Melo suspended...by the Nuggets!...

by Andrew Feinstein on Mar 2, 2009 11:29 PM MST Comment 25 comments

According to the Denver Post's Benjamin Hochman, Carmelo Anthony has been suspended one game by the Nuggets for an "in-game transgression." Hochman is citing multiple sources who claim Melo refused to come out of the game in the third quarter during the Nuggets (inexcusable and unnecessary) loss at Indiana. As I'm writing this, I'm re-watching the archived game on NBA League Pass Broadband, and can't see anything weird happening between Melo and the bench.

Melo's act of insubordination brings up memories of Melo vs. Karl incidents from the past, including Melo's infamous barking at Karl "just don't sit there!!" from the bench during last season's playoffs and ESPN alleging that Karl wanted Melo traded last summer.

Regardless of what you think of Karl, I have to side with the coach on this one (for the record, I'll side with any coach who instructs a player to come out and the player refuses). But if it's indeed true that Melo refused to come out of the game, why didn't Karl sit his ass for the entire fourth quarter? That would have sent a stern message to the team and maybe they wouldn't have had to suspend him for a now-very-important Detroit game tomorrow night.

Yet again, Melo can't seem to go through a full season "incident free." While my hunch is that this latest dust up between Melo and Karl won't have long term ramifications (at least not for this season), the joke is probably on me. Because just when I think Melo has turned the corner, he disappoints again.

Melo, welcome back to the Stiff List. You'll be joining Jay Cutler there.

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karl is a dumbass i wish he and melo don't get along ever so karl could be fired as soon as possible

by Anonymous on Mar 3, 2009 12:03 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

as much as i HATE HATE HATE karl and it kills me to say this, i have to get karl's back here. coaches have the right to dictate who comes in and out of games. even bad ones like GK. melo - if this is true your being a total a@$hole!!! (again by the way) grow the f@#$ already. do you guys think this incident cost us the pacers game?!?!!

by Maxie Miner on Mar 3, 2009 12:10 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

when r we going to stop drinking the melo koolaid? the guy is a total fraud. maybe we can fire GK and melo at the same time?!!

by Anonymous on Mar 3, 2009 12:14 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

Agreed. Melo is yet another Nuggets draft strategy. Same old story - a draft with LeBron, D Wade and Bosh and the Nuggs end up with the worst of the bunch, Anthony. He's playing like ass this season and his body's falling apart.

by Anonymous on Mar 3, 2009 2:39 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

Sorry, meant "Nuggets draft tragedy"

by Anonymous on Mar 3, 2009 2:39 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

OK, here we go. Is it rant time? I think so (I didn't intend for that to rhyme). WTF, lets start with that, WTF. WTF was Melo thinking exactly when the coach said, like he has a thousand times before, "Melo come out"? Or was it super akward on one of his teammates who tried to come onto the court and Melo said "No, I'm gonna stay in, take your ass back to the bench" leaving that player to turn his head around and walk back to the bench slowly and confused? I am assuming it was Kleiza, which in that case really doesn't bother me and I can see where Melo was coming from, just kidding. In any case, you have to side with the coach every time in this situation. What Melo pulled was Ron Artestesque (try saying that 3 times fast). What a display of a young, spoiled, overpayed egotistical sports star that I don't EVER want to see again. Honestly, in my opinion, this is worse than most of the past incidents Melo has gotten into, this is just a prime display of shitty character by someone. To have the balls to say "Nah, you know what coach, I'm just gonna stay in" and to do it with a straight face is pretty hard to imagine, especially when considering I always thought Melo had good character behind all his troubles. I am done with this shit. Send Melo off, send Jay Culter off, I don't care. Get me some guys who have devoted their entire careers to winning, that's all I want, winners. Get me some guys with descent personalities, fuck, I really don't care, bring me the biggest Mamma's boy dork of them all and I really won't give a flying fuck as long as they aren't young, selfish, egotistical punks. Is that too much to ask for? (I'm sorry I usually try not to curse but with the whole Broncos thing and Jay Cutler mounting on my shoulders and the division tightening up and now this, I have to let a little steam out.) Anyways, like I've said, I've had it. Its one thing if you are ballin out of your mind to not listen to the coach, but that was hardly the case. Melo had a pretty average game all together, and we LOST!!! Did I mention that?!?! We freakin lost to the PACERS WITHOUT GRANGER!!! GD!!! When is this madness going to end, this stupid, stupid madness. Ok, I think I am done. <----- That was not Goldennugget. On a different note, I am diggin the #1 and #2 spots on the Stiff List. I havn't ever been a huge Cutler fan for many obvious reasons, but I do agree McDonald's got caught with his hand in the nugget box (I know bad joke) and needs to just fess up and say he DID in fact intend to trade a Pro Bowler for a guy who has spent his whole life riding pine until last season. Maybe that will make Jay feel better, I don't know. Alright, well I have done enough ranting for one night, NEXT!

