Is Melo playing better by trying to play worse?

In case you haven’t looked at the WP numbers for 2010-11, after three games, Carmelo Anthony is a “star”.  Yesterday, Andres Alvarez offered an explanation for Melo’s improvement.  As the following story explains (and this is what Andres said at Nerd Numbers in its entirety), maybe Melo is better because he is trying not to be good.  Yes, it is great story. Player Position G GS MP WP48 Wins Arron Afflalo SG:100% 3 3 104 0.381 0.8 Carmelo Anthony SF:88% PF:11% 3 3 112 0.250 0.6 Shelden Williams PF:100% 3 3 84 0.249 0.4 Chauncey Billups PG:85% SG:14% 3 3 97 0.138 0.3 Nene Hilario PF:38% C:61% 3 3 94 0.173 0.3 Al Harrington C:100% 3 0 78 0.054 0.1 Gary Forbes SF:100% 2 0 10 0.119 0.0 J.R. Smith SG:42% SF:57% 3 0 61 0.009 0.0 Melvin Ely PF:50% C:50% 2 0 16 -0.125 0.0 Renaldo Balkman PF:100% 1 0 3 -0.702 0.0 Ty Lawson PG:100% 3 0 61 -0.072 -0.1 Total 720 0.160 2.4 Table 1: 2011 Denver Nuggets after 3 games. Arturo made a brief mention of this in a podcast...