EnySpree wrote:I'm leaning towards yes. The small fwd position is the most talented position next to point guard...we might need to think about investing some money in another position...Melo would need to waive the no trade clause though. It's an interesting thought

Morey definitely loaded up on salary for deadline trade purposes (otherwise why trade for Shved yesterday?). Rockets are the only winning team that have shown interest in Melo AND could easily make the numbers match. Would Melo agree? Who knows- he's definitely having second thoughts, and if he's smart he can see we are several years away from contending. Next season will be a struggle just to get to the playoffs.

I like the idea of the Rockets as trade partners just because of their draft picks (that Pelicans one is guaranteed to be 3-20, which BRIGGs would love), young cheap players (I know we wouldn't get both picks and the young players, but we should be able to get one of the two) and even the salary match players could be good fits for us (I like Ariza and it would be very useful to have a player who's actually played in and had success with the triangle before).

Nalod wrote:Those picks are assumed all for the taking? All those players, all those picks!!!!!

Morey is giving himself the opportunity to be flexible.

He is, but he's not afraid to try and use them to land a star (see the Harden trade), something he's become oddly fixated on lately. Of course the key thing with him is he likes to look like the clear winner in every trade, so unlike us, he ain't going to go wild with offerings. In fact I'm doubtful he even offers the Pelican pick (if that was up for grabs, wouldn't he have offered it to the Celtics for Rondo- it's guaranteed to be higher than the Mavs pick so they would have been fools not to accept it).

You look at the Rockets players and picks and its confusing how he managed to fail to outdo the Mavs in regards to the Rondo trade, unless he didn't really want him in the first place.

smackeddog wrote:

EnySpree wrote:I'm leaning towards yes. The small fwd position is the most talented position next to point guard...we might need to think about investing some money in another position...Melo would need to waive the no trade clause though. It's an interesting thought

Morey definitely loaded up on salary for deadline trade purposes (otherwise why trade for Shved yesterday?). Rockets are the only winning team that have shown interest in Melo AND could easily make the numbers match. Would Melo agree? Who knows- he's definitely having second thoughts, and if he's smart he can see we are several years away from contending. Next season will be a struggle just to get to the playoffs.

I like the idea of the Rockets as trade partners just because of their draft picks (that Pelicans one is guaranteed to be 3-20, which BRIGGs would love), young cheap players (I know we wouldn't get both picks and the young players, but we should be able to get one of the two) and even the salary match players could be good fits for us (I like Ariza and it would be very useful to have a player who's actually played in and had success with the triangle before).

CrushAlot wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

EnySpree wrote:I'm leaning towards yes. The small fwd position is the most talented position next to point guard...we might need to think about investing some money in another position...Melo would need to waive the no trade clause though. It's an interesting thought

Morey definitely loaded up on salary for deadline trade purposes (otherwise why trade for Shved yesterday?). Rockets are the only winning team that have shown interest in Melo AND could easily make the numbers match. Would Melo agree? Who knows- he's definitely having second thoughts, and if he's smart he can see we are several years away from contending. Next season will be a struggle just to get to the playoffs.

I like the idea of the Rockets as trade partners just because of their draft picks (that Pelicans one is guaranteed to be 3-20, which BRIGGs would love), young cheap players (I know we wouldn't get both picks and the young players, but we should be able to get one of the two) and even the salary match players could be good fits for us (I like Ariza and it would be very useful to have a player who's actually played in and had success with the triangle before).

Melo, Harden and D12 on the same team. That is a pretty unlikeable trio. It would be interesting to see how it worked.

I don't get how Melo and Harden would work at all, but what was bizarre was that the infamous metrics GM seemed to think it could back in the offseason. Team chemistry would also be toxic.

Our foundation would be Ariza, THJr... and cap space like a mother****er. We could really begin to build something real here for once

smackeddog wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:Can this happen before Christmas?

Unfortunately not- there will be no early christmas presents for you this year. The players Morey just traded for are not eligible to be re-traded until the deadline

TPercy wrote:I love melo too but I mean think of two first round picks, couple starters...perfect for moving forward. Then we can draft a conerstone player HOPEFULLY and I mean HOPEFULLY, sign an all star caliber player who isnt a raging ******* and we are moving in the right direction

I like Melo, but I think he (and most people) overestimated the speed of the rebuild. I think he (and so did I) thought this season we might compete for the 8th spot, and would solidify a group of support players who can play the triangle, and then next season we'd add Gasol or Rondo or Love, and suddenly would be in contention. Now there are no top flight free agents. We have very few if any, keepers.

We'll hopefully add a top player via the draft, but they'll take a few seasons to develop. We can add a couple of pretty good FA's. The time frame is a few seasons longer now. Next season will be a struggle to make the playoffs. Maybe the year after that we'll be getting good. Does Melo honestly have the patience for that? The Knick/Melo partnership doesn't make sense anymore, so hopefully we can arrange a mutually beneficial parting of ways.