Carmelo Anthony

[Rastapopoulos]

...is looking ready for the glue factory. Last ten games:
mpg: 34.6
ppg: 11.2
fg%: 34.5
3%: 28
fta: 13 (in 311 minutes)
apg: 2.1
rpg: 7.6

That's our starting power forward! And notice none of this measures defense, which is supposed to be his weakness.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

...is looking ready for the glue factory. Last ten games:
mpg: 34.6
ppg: 11.2
fg%: 34.5
3%: 28
fta: 13 (in 311 minutes)
apg: 2.1
rpg: 7.6

That's our starting power forward! And notice none of this measures defense, which is supposed to be his weakness.

Need to cut his minutes to 28 per game so he can be effective when out there.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

...is looking ready for the glue factory. Last ten games:
mpg: 34.6
ppg: 11.2
fg%: 34.5
3%: 28
fta: 13 (in 311 minutes)
apg: 2.1
rpg: 7.6

That's our starting power forward! And notice none of this measures defense, which is supposed to be his weakness.

Didn't realize it was that bad for that long. Effort seems to be flagging some; that I did notice.

 

[Wade Garrett]

I love Carmelo and ecstatic he's finally a Blazer..
That said, he is struggling offensively, but I will argue his defense is actually good, and he seems to blend and like it here.
His shots are all good ones, they're just missing...
He is still a great post up option (maybe the best we have till Nurk gets back?) and his decision making is usually on point.
I am still impressed with his strength and conditioning after sitting out so long.
I think he likes it here, and I for one am hoping he gets that turn around jumper going, and retires a TrailBlazer.

 

[TBpup]

Playing way to many minutes on old legs. Can be effective for shorter stretches.

 

[Chris Craig]

He needs to attack the basket. Fuck jumpers

 

[illmatic99]

He's in his 17th season. Asking too much of him

 

[kjironman1]

Get Collins back and bring him off the bench. Melo will be Money!

 

[AldoTrapani]

...is looking ready for the glue factory. Last ten games:
mpg: 34.6
ppg: 11.2
fg%: 34.5
3%: 28
fta: 13 (in 311 minutes)
apg: 2.1
rpg: 7.6

That's our starting power forward! And notice none of this measures defense, which is supposed to be his weakness.

Yea he’s been garbage. Makes sense though he was running on pure fumes in the beginning with a chip on his shoulder looks like he settled in now tho

 

[hoopsjock]

Playing way to many minutes on old legs. Can be effective for shorter stretches.

Exactly this!

Melo shouldn't be playing 30+ minutes a night at this point in his career.

 

[bobf]

He is garbage. A couple of notches above Hezonja but with more appealing form.

Maybe everyone knows this already or maybe not... but Amare Stoudamire basically said, without actually naming names, that Melo wasn’t happy at all with the Linsanity phenomenon in New York. Meaning he stole the show from Melo and Melo didn’t like it. Who the hell wants that kind of teammate.

But that’s beside the point. He’s no good.

 

[Hey]

He is garbage. A couple of notches above Hezonja but with more appealing form.

Maybe everyone knows this already or maybe not... but Amare Stoudamire basically said, without actually naming names, that Melo wasn’t happy at all with the Linsanity phenomenon in New York. Meaning he stole the show from Melo and Melo didn’t like it. Who the hell wants that kind of teammate.

But that’s beside the point. He’s no good.

That was like 8 years ago, not sure how it's relevant to who he is today as a teammate. He's been nothing but enthusiastic and supportive of Dame's leadership.

That said, he's getting a lot of good looks from midrange and missing easy ones. I think he'll turn it around and that is going to be the deciding factor of whether or not the Blazers can get in the playoffs.

 

[wizenheimer]

hmmmm




last year, considering his TS% and efficiency, I thought Turner's usage rate was too high. Too many empty possessions because he couldn't shoot well. Melo doesn't shoot any better, yet his usage is 37% higher than Turner's. Making that worse is that Turner was 3.4 times more likely to get an assist

 

[Minstrel]

Evan Turner also played better defense. Turner was overrated defensively, but still much better than Anthony.

Anthony is just a famous name. If a no-name were providing exactly the same production/defense as Anthony, that person would be getting pilloried on this forum. Anthony is a Hall of Famer who's completely washed up.

