The Truth About Carmelo Anthony

[@0vern9K]

Someone who acknowledges Kobe’s greatness and understands context behind stats. You got a sub

[@TIGMT0824]

Exactly, LeBron all about his stats but those stats don’t contribute to a lot winning but it’s the total opposite for Kobe. We all have eyes and Kobe is clearly a better player than LeBron.

[@dallafinezt3334]

@@TIGMT0824😂 yeah lebron didn’t contribute to 9 straight finals fuck the 2018 season and 2007 one

[@jpgotti1856]

@@TIGMT0824 clearly huh🤣🤣☠️☠️🤡🤡 16-6😭😭

[@jasonmoukala8909]

⁠@@TIGMT0824yeah that’s why bron has 4 rings cuz he doesn’t contribute to winning. Casual 😂😂😂

[@justaguy-0h4]

@@TIGMT0824do u hear yourself? He led a cavs team who hadn’t done anything sine the 90s at like 22 years old. You can acknowledge Kobe’s greatness without hating on bron

[@dayalcober89]

I think Melo's problem was his view about winning. Chauncey Billups even said that Melo cared more about his own stats than seeing the team win. Looking back, Melo's 40 point performance came mostly with his team losing games.

[@mattjones6323]

U missed the NCAA tournament

[@shorts26]

Exactly the Knicks were better with lin and him not controlling the offense but he didn't want to do that nor did he want sacrifice any of his pay to get better players around him

[@andreamicucci2396]

Youre not wrong whatsoever, maybe it was because he came out the same class as lebron and was immediately always compared so that statistical pressure maybe made him care about nothing else

[@dayalcober89]

@@andreamicucci2396 'm too much of Larry Bird, MJ and Kobe guy, that when you see skill of that level, somehow you have a built in expectation that they will have a similar level of tenacity. Bird and Kobe are once in a generation players. With MJ of course, he's like the Beatles of music, greatest of all time type of people.

[@Fahronaces]

The NBA is the hardest basketball league in the world to win in. He won in every other setting, high-school, College the Olympics. It's sucks people only see him as a career loser

[@JosephTurner-ok6br]

He was gifted 28 shots per game from his rookie season. It was his RIGHT to take 30 shots per game somehow

[@eliebechara3811]

How? He averaged 17.9FGA in his rookie year per Basketball Reference

[@dewanewelch1744]

​@@eliebechara3811 exactly lol I distest when people over state how often people shoot. Example they call Kobe a gun but LBJ avg the same about of shots per game for they career.

[@jamaalsjourney]

Dang Joseph you gone just sit there and take that l

[@eliebechara3811]

@@jamaalsjourney lol

[@abdeenabdul7803]

​@@dewanewelch1744bruh argument makes no sense lebron takes same or a little bit less shots but shoots at at a higher efficiency.Kobe shot always less than 50 percent lol.

[@f2afinito983]

They weren’t shooting 3s like that

[@jbsmooth7184]

This just feel like slander ngl😭

[@Juan_rivera]

Not really if you see the teams he's had... and the shit he pulled this is accurate

[@3Mpire258]

It is tho lol he masks it very well but completely lost me at the end with the Demar angle. Melo was for sure “one of those guys” and for sure a legit 1a. The closest thing he had to a complete roster in 2009 he took a prime and eventual champion kobe to 6 tough games. That Denver team would for sure have beaten Dwight and them. That’s how close melo was to being a champion with a good but not great roster.

[@slickeddy2000]

@@3Mpire258Melo would’ve gotten exposed on Defense by Hedo Turkolu, Rashard Lewis, or even Michael Pietrus or JJ Reddick. Melo on offense would have Trouble getting buckets near the post especially with Dwight down there.

[@3Mpire258]

@@slickeddy2000 He took Kobe to 6 close games, Dwight to Kobe to 5 not really competitive ones.

