Carmelo Anthony has become hugely under-appreciated and disrespected.

[Punpun]

Melo is on the tail-end of his less than brilliant career. THat's just how it is.

[kennethgriffin]

carmelo doesnt even take himself seriously with a body like his

he has baron davis disease

[knickswin]

i dunno why you guys have to be haters. he has not been declining. don't know why anyone would say that.

[Ai2death]

Very good post, a rarity on ISH for quite some time.

[ripthekik]

He's a very talented scorer and all, but a team with him leading is just not going to succeed. The only way he scores to ball is by being a blackhole. Sometimes, actually a lot of times, the ball is passed to him, then he holds it for 3 seconds.

In this 3 seconds, the defense is prepared for him, and his teammates stand idle watching him. That kills it all.

Unless he becomes a 2nd star of a team and play a spot-up shooter, or scoring role, he's not going to win.

I think teams like Knick are stupid to run their offense through him.

[Sarcastic]

Melo is on the tail-end of his less than brilliant career. THat's just how it is.

He's only 28 years old. He's got 5-6 good years left. Plus his skill set is not reliant solely on his athleticism.

[Punpun]

He's only 28 years old. He's got 5-6 good years left. Plus his skill set is not reliant solely on his athleticism.

Yep. The tail-end. It's only downhill from now on.

[Umad101]

Didn't read but agreed with op's title dude has too many Haters

[guy]

When people have been complaining about a player being underappreciated and constantly making excuses for the guy, then he's not really underappreciated. He gets "disrespected" in your view cause there are players like Lebron, Durant, Kobe, Wade, CP3, Howard, Wade, Rose, etc. in the league. If the best players in the league aside from him were players you mentioned like Gay and Iguadola, then Melo would be getting treated like he's Lebron or Durant right now i.e. the best player in the league. That's not the case though. The perception is a relative product of higher standards as a result of how much better other players are then him. Thats just the way it is.

[swi7ch]

The Cancer

[Sarcastic]

When people have been complaining about a player being underappreciated and constantly making excuses for the guy, then he's not really underappreciated. He gets "disrespected" in your view cause there are players like Lebron, Durant, Kobe, Wade, CP3, Howard, Wade, Rose, etc. in the league. If the best players in the league aside from him were players you mentioned like Gay and Iguadola, then Melo would be getting treated like he's Lebron or Durant right now i.e. the best player in the league. That's not the case though. The perception is a relative product of higher standards as a result of how much better other players are then him. Thats just the way it is.

How many guys can you name that have scored at least 20 ppg every year of their career, and made the playoffs every year of their career as well?

He gets crazy amounts of hate because he played for Denver, which was completely overmatched in the Western Conference the past decade. They needed a secondary star to go with him, but unfortunately had too much success too early. It would have been better for them to suck his first few years, get some lottery picks, and build a team the way the Thunder have done with Westbrook and Harden to go along with Durant. Instead they were in the playoffs by Melo's first year, and always ended up in the middle of the pack, which is the worst place to be in the NBA.

[Snoop_Cat]

When people have been complaining about a player being underappreciated and constantly making excuses for the guy, then he's not really underappreciated. He gets "disrespected" in your view cause there are players like Lebron, Durant, Kobe, Wade, CP3, Howard, Wade, Rose, etc. in the league. If the best players in the league aside from him were players you mentioned like Gay and Iguadola, then Melo would be getting treated like he's Lebron or Durant right now i.e. the best player in the league. That's not the case though. The perception is a relative product of higher standards as a result of how much better other players are then him. Thats just the way it is.

To the trolls posting "too long didn't read", I apologize for writing past your reading comprehension. For most normal people, it takes 5 minutes to write a few paragraphs and even less to read it.

I'm not making excuses for Carmelo. I acknowledge that he isn't as good as LeBron/Durant, that he has his flaws, and that he could've performed better throughout the season and the playoffs.

The concept of "disrespect" comes along when he is grouped along with players who clearly in a different league, gets called a cancer, etc. His achievements and personal skill set are depreciated to the point where people see him as a run of the mill player. The thing that annoys me is that people want to post all the flaws of Carmelo without watching any games and want to blindly equate Carmelo to the likes of Gay and Granger.

Clearly his achievements don't measure up to a guy like LeBron but to discredit everything he's done and to suggest things like he is hurtful to the Knicks.. that is what is disrespectful and asinine. I don't want to repost everything I said in the original text, but Carmelo HAD to be a complete ball hog especially without Lin/Davis, because quite frankly this Knicks roster just isn't very good especially considering Amare has had a down year and can't adapt at all to a different style of play.

[NumberSix]

He's vastly over rated. He's seriously not much better than JR Smith.

[bluechox2]

i see melo avging 28 a game next season

[guy]

How many guys can you name that have scored at least 20 ppg every year of their career, and made the playoffs every year of their career as well?

And what relevance does that hold? Cause there's still a good amount of players that don't fall under that category that are still better then him.

He gets crazy amounts of hate because he played for Denver, which was completely overmatched in the Western Conference the past decade. They needed a secondary star to go with him, but unfortunately had too much success too early. It would have been better for them to suck his first few years, get some lottery picks, and build a team the way the Thunder have done with Westbrook and Harden to go along with Durant. Instead they were in the playoffs by Melo's first year, and always ended up in the middle of the pack, which is the worst place to be in the NBA.

So your argument is that Melo's early success in his first 2 seasons cursed him for the next 7 seasons, and he's never been able to recover from that? Really? And does anyone in their right mind seriously think Melo would've meshed just as well with players like Westbrook and Harden as Durant has? Melo on the Thunder is a first round exit, 2nd round exit at best. His teams have never been extremely overmatched. His teams were always talented. He wasn't playing on KG's T-Wolves. Now, you can argue that they were talented but didn't fit, but thats an issue about what a team is building around. When a superstars' teams are always characterized as "the pieces don't fit" and the superstar can't just make it work, then that means the player is just hard to build around i.e. he's not as good for someone of his standards.