Carmelo Anthony

The most complete shooter of his generation. Early candidate for the MVP award, who returned his Knickse NBA elite at the start of the season. After problems with the coaches in Denver and New York, after the problems with Amare and Jeremy Lin, Carmelo Anthony finally only works what works best - he gets the baskets. "I find it hard to keep Carmelo Anthony in. He has a complete repertoire in the attack. , a very fast first step, a great low-pitched game, striking as well as turning left or right. What's the worst - it's strong as a bull! It's very often forgotten. Perhaps it's the strongest player in its NBA position, so I find it hard to keep him safe. "
- Kobe Bean Bryant

VLADAR SYRACUSEA

My debit transfers were basketball basketball matches. We transmitted the F4 NCAA in 2001 and I'm pretty sure that these were the first transfers of that kind in the former Yugoslavia. I got a chance because nobody else in the editorialy knew about anything about the NCAA and because the games went into the "porn" term (you know how it goes on state television: "Slowly, you have to be patient."

The same is true after 10 years, and in the meantime you have done three Carling Cup transfers and one ski from Alta Badija.

If I had to choose which basketball my favorite I would probably have chosen for the NCAA. The first game I watched was the 1989 final (Eurosport was then transferred by NCAA) and forever remembered the name - Glen Rice (You can imagine my shock when years later Michigan's 89th Rumeal Robinson appeared in the jersey of Zadar. one day you decide on the finals in front of 60,000 spectators, the second day you wear a jersey of Zadar that breaks down after two washings. Zadar in those years had jerseys that looked terrible).

In the following years, I followed the NCAA as much as it was possible (One of my favorite team's favorites ever appeared in the 90's, UNLV. I do not believe that we will ever see such a character galaxy ever seen in a team in one team Larry Johnson, Stacey "Plastic Man" Augmon , Greg Anthony, Moses Scurry, and my favorite Anderson Hunt, who did not make a profound career in his career. The man was sitting on the bench, waving a wet towel, the legendary Jerry Tarkanian, in Duke 103: 73.


It's hard to remember one player for all that time who had a better college season than Carmelo Anthony. From the beginning to the end of the season on Syracuse, Anthony played basketball from his own movie. Opponents could not come. F4 2003 was transferred to our colleague Vlado Majer and me. Kansas was considered an absolute favorite. Nick Collison, Keith Langford, Kirk Hinrich, Jeff Graves, Aaron Miles, Wayne Simien are all trampling on. Their opponent in the semifinals was Marquette led by a guy named Dwyane Wade (Wade broke Kentucky with a triple double-action in the quarter-finals, and then I saw for the first time in my life that someone would score 30 points using exclusively penetration and free throws). Wade's partner in the play position was Travis Diener (who today enjoys his lucidity with fans of Sassari). The return ball was awaited by Steve Novak (Best NBA Shooter, Jeff Van Gundy says).

Nevertheless, Wade has strangled Langford (Why Keith is not an NBA player is an enigma for me), Miles and Lee, and this Marquette lost 30 differences from Kansas. In the second semifinal, Melo played with Texas and scored 33 points, and Vlado and I were excited to comment on the outcome, "What kind of player this will be." Carmelo guessed and did not remove the smile from his face.

In the final, Kansas was a great favorite. And today I can dissuade a complete match in the head. Jayhawks were resolved to close Anthony at all costs, make him free from the ball, what he did. Until then, little known Gerry McNamara unmanned Kansas with six triples, and Melo patiently waited his turn and without any foul play came 20 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists. In the end, the spectacular blockade of Hakim Warrick, who in the action, justified the nickname "Helicopter" by the end of his life.

Anthony hugged coach Jim Boehoe, who, after his first NCAA title and after that finale, once again had a face like he had just watched some boring movie (Boeheim did not get excited about anything.) They were not kicked out of the clock by Derrick Coleman, Billy Owens, John Wallace or Perl Washington.In essence, the only time he was upset last year after Reggie Miller mentioned that Syracuse could pass the man-to-person defense during the game, and Jim next morning at a press conference, he blurted a bit yellow in his face: "Tell Reggie to play zone 2-3 for 30 years in the event that he missed it ").

PROBLEMS WITH TRAINERS AND LAW

Melo planned to stay at Cuse for at least three years but he was competing, and Boeheim himself recommended that he go to the NBA because he "accomplished everything and played a season that someone could hardly repeat," plus the school and Carmelo were never good comrades (He passed the entrance exam with only one point above the required minimum, in the secondary school the average gradewas 2). Another embrace with Boehma and his pepito jacket. It will take a long time before Anthony embraces one coach again ....