[@younggod3906]

Demar had better playoff numbers than Melo

[@sgrey9181]

Melo is the classic number 2 option forced into a number 1 role imo. With a Phil Jackson-esque coach to keep his ego in check, I think Melo could’ve been a Pippen-type player. But somehow GMs think they have the guy as their number one when they SO CLEARLY do not. Examples in the modern NBA: Trae Young, Demar DeRozan (for a while, ik he finally got traded), Zion Williamson, Devin Booker, Jimmy Butler

[@J-Hue]

I don't think you get to top 10 all time scoring being a 2nd option type player.. He just never grew into a floor general, so you generally want a great pg next to him for things to work best.

[@sgrey9181]

@@J-Hue I’m not so sure. I think if Scottie had played on mid teams his whole career, and averaged 25-30 ppg, he might’ve ended up top 10 or 20 all time in scoring

[@joejett5084]

You get it. Melo is comparable to prime klay. Very deadly but he’s not leading your team to a title. But klay was more efficient and had way better defense.

[@mesaifulmore3250]

I don’t think book fits into this category tbh

[@LTS612]

Grew up a Knicks fan cause of Melo Jellow favorite color Yellow i grew up constantly disappointed with our seasons even with Kristaps he had help and never adjusted same with Jermey Lin he’s a great player but not a winning player but I do love Melo forever great vid!

[@tavesmfnnaaszzz8644]

Jeremy Lin got a ring

[@M1RD3N]

I always believed melo was up there with the Wades,Brons,CP3’s but according to stats,accolades,and winning.he was a step below where Amare stoudemire and Yao Ming were

[@SaintFrenchy]

Besides scoring yea he’s for sure a step below

[@Watchingvideoslikeu]

For kids out there, through the first 2 years into their careers if you said not only Carmelo was better than Lebron and was to have the better career. No one would think you were crazy. That’s what makes his career so disappointing-ish

[@southbeachtalent]

College basketball was still the barrier for success. Kobe and T Mac were the outliers. After Melo won the chip at Syracuse I personally thought he'd be way better at LeBron. In retrospect it was silly but you're right a lot of us felt that way in those days

[@joejett5084]

@@southbeachtalentGarnett was the outlier. It took years for kobe and t mac to show anything. Anybody thinking melo was better or could be better were just haters. At best I always saw he could be a more consistent Glenn robinson. We never saw anything like lebron but we knew he was legit. Lebron put up career numbers his second year in the league and melo fell off his second and then bounced back his 3rd but lebron made the finals his 4th year. Not even close

[@southbeachtalent]

@@joejett5084 I disagree with you. I graduated same year as Bron. (03) Everybody in the high school scene were keeping tracks on him, he was famous nation wide by sophomore year I'd say. I'm from PA originally and we just always viewed college as the stepping stone to the NBA. FAR from a hater man. I did forget about Garnett, he was a star before those 2. Where I'm coming from is there were so many more failures than future HOF'S coming straight from high school. Tyson Chandler, Eddie Curry, D Miles just to name a few. It took a few years before we realized some special players had absolutely no need for college

[@joejett5084]

@@southbeachtalent man you’re from the east coast so that makes sense 😂😂😂😂 but nobody else was

[@Watchingvideoslikeu]

@@joejett5084 to say people who thought would be better were haters is just wrong. Melo immediately became the best player on a team that went to the playoffs in the Western Conference mind you as a rookie, after just winning the Natty as a freshman. Lebron had a great rookie year aswell

[@f2afinito983]

Melo was nice he was just cursed to be in an era with a cyborg( Lebron)

[@4ktkaram395]

Still extremely overrated

[@redhorsepapi]

And no one else won during Lebron's prime? FOH.

[@4ktkaram395]

@@redhorsepapi not without super teams no not reallt

[@redhorsepapi]

@@4ktkaram395 huh. The 2007 and 2014 Spurs must have been a super team then huh? And the 2011 Mavs? 2015 Warriors? All super teams? If those were super teams, then damn Lebron's Heat must have been the goddamn Avengers. And they still lost. I agree with you that Melo is overrated. But I was talking about the original comment saying the reason why Melo never won was somehow because of Lebron. That's simply not true.

