ACisKING
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Carmelo is a better jump shooter, and always has been.
Well yes. I just was talking about scoring as a facet in general, not every particular skill. Melo definitely has some skills that he is better at than LeBron - he has a better jab step, better footwork, a better ability to hit contested mid range shots, a better jump shot (though some years, LBJ has outshot him), and is a much better free throw shooter. But even with all that, LBJ is hands down a better and more consistent scorer. And LBJ just impacts the game in so many other ways. He's like Jason Kidd in that he can win a game without really scoring, except that he can also score with the best of them.
But at least for me, even though I watch a lot of Cavs games, it's often easy to overlook just how good LBJ is overall. It's when I find myself rooting against LBJ that it really dawns on me just how multi-faceted and dominant he really is. He's just so much better than Melo, who is well on his way to the Hall of Fame in his own right.