Between Carmel, Wade and LeBron, my favorite player was always Carmelo, although I've long learned the difference between the favorite and the best. Against him at that time, and even today there is no effective defense. It's just so good a striker. Wade and LeBron and now you can move away and risk a shot from the distance and what is it, against Carmel, this is the way without a return. In the draft 2003, the first place was reserved for LeBron, Larry Brown did not want Mela in Detroit so he fell into Denver.

Now I find it difficult to describe how much I wanted Carmelo to succeed. The NBA scouts compared him to James Worthy for some reason, although it had nothing to do with the memory, who ever hooked it up and one minute Bernard King clearly knows who Carmelo looks most like (King was unfortunately watching only in the early 90's when he was wearing the shirt of Washington and a very heavy knee injury played on one foot, and he scored 28 points per game. He was an absolute basketball killer in New York.)

Denver had 17 wins before the season, with him 43 and the playoffs in play off. For the first time since David Robinson, one rookie took his team into the playoffs. They fired in the first round. No one has suspected that the passing of the first round for Carmel will long be an unsolvable enigma.

He had the first major conflict with the coach at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. You remember all the saddest Olympic selections in the history of USA, where Larry Brown and Gregg Popovich were heroically held in the game of Marion and Jefferson who failed to hit the board from five attempts. Carmelo was openly indignant for a miserable minute, and then Brown pulled him to the end of the bench, while Lebron and Wade used to play pressing across the field !? Of course, Marion still clocked right from the right corner for measuring the attack.

Upon returning from Athens, and perhaps finding out that he is now a millionaire, Melo began to lose the compass. Three times he was arrested in a short interval with marijuana, all three times his comrades were guilty. There was a video on which Carmelo whispered that "the citizens of Baltimore should stop galvanizing the police, otherwise they will be causing the consequences" (Melo grew up in the worst part of the already terrible Baltimore. The "The Wire" perfectly describes this and such Baltimore, for the most recent city ​​in the United States. In the past two years, he has passed Camden in New Jersey).

In the meantime, Denver has been replaced by Jeff Brezdel's coach (As someone wisely noticed "Because no one could say his last name"), partly because of Carmel's lament that Nuggets play too slowly. He came in a coach who adores the quick game and conflicts with the stars of his teams George Karl (In Seattle he regularly fought with Payton and Kemp, in Millwaukee with Robinson, Allen, and Cassell.) In the beginning, everything was idyllic Carmelo worked perfectly, even five times with his shots in the last seconds directly brought victory to Nuggets. The defense was not particularly interested in the defense, but at least off-court behavior was put in order.

The performance at SP 2006 confirmed his class. He was by far the best player in the US team, including the complete dismantling of Italy, which, after the Italian leadership, scored 30 points in a row (There is no player in basketball today who can put more points from Carmel in a shorter time interval.

The Americans lost their semi-finals against Greece in part because of Mike Krzyzewski's decision to move Anthony from the position of the wing center where he made huge troubles to the Tsartsaris.

Upon returning from Japan, Carmelo began the dream season. In the first eight games six times went over 30 points, but there was a fight in MSG where Anthony slammed Mardy Collins and earned 15 suspension games. Then he started to hang out more intensively with JR Smith and promising the beginning was a long time ago. The general impression is that Denver at that time simply did not have chemistry for a serious result. Players may not have been as bad a person as their origin and way of growing up to ruin.

Chris Andersen was swallowed by LSD for being suspended for a year, JR Smith still has the crazed selection of shots ever, he has taken part in five traffic accidents, one of which ended with the death of his other. Julius Hodge was shot after a quarrel in a nightclub and was only missing five minutes to bleed. The arrival of Allen Iverson was definitely not an injection of professionalism for young Nuggets. For a long time, all NBA fans were delighted with a youtube clip where drunk Iverson, Anthony, Camby, DerMarr Johnson and a couple of players bring each other in the face on the sidewalk in front of the nightclub. Denver's leadership learned about the piston only two months after the release !?

He found a sense of conquest of the golden Olympic medal in Beijing 2008 where he used his three-point shot to stretch the defense and allow James, Wade and Bryant to break.

In only one Since his nine seasons, Carmelo managed to get out of the first round of the playoffs, which happened after the Olympics. It coincided with the arrival of the true professional Chauncey Billups and the departure of Iverson whom Melo objected to overloading the ball? In the West End, Denver was defeated by Lakers 4-2, where Nuggets, thanks to the inability to play the game, lost two of four games. However, it seemed that the team was finally on the right track ....

Carmelo had more or less conflicts with Karl during this entire period. He was suspended once because he refused to leave the game when the coach asked. Then he simply decided to request a trade. Denver's fanatics were soon turned into open hatred. Anthony did not want an extension of the contract, he wanted to go to the middle of his choice, specifically New York Knickse.

