Seems like RJ is taking the comments by Carmelo Anthony in stride. He’s always had an iron will and deep confidence in himself, but I can’t help but wonder if his personal feelings differ from this media statement.
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by SwellandDecay
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Melo’s all about flash. It doesn’t matter if he’s on a shitty team as long as he gets his 30 points on 20 shots and max contract he’s content
Melo is one of the most overrated stars ever lmao. He shouldn’t be talking shit to nobody. Guy brought zero leadership, zero defense, zero hustle, zero off-ball skills, zero playmaking and zero work ethic to every team he went to. Dude was an elite offensive talent with the ball, and historic garbage without the ball.
RJ can be a pretty damn exciting player to watch when he’s on
Great answer by RJ, doesn’t feed into the drama, and doesn’t give any soundbites for media to run with.
Mature response by RJ, props to him.
Whatever criticisms I have of RJ’s ability on the court aside, he’s always been very mature and professional. No drama with this dude.
Id rather have RJ than Zion at this point tbh
RJ is nothing if not consistently inconsistent and professional.
I feel like Carmelo Anthony is digging his own grave lately.
For me he was always overrated, the true meaning of the word. People would put him with the best ever, when I believe that he’s at the low end of the superstars in the NBA. And now he’s spilling nonsense left and right, not a good way to maintain an already delicate status.
RJ just needs a go-to move and to keep developing. He already looks better on a team that isn’t iso heavy.
Melo just want to set himself up as the next ex basketball player talking heads we see in TV. I love RJ being one of the new core of the Raptors. Rj just fits like a glove.
Melo plz don’t go down the wade route and tarnish your own legacy
Barrett needs to add something cool to his bag, like doing 9 jab steps into a step back jumper.
If you don’t know whether a player has 4 or 24 after watching him, that’s your problem. Why would a pro baller care?
Melo is just retired and not in that game mindset (maybe he never was in that mindset though…)
Tell my wife, hello.
Carmelo is a fantastic basketball player and a total assclown in pretty much every other aspect of life
Carmelo Anthony is nothing more than 2000s Adrian Dantley
I LOVE YOU BIZZARE J
Melo is slowly realizing he left no impact on the game. Number 15 is jokics now and forever in Denver. In New York Jalen Brunson has done more in a year than he ever did on the knicks
I’m a Syracuse fan. I will forever love Carmelo Anthony. The guy made it out of round one…what…twice in his career?
Rooting for RJ! Excited to watch through the ups and downs of this raps team, just like the early DeMar and Kyle days
Melo as a post-career hater when every other retired pro podcasting is relatively good-natured is a weird and deliberate choice that I’ll never understand.
RJ will never be the guy leading his team to a championship (neither did Melo) and RJ may never be the number 2 guy on a championship team but I think he can be a decent 3rd option on a championship caliber team and Melo never could do that either. Melo may have been the better individual player, but it’s a team game, and RJ is more willing to accept a lesser role and is a better team player
Rj isn’t even bad if he was in Boston he’d be doing the same thing brown is doing and they’d be just as good.
That’s exactly the answer I would expect from him. He’s not the type to feed in to a bunch of nonsense drama.
I still don’t get why everyone was up in arms about melo’s comment
I would rather be bland than be tasteless
Carmelo is just Pippen without any rings or defense.
Bland like cheerios. Only the truly special ones have that honey nut flavoring
I’m sure his personal feelings differ. Melo could have easily just big upp’ed the rookies and moved on but he made his feelings clear about RJ.
And honestly I didn’t watch the whole ep so I don’t know if he mentioned anyone else on the knicks but if he only singled out RJ than yeah dude is gonna feel a way.
He knows to every critique there is a shred of truth and he has enough perspective to take it with a grain of salt. Dude was a Knick and had to do NYC media. He knows how to dealt with based comments.
Best answer you can have.
Go gettem RJ, sorry you aren’t Jimmy Butler.
RJ has been one of the most interview savvy young players I have seen recently, the dude never takes the bait
He’s a better man than me. I would’ve pointed out how the Nuggets hate him so much and that’s why Jokic wears the number 15 in Denver
RJ’s older than Melo when it comes to emotional maturity. Melo in his feeling cause of analytics and even made it seem as if a 2nd round pick was given his number cause they knew he was gonna be a hall of famer xD
Something about Melo being the critic podcaster doesn’t sit well. Mostly because Melo was an underachiever compared to his skillset and HOF talents, which sort of makes it easy to shrug your shoulders when he provides feedback. At least for Barkley – who critics as a legend without championships – a humor and understanding is added, whereas Melo has always carried an arrogance despite his misfortunes.