Lamarcus Aldridge probably WILL NOT sign extension with Portland.

I'm not a fan of Melo by any means, but do you think his extremely high usage had anything to do with how shitty New York is? Maybe it was the coach? I look at New York and I don't see a team overflowing with talent. What was his usage in Denver? We bash on Melo, but he hasn't he been on teams that went to the WCF or at least the second round?

 

I think he made it to the 2nd round once.
I don't like him, but as a #1 option he's better than our current #1 option. I'd swap them if that's the best we could do.
I do think a lot of Melo's "blackholeness" is due to coaching. Coaches are too afraid to hold their star players accountable. If you get a coach like Pops who isn't afraid to chew out his best players I think Melo could be a great player. He has the ability and desire, but not the direction.

 

The Nuggets lost to the Lakers in the WCF in 2008-2009. I had to look it up.

 

Huh!

 

No, I don't. He's played on some pretty good teams with some pretty talented teammates (Iverson, Billups, Kenyon Martin, etc. in Denver). As mentioned, he went to the WCF with a pretty stacked Denver team. But, the one thing that's remained consistent is his VERY high USG%. He's basically tied with Kobe Bryant (31.75 vs. 31.74) for the 4th highest career USG% in the entire history of the NBA. His USG% has been above 30 for 9 years in a row and top 5 for the last 8 years. His career USG% is higher than both LeBron (4 time MVP) and Durant (4 time scoring champ). His career USG% is also higher than: Shaq, Karl Malone, Tim Duncan, Julius Erving, Hakeem Olajuwon, Dirk Nowitski, Larry Bird, etc. He's not an all-time top 10 player, but he jacks up shots like he thinks he is. Plus, he's almost 30. No way do I want him on my team.

BNM

 

Neil needs to get Melo

 

gist of the article. Red is if he waits to sign a new contract as a FA. Black is if he signs an extension.

 

Deng tbh.

 

can't tell if joking...

tbh.

 

No it's not

 

Batum had a 14.7 PER in the playoffs

Matthews 9.8 PER

 

We desperately need to upgrade out wing position. Batum and Matthews are nice glue guys, but this is a wing dominated league

 

The thing that Oshey has to do. And I think that he can is ask Larmarcus, WTF do you want to do? If Aldridge says I don't know, then Oshey has to convince him the team can't accept that for it's future. After that, whether he signs a extention, or becomes a free agent is the point. But if this team loses control of Aldridge it is f-cked.

 

Right, that's exactly what I said, isn't it?

No, I'm ragging on his high USG% - especially compared to his PER. You were the one who brought up Durant and his marginally higher USG%. Well, Durant also led the league in PER (and scoring and had a MUCH higher TS%) so he deserved his slightly higher USG%. As I stated in another reply, Melo has a higher career USG% than both LeBron and Durant, but his career PER is considerably lower (21.2 vs. 27.8 vs. 24.5).

Define disappeared. Does not making the playoffs count as disappearing, or maybe just not appearing. If the guy is one of the 3 best offensive players in the league he should be able to lead his team to more than 37 wins in an incredibly weak Eastern Conference, shouldn't he? Shit, the Blazers won 33 games last season in the much tougher Western Conference and they were deliberately tanking the last month of the season.

Melo has posted a post season PER less than 15.0 four times, and all 4 times his team lost in the first round in 4 or 5 games - that's disappearing. Harden's career low playoff PER = 15.8 - his rookie year. He's been at 18.6 or higher every other post season. So yeah, I think you need to reconsider which of these two has a history of disappearing in the post season.

BNM

 

Truth by one of the best posters in the forum. Repped to death.