forward who has come into the league
let me repeat
there has not been a small foward who has come into the league, that is as much of a threat from any area on the floor as Carmelo Anthony, since larry bird.
Now
every one can laugh and hoot and holler about my comparisons
but alex english never won a damned thing true,
bernard king never won a damned thing true,
Carmelo Anthony never won a damned thing true,
BUTTTT
I repeat
BUTTTT
give the knicks a line up of
Dennis Johnson
Danny Ainge
Carmelo Anthony
Keving Mchale
Robert Parish
with Cedric Maxwell
Greg Kite
ML Carr
and Quinn Buckner
and you are going to tell me they wont win a championship behind Melo ?
I know thats dreaming about a lake that could have been if some one poured water into a ditch in the desert.
but the fact remains we have a serious talent on our team, as serious as you are going to get, and he is playing both ends of the floor motivated and focused and it saddens me that we are all going to bash this man
glen robinson was glen rice, a shooter, strictly a shooter, his post up game was limited because his athleticism was limited, his passing was horrendous, his instincts in the open floor was limited, and like glen rice, he didnt win anything until he was relegated to the role of spot up three point shooter for a veteran elite level team i.e glenn spurs, rice lakers.
Melo will never be a spot up shooter, he will never average under 20 ppg until he is ready to retire, and he hasnt even met his prime yet with regards to putting his whole game together.
if this man gets help, i.e kobe help, lebron help, durant help.
watch out.