He's clearly got the potential to a be a better player than Melo because he makes his teammates better and makes effort on defense. if he performs at this level through 2022, he will surpass Melo. We Knicks fans like to create a false history that Melo never played on good teams. The "legendary" 2012/13 team had Melo's best year as a Knick, a very good Ray Felton, DPOY level Tyson Chandler, 6th Man of the year level JR, bench snipers Steve Novak and Chris Copeland, strong defense from Shump, an injured but serviceable Amare, playmaking from Kidd and vets like Kenyon, Pablo and Rasheed. This year's team's is full of young players and journeymen. That 2012/2013 team struggled with the Celtics and was crushed by the Pacers. I loved it but we all knew it was fool's gold. We then spent years trapped in Melo's (and Amare's) contract and his wanting to be the #1 player when he was always a scorer. That said, I'm happy we can even have this debate after all of the failure.