I don't know. I firmly believe that if we have everybody healthy we have as good a chance as anyone to win the title.
He may want to stay....but why would we want him to stay? As much as CJ being #8 in eFG% (he recently passed up Biggie to move up from #9....Yay!) is killing this team from an efficiency standpoint, Carmello is at #15.....BEHIND Little, Hoard and Gabriel. Let that sink in.....
To take back Melo he needs to agree come off the bench and vet min about as much he deserves. Now if they gave Zach that amount shots in a game he probably would average as much as Melo. But they won't do that for Zach.
Melo still has his uses. Playing 30+ minutes every night isn’t one of them. Bring him back and have him come off the bench.
If he's roughly a league minimum player, sure, he'd be cool to have as a bench player. But at this point in his career, he's not particularly good at anything. Even his scoring is low efficiency. I don't know how enthused he'd be about being a low-salaried bench player, though.
The minimum salary for a player with 10 or more years of experience next year is $2,725,961. That's more than he could make doing anything else in my opinion.
Let him get the Noah Vonleh token starter role. 10 mins per half, give him some post ups, and chances to chuck to keep him engaged. I think he'd be useful in that role. He just looks completely worn out right now. I don't think he's really this bad of a shooter, especially given how open he is.
I like this. Unlike Noah, Carmelo can provide scoring, and the occasional 10+ rebound game. If Melo is groovin, keep him in. Personally, I think he's tired. He is not this bad of a shooter. Let's see what he looks like after the break. I'm betting his shot comes back. Remember, dude didn't play for a year.
If Melo is willing to come off the bench next year, he has value to this team, and, quite honestly, it benefits him. Truthfully, there's not a lot of downside in him playing around 20 minutes per game as part of the second unit; it's probably physically what is appropriate for him over the long haul, too.
Melo has been this bad for the past 4,100 shots he’s taken. He shot over his head from 3 for most of the season and is coming back down to earth lately, so his TS% is probably headed south of 0.500.
What does that even mean? The point of the post is how low Anthony's scoring efficiency is...and the sample size on him is plenty large enough to know he's still an inefficient scorer--just like he was the last couple of years. Sure, maybe Little's scoring efficiency will get better with a larger sample size. There's still hope--for Little.
What use does Carmelo Anthony have? His defense on the perimeter stinks and his scoring efficiency stinks too. He plays well sometimes. He plays horribly sometimes. He LOOKS better than he is because he can do some things inconsistently that other players can't do at all. I don't know why a team wanting to win a championship would spend any time thinking how to use him. They should be thinking how to replace him with someone better.
