As an athlete many times the media will lay a trap for you and hope you fall right in.
It has happens all the time. ESPN set a trap for Melo and he didn’t think before he spoke and fell right into the rabbit hole.
When Carmelo comes back, and the Knicks need a bucket, who gets to take the shot?
“Of course I want to take the last shot,” Anthony told ESPN recently, in a rare case of a player in street clothes asking for the ball. “Let’s be quite frank: I’ve been doing for nine years already, and I’ve made a ton of them.”
Nothing he just said was untrue.
Carmelo is a closer and statistically he is going to make the shot more times than any other player in the NBA, but…………..
This isn’t the time to point that out. Not when everyone is going crazy over Jeremy Lin and are looking at Melo as more of a problem than a solution.
Even though, in Melo’s mind he knows that it is ridiculous that he is even being asked that question he simply needs to say, the person who gets the last shot is the person who is open. Doesn’t matter if it is Lin, Amar’e or Novak. Whoever has the best shot, should take the last shot.
If he said that, the media and fans wouldn’t be jumping down his throat right now.
I try not to be critical of people who are being honest, so I am not going to bash him. I am just asking him to think before he speaks because they are setting the traps for him to be the scapegoat if this all falls apart on the Knicks.