[@4ktkaram395]

@@redhorsepapi 07 Bron was 22 playing with scrubs. 11 completed his fault. 14 wade and bosh gave him nothing.15 love and Irving were both hurt and the warriors still barley won

[@Jecko157]

Melo gets way too much hate

[@datjewellboy]

Too much love.

[@Bob-fj7lr]

Not enough

[@Bob-fj7lr]

I think a lot of people didn't really watch as much Melo as they think they did. I remember being really disappointed that first game he came here because I thought he was like LeBron. And if you watched him in NY he just wasnt that good.

[@J-Hue]

He was dominant in MY once D'antoni was fired D'antoni didn't like him or his style of play and vocally didn't want to incorporate his game into the offense.

[@mattjones6323]

He was terrible in ny

[@premium7182]

You obviously didnt watch 😂😂😂😂

[@Bob-fj7lr]

@@premium7182 lol you obviously didn't watch if you think he was good

[@GodSon91]

Real hoopers don’t care about efficiency he still one of the greatest scorers all time Kobe was inefficient as well 👀👀👀

[@MontrellPitts]

What about Michael Jordan unlike KOBE who modeled after him MJ was ultra efficient is MJ not a real hooper

[@jalynjones9136]

Except Kobe wasn’t inefficient & that myth has been debunked go learn ball goofy

[@Youralwayswhining4367]

Mello was into showboating.

[@Cbblair]

I don’t think people realize that basketball is a job for these players. Sure, you can have a legacy and be remembered for winning championships, or you can make millions of dollars on mid or bad teams where you can get your shots up and keep your value high. People give melo hate for choosing the money and his own personal stats, but that’s how you get the big contracts. At the end of the day, he’s made millions on millions of dollars to play a game most of us stopped playing competitively after high school at the latest.

[@Chiown320]

First ballot hall of fame. Top ten in scoring all time! Respect this man’s work!

[@etins1528]

Regarding the “All-NBA” thing, Melo played in an era where he had to compete against the likes of LeBron & KD both early in their careers and into their prime years. There’s only 3 spots for an “All-NBA” Small Forward and they both played Melo’s position. So yea, considering the fact that he’s going up against 2 Top 5 SF for over a decade straight, most ppl would struggle to make an “All-NBA” team for Small Forwards at all. Let alone 1st.

[@SpiderGang56]

The OG Melo❤

[@CamzClipz6]

If Melo was drafted by the pistons I feel like it would have been much better for his career having a good roster to start with while he was in his athletic prime

[@esmo9728]

most overrated player in history never seen a player gassed so hard for accomplishing nothing

[@berkodabasi6024]

Your mom is overrated

[@J-Hue]

He's done more winning on the court than guys like Dominique Wilkins. Yet Wilkins is most universally loved, so that's not true. Also compare him teammates in his orim3 to someone like Nash and it's clear the 15 qnd 11pg should've been nowhere near an mvo award, much less two.

[@unclesean4]

I'm a fan of Melo but you're telling the truth.

[@slickeddy2000]

New Sub you on your way fam. Keep up the great content.

[@TheLittleLife]

i just feel like melo isn’t a leader and linsanity shows it

[@premium7182]

Linsanity was a 2 week moment😂😂😂😂😂

[@christorres7591]

At his peak as a player there’s not many from his era that were that much better but when comparing careers he doesn’t hold up as much. When I was younger I loved watching melo play and he’s still one of my favorite players ever but it’s still a shame to look back how his career unfolded

[@mac2fleet18]

Another great vid 🤙🏼💯

[@ShaadsComicsandBeers]

Nah I don't think the Nuggets were supposed to beat the Clippers in 06 but they definitely should've been able to make it a more competitive series than what it was

[@jaspermorant2352]

as a nuggets fan, we should’ve beat the jazz in 2010

[@J-Hue]

Y'all would've if your coach was there. That was a disappointing loss, but Karl being sidelined with cancer and not having an assistant who was ready for head coaching duties definitely hurt the team.

