NBA Rookie Jerseys - Carmelo Anthony

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2003 NBA Draft Thoughts

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Can Carmelo Anthony help turn the Nuggets around?

Yes, he can. Carmelo Anthony was a great draft pick for the Denver Nuggets. In almost any other year he would have easliy been the first pick in the draft but with the hype around LeBron James and the buzz surrounding Darko Milicic he slid to #3 this year.

The Denver Nuggets are a very young team in the middle of a rebuilding process that should be complete in a year or two. Adding Carmelo Anthony to a young lineup that includes Nene Hiliario, Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Marcus Camby, and possible free agents like Gilbert Arenas, Juwan Howard, and others they are well on their way to being a playoff team within the next year or two.

Carmelo Anthony will be an impact player in the NBA this year and will have a very positive impact on the Nuggets. He is a multi-talented player and can do whatever his team needs. Many times players come from college being able to do one thing well. They might be a great shooter but a terrible defensive player or be a good rebounder but terrible shooter. Carmelo Anthony can do it all. He is a great defensive rebounder, can score inside and out, and generally makes everyone around him better. He is a great passer out of double teams, and has pure atheltic ability that will help him adapt quickly to the NBA game.

Along with Carmelo's great talent he also has a winning attitude. He just got finished winning the NCAA championship with Syracuse and won't want to be a part of a team that wins 20 games. Carmelo should be able to get the Nuggets to around 35-40 wins this year which would be a huge jump.

Also Coach Jeff Bzdelik is a hungry young coach that is great at motivating players. Even thought he Nuggets didn't win a lot of games last year they were always playing hard and kept a lot of games much closer than they should have been. I am a big fan of giving young, unproven coaches like Bzdelik a chance as opposed to recycling an old guy like Lenny Wilkins. The young coach usually will take more chances, have more fire, and relate to players much better than a guy who has been running the same system for 20+ years thinking it will work in today's league.

Overall I think Carmelo should average around 15-18 points per game, 7 rebounds, and 5 assists per game. He will probably finish right behind Darko and LeBron in the Rookie of the Year voting and will provide the Nuggets with a great player to build on in the future.

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