Let's settle this once and for all: Is he elite?

>>76690548
The fact you even have to ask the question proves that he isn't.

>>76690548
He was borderline elite.

literally gave up after the 09-10 season

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depends on what you consider elite. i would say no, he's basically just a taller allen iverson. overrated as hell, and no team would ever win a championship with him as the centerpiece

>>76690548
Lol no. He's not a dumpster fire like some people think but he's absolutely not elite. An elite one would get his team into the playoffs alone at least in the east.

Think about every team in the east that didn't make the playoffs and give me one other player even close to be elite, let alone real good

He's an elite scorer and good rebounder, that's about it. As a defender he's totally average. Overall he just can't make his teammates better anymore. He used to be an elite total package a decade ago. Friendly reminder he was better than LeDiva in the first 3-4 years in NBA, he took the Nuggets to the playoffs way before LeCramp did it with Cleveland. He was also robbed from the Rookie of the Year award, because the media and the league had already had so much invested in LeTrash by that point they actively rigged the voting so Carmelo doesn't crash their Chosen One project and campaign, it was beyond pathetic.

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Was he elite?

Melo was great up until like 4 years ago when he just stopped giving a fuck and decided the money was more important to him. He still has a chance to get a ring as a second option on a team.

>>76690772
>He's an elite scorer
Nah.

>good rebounder
Below average for his size.

>As a defender he's totally average
Well below average.

>He used to be an elite total package a decade ago
Fucking lol

>>76690772
>Good rebounded
He averaged less than 6 a game. Nigga is lazy as fuck

>>76691293
His career average is 6.6 which is good for a small-forward who's also a primary scorer on every team he played.

>>76690548
not anymore but he used to be

Right now? No. But there's like 3 elite players in the league so no big deal.

>>76690575
>Iverson
>Not elite

Pick one

>>76690548
Not even close

>>76691441
LeBron
Curry
Durant?

Elite at dribbling the ball in place for 20 seconds and bricking maybe.

>>76690772
>he was better than LeDiva
he was never, i repeat, NEVER, better than lebron.

>>76690772
No biases here whatsoever.

>>76690772
>LeDiva
>LeCramp
>LeTrash
>>>/reddit/

his legs look heavy nowadays

>>76696527
he looked like he aged alot desu, hope he wins a ring somewhere before he retires, always liked the guy desu

>>76690548
He is extremely overrated. He had some "awesome spurts" but that's it. If you consider Melo elite then Lin is also near-elite.

>>76690784
he was incredible, but only player on a team full of bums

>>76691927
LeBron
Kawhi
and Durant

>>76690772
>better than LeBron

bob, dont smoke too much weed

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>>76690548

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>>76690548
>>76702739

>>76702739
Lance Thomas plays with so much hustle, damn shame

>>76702739
Nice assist

he's shit

Absolutely not

>>76690575
>he's basically just a taller allen iverson
Never heard Melo being described so accurately desu

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>>76690548

He's quite possibly the biggest "superstar" fraud ever in the NBA. Iverson at least brought his shitty team to the Finals. TMac is also heavily overrated but his prime is way better than Melo's prime. Injuries thoroughly fucked up his career also. CP3 hasn't won shit and chokes in the playoffs, but he's consistently been a top 3 PG for 10 years now. Howard is probably the closest comparison, but atleast that bum carried his team and was seen as the best at his position for a couple of years. Melo was always overshadowed by LeBron.

>>76690772
>As a defender he's totally average.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQEzmPKdqt4

This video came to my mind

>>76703044
TMac was just unlucky, he never had any help. leaving the raptors fucked his career

he was, but not anymore

>>76691629
iverson was trash.
put a rim protector and hes just an average nba guard with below average defense

>>76702756
lmao

>>76690548
Kek. He's not even mediocre. Melo sucks. No one wants that guy.

>>76702851
JR and Imam are disgusting prototype ghetto niggers who, if they weren't basketball players, would rob you, rape you and then set on fire. They're literally three meals away from chimping out on the nearest white people.

>>76711017
that mad that they went and got a ring instead of suffering in new york huh? they both have families and good lives now that they got out of new york, cleveland was the best thing to happen to them

>>76703984

Did you just start watching basketball??