[@28makeitgreat]

When I think of melo, I think of mid range assassin don’t matter if your hand in the face, he’s just not missing

[@bmillersince92]

Carmelo is a ymca type of player he just happens to be 6’8

[@jamesmartinez2444]

When we got to the western conference finals with him in Denver it was more billups and roster being staring then anything to just do with melo

[@ERoss338]

Can’t say that If he was the hub of the offense. It doesn’t make sense

[@xaviergoodson8451]

Look at all the other wings ehe was going against and they been hating on Melo since not giving him ROTY and getting blackballed out the league

[@marquesenorris8785]

Ok melo blackballed himself talking bout some I'm not coming off the bench

[@Luke_Stone]

Just subbed! People not ready to hear how underrated paul pierce is

[@bsq_2x70]

Paul Pierce ain’t underrated he’s just under appreciated

[@eromoseleodionunuabona2892]

I'm only 2 mins in but I'm a Melo guy....Melo shooting 30% from three in his first 7 years is no surprise. At that time everybody knew Melo was a bulldozer in the paint. When he went to nyk is when he took his threes to the next level. Also taken into account I. 03-10 the shooters were mike miller, Shane battier, ray Allen atc. Ant body shooting like Steph those days

[@Jannero3go]

They only care about a 🥷 when he handle the rock.

[@andrewchester3527]

The specific stats that put Kobe over bron are the last two minutes of the nba finals when the game is within one possession. Not even a comparison.

[@iamsplakur1286]

Unnecessary video... different story from his peers and true NBA fans know... bro actually think its 2018 😂😂😂 stupid content... Say something NEW bro

[@vsnrygaming8954]

Playing to win > Being a super skilled player. There have been much less skilled players that made consistently better on court decisions. I wish Melo and Westbrook realized this.

[@ReverendSam1]

The problem w/Melo is he abandoned his foundation & went to start over!! He was two wins away from the finals & decided to jump ship to go play for a team that didn't even qualify for the post season.........perplexing 😐!!

[@craigbelvin1549]

This is the craziest thing I seen melo defiantly is one of them his peers say that people who played against him also is watch earlier melo he wasn’t a 3pt shooter mid range bully ball and dunk on you type of player at one point in time him and Lebron was talking bout teaming up that’s all I got too say

[@younggod3906]

I’ll take Melo over TMac I’ll Pierce over both his playoff performances shows it

[@fromhaash]

George Karl actually didn’t want him settling for 3’s early in his career. That’s why he didn’t take and make many early on.

[@jaydadon6915]

With hindsight it prob hurt him in the long run

[@juliothom2408]

Pierce is 10,000% the player Melo was.

[@3Mpire258]

Bro if we had a healthy Amare we likely would have made the finals that season

[@lamchunting856]

He’s a contender for the war of the ringless, is he better than X ringless player?

[@TheSwaggaElite]

I really enjoyed watching melo’s game but I remember when he was on that free agency tour in 2014 and I was hoping the bulls wouldn’t sign him bc I knew he would only eat up cap space and get bounced in the 2nd round.

[@mattjones6323]

And how did that go for the bulls? They been terrible

[@garrettburleson5357]

Solid content and great research!

[@Anthony-ru7sk]

Do Elton brand next

[@slickeddy2000]

Kobe teams beat more 50 plus win teams vs LeBron not facing a 50 win team until the Conference finals or the Nba Finals and that’s why Lebron teams are 4-6 in the finals you don’t face a great battle tested team until the Finals. And LeBron had a Miracle in 3/4 wins

[@munesuchitava]

Make a video like this on jimmy butler interested to see what people think of him

[@dsjanc]

He said he is a business man first over a bb player.

