MSG3 wrote:People try to outsmart themselves with arguments that all we need is role players. It's not impatience driving these Carmelo talks. It's necessity. If people here want the STAT era to be 45 win teams that don't make it past the first or second round then we should trade for a guy like Dalembert and hope that solves our problems. I'd contest hat even if we had Chris Paul right now over Felton it still wouldn't make the kind of difference Melo would make now. I respect Everyones opinion but it's shocking that people actually believe a guy like Melo wouldn't make a difference. And waiting until the summer to get him would be great if it was guaranteed. But it's not. We need this guy or itll be 2 years until we even have a chance to get he kind of help we need.
Melo would make a difference. I just don't think he makes us a contender and I think between his salary and the assets we give up to get him we'll be stuck at a level below contending.
I think we give up two rotation players, cap room and a trade asset (Randolph) and probably draft picks. We end up with a team some thing like:
Chandler, Amare, Felton, Melo, Williams, Turiaf, Walker.
That team to me is not a contender and is more then a few role players around the edges from being a contender. It doesn't have the defense, size or depth to be a contender. You don't have the draft picks, tradable players or cap space to make it a contender - for years.
I guess I'm a little more patient. It's very rare for a team to go fro 23 wins to contenders in a couple of years. The Celtics turn around was the exception to the rule not the rule. I'd rather see how the players we have develop and see if someone like Howard becomes available. To me if I'm going to go all in on a free agent he has to be someone who addresses our major weaknesses.
If we need to give up significantly less to get Melo then that changes the equation.
