Carmelo Anthony Discussion Thread - All Things Melo

STAT1

Starter
Crazy⑧s;159811 said:
Keep this in mind gentlemen, The CBA are entertaining the premise of a hard cap and eliminating the mid level exception or MLE as it's abbreviated. For those of you saying "We'll just build around STAT and Melo", "Vets will be lining up to play here", "Dolan's prepared to go over the cap", "DWill or D12 or CP3 in 2012" and so on, you could very well be hit with an abrupt reeming after CBA talks are concluded and changes are made.

Are you suggesting it would have been better to not make this trade & wait things out based on pure blind faith that Melo would sign with us as a free agent, assuming no franchise player tag is part of the new CBA & assuming there would be no change of heart in Melo from now til June? That's a huge risk you're taking with the future of your franchise going that route for the sake of holding onto a couple more role players, isn't it?
 

vrgadin

Benchwarmer
bottom line is melo didnt wanna hit free agency, cba scares him, nuggets were gonna sit on njs offer till thursday unless we gave them what they wanted, even if nj wasnt in the picture denver would have waited for what they wanted and if ny didnt concede, would have handed melo a pen to sign an extension with them.

we had to make the deal, and imho its not a bad one at all. ok galo isnt a "scrub" but hes not great.....felton swap with billups and a few scrub exchanges....for melo :thumbsup:
 

mafra

Legend
Funny how talking heads claimed we had nothing to offer DEN, no assets, and now after the deal they claim we gave up too much and was robbed?

Sheldon Williams better than Mozgov.

Carmelo better than Gallo.

Chandler was going at end of season anyway.

Felton younger but Billups better playoff player. Neither here come 2012.

Randolph amd Curry's contract hurts. 3 draft picks and taking back Balkman stinks.

But who wouldn't accept that pain to trade Gallo for Carmelo and Felton for Billups?

Gave up too much. Sure. But blame impatient Dolan. As long as he owns the team...
 

p0nder

Starter
In Billups we have a championship quality veteran and in Balkman we get a defensive center that we needed so badly. I like the guys we gave up but we are instantly a better team going into the playoffs.

Billups, Melo and STAT running a high ...post pick'n'roll will give teams fits. We got better in rebounding, defense, scoring, play making, AND we kept this years best draft pick Landry Fields (a shane battier type of hustle guy).

Best of all we stay flexible enough to sign Chris Paul or Deron Williams next year (i'm guessing CP3).
 

knicksin60

Starter
The Knicks just blew their chances of winning an NBA championship.Danilo Gallinari was on his way to being the next Dirk Nowitzki, Chandler the next Scottie Pippen, and Felton the next Magic Johnson.

The Knicks aren't going to win more than 35 games this season.And next season they will be a 20 win team.

Carmelo Anthony can't play center, shooting guard and small forward all at the same time.

On top of all of that, Isiah Thomas has been rehired by Dolan and it's 2004 all over again.

Fire Walsh and D'antoni, they are the reasons why the Knicks are in shambles right now.
 

LeFlume

All Star
The Knicks just blew their chances of winning an NBA championship.Danilo Gallinari was on his way to being the next Dirk Nowitzki, Chandler the next Scottie Pippen, and Felton the next Magic Johnson.

The Knicks aren't going to win more than 35 games this season.And next season they will be a 20 win team.

Carmelo Anthony can't play center, shooting guard and small forward all at the same time.

On top of all of that, Isiah Thomas has been rehired by Dolan and it's 2004 all over again.

Fire Walsh and D'antoni, they are the reasons why the Knicks are in shambles right now.

What ever you're smokin homie. Give me some. :afro:
 

Smooth

Benchwarmer
The Knicks just blew their chances of winning an NBA championship.Danilo Gallinari was on his way to being the next Dirk Nowitzki, Chandler the next Scottie Pippen, and Felton the next Magic Johnson.

The Knicks aren't going to win more than 35 games this season.And next season they will be a 20 win team.

Carmelo Anthony can't play center, shooting guard and small forward all at the same time.

On top of all of that, Isiah Thomas has been rehired by Dolan and it's 2004 all over again.

Fire Walsh and D'antoni, they are the reasons why the Knicks are in shambles right now.

And you are smoking crack!
KNICKS ARE BACK BABY!
 

WrongIslander

Rotation player
Billups > Felton
Fields > Chandler
Melo >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gallo
Amar'e


So we've weakened at C but nothing that can't be addressed for now or the future.

Melo all but made it clear he'd have stayed in Denver had Denver not agreed the deal and the Knicks clearly knew this from their reaction.

There's no way he was going to leave 15m sat on the table so we had to do what it took.

I love people crying over the picks as well, yeah the next Jordan is clearly waiting in the second round of this coming class.

If I offered some of you on here a million in 50's you'd cry it wasn't in 100's.
 

clumsy

Rotation player
Do people forget we have Kelenna Azubuike who if healthy is better than Wilson Chandler. WHat more he's actually a SG.

So as a 6th man he's gonna help us big time as the year goes on.
 

WrongIslander

Rotation player
The Knicks just blew their chances of winning an NBA championship.Danilo Gallinari was on his way to being the next Dirk Nowitzki, Chandler the next Scottie Pippen, and Felton the next Magic Johnson.

The Knicks aren't going to win more than 35 games this season.And next season they will be a 20 win team.

Carmelo Anthony can't play center, shooting guard and small forward all at the same time.

On top of all of that, Isiah Thomas has been rehired by Dolan and it's 2004 all over again.

Fire Walsh and D'antoni, they are the reasons why the Knicks are in shambles right now.

This has to be sarcasm, it just has to be.

Felton the new Magic. Comedy gold.
 

vrgadin

Benchwarmer
The Knicks just blew their chances of winning an NBA championship.Danilo Gallinari was on his way to being the next Dirk Nowitzki, Chandler the next Scottie Pippen, and Felton the next Magic Johnson.

The Knicks aren't going to win more than 35 games this season.And next season they will be a 20 win team.

Carmelo Anthony can't play center, shooting guard and small forward all at the same time.

On top of all of that, Isiah Thomas has been rehired by Dolan and it's 2004 all over again.

Fire Walsh and D'antoni, they are the reasons why the Knicks are in shambles right now.

lolol :teeth:
 

vpell

Benchwarmer
The Knicks just blew their chances of winning an NBA championship.Danilo Gallinari was on his way to being the next Dirk Nowitzki, Chandler the next Scottie Pippen, and Felton the next Magic Johnson.

The Knicks aren't going to win more than 35 games this season.And next season they will be a 20 win team.

Carmelo Anthony can't play center, shooting guard and small forward all at the same time.

On top of all of that, Isiah Thomas has been rehired by Dolan and it's 2004 all over again.

Fire Walsh and D'antoni, they are the reasons why the Knicks are in shambles right now.
weak trolling is weak
 
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