[@FlashPointStudiosX]

Amare broke his hand against Miami the year earlier

[@jaecalloway5585]

Cap bruh we all knew lebron was not beating them 07 spurs with the roster he had and im from the land so we and the world knew lebron would not beat them or the 06 pistons LeBron just exceed everyone expectations lets keep it factual

[@0vern9K]

I’m not a lebron hater but can we please stop these excuses. Yes the spurs were a better team but it wasn’t like they were completely out matched. Games 3 and 4 were 1 possession games. Games 1 and 2 were decided by 10 to 11 points. Let’s stop the Revisionist history, The Cavs were a defensive team and their front court did their job. Duncan who was playing the 5. Only shot 44%, and they kept the ball out of his hands with ginobli and Parker both having higher usage rates then him. Ginobli shot 36% from the field he only had it going from the 3 that series and the line. Lebron couldn’t outlay tony Parker that’s what it was. Bron had a 42% TS, splits of 36/29/69, and barley averaged over 20 with 22 a game with a 36 usage %. He’s why they lost

[@0vern9K]

Lebron was not a good shooter at all then, so they built a wall, and trapped him heavily because bron isn’t a skilled ball handler who can split doubles. Like a kobe Bryant, or MJ. Even at that age.

[@301Cardosi]

@@0vern9K he’s ONE of the reasons they lost but the SOLE reason they even got there

[@Gandalf_the_Gold]

Kobe is the goat only a dummy would disagree

[@TheEastside661]

I’m 31 years old. I saw Carmelo’s professional career from start to finish. I don’t know how to explain it but I just never gravitated towards Melo that much as a basketball fan. I always thought that he was kind of overrated. Yeah he could score that ball but so could Kobe, so could Dirk, so could KG, so could LeBron, so could DWade etc. What was his overall impact on the game? What did all of his scoring do for Denver and New York? Hardly anything. Idk, largely overrated player. Personality wise he seems like a great and magnetic guy but as a player, he was one dimensional and overrated to me.

[@ayeshamoore1729]

Argument with his 3pt% early on has no context come on now.

[@akvalues]

At least your honest about going your “feelings” over logic

[@NYM348]

30% was like what lebron put up too. That info is not pertinent.

[@thesage690]

Shooting three's was never his game the mid post was where melo ate

[@4ktkaram395]

Chris paul is leaps and bounds ahead of melo

[@Jmorkio]

Sucks my two fav sports players melo and Big Ben were overshadowed their whole careers by the potential goats of their sport especially Ben

[@datjewellboy]

Ben won as the best player...

[@Jmorkio]

@@datjewellboy yea but if he played in any generation without Brady he’d probably be a top 5 qb all time same could likely be said for Bree’s but since Ben and tom were same division it probably conflicted him a bit more

[@datjewellboy]

@@Jmorkio Roethlisberger, I thought you meant Ben Wallace.

[@liltremble623]

nah kobe is over lebron 😂 even if you just do their primes. kobe 2002-2012 bron 2008-2018

[@SaintFrenchy]

Lol not even close

[@liltremble623]

@@SaintFrenchy kobe bean not just accomplishments overall player

[@SaintFrenchy]

@@liltremble623 one stop playing and the other one is still playing, 40k,10k,10k. I love Kobe but Lebron is the better overall player

[@liltremble623]

@@SaintFrenchy stats mean nothing. mcdonald’s sells the most meals per day but they’re not high quality food.

[@filipjanak8313]

@@liltremble623 Brother is really comparing fast food sales to sport statistics

[@chrisdot1258]

Amare broke his hand in the 2012 playoffs against the heat so how much of this vid is accurate 🤔

[@zoidzilla348]

3’s not everything bro you can’t hoop

[@highwizdom1399]

KOBE ALL DAY

[@joshmungin7766]

Been say this shit about Melo since I was a kid tbh everyone just makes excuses for him I can cant understand especially now podcast say he could get his shot of in a phone booth stop the cap

[@jaydot.8839]

This was a good video I just felt like you repeated yourself way too much maybe to soften peoples reaction idk but you don’t have to do that you made very good points I been arguing that Melo is not top 20 all time

[@lmaookaight]

i’ll take Sun Yue over Melo

[@Armygamerarmyfacts]

This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in my whole whole entire entire life mellow Hall of Fame midway range game. He’s a mid range shooter that’s it. No three-pointers was a mid range shooter hhis percentage mid range percentage r historic.