>>76711038
doesn't change the fact they're degenerate ghetto niggers who will probably vin baker themselves 2 years after they retire

>>76711472
why are you so mad lol

JR has kids and Imam is very well spoken (why don't you listen to his shitty mixtape)

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>>76690548
>Is Carmelo Anthony elite?


stawp

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>>76690554
True
New question: Now that we've had a few years to judge his career, was this guy actually elite?

best scorer of the past 10 years other than KD

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>>76691948

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>pause
>jab
>pause
>dribble
>jab
>dribble
>jab
>pump fake
>jab.
>dribble
>pump fake
>memechuck
>complain after the game
>manipulate behind the scenes


The Carmelo Anthony Experience

>>76703984
>trash
>put his entire shitty team to the finals
>able to win one game against one of the greatest lakers team of all time
>able to ruin lakers perfect record

>trash

(You)

Carmelo Anthony is the opposite of elite. He's a ultra-talented bum.

>>76702712
>Kawhi is better than Curry

SOMEBODY SAVE THE FUCKING KNICKS PLEASE

ITS PAINFUL TO WATCH

>>76719010
>>76719010
PUHleeze. The Knicks are in the best position they've been in in years. Fuck the media's LIES. They just need to pawn off Melo off on somebody real stupid, or just flat out release him.

Who is it?

>>76715302
Wade, Dirk, LeBron and Kobe all have scored more than him in the past decade

He's elite when he wants to be, but sadly he just doesn't give a fuck about winning.

>>76690575
Iverson was toxic and elite
Melo is just toxic

>called elite scorer
>Shoots 43% and like 30% from 3
Lmao

he was, but hasn't been in a long time

>>76719995
so basically he's Kobe?

>>76716762
>Forgetting Giannis
You should be ashamed.

Few years back you could ask this

he ruined himself with the Knicks

He was our KD at his time.
He spend too much time in Denver.

>>76690548
He most definitely used to be. He's aged like milk though

>>76690772
>Better than Lebron

He was never better than LeBron, the only public person who ranked him better than LeBron is Skip Bayless, who made a career out of hating on LeBron.

I always thought that Melo was overrated, even on the Nuggets. But he fucked himself on the Knicks trade, which was his fault for being so scared of the lockout.

>>76721006
>He was never better than LeBron

Yes, he was, he clearly deserved the ROTY and got jewed over it.

No he's a ball hog. He offers no play making dynamic to a team. Once the ball if is in his hands the next spot is to the net. He's 1 dimensional

>>76721806
Are you actually going to explain this or will you essentially keep typing "No, I'm right!" over and over?

>>76703984

> calls a guy trash who could put up 40 points in his rookie season and avg'd over 30 a game in several seasons.

>>76690548
>stole the single first place voted needed for LeBron to become the first unanimous MVP in nba history in 2013
I'll always love him for that

if he was actually black he would have been on another level. but he is some puerto rican faggot posing as a nigger.

no athleticism. low basketball i.q., poor work ethic, lives a spic life with drama, entertains women issues more than basketball, no commitment to bball

i mean the list goes on to why this piece of shit just did not succeed, and what makes it worse is that there are people out there that will actually defend this faggot.

>>76690548
Not anymore, still good but not elite

>>76727498
Nigger, he clearly had the better rook season than James, he took the worst record Nuggets to 43-39 and the playoffs, where they even stole a game from the (then) god-tier Wolves. Had better stats than LeBron (other than assists) despite playing 3 minutes less. LeBron's weak East had only 7 teams over 40 wins that season, and the Cavs still failed to reach the playoffs. Denver's 43-39 would have placed them on 4th seed in the East.

>>76728878
>if he was actually black
both his parents are black

>>76715282
No matter how overrated he gets, he was objectively elite

>>76733399
>even stole a game from the (then) god-tier Wolves
>god-tier
They never won a fucking thing and they were "god-tier"? Jesus Christ, reach harder.

>>76739560
>They never won a fucking thing and they were "god-tier"? Jesus Christ, reach harder.

Back then in the mid-00s the Wolves were always among the favorites to win the championship from the West, along the perennials Spurs, Lakers and the new force Suns. You're too young, senpai.

