fishmike wrote:this is about the future the Knicks just bankrupted it. A 20th pick and a couple expiring contract is what we have to build up this roster. That sucks dude. Plain and simple.
Least we're off the Diva is a below average rebounder thing I guess...
When the Celtics traded for their big 3, who did they have to build up their roster? I remember very well at the time, people didn't know where the depth was coming from.
Rondo, a 21st pick, was on the roster NOT the Rondo he is today. Same with Kendrick Perkins, a 27th pick.
Glen Davis was a 2nd round pick.
George Hill, Gary Neal and DeJuan Blair play important depth roles in the Spurs.
Jose Juan Barea and Rodrigue Beaubois are cogs in Dallas.
Taj Gibson is a rotation player and fairly well regarded in Chicago.
You can get useful players in later rounds.
And having a solid core often helps make younger players better.
I understand you have to give up something, but we totally caved and catered to Diva and his camp so he could have his massive extension.
Listen, if you're going to play the role of omnipotent mindreader and argue for certain how both the Denver front office AND Carmelo Anthony would have responded had the Knicks just done what you think they should have, you can have the floor to yourself.
Diva's XL over the max extension means we cannot sign a CP3 or Deron Williams and therefore have zero leverage to trade for them.
That's not true, if you understand the 2012 market.
You can poo poo this all you want, but the Knicks were very lucky to put together a quality young roster in a short time.
I witnessed for my own eyes the difference Amare Stoudemire has made. I don't honestly don't know what Knicks team you are apparently watching.
Knicks horribly overpaid, and your boy Hollinger gave the Knicks a zesty D+ in his assesment of the trade. Age of the internet indeed
And if I link to a dozen other NBA analysts that give the trade highmarks, your point is what exactly?
The CP3 stuff is over though... the only reason we have Melo is we had the leverage to sign him if Denver didnt trade him. What's our leverage for CP3? We are willing to take back their best frontcourt player? Cmon man....
You don't understand the market.
Reason Denver had leverage was because of the CBA uncertainty. If Paul retains the ability to become a following next season, the CBA will be established.
Paul CAN threaten New Orleans to walk AND veto any trade he doesn't like because doing so won't potentially cost him. He'll be in full control, where as Melo was not.