by Goldennugget on Mar 3, 2009 3:49 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

Bosh sucks, how many championships will he win? 0, I repeat Bosh will never win a championship.

by Anonymous on Mar 3, 2009 8:05 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

I was sitting in the row right behind the Nuggets bench and did not see any incident where Melo refused to come out of the game. I did see Melo yelling at a fan in the 9th row after he came out of the game. When I heard he was suspended, I was sure it was for yelling at the fan. I wonder if the media has the correct story on the suspension.

by Anonymous on Mar 3, 2009 8:20 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

the team appears to be unraveling. if you read all the blog comments (the DP and the Stiffs, etc.) you can just taste the fear coming out of the fans spilling onto the page in yellow 1's and zeros.

It is starting to feel like last year. Wow!

So -

I wonder what it is like in the locker room. Are the players starting to wonder which team is going to be playing from game to game (the really good defense team - or the other perimeter jump shot missing team)? Is doubt creeping in at a time that certainty should be in force? Is the team beginning to squabble? Does a hobby horse have a hickory dick?

These questions and more will be answered in the next few games. But, for the meantime, keep your eye on the fear.

by SpokenWar on Mar 3, 2009 9:05 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

Goldennugget,

Excellent rant. I wish there was a way to get you in front of the team and Karl to deliver in person!

Obviously Karl is the coach, and Anthony has to come out when told.

That said, I have to wonder when this occurred. Melo had been missing shots all game, was something like 2 - 12. Then he started hitting shots, made several in a row, then he went to the bench. I thought at the time, why take out the hot hand? Perhaps this is when it happened, and he didn't want to come out because he was hot. I do seem to remember him being on the bench for a long time in the fourth. On the bench while they ran a lineup of A.C., J.R., Jones, Birdman, and Nene. Horrible lineup - the defense only has to guard two players.

by KarlSucks on Mar 3, 2009 9:16 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

Hmmf. Barking at a ninth row fan, likely a season ticket holder. I can see the team suspending him one game for that. I would expect more than one game for insubordination quite frankly.

I'm sorry but Darko was a much bigger bust than Melo. Hands down.

by imnogm on Mar 3, 2009 9:33 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

Yeah melo's a bust alright. I bet you 25 other teams wish they had a bust like him. All you fair weather fans forgot what it was like winning 15 games a season. How soon you forget! You don't know what you got till it's gone!

by melonugg on Mar 3, 2009 9:45 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

lets trade melo, then we can go back to having losing seasons, which I bet a lot of the fans don't even remember. We went from a great team in the 80's and early 90's to the laughing stock of the entire NBA for several seasons in a row. The season before we got Melo we were something like 17-65, the very next year that we drafted melo, we made the playoffs. So yeah, I bet we should get rid of melo and get some other hack and just put the team on chauncy, I am sure he would appreciate losing their number 1 scoring option.

by Anonymous on Mar 3, 2009 10:00 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

I have to get Cutler's back on this one... You can't say that a guy who's gone to the Pro-Bowl has done nothing. And you can't blame the Broncos W/L record on him when the team avgs ~27 PPS ALLOWED. He's been in shoot outs his entire career and been well ahead of the pace of some HOF QB's at this stage in his career.

I would take Cutler over Cassell's one season of performing any day, especially considering the fact that Cassell got to tote a clipboard and learn the system for how many years? 4? All the while learning from one of the best QB's in the business. Cutler had to take the reigns (forced upon him by Shannahan) in his 1st year and deal with a peeved Jake Plummer in the background.

McDaniels should have been giving Cutler a chance to perform in his system before passing judgement.

