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Originally Posted by bballguy
Many of us here, including myself, were wrong about Anthony's ability to co-exist with Lin. Melo thinks he's the team leader, and pulled that act last year when he arrived and started preaching that everybody needed to play defense, but the problem is that his body of work is the play of a me-first loser. Adding J.R. Smith and Baron Davis to the mix just puts fuel on this fire. The team awkwardly defers to Anthony on offense, and suffers greatly due to his defense.
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Originally Posted by bballguy
George Karl had to build a system around Carmelo...Carmelo is an isolation player...How can you expect a guy to be able to get get the ball, wait for isolation, jab step 30 times before finally making a move, and put up a shot all in a time span of 7 seconds?? You can't. Carmelo cannot play in the 7 seconds or less system. He also probably doesn't move very well without the ball.
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I actually made the comment how anthony and lin cannot coexist due to mike D system in the other thread. As much I denied it, I wanted them to prove me wrong.
In my opinion, new york has to make a choice: either fire mike d'anotoni, or tell melo to become more of a catch and shoot player (for the first 3 quarters) and move way better without the ball. - primary defense. His stats will obviously suffer, but he only cares about winning right?
Pick and roll, run and gun for the first 3 period and play a slower and half court game in the 4th period. This is where anthony's game becomes useful because since the game slows down (especially in the playoffs) and isolation game becomes a better option.
Remember in phx 04-06, they had a good system going on, run & gun and pick & roll. But when they played a slow game against the spurs in the 4th quarter (in the playoffs), they were shut down. One thing missing from them was a player who could create his own shot. Phx never had that, New york does. This is where I think New york is much better offensively than compared to phx back then.
any opinions?