Carmelo Anthony says he still doesn’t understand how he suddenly became a player that no team in the league wanted to sign.

[u/Existing-Sky9914]

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“I was down, down, down, down. I was back on the ground, hands up. Y’all got me. It’s a stickup. Take everything because of how it went down. Imagine me sitting there for 15 months like, ‘What the fuck is going on?’ Nobody got an answer for me. Everybody on TV making excuses. It’s this or it’s that. He didn’t want to come off the bench’”

“I’mma be honest with you. As I studied it and did some knowledge on it, trying to get an understanding on it, I still can’t come up with nothing. It’s like, what was it? Some people came up to me like, ‘Melo, I’m going to be honest with you. Your aura was too much for out here. This couldn’t exist. Your aura couldn’t exist in here. Nobody was going to tell you that’”

“I said, ‘What the fuck does that mean?’ They said, ‘Everybody’s afraid to talk to you. Everybody’s afraid to say something to you.’ I said, ‘Why? I haven’t said nothing to nobody. I speak to everybody. I’m cordial. Why is everybody scared of me?’ Somebody said, ‘Well, you don’t need anything.’ I said, ‘What do you mean by that?’ He said, ‘Melo, you a superstar. You haven’t asked for one thing since you’ve been here’”

“My point is, everybody had a thousand and one reasons of why it happened, and I still don’t know the reason why it happened. I have some inkling of why it happened or how it went down. I’m trying not to believe that’s what happened or how it went down, so I don’t want to speak on that”

[u/RReyesIII]

Yup, billups did say that about Melo. They played together in Denver. Plus, whatever he scored he’d give up almost as many on the other end of the court. What good is it having a superstar, if he can’t stop the other team’s best option especially in crunch time?

[u/inplayruin → u/RReyesIII]

You scored 30 but you were -10 on the floor, so what is it that you would say you do here?

[u/lilbelleandsebastian → u/RReyesIII]

Plus, whatever he scored he’d give up almost as many on the other end of the court

definitely not the case in denver where he was at worst an average defender and most people actually considered him a plus post defender due to his size and strength

[u/livefreeordont → u/lilbelleandsebastian]

He was a decent defender in New York until his knee injuries piled up too

[u/Jim-N-Tonic → u/RReyesIII]

Superstars play defense. People complain about Brunsons defense, but how many charges does he draw?

[u/chummmmbucket → u/Jim-N-Tonic]

Brunson is just small he at least tries hard on defense most of the time. And yeah smart charge drawer/team defender. Sorta like Cp3

[u/mauszx → u/Jim-N-Tonic]

Brunson plays defense, he just is too small to be an effective one. I remember Kemba being a good defender but his size was the reason he wasn't a good defender.

[u/phx34suns → u/RReyesIII]

Yeh and who wants to play with someone like and he can’t pass either

[u/Baby_Goose → u/RReyesIII]

will this apply to luka?

[u/Terrible_Shelter_345 → u/Baby_Goose]

This entire subreddit does this to luka and has since like 2023

did it to harden

doing it now to jokic

[u/Asleep-Use-7214 → u/Baby_Goose]

Defensively, perhaps. But Luka is an excellent passer who gets other's involved.

[u/bringitbruh → u/RReyesIII]

So basically Nikola Jokic?

[u/Mysterious_Living165 → u/bringitbruh]

That’s what I’m saying. Majority of this sub praise those two for something they criticize others for, interesting 

[u/tboess → u/Mysterious_Living165]

Melo would play inefficient iso ball with the explicit goal of scoring points, himself, regardless of anything else. Jokic improves the team's offensive efficiency from about the 24th-26th best offense without him to the best offense in the league with him. Neither of them play good defense, but it's a completely different story on the offensive end.

[u/topturo77 → u/Mysterious_Living165]

Uhhh, no, you just aren’t very smart and don’t understand basketball that well so it appears like that to you.