New York Knicks Already Starting MVP Push for Carmelo Anthony

LeBron, Durant, CP3, Kobe etc. deserve to be in the conversation….Melo is averaging 24 and 7 w/ no D….They might want to wait more than a month before getting him in any conversation.

Um………No D??? If Kobe deserves to be in the discussion, then so does Melo. He’s showing more effort on D than the last 1&1/2 seasons in NYK combined!

someone has not been watching the games this year. by someone i mean you dude

Ronnie Brewer is great

Melo has zero chance at MVP. LeBron will have a MUCH better season than him and already is. If anyone else will win it, it’ll probably be Durant. Melo will just average his usual high points per game on a low shooting percentage. But hes playing much better this year. Not nearly MVP material though. Dont kid yourself. I wouldnt mind to see him win it though I love Melo.

Remember when heads was saying Amare should be in the MVP convo in his first season with the Knicks and they were winning?! Melo is having a hell of a start to the season and playing good D, but we have to let the year play out and see if he’s still worthy.

As long as there are significantly better players on teams with equal (or, eventually, better) records, Melo won’t sniff an MVP award.

Only way he gets it is if the Knicks end up with a better record than the Heat and Thunder–even then, I’d still give it to LeBron. That being said, he’s having a great season and the Knicks are winning, so praise isn’t unwarranted.

LBJ is the only player who can lock up both Derrick Rose and Pau Gasol lol… saying he can lock up elite players from 1-5 isn’t an exaggeration. it’s the truth. The only Big men Lebron probably can’t guard are dirk and dwight. The only PG’s he can’t guard are CP3 and Dwill. So only the best of the best of the best realistically “give him buckets”

Actually, he stopped Pau for 2 possessions. Pretty sure Pau would score over Bron 6 times outta 10 in the post.

They gave Rose the award because he carried the offense almost by himself of a 1st place 62 win team that was predicted to finish 4th in the Conference that season.

his scoring and fg% would be way up if refs would just call the half of the fouls he is drawing this season. i dunno whats wrong there but ive never seen refs refusing to give him calls like this b4

Melo is not in LeBron/wades class. How many times has he lead his team into a deep playoff run?

umm….First of all, my D comment was regarding Melo. You’re making the assumption that by critiquing Melo’s D that the players I mentioned play good D. That’s not the case, I mentioned those players because they contribute more to their teams success. Second, the Knick’s success appears to be a product of the new players more than Melo. What else in new with Melo? Unless you’re suggesting this new “effort” is the key to their success? Lastly, “effort” is nice, still doesn’t mean you play good, SMART D.

I’m arguably the biggest Kobe homer on here. Kobe has not played very good defense for most games this season. He’s been passable at best. And that’s because he doesn’t put effort in just like the rest of the Lakers. Melo’s just like Kobe in that regard. He’s not Tony Allen level defensive player but when he works hard, he’s an above average defender who can defend 2-4 quite well.

I have only watched 4 games of the Knicks and Melo not ballstopping like he used to and driving the ball to the hoop has done wonders to the Knicks’ spacing issues. He’s also passing the ball better. Melo has benefited from the ridiculous long range shooting the team currently has JUST LIKE LeBron.

He’s not the front-runner but he deserves to be in the MVP talks. Esp. if he leads the team to a better record than the Heatles.

Again, I never said Kobe was good at D, that was the main point of my previous post. The players I mentioned were more valuable overall (IMO).

The shock factor of what Rose did was the main reason why he won the award over anything. Not The Decision. The Bulls beat the Heat all 3 times they played that season and they had a great record against the other good/great teams in the league while the Heat struggled against the other great teams. While The Decision may have played a part in it, Rose’s play was the biggest reason he won the award. If Dwight Howard had led the Magic to the best record in the conference, he would have won the award. Had LeBron and Wade learned how to play together faster and had a better record than the Bulls, Bron would have won it. What gets lost is the Bulls record with Rose last season…32-7. Some folks talk as if their record without him was better than their record with him. It’s easy to beat good teams without your star during the regular season especially with the wild schedule they played last season. So many factors come into play during the regular season that don’t come into play during the playoffs. We saw the real Bulls without Rose during the playoffs. In the playoffs against the 8th seed they lost. Rose makes them the best regular season team in the East capable of challenging the Heat in the Conference Finals. Without him, they’re a 1st round exit type of squad. They can be as well coached as possible, but without their superstar, they’re nothing but a good regular season team who can’t score the ball enough to win in the postseason.

” It’s easy to beat good teams without your star during the regular season”. That statement makes your whole paragraph worthless. Don’t care how possible it is, or more likely during a lockout year, it is never easy.

It was a great season statistically for rose. But if LeBron put up those numbers, it would be considered a disappointment. The bar for LeBron is higher for LeBron because he is the best, player on earth. His team could get passed new York last playoffs, but I think they lose to Indiana. The bulls, EVEN WITH ROSE, don’t stand a chance to win a title while LeBron is in the east.

It is easy in the regular season. Teams playing 3 games in 3 days are usually tired and worn out on that 3rd night. It can be easy to beat them. We see great teams get blown out sometimes by bad teams without any stars let alone superstars. It happens. Injuries, guys sitting out for various reasons, little time for rest, all of these factors come into play during the regular season. During the playoffs, playing one team every other night or so, you zone in on a team and 9 times out of 10, the best team wins.

They are serious contenders to win it all with a healthy D-Wade. That is the point. With or without LeBron, they would be contenders. Without him, they would be in the group with the Lakers, Grizzlies, Clippers, Spurs and Thunder. With LeBron, they’re on another level by themselves. With Rose, Chicago is a top 4 team in the league capable of challenging the Heat in the Conference Finals. That makes them a contender. Conference finalists are championship contenders.

Being one of the 4 teams left out of 30 makes a team a championship contender to me. Going by your definition, only one team is a contender and that’s whatever team wins. People always say something can’t happen until it does. I would have loved to watch Rose and the Bulls go at Miami again in the Conference Finals again if Rose hadn’t have had an unfortunate injury. What plagued Rose was the incompetency on the offensive end by his teammates in that series. His efficiency was off because he was the only player capable of creating for himself and his teammates. Boozer was stealing money that whole season with how soft he played. That’s not on Rose. That’s on Boozer. He does have to do mostly everything on offense. This is a guy who had to be forced into scoring by his high school and college coaches. Coach Cal had to make him shoot in the NCAA Championship game of all games. So he’s not playing the way he does because he chooses to do so. He’s doing it because he has no perimeter help offensively and he has a center whose main job is to rebound and defend and another teammate who is an undersized soft power forward. Rip isn’t a creator, he’s a finisher. Deng plays hard and is a good two way player but he needs to be set up just like Rip. That leaves Rose with the responsibility of having to start and finish plays most of the time. I strongly disagree with the idea that Rose is incapable of making his teammates better. The only top PGs who do it better are Rondo, Paul, Williams and Nash. If you’re saying he doesn’t do it as well as those 4, I agree. But there’s not another top PG I didn’t mention who does it better than Rose. If you’re looking for a PG who chooses to try to do too much at times, look in Oklahoma City.

i just meant, you saying Melo has played no D is obviously something you have missed because he has been. i agree with it being too early to talk about MVP’s though.