 

[lawai'a]

hmmmm


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last year, considering his TS% and efficiency, I thought Turner's usage rate was too high. Too many empty possessions because he couldn't shoot well. Melo doesn't shoot any better, yet his usage is 37% higher than Turner's. Making that worse is that Turner was 3.4 times more likely to get an assist

But nearly twice as likely to simply turn it over.
edit: I agree Anthony is washed up though.

 

[gatorpops]

Need to cut his minutes to 28 per game so he can be effective when out there.

How!

 

[blazerfan11]

...is looking ready for the glue factory. Last ten games:
mpg: 34.6
ppg: 11.2
fg%: 34.5
3%: 28
fta: 13 (in 311 minutes)
apg: 2.1
rpg: 7.6

That's our starting power forward! And notice none of this measures defense, which is supposed to be his weakness.

His perimeter defense measurement would be somewhere around zero.

 

[Dougnsalem]

Gee. Another shit thread fucking trashing on our players. This place has gotten to be so awesome.....

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Gee. Another shit thread trashing on our players. This place has gotten to be so awesome.....

I dont like Melo as a starting PF playing a lot of minutes. I think his role should be more of a 6th-7th man type. That said, I wS impressed with a couple things, he seems to have gelled well with the team and has been exceptionally professional, also the conditioning he was in when he got here, he did an amazing job of keeping his body ready to play.

 

[Dougnsalem]

I dont like Melo as a starting PF playing a lot of minutes. I think his role should be more of a 6th-7th man type. That said, I wS impressed with a couple things, he seems to have gelled well with the team and has been exceptionally professional, also the conditioning he was in when he got here, he did an amazing job of keeping his body ready to play.

You obviously missed my point. Do this- look over all of the thread titles for the last month. Two months. "Trade this person!". "Fire that person!". This place has become a Debbie Downer, and Negative Nancy site. Go look. Prove me wrong.

As fucked up as it is, I have rather been enjoying Reddit.

 

[Strenuus]

You obviously missed my point. Do this- look over all of the thread titles for the last month. Two months. "Trade this person!". "Fire that person!". This place has become a Debbie Downer, and Negative Nancy site. Go look. Prove me wrong.

As fucked up as it is, I have rather been enjoying Reddit.

The team sucked the last 2 months. To expect there to be only positive threads is foolish. Lets be realistic about the times we were in my friend.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

You obviously missed my point. Do this- look over all of the thread titles for the last month. Two months. "Trade this person!". "Fire that person!". This place has become a Debbie Downer, and Negative Nancy site. Go look. Prove me wrong.

As fucked up as it is, I have rather been enjoying Reddit.

I understand. Its been a rough season, not that, that is an excuse. There are some things with the team that are frustrating... Some things are fun though, Dames been amazing, Trent is growing into a baller, Little has looked good. I found myself in a cycle of the same arguments day after day and kinda stopped posting it was pointless no one was budging half the time I didnt know what the argument was I just knew that some minute detail in some stupid comment we were at odds over... so yes I get it.

Again, hard year especially after last year, but some positives and you bet when Nurk comes back Im gonna be so excited even if he flat out sucks for a while, will just be happy he’s back.

 

[Strenuus]

I expect that kind of reply from you. You have been in the top 10 of negative posters here. I expect ONLY postive threads??? No, that's wrong. Like I said, you go take a serious look at them. Bummerville. Fuck that. Life is already a bitch. Why subject myself to more negative shit. That's stupid....

Top 15, probably. Im okay with that. Its funny cause youre one of my all time favorite posters.

I dunno, I'll make lemonade out of lemons on most things in my life... Sports, it doesnt really matter. At the end of the day I dont lose sleep over it. I get upset and frustrated in the moment, sure. Which i think is what people fail to correlate especially in game threads. "Its always so negative." Well yeah, if we suck and we dont score or play defense or our coach is a box of rocks, it happens.

I Will say this: after amazing games and amazing shots and amazing play (I.e. .9 and the wave) theres no more positive people than this place.

If people want to be negative, let em. No sweat off my back. If the team sucks let your frustrations out. I dont lose sleep if we suck. I do lose sleep if we win though.

I love having you here, Doug. Youre an amazing part of this community. But when it comes to the blazers, we run the gamut. And thats perfectly fine.

