To many reasons
Hate to disagree with Kiya, but was and still am in big favor of the trade. For once we went with production over potential. The only guy I will miss is Will the Thrill, but he plays the same position as Melo and was a free agent at the end of the season anyway. As it sits we have locked up two of the best young players in the league while in the prime of thier careers. We can find role players and vets to fill in the gaps. We have had more nationally televised games since the trade than in the last five years combined. We are relevent and back in the conversation again and hopefully back in the playoffs with a chance to make hay. I know the Cocklovers are hurt, but this is a team sport. You can always go be Nuggets fans.....
There are so many reasons why we shouldve backed off of the Melo-Fiasco:
1) We did not hire an offense/defense headcoach to include a 32+ minute
high scoring Melo on the roster. Its chaos with Dantoni "
trying" to teach
two top veteran high-scorers offense.
Amare & Melo have so many years of experience being a high-scorer in the
NBA, which proves the two high-scorers do not need an offensive-coach
Dantoni to stay one dimensional offensive players. The Two star scorers
need a defensive-minded headcoach (JVG/Thib) to improve their performance
on the defensive-end to perform at the next level to become consistent
contenders in the NBA. adding two defensive pass-first PG in their rotation
would be LUV.
2) Headcoach Gentry already proved Dantoni was the wrong coach for
Amare, for us to add Melo into the equation (a smaller Amare at the SF)
only makes it two powerful reasons why Dantoni is the wrong headcoach.
3) We needed to watch two months of our old roster under a new headcoach
with an offense/defense system b/c our 2010-11 roster had strong defensive
depth in PG-Douglas/SG-Fields/SF-Chandler/PF-Turiaf/F-AR/and C-Mozgov.
After one season under Dantoni's offense, and next season under a defensive
headcoach all 6 of those young players potential, creative-talent, and trade-
value will increase by 3 to 5 times better than what it is today.
4) I wanted an (UFA) Melo in the offseason taking less money to show a
committment to become a contender alongside of Amare in New York, this
way we could resign Chandler as backup to both Star players (or injuries).
5) I also wanted to see if the NBA (Stern) was going to let another big-
marketing-franchise (UFA) player walk to the team of his choice without
the team giving anything in return to the Denver Nuggets. The Denver
Nuggets would lose half of its average gross and profit if their franchise
(marketing) player Carmelo walk as a FA to the team of his choice.....
it already affected Phoenix, Utah, Toronto, and Cleveland bigtime.
P.S. Did Donnie Walsh and Dolan wide circle of media have anything to do
with so many top franchise-players walking to the team of their choice as
an UFA in the 2010 offseason? recall the "2010-plan" in 2008, plus Amare
was the first to make a committment and sign.
Top marketing franchise players walking to the next team as a FA has never
happen before in the history of the NBA...
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