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>>76733399
>looking at team records to judge RotY
>thinking that 21/6/3 > 21/5/6
>ignoring that Melo had Camby and a decent Nene while the best LeBron had was Boozer
>that one 58-win season w/o a ring and first-round exits during the first half of the 00s somehow made those T-wolves perennial contenders, let alone"god-tier"

>>76742217
And they never won shit, so fuck off with "god-tier". Jesus, they never even made the Finals. Stop exaggerating to try to prove your bullshit, contrarian argument and just admit that Melo was NEVER as good as Lebron. Or just hang yourself, whatever is easier for you.

>>76744166
>>76744228
Man, it must be painful to your ass that there are people on this site who watched pre-2015 basketball.

>>76745465
>Make it out of first round ONCE
>god-tier
How the fuck do you classify the Warriors, or 90's Bulls, or 2000's Lakers? Or hell, the 60's Celtics, since you've been watching basketball since the first honkey stuffed a ball in a peach basket.

>>76744166
what the FUCK happened to that poor cow?

>>76745538
Dunno, possibly a train.

>>76716548
>shoot 9 for 27
>hit one three
>bang your head with your fingers

>>76745545
Poor fella

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Phil jackson ruined Carmelos career and is ruining Kristaps career because of forcing the triangle offense which gets BTFOd by a good zone defense and hiring coaches based on likeability.
If Melo leaves the Knicks hed be a much better player

>>76690772
He's right desu

>>76716762
100% True

>>76746045
2 chips over 1 chip
2 mvps against 1 finals mvp
>better
How are you this delusional Curry shoots every team out of the game

>>76745798
>An overrated nignog and lanky awkward latvian faggot are unable to run a system that literally have won 11 championships through different decades
>it's Phil Jackson's fault
New York media does such a fantastic job into enabling the Knicks to jump into the mainstream media even when they shouldn't even be talked about due their mediocre squad talent

>>76746209
The triangle is outdated retard it won 7 years ago and the Lakers ran pick and roll with Kobe and pau too. the league has changed into a 3 point chucking party land and the triangle has no place in this league

>>76746344

how is it outdated dumbass. Carmelo Anthony has zero basketball i.q. and the rest of the squad has no talent. the Knicks are a doomed franchise every year. its so satisfying.

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>>76746186
Kawhi can play defense and isn't a tiny little boy

>>76746435
Read you stupid fuck and look how the league works hows a triangle gonna work when Small ball is the shit these days look at the fucking warriors

>>76746446
>implying defense matter these days
Defense hasnt been important for years just look at the scores these days both teams just attempt to shoot each other out of the game and Curry is the GOAT at doing this

>>76746537

im not even gonna bother with some retard from the netherlands. not sure why you are in here thinking you are smart when you are a total idiot

>>76746654
You're just a butthurt little faggot that can't handle the truth

>>76746680
You are a third worlder.

>>76746477
Just because small ball multi-layer pick and roll works with great 3 point shooters doesn't mean the triangle doesn't work. The triangle's concepts are still solid, and if it's played right, you will get a good matchup every time, unless the team you're playing against has like five 6-7 to 6-9 guys that can rim protect and stuff perimeter shots.

Yeah phil is stupid trying to force it when he doesn't have the personnel for it, but it's not like the triangle is worthless, he just doesn't have the men for it.

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is this a sign that the 4chan banner was about melo?

>>76746537
>only basing how good a player is on the one thing curry excels at
>Defense (Half of the game) doesn't matter
yeah dude great argument lol

>>76702692
Dude, they were called The Big Three in the mid 2000s.

Arenas, Hughes, and Jamison had the most PPG of any trio in the NBA at the time.

>>76691629
I pick not elite

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>>76746344
>The triangle is outdated

That's like saying 4-4-2 in football is outdated. Do you even realize what a pleb you are? If Max Kellerbldt tells you to jump off the bridge and take your mother with you, would you do it? Probably yes.

>>76745798
Zone defense is the biggest meme in basketball. No team relies on it, and no one succeeds using the zone not even in college.

He is hot overrated garbage.
As It is been already said, he is the most fraudulent star in recent times. Requesting the webm where he is liying on the floor while his team keeps playing.

>>76746680
stop smoking so much weed, trailer park faggot