[@j.megatron]

They didn't shoot threes. And Melo played in West 03-13, that's Kobe, Duncan, KG etc stop bro. Stop

[@TheJemel1994]

I don’t already like the title of this video Let’s see what happens

[@brianduru3753]

Probably the most overrated scorer of all time. People talk about him like he was this GOAT level scorer when he's not even a top 10 scorer of this century. Shaq, Kobe, AI, Durant, Harden, LeBron, Curry, Giannis, Dirk and Luka are all better scorers. And that's without going back to the 20th century when you start to see names like Jordan, Wilt, Barkley etc....

[@G4productionz]

MELO WAS NOT A HIGH PERCENT GUY

[@G4productionz]

BRO CHILL ON BRINGIN MY KOBE INTO THIS LEBRON IS NOT A GAMER SINGLE GAME IS A BASKETBALL GAME NOT 82 ITS 1 GAME

[@urbanclosetclub5890]

Execution matter. Melo was self determined. Only can go so far when you have 4 other guys. He will make hall of fame cause of his connection. But overall. I'm not putting bro in the Hall of Fame

[@premium7182]

Top10 scoring 3x Olympic gold 10x all star College chip as a freshmen 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Enjoy your day

[@urbanclosetclub5890]

@@premium7182 Re read what I said. Self determined stats. Horrible playoffs in his career. Hella shots per game. Non consitnet. Took max contract to only go to a trash team. College DONT matter in this conversation

[@Juan_rivera]

He's barely on the top 75

[@o.g.budnlean3873]

Top 3 most overrated player of all time. Melo is a bonafide bum. He had decent teams and did absolutely nothing. He only scored points. Didn't make his teams better in any way. SMH.

[@PygmaApril]

We get it bro, you base most of your opinions on vibes.

[@Youralwayswhining4367]

Terrible take kid, he ain't lying.

[@PygmaApril]

@Youralwayswhining4367 Yeah Melo is not even top 75.

[@premium7182]

How can a top 10 scorer of all time not be top 75 ????? Lolololololol​@@PygmaApril

[@PygmaApril]

@premium7182 By being an inefficient shot chucker that never played a lick of defense.

[@lminter89]

You didn’t watch or wasn’t a fan he wasn’t a great shooter good in the midrange

[@mattjones6323]

Ya that is for sure. Everyone knows that except this guy

[@VitoCorleone38]

Fam u will never get subs w this kind of post. U hatin and trying to make it look like ur not. This man is top 10 in scoring in history of the game. Wtf are u tlkn bout. Its bn 5000 players that have played in the league and he is top 10. Get out ur feelings and stop hating

[@DoubleM223]

Lol. He not better than peirce. Peirce a better defender, playmaker along with just as capable a scorer.

[@liltremble623]

melo is not far superior to demar they on the same level 😂

[@jdmr1c3ing]

Nah melos a notch above, very similar but melo has better stats across the board except assists. Both very solid players tho

[@BenKennido]

A little bit overrated ? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 This dude is absolutely irrelevant.

[@ivanabreu8029]

Don’t agree with your takes. You cherry picking stats from when he was 19-24 years old. Still making it to the playoffs. Melo never had true solid team around him.

[@moneyman4740]

He def did in 09 and if he wasnt press to go to NY during the trade deadline in 2011 causing them to gut the team instead of him just waiting 5 more months to join a more complete version of that knicks squad , also he had a chance to go to Chicago in 2014 with Butler , Rose and Pau …so he’s had chances to have solid teams and he’s had solid teams , this legendary scorer but only has 1 scoring title and no seasons averaging 30 …. Mid defender , good rebounder and hell of a mid range scorer but he’s just not as good as people think he was

[@4ktkaram395]

Overrated asf not top 75.

[@mittendemon4493]

This feel like a 2017 legend of winning video lol