I mean JR Reid and Pervis Ellison were great freshmen, too, that and six bucks will get you a latte.

Melo went onto to have a way better NBA career than those guys but he still managed to underachieve. OE and them wanna detract from that talking about some meaningless shit.

Also, if we change "freshman" to "first-year collegiate player," that knocks him right the fuck outta the box. That's pretty significant given that for many years, freshmen could not play on the collegiate varsity team including the eras of Wilt, Oscar, Jerry, Russell, Kareem, Walton, etc.