 

[wizenheimer]

Top 15, probably. Im okay with that. Its funny cause youre one of my all time favorite posters.

I dunno, I'll make lemonade out of lemons on most things in my life... Sports, it doesnt really matter. At the end of the day I dont lose sleep over it. I get upset and frustrated in the moment, sure. Which i think is what people fail to correlate especially in game threads. "Its always so negative." Well yeah, if we suck and we dont score or play defense or our coach is a box of rocks, it happens.

I Will say this: after amazing games and amazing shots and amazing play (I.e. .9 and the wave) theres no more positive people than this place.

If people want to be negative, let em. No sweat off my back. If the team sucks let your frustrations out. I dont lose sleep if we suck. I do lose sleep if we win though.

I love having you here, Doug. Youre an amazing part of this community. But when it comes to the blazers, we run the gamut. And thats perfectly fine.

there are negative fans here; But for every nega-blazer, there's a sunshine pumper. Different sides of the same coin; and it's kind of loopy for one side of the coin to be bitching about the other side

 

[KSF-ERIC]

This is bullshit. Melo’s been good for us. He’s just in a shooting slump. He’s creating good shots and has gotten Trent a lot of open shots. He’s playing good D. He’s rebounding. The negativity on this thread is bullshit. He isn’t washed up and he shouldn’t be demeaned as being sent to the glue factory. Fuck you. He wants to retire here and he hit a game winner against Toronto that could ultimately decide our fate. Fuck you negative posters. Fuck You.

 

[Minstrel]

I expect that kind of reply from you. You have been in the top 10 of negative posters here. I expect ONLY postive threads??? No, that's wrong. Like I said, you go take a serious look at them. Bummerville. Fuck that. Life is already a bitch. Why subject myself to more negative shit. That's stupid....

There were probably twenty threads enthusing over Lillard in the past few weeks. Because he was freebasing pure awesome directly into his veins.

Anthony's been terrible. A thread discussing that seems reasonable. Just as it's reasonable to go on and on about Lillard turning into the greatest player since sliced bread. (Sliced bread, granted, played before the modern era.)

 

[wizenheimer]

This is bullshit. Melo’s been good for us. He’s just in a shooting slump. He’s creating good shots and has gotten Trent a lot of open shots. He’s playing good D. He’s rebounding. The negativity on this thread is bullshit. He isn’t washed up and he shouldn’t be demeaned as being sent to the glue factory. Fuck you. He wants to retire here and he hit a game winner against Toronto that could ultimately decide our fate. Fuck you negative posters. Fuck You.

ok...I get it...you're pissed-off. But I have no clue who you're pissed-of at, and for what. If you're going to lob a bunch of fuck you's into the thread, then at least identify the you's that are to be fucked, and why

 

[bobf]

Gee. Another shit thread fucking trashing on our players. This place has gotten to be so awesome.....

You consider him one of “our players” I don’t. I’m just waiting for him to leave so our players can get on with it.

He sucks and he’s hurting our team IMO.
I’ll cheer when he’s gone.

 

[bobf]

This is bullshit. Melo’s been good for us. He’s just in a shooting slump. He’s creating good shots and has gotten Trent a lot of open shots. He’s playing good D. He’s rebounding. The negativity on this thread is bullshit. He isn’t washed up and he shouldn’t be demeaned as being sent to the glue factory. Fuck you. He wants to retire here and he hit a game winner against Toronto that could ultimately decide our fate. Fuck you negative posters. Fuck You.

IMO... he’s hurting our team being on our team. He’s a low efficiency, high profile player who demands shots. IMO... losing Melo will help our team. I want the Blazer’s to get better and win as much as you do which is WHY I want him gone. It’s not negativity. It’s an opinion that differs from yours about what helps / hurts our team.

 

[TBpup]

hmmmm


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last year, considering his TS% and efficiency, I thought Turner's usage rate was too high. Too many empty possessions because he couldn't shoot well. Melo doesn't shoot any better, yet his usage is 37% higher than Turner's. Making that worse is that Turner was 3.4 times more likely to get an assist

Not shooting better than Turner? That is a much worse comparison than I thought it would be. Given Turner's better defense and passing, for Melo to be in Turner's neighborhood on offense is.....offensive.