His desire was finally fulfilled on February 22. Anthony buried his sister, Michelle, before she went to Knickse, who died before Christmas. Was this finally the end of the problem? No, it's not near ....

Anthony and Stoudamire simply failed to coexist in Mike D'Antony's system. They played better on a regular basis when one of them was not in line. Anthony did not have to open the front with D'Antony ... "I do not have enough balls, I'm standing in the corner," Carmelo snapped, and D'Antoni shook his hand and said that in his game there were enough shots for all players. After an open dispute with D'Antony, Melo was injured, and the hearts of the fans, like in the film, won Jeremy Lin. At one point it seemed that the fans turned against Mela, especially after his clumsy statement about the player's qualities, who at that time dropped almost 40 points to Lakers.

In addition to some information, Carmel's key role, D'Antoni, was fired (he did not even have results), and then assistant Mike Woodson stepped in his place. Immediately after three games Melo gave one of the most glossy statements ever, saying that in the last three matches he "is much more engaged in defense!". Should I note that they were thrown out in the first round of the playoffs ...

The summer again wiped the wounds. The London Olympics definitely promoted Anthony with Durant, as an American player best placed by international competitions. Melo was silent as a hypnotized, and his 37 points in 15 minutes against Nigeria (Troika 10-12) is a real masterpiece. During the Olympics, a new meeting between Mela and Mike D'Antoji was made, where this first unmerciful explanation was that he had nothing to do with the departure of the Knicks coach, while others even more incredibly told that they had never been in conflict. Lina's departure to Houston overwhelmed all this, which did not defeat Carmel's most favorite face in New York.
BERNARD KING 2.0

Before the beginning of this Knicks, they made one of the least weird roster. The team is by far the oldest in the league. The playmaker rotation is about 150 years old (Kidd, Prigioni). Nomineally the first play Raymond Felton played in Portland for about 10-15 kilograms. Rasheed returned from a pension for which Kurt Thomas had been matured for some time. The geriatrics is complemented by eternally injured Marcus Camby. Chris Copeland was excavated from Belgium. JR Smith has proven to be not normal. Stoudemire and Shumpert were injured, and this family still functions as a watch from hangers for the time being. In addition to the undoubted influence of Thomas and Kid on the dressing room, the main reason is simple - the maturity of Carmelo Anthony.

Only one player can produce this kind of fire from all positions at this time. When the shot goes off, and this season it's actually going, you can pack things up at half-time. The nine-meter trunks that split the mesh, in Mel's favorite situations, counter 1 to 4. Play on a low post, simple solutions without a lot of dropping the ball. Woodson (whom Anthony loves as no coach after the Boeing, and the first after him allowing him to criticize him) moved Mela to the position of the wing center, which he can absolutely rush out with power.

Carmelo, under the patronage of Mike Hollow's coach, made a significant correction in comparison to last season. Now he shoots much less "long two" from the dribbling and regularly makes a step-two backwards and strikes more than three times in his career. The reason is simple - the long two is the worst shot in basketball. First, because it's heavy, then it's a shock that affects a small percentage and, most importantly, it's a shot that makes no difference. Carmelo learned that lesson in last year's playoff when Shane Battier persistently told Lebron James not to worry about the results of that Anthony move "Just let him kick from 5-6 meters as much as possible, it does not matter if he hits." Just let him kick, so we will Get it every time! "

Anthony is currently at about three hit three in a match with 46% of the realization. Kidd and Prigioni have before all stabilized the flow of the ball in the attack. Knicks play fast but lose very little balls. They are looking for the best-placed teammate, kicking away most of the top three in the match, but hitting them with a fantastic 40% performance. Carmelo is 28 points per game, with a minimum of ball spending.

If bythere is a criticism of the way Knicks plays, this is the fact that in New York, the idea of ​​a quick game with a lot of shots for three points has never been fully realized. Hubie Brown burned, Rick Pitino was baked, Mike D'Antoni snorted. The Isia Thomasa Project has experienced a complete fiasco. Knicks are the basket of Red Holmes and Phill Jackson. Total unselfishness. Knicks are Willis Reed and Clyde Frazier. Knicks are Pat Riley and defense of bloody knees. Knicks are Ewing, Oakley, Mason, Starks and the feeling you enter the minefield, not the racket.

Can such a style of play for Knicky bring a title fight because every year she dreams of a title in New York, and everything else is a failure. What will happen when Stoudamire and Shumpert return, how to find minutes for everyone, until a three-point shot will function as well. Will Anthony finally endure to the end and withdraw the team as once on Syracuse or will again give up on the first obstacle and find the culprit in someone else ...

"For all my quarrels with Karl I am probably the most guilty, in many situations I have appeared rather immature, and I am aware of that now. The team leader must bear the greatest responsibility. I feel great in this team and I think that this group can make a big result ... "