fishmike wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:That is awesome. Sad that an attempt to make it a bash Melo thread has already happened.

Well... you know since Splat took his ball and went home DK has to pick up the slack

Ha, what happened? Is he gone for good?

Coach SVG is cool

GM SVG not so much.

gunsnewing wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:He get credit for turning down a trade for Josh Smith then eating his contract? Interesting. His is excuse that it would have brought back some unnecessary salary was a joke because they are still stuck with a whole bunch of unnecessary salary by cutting Josh.

Coach SVG is cool

GM SVG not so much.

He's not the one who traded for Josh. Same as Phil with TYSON & JR

They had a trade on the table with Sacramento this summer that he pulled. He wanted to keep Josh for this year.

You guys are hysterical! If I signed off on the signing of smith I'd want to see it work before I eat 30 million!!!

SVG likely said when interviewing "He gotta go". Then its logical to compromise and "Lets see how it goes until december 15th and try to trade him".
Im sure what comes back in return is not great.

And, SVG is not going to say "Gores wanted me to try before he ate the money"!

Owner singned off. SVG looks very smart. Owner looks smart. Dumars looks bad.

F500ONE wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:He get credit for turning down a trade for Josh Smith then eating his contract? Interesting. His is excuse that it would have brought back some unnecessary salary was a joke because they are still stuck with a whole bunch of unnecessary salary by cutting Josh.

Coach SVG is cool

GM SVG not so much.

He didn't want to make a trade Where he'd be forced to take on more salary Eat a contract or 3 within a year of making a trade. While taking on players that don't fit his system all for a couple low grade picks We've seen someone make a trade recently stuck in this very position. I can only imagine what this board would be like if the past 2 weeks We went on a 6gm winning streak and were 3gms back of a playoff spot

If Phil did that you would kill him and bring up trades he passed on.

yellowboy90 wrote:

F500ONE wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:He get credit for turning down a trade for Josh Smith then eating his contract? Interesting. His is excuse that it would have brought back some unnecessary salary was a joke because they are still stuck with a whole bunch of unnecessary salary by cutting Josh.

Coach SVG is cool

GM SVG not so much.

He didn't want to make a trade Where he'd be forced to take on more salary Eat a contract or 3 within a year of making a trade. While taking on players that don't fit his system all for a couple low grade picks We've seen someone make a trade recently stuck in this very position. I can only imagine what this board would be like if the past 2 weeks We went on a 6gm winning streak and were 3gms back of a playoff spot

If Phil did that you would kill him and bring up trades he passed on.

You got the riddle which pointed to Phil doing exactly this

So yes you're right

OTOH I would not have any problems with Phil flat out waiving deadweight

Bargs, Amar'e, Smith, Calderon etc etc

F500ONE wrote:Detroit 7-0 without Josh Smith

They have beaten Spurs and Mavs in back-to-back nights

During this stretch, juts goes to show

The TI% of getting rid of the right disease on a team

i don't think jackson sees what van gundy did and is having an epiphany. the knicks are a corpse anyway. have a look-see at this article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/sports/basketball/carmelo-anthony-signed-on-for-knicks-overhaul-but-says-it-has-been-hard.html?ref=basketball&_r=0

here are some lulu's:

The "I sacrificed winning to stay in NY" Melo: “Here’s an opportunity, with the trust,” Anthony said Wednesday. “Everything starts now.”

The "elder statesman/psychology major" Melo: "Anthony said the two players had difficulty processing the trade at first, too.

"I had to really try to calm them down and just kind of let them know that everything was going to be all right: ‘You have to move on, you have to get past this,’ ” Anthony said. “It was more upsetting from a friendship standpoint for both of those guys than it was a basketball standpoint. They understood the business of basketball.”

The "Teflon King not my responsibility" Melo: And although Anthony knew last summer that the current season would be a transitional one, he said he was still surprised at how much things had crumbled.

“I kind of knew that it was going to be kind of a rebuilding kind of situation,” Anthony said. “But to be in a situation we’re in, from a record situation, I couldn’t imagine this in a long time, a lot of years.”

dk7th wrote:

F500ONE wrote:Detroit 7-0 without Josh Smith

They have beaten Spurs and Mavs in back-to-back nights

During this stretch, juts goes to show

The TI% of getting rid of the right disease on a team

i don't think jackson sees what van gundy did and is having an epiphany. the knicks are a corpse anyway. have a look-see at this article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/sports/basketball/carmelo-anthony-signed-on-for-knicks-overhaul-but-says-it-has-been-hard.html?ref=basketball&_r=0

here are some lulu's:

The "I sacrificed winning to stay in NY" Melo: “Here’s an opportunity, with the trust,” Anthony said Wednesday. “Everything starts now.”

The "elder statesman/psychology major" Melo: "Anthony said the two players had difficulty processing the trade at first, too.

"I had to really try to calm them down and just kind of let them know that everything was going to be all right: ‘You have to move on, you have to get past this,’ ” Anthony said. “It was more upsetting from a friendship standpoint for both of those guys than it was a basketball standpoint. They understood the business of basketball.”

The "Teflon King not my responsibility" Melo: And although Anthony knew last summer that the current season would be a transitional one, he said he was still surprised at how much things had crumbled.

“I kind of knew that it was going to be kind of a rebuilding kind of situation,” Anthony said. “But to be in a situation we’re in, from a record situation, I couldn’t imagine this in a long time, a lot of years.”

Every yr since summer of 2012 he's been talking about rebuilding

Melo ["I 'Have To' Have Faith in Phil"] translation 'no choice but to'

This is on Phil not Meloptoutunist