cheers wrote:this was mda's game to prove his system can beat the best. what this game proved-- if amar'e is not in the game, the players you and i love look quite normal. when amar'e is in the game the same players look like rockstars. im back in the get melo camp.. im home tms! sry i spent that time with fishmike, he's so damn convincing. lol. but right now as of 9:58pm i would overpay in talent to get melo.

Getting Melo is about the package that would be needed to get him! If you can instead make smaller deals for guys that have good talent like Mayo, they you can enhance the team you have without wrecking it just to try and improve. I think it will be much easier to make the smaller deals for a couple of players than it will to try and add Melo.

We're a consistent 1st round team until we get Melo, and that's where 2nd round/ECF discussions will come into play.

I keep our guys and sign him in the offseason.

JrZyHuStLa wrote:Let's face it Knicks fans.

We're a consistent 1st round team until we get Melo, and that's where 2nd round/ECF discussions will come into play.

I keep our guys and sign him in the offseason.

Experience team vs newly constructed team. I have differ opinion but thats what it is opinion.

TMS wrote:lol... the team played great tonight & we almost took this one, but i mean how realistic is it to expect Amare & Ray to have the kinds of games they had tonight on a nightly basis for the rest of the year? w/the minutes they're playing they're gonna break down or slow down... if we can't add another go to scorer to take the pressure off Amare, then we need another defensive shotblocking big to defend the paint like Camby, since AR will never see the light of day off the bench.

that said, i wouldn't overpay to get Melo... Wilson & Gallo are both really good... if it takes much more than those guys to get Melo then i don't want Melo.

Agreed. Thought I prefer to get him now because anything can happen, I'm not stripping the team bare for Melo if we can get him next year. But we definitely need him if we want to be in the discussion for competing for a Chip.

nixluva wrote:

cheers wrote:this was mda's game to prove his system can beat the best. what this game proved-- if amar'e is not in the game, the players you and i love look quite normal. when amar'e is in the game the same players look like rockstars. im back in the get melo camp.. im home tms! sry i spent that time with fishmike, he's so damn convincing. lol. but right now as of 9:58pm i would overpay in talent to get melo.

Getting Melo is about the package that would be needed to get him! If you can instead make smaller deals for guys that have good talent like Mayo, they you can enhance the team you have without wrecking it just to try and improve. I think it will be much easier to make the smaller deals for a couple of players than it will to try and add Melo.

Easier perhaps, but this smaller deals probably aren't putting us into championship contention.

Uptown wrote:

rp wrote:

cheers wrote:this was mda's game to prove his system can beat the best. what this game proved-- if amar'e is not in the game, the players you and i love look quite normal. when amar'e is in the game the same players look like rockstars. im back in the get melo camp.. im home tms! sry i spent that time with fishmike, he's so damn convincing. lol. but right now as of 9:58pm i would overpay in talent to get melo.

I believe the knicks made a run when STAT was out...so not sure what you saw.

If I recall the Celts chopped the lead every time Amare went to the bench and MDA had to rush him back in....These guys are going to be worn out sometime by the allstar break if we dont upgrade soon.

Agreed, but the kinda cancels out the original argument doesn't it.

cheers wrote:this was mda's game to prove his system can beat the best. what this game proved-- if amar'e is not in the game, the players you and i love look quite normal. when amar'e is in the game the same players look like rockstars. im back in the get melo camp.. im home tms! sry i spent that time with fishmike, he's so damn convincing. lol. but right now as of 9:58pm i would overpay in talent to get melo.

Oh yeah lets trade away Gallo Chandler and Fields for one guy--and then we still are small and
thin what t f would melo do in this game(we scored 116)--i like melo but our needs are a second big man who can score and maybe give some interior toughness/presence a legit 6th man and back up PG--we have no bench--that was a disastrous loss caused by a lack of bench---we tired out and they put runs on us when we had our second unit in there for even a few minutes.

TMS wrote:lol... the team played great tonight & we almost took this one, but i mean how realistic is it to expect Amare & Ray to have the kinds of games they had tonight on a nightly basis for the rest of the year? w/the minutes they're playing they're gonna break down or slow down... if we can't add another go to scorer to take the pressure off Amare, then we need another defensive shotblocking big to defend the paint like Camby, since AR will never see the light of day off the bench.

that said, i wouldn't overpay to get Melo... Wilson & Gallo are both really good... if it takes much more than those guys to get Melo then i don't want Melo.

Galo and Wilson had 40 points and 15 rebounds--who repalces them--we dont have anyone to replace that--carmeko is better than both but not better than two or even in the same ballpark.. Gallo should play like he did in the first half then he wouldve had 30--we haev the scoring--we have no frikin bench its so patently obvious. we lose a game by two we shouldve won and we need melo--and were still small and thin thinner

CrushAlot wrote:This team continues to improve and has a chemistry that is surprising and exciting considering most of these guys are playing together for the first time this year. I don't know if it is possible to predict how improved they will be by the playoffs but they are improving daily. Melo would be a great addition but it is hard to imagine giving up some of the guys that I root for who are improving and are a part of a successful unit.

I feel you on giving up on players you root for but you have to give to get. I remember when we traded Strickland, I was in the dumps for months. Same with Starks, hated giving him up but we got a better player back in Spree....