Melo: Dame is “best player I’ve ever suited up with”

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  1. KSF-ERIC

    KSF-ERIC Well-Known Member

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    Suck it Harden, Westbrook, Chris Paul, and PG!!! Also LeBron (Olympics)!!
     
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    "Dame's at the top for me," Anthony told Yahoo's Chris Haynes on Saturday after the Portland Trail Blazers defeated the Memphis Grizzlies in the Western Conference play-in. "I've never played with someone who lifted his team on the court with his play and as a leader. He genuinely cares for his teammates. What he's been able to do is amazing. He's the top guy I've played with."
     
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    Wow!

    You know I have never been a Melo fan but his attitude, play and his words since he's been a Blazer has made me one.

    I hope he gets a ring and I hope it's with the Blazers.
     
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    I'm all in on the Melo card...I hope he retires here and buys a winery along with being a part ownership of the franchise...what is great about this season is the NBA is waking up to the fact that Portland is a place guys will want to play...no drama...players coach..great fans..I think Melo primes the pump for free agents to want to play with Dame
     
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    Melo! Huge addition. And we need him again next year.
     
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    Nice! Melo can stay.
     
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    illmatic99 formerly yuyuza1

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    Of course George Karl chimes in

     
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    It's because people tend to form early(unjustified) opinions and never come off it. We see it in this forum about certain Blazer players also.
     
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    Darkwebs Awakened to emptiness Staff Member Moderator

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    Guess we know who's not replacing Stotts (if ever he gets let go here).
     
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    course "mister big shot" is a deserving candidate, but, he rarely was the exclusive focus of his opponents defensive game plan for the entire game. Dame is and still makes that shot.
     
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    Lillard, in his current form, is better than Melo in his prime, too. (And I do think Anthony's a Hall of Famer.)
     
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    this isn't the first time he's gotten involved. he was outwardly criticizing dame for his rap stuff a few yrs back and terry had to step in to put Karl in his place
     
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    Oh yeah. Good memory, man. I'd completely forgotten about that.
     
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    I wonder how Dame would've done on a team with the defense as good as the Pistons teams.
     
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    Hard to say but Karl’s remarks are about Billup’s time in Denver under Karl on teams that featured Melo on offense. Those teams were never close to the defensive teams Billup’s played on in Detroit
     
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    Karl must want attention or just cannot admit he is wrong. Lillard makes every single team Billups played on better. Not even close.

    How many teams did Billups play for? Did he get a second contract with any of them? Never been a doubt paying Dame his money.
     
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    Without looking it up, I believe he played for Celtics, Pistons, and Nuggets and that’s it.
     
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    And Twolves, Clippers, Raptors and Knicks too.
     

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