Trae is better than melo
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prime melo is barely better than prime derozan, casuals will hate to hear it but thats just facts
Nah DeRozan fell off in the postseason way harder than any other superstar
Whats the problem with prime DeRozan? He is 3x all NBA.
nothing at all, he's one of my favorite players of all time
None of Lillard, Tatum, current KD, current LeBron, Booker, Shai, Butler are better than prime Melo. He would be exactly at that Lillard-Tatum-Butler-AD level, right below the top players.
He's a bigger Booker. Neither were/are particularly effective defenders, Are better scorers than creators, and should not be the best player on their own team -- which is a tough ask because those guys are legit all-NBA players.
None of Lillard, Tatum, current KD, current LeBron, Booker, Shai, Butler are better than prime Melo
Jesus christ
What did Melo do better than Tatum?
Zion? SGA? Better than Melo ?
ARE YOU DUMB?
I don’t think right now. But as a player if I had to choose to start a franchise I am definitely taking SGA over melo. If Zion is healthy him too. Melo doesn’t play winning basketball and has an ego problem.
SGA is better. Melo never made 1st team.
Peak Melo was better than all of current Lillard, SGA, Butler, and Booker.
No he wasn’t. SGA maybe but when it’s all said and done Melo won’t be considered better. Probably the same with booker.
Lillard is way more efficient and Jimmy has done way more with way less. Melo beating the 2023 Bucks in the first round would be his greatest achievement lmfao.
Round about the same level as DBook seems right, both great scorers who don't offer that much outside of scoring (and need better lead playmakers and defenders around them for a contender), but who aren't as bad at passing or defending than people make out
Book has a bigger bag both defensively and as a playmaker
Probably true but I still think they're fairly similar
Agree.
Lillard can drive an elite offense. Not sure about Melo (was it him or D’Antoni?).
Booker seems to fit much better alongside other high level players, has more play-making, and isn’t terrible on defense.
You can't even remember who coached melo's best Knicks team
Here to remind everyone that Tatum has done nothing to prove he’s better than Jimmy thank you
I need the 15 year olds to stop talking about melo it’s embarrassing to read
He is hard to rate. If I am going honestly on ability, top 5. His issue however was his shot selection. So if I wanted to win games would rank him 14. Carmelo's issues were always how he approached the game. If you listened to interviews of stars at the time and he came up often as the guy they least liked to guard.
Coming into the league Carmelo was way ahead of lebron skill wise, yet now lebron is #1/#2 all time and carmelo is way down in the weeds. It's to bad he didn't get drafted by the pistons, larry brown may have been able to fix his problems.
Prime Melo in todays NBA is a top 5 player, definitely better than old man Lebron
Most of those guys are NOT “definitely better than Melo”.
The classic "how many players in melo's range can I add and put him at the end by default"
zion is not better than melo when healthy lol. Prime melo would be in the 10-15 range
This is list is probably based on stats. Thats fine but as prime prospects in a draft you don't take half of these people over Melo.
Definitely don’t think Shai, Booker, or Dame are unambiguously better than prime Melo. Not sure about current LeBron either. Probably would put him in the back half of the top 10
Prime Melo would feast in this era and was an elite scorer. He'd be top 10. His scoring would absolutely put him ahead of Booker, SGA. I think I'd edge him over AD too unless AD's shooting is really back. I'd put him ahead of Butler overall...regular season wise? Melo would be ahead. So somewhere in the 8-10 range.
When Carmelo led the league in scoring in 2012-13 (28.5), 9 players had more than 20 points, 4 more than 25 and obviously 0 more than 30.
The next 3 after Carmela on the list were multiple time FMVPs each. (Kobe, Lebron and KD)
The top 7 of the 8 after Carmelo who scored 20+ that year all either MVPs or FMVPs (Kobe, Lebron, KD, Harden, Curry, Westbrook, Wade).
In the last season, 43 people scored more than 20 points, 13 more than 25 and 6 more than 30.
Basically close to 5 times the number of 20+ scorers, 2.6 times more than 25 compared to Carmelo’s peak.
Wherever you rank Carmelo, that context is important to keep in mind. Carmelo was a consistent 25+ ppg scorer in an era where the only other guys who did that were Lebron, KD and Kobe level guys.
Carmelo is nowhere close to as good as them overall but as a pure versatile scorer, even they rank Carmelo as among the very best.
Around top 15.
Is Jimmy better than Melo?
SGA? Ain’t even made the playoffs leading a team. Melo didn’t miss the playoffs until he was old
Dunno why yall stay trying to disrespect Melo but it's weird
7th