yellowboy90 wrote:Love has looked good so far to me and his shooting is what is keeping it close in the 1st halves.

yea what would melo look like vs the warriors, esp on defense cause love has gotten destroyed by durant.

again can love hit his open threes and rebound yes but he still is a after thought for a defense vs melo who would demand the attention and make the game easier for lebron and kyrie

Knicks want to lose Melo and get whatever future pieces they can get for him.

Blazers reportedly wanted to shed salary and have a glut of guards. Maybe they want to retool a bit around Lillard/Nurkic as well.

I propose Melo to the Cavs, Love the Blazers, CJ McCollum to the Cavs, Evan Turner/Meyers Leonard/Some collection of Blazers draft picks to the Knicks, KOQ to the Blazers. Frye/JR to the Blazers.

Cavs

Irving
McCollum
Melo
Lebron
Thompson

A more balanced and dynamic 1-5.

Blazers

Lillard
Crabbe
Harkless
Love
Nurkic

Bench- KOQ, JR Smith, Frye

Also a more balanced 1-5 and saves a ton of salary to eventually sign Nurkic and more.

Knicks

??
??
Turner
Porzingis
WHG

I would push for picks 15 & 20 based on the amount of salary the Knicks take on.

The 3 teams together here can balance each other out.

#this series is boring, bring back hand checking and get the bad boys back in the nba...

espn said that the 2017 warriors are better then the 96 bulls and i said what rules are they playing by because if played by the real rules pre hand checking of basketball the warriors don't have a shot vs the bulls rodman over dray, pippin would pick up durant at half court and push him around, jordan would own Klay , and ron harper wouldn't allow curry even close to the three point line with out knocking him on his ass and getting in his body hard core hence the reason his father was nothing more then a spot up open shooter.

so if they are playing by the rules of today where you can't pick up your defender at half court physically and use your arm to get into his body and force him into passing you cant knock your opponent on the floor with out getting a flagrant. you don't have to worry about illegal defense no zone or switching... who knows steve kerr could be a star in todays nba, hubert davis could be a star in todays nba, reggie miller would be the super star in todays nba.

heck one of the greatest knick teams ever was ewing,oak,charles smith,starks,derick harper, mase as 6th man..... is that even a playoff team in todays nba, no thats a lottery team. there is no grit in todays nba... adam silver needs to bring back defense to the nba because its non existing in todays nba

fitzfarm wrote:

meloshouldgo wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:Seriously? I think very few people watching this would think the Cavs should replace Love with Melo. The Cavs weren't willing to do that last February. And Melo only played worse since then and Love has played quite well. The Cavs would probably be closer to offering something like Shumpert, Smith, and Frye.

Correct. Without Love playing yesterday that game would have been a 35+ point blowout. Cavs don't play as a team. Their starting 5 matches up well with the Warriors but they don't play system basketball and their isolation heavy game is being exposed.

Oh and the amazing and valuable "asset" that Phil dumped to get cap space had zero points, 1 rebound and -18 in the plus minus column. Thanks for showing up JR.

did you guys not watch durant destroy K love... he destroyed him on multiple occasions .... also lebron would bring the best outta melo, how can you even call love a good defender

Did you see Melo play defense...oh wait, you couldn't have, because he doesn't! To suggest Melo will keep Durant in check is fukking hilarious.

fitzfarm wrote:but back to melo vs love its silly to compare a offensive stud like melo to love who depends on getting open looks where melo can create his own looks

It's much easier to get a sense of what Melo would add by looking at the Isolation scoring Stats. Melo is the more prolific ISO scorer and as such he's not so overly dependent on Assisted Scoring. Love puts up numbers but when the Defense gets really tough and shuts down open looks Melo is able to take his many and make tough shots.

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                                                                     FT     TO    SF     ONE   SCORE
PLAYER	        TEAM GP	POSS FREQ   PPP   PTS  FGM  FGA  FG%   EFG%  FREQ   FREQ  FREQ   FREQ  FREQ   PERCENTILE
Carmelo Anthony NYK  74	5.3  23.1%  0.99  5.2  1.9  4.4  44.2  46.8  13.8%   5.4% 14.1%	 3.1%  47.3%	78.3
Kevin Love      CLE  61	1.0  5.5%   0.84  0.9  0.3  0.8  42.0  43.0   8.1%  11.3%  8.1%  0.0%  41.9%	50.8
LeBron James    CLE  74	5.1  20.3%  0.97  5.0  1.8  4.2  43.5  49.5  12.7%   8.0% 11.9%  3.7%  44.6%	76.6

meloshouldgo wrote:

fitzfarm wrote:

meloshouldgo wrote:

fitzfarm wrote:

meloshouldgo wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:Seriously? I think very few people watching this would think the Cavs should replace Love with Melo. The Cavs weren't willing to do that last February. And Melo only played worse since then and Love has played quite well. The Cavs would probably be closer to offering something like Shumpert, Smith, and Frye.

Correct. Without Love playing yesterday that game would have been a 35+ point blowout. Cavs don't play as a team. Their starting 5 matches up well with the Warriors but they don't play system basketball and their isolation heavy game is being exposed.

Oh and the amazing and valuable "asset" that Phil dumped to get cap space had zero points, 1 rebound and -18 in the plus minus column. Thanks for showing up JR.

did you guys not watch durant destroy K love... he destroyed him on multiple occasions .... also lebron would bring the best outta melo, how can you even call love a good defender

Did you see Melo play defense...oh wait, you couldn't have, because he doesn't! To suggest Melo will keep Durant in check is fukking hilarious.

its also fukkin hilarious calling k love a better player then melo, esp on offense. yes durant gets his but melo is way more athletic then k love, and matches up way better then k love and rightfully so k love is a pf or center melo like durant is a sf/pf.

Ok you will have to show me where I called K Live a better player on offense.
Like Bonn1997 pointed out it's been LeBron guarding Durant for the most part. The core premise of your original post and this thread is flat out wrong.

Paris907 wrote:If you want more ISO ball and stagnation call 1800 cal-Melo! Love isn't the offensive player Melo was but gets his points within the offense. Melo needs a team that can play him off the bench or a guard like Chris Paul that can control the Rock and deny Melo the ball when he's cold aka the entire 4th Quarter. Love can board. And neither plays crisp D.