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Carmelo Anthony made a rare return to the Carrier Dome on Wednesday night and the Syracuse Orangemen basketball team gifted him with their worst offensive performance in 74 years.
In a 48-34 loss to the reigning National Champion Virginia Cavaliers, the Orange shot 23.6% from the field, including 5-of-29 from beyond the arc no thanks to a suffocating defense that even SU head coach Jim Boeheim admitted they were not “not ready to play against that defense.”
The loudest the Carrier Dome got all night was when former SU star and NCAA National Champion Carmelo Anthony was introduced on the jumbotron.
#CuseFamily 🍊@carmeloanthony
Dave Bing pic.twitter.com/92RrcfyFjc— Syracuse Men’s Basketball (@Cuse_MBB) November 7, 2019
The most exciting aspect of the game was logging onto Twitter to pile it on Melo for his Candy Land detective outfit.
So Carmelo Anthony is at the Syracuse game tonight. And it looks like with the NBA out of the picture, he's found a new job solving 17th century crimes in England. Good for him. pic.twitter.com/gXrxn7o1a5
— Aaron Torres (@Aaron_Torres) November 7, 2019
Who wore it better? Carmelo Anthony or Crazy Quilt? pic.twitter.com/aKxNnSmWd0
— Hunter Felt (@HunterFelt) November 7, 2019
Carmelo out here trying to solve the mystery of the missing Syracuse jump shot. SU shooting 17% from the field trailing by 6. pic.twitter.com/UD7YRmTdQB
— Z89 Sports (@Z89sports) November 7, 2019
now that it’s cold melo can really start dressin pic.twitter.com/lF5MpImi2r
— girlboss don biggavelli (@rwxoxo) November 7, 2019
Melo looking warm and bringing back the grunge look to Syracuse pic.twitter.com/2gIUHhpH7E
— Syracuse Memes™ (@Cusememes) November 7, 2019
https://twitter.com/Kyle__Boone/status/1192266078325542913?s=20
https://twitter.com/CoyneAdam/status/1192399961880743936?s=20
Melo at the SU game looking like a pack of that Zebra stripe bubble gum I used to love in 1995. pic.twitter.com/aReWHwQm8K
— Marquel Slaughter🌊 (@MarquelSports) November 7, 2019
The only possible way Melo could look more fly is if he was in an NBA uniform.