I'd be pissed to. If I were drafted to be the face of the Broncos franchise and have done everything you could expect of a young blossoming QB include battle back and play thru (showing admirable guts) diabetes, get to the Pro-Bowl, but then have a bunch of knuckle-heads try to pin the Bronco's lack of playoffs on my shoulders while our Def is putting us into shoot-outs on a weekly basis... nah man... I'm not having that crap! Cutler shouldn't either. He's done everything you could ask of him and has the pride you're looking for in a leader/QB to actually get pissed about even being considered to be traded. That right there is enough to tell me that this guy wants to lead and be a winner, if the stats and circumstances up to this point don't prove it already.

We're better off with Cutler than a one hit wonder in Cassell and he has a right to be like "what the f*ck man!?" IMO.

The Gene Wojchowski's of the world can take their uninformed crap and shove it up their asses. See the big picture from his perspective for a second.

by Eric K on Mar 3, 2009 11:31 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/nfcnorth/0-9-13/The-argument-for-Cutler-and-Minnesota.html

http://www.startribune.com/sports/vikings/40578887.html?elr=KArks7PYDiaK7DUvckD_V_jEyhD:UiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

Multiple articles stating that Cutler might be traded to the vikings. Hasn't happened yet, but its probably only a matter of time.

by Anonymous on Mar 3, 2009 11:36 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

You need to add McDaniels and Bolan to the Stiff list if you're going to keep Cutler up there.

McDaniels made a massive blunder as the new head coach for the Broncos that threatens to affect last year's elite offense.

Bowlan for not taking the "ownership" of the team during a time like this to ground the Broncos and let them focus on next year's play.

You can't put this all on Cutler. Who of us would want to work for someone who that thought you were incapable of doing your job? Would you consider leaving? I sure as hell would.

by viracocha303 on Mar 3, 2009 12:28 PM MST reply actions 0 recs

What cliche will come out of this:
-Im a competitor
-In the heat in the game
-I want to win as much as he does

by Commish CH on Mar 3, 2009 12:52 PM MST reply actions 0 recs

How many people will turn off the game against Detroit if they see AC starting at the 2 and Jones shifted to the 3. That probably wont happen but I am 100% positive we will see AC guarding Rip at a crucial point in the game!! Then I probably will ponder shutting of the tube.

by james b.(seattle) on Mar 3, 2009 1:02 PM MST reply actions 0 recs

Sweet we will win today cause of this. JR Smith in the starting lineup, he will take it to the hoop and finish more consistantly, because has anyone noticed, when melo gets the ball on the right side of the basketball court he almost never passes from there.

by Riso on Mar 3, 2009 1:08 PM MST reply actions 0 recs

And if Vikings get Cutler they will win the superbowl.

by Riso on Mar 3, 2009 1:16 PM MST reply actions 0 recs

I echo what Virrachoa303 said above Andrew. You have to find fault in their ways. You just don't let something like that get out if you're trying to pull something like that. Keep it balanced Andrew! Go Nugs.

by Eric K on Mar 3, 2009 2:44 PM MST reply actions 0 recs

It gets harder & harder to defend my fav player, Melo. This is Sports 101; You do what the coach, no matter how incompetent, says to do...Period! GKarl's sub patterns are a joke, but if Melo had a gripe take it to the lockerroom, in private. Melo HAS to GrowTFU! He's a leader, like it or not- & enough is enough.

by Anonymous on Mar 3, 2009 4:02 PM MST reply actions 0 recs

I'm sorry I am just not buying the whole coincidence that ever since the moment Cutler took over we have had a bad defense. The year before we were one of the best defense's in the league. But Cutler's record isn't really my problem with him, it's his attitude. He has always been a little prima donna girly girl who claims to be a tough guy. Now, agian, I support him and the Broncos fully, and I already stated McDaniels is a moron in my opinion, but Cutler needs to realize he isn't as good as he thinks he is...yet. His agent made a statement saying something along the lines of "You don't ever see Eli or Tom Brady's name out there" But the is the whole point. If Cutler was as good as everyone thinks his name WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN OUT THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!

by Goldennugget on Mar 3, 2009 7:13 PM MST reply actions 0 recs

Kmart for the win!

Asked if the suspension shows the players the coach is in charge, forward Kenyon Martin said: "I guess that's what they're trying to prove."

It gets funnier everytime you read it.

by Anonymous on Mar 3, 2009 7:52 PM MST reply actions 0 recs

Melo was probably just playing the odds. GK barely pays attention to the game so chances were he wouldn't notice.

by Anonymous on Mar 3, 2009 8:04 PM MST reply actions 0 recs

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