Papabear wrote:
Papabear SaysI heard Melo has done a lot for his community. He has given up his time and money to help people. So you choose to like Lin who if Houston would have offered Lin 25 million in the begining Dolan would have matched it but Lin was slick. He didn't want to come back to New York. You like him and that's just fine. But you don't really know him or Melo. I only know that Melo has put his money where his mouth is in poor communities where he used to live and other places. Personally I like them both.
Wow do people really believe this?
Anyway back to the original topic, Denver actually did try to surround Melo with those pieces.... Nene very mobile scorer, Chauncey Billups character guy, Andre Miller not very mobile but very good floor general/ good character, Camby rock solid defender, probably best defensive center in the league for a while. Oh K-Mart and JR Smith (haha) too, I never really liked them but some people do. Probably the player I liked most from those days was Earl Boykins - mobile, high character, ice under pressure, but he's probably retired.
It never really did work out, even with all those pieces did it? I'm not sure you can surround an alpha player with players that you want him to emulate and have that work. It didn't work for Philly with Iverson either.
Rose is not the answer.