fishmike wrote:

MS wrote:What have I said that isn’t spot on?

We traded half our team for a guy that virtually is the same player, as our best player. It works in Miami because Lebron and Wade are unselfish and play exceptional defense.

Is there a difference between Carmelo Anthony and Allen Iverson?

We had to take on Balkmans contract, Fields went from promising trade chip and glue guy to having no value, Gallo and Chandler virtually duplicate Melo’s production and spaced the floor and both were unselfish, Felton was playing at a fringe all-star level and developing serious chemistry with STAT, AR and Moz were both raw, but useful projects.

Does that add up to a championship? No it doesn’t, but there is an opportunity to build with pieces and have flexibility. Right now our roster consists of a lost second year SF starting at the guard position, a combo guard that’s lost his confidence playing out of position, a jump shooting power forward how isn’t being aggressive, a journeyman past his prime point guard, a former all-star injured point guard who we are all hoping returns to his Golden State form and a defensive center whose needs a pg to get him easy buckets.

Melo is a closer I get it. He’s great when the game is on the line, but with this team the game is always going to be on the line. He needs to score 35+ to get us wins because we have no depth and balance.
If someone can explain how we get that and who do we add that’s something to talk about…

Knicks built a great frontcourt... now they need depth and guards.

We are still talking about Denver? They are 7-4, 5-1 at home and beat Mil, NJ, NO, Utah and Sac there. They have 2 quality wins (LAL who they also lost too and Dallas who was playing 2nd game of a b2b, which we have established here means its no longer a quality win)

Sorry... your still not saying anything

-We have a great front-court but our team is getting out-rebounded 43.5 to 40.9.
-We have a great front-court but our opponents are beating us in blocked shots.
-Our great SF and PF are shooting .439 and .420.

Serious question: What qualities does a great front-court have and in what ways does ours demonstrate them?

misterearl wrote:

crzymdups wrote:earl, i thought you hated gallo because he wasn't wilson.

Never showed Gallo anything but love. You must have The Answer Man confused with someone else.

I beg to differ. I remember it quite well. You weren't a Gallo fan - many nights you clamored for "The Mayor" to start ahead of Gallo. Basically any time Wilson had more points than Gallo off the bench.

crzymdups wrote:

misterearl wrote:

crzymdups wrote:earl, i thought you hated gallo because he wasn't wilson.

Never showed Gallo anything but love. You must have The Answer Man confused with someone else.

I beg to differ. I remember it quite well. You weren't a Gallo fan - many nights you clamored for "The Mayor" to start ahead of Gallo. Basically any time Wilson had more points than Gallo off the bench.

I was a big Wilson Chandler fan. I liked him more than Gallo because I felt Gallo didn't have the foot speed to play multiple positions.
While Wilson Chandler might not have as much skill and basketball skill as Gallo, but he was more versatile and the better defender.
Gallo also had much more trade value than Chandler, while Wilson Chandler was one of our best shot blockers and help defender for years.

RonRon wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

misterearl wrote:

crzymdups wrote:earl, i thought you hated gallo because he wasn't wilson.

Never showed Gallo anything but love. You must have The Answer Man confused with someone else.

I beg to differ. I remember it quite well. You weren't a Gallo fan - many nights you clamored for "The Mayor" to start ahead of Gallo. Basically any time Wilson had more points than Gallo off the bench.

I was a big Wilson Chandler fan. I liked him more than Gallo because I felt Gallo didn't have the foot speed to play multiple positions.
While Wilson Chandler might not have as much skill and basketball skill as Gallo, but he was more versatile and the better defender.
Gallo also had much more trade value than Chandler, while Wilson Chandler was one of our best shot blockers and help defender for years.

Well, we traded Gallo and our defense is better than it ever was with Wilson. Soooo.... theoretically you should be happy.

crzymdups wrote:

MS wrote:That's the big issue. What is the plan here?

Our big weakness last year was never scoring. It was defense. What's are weakness now? Scoring and defense. Just make sure you're improving on something before you make a deal.

We could have had Chandler this offseason if we didn't trade for Melo. Which would have made us a better team than we are now with guys that could keep improving. We would also have our amnesity to us use.

Defense is actually a strength now.

And yes, the offense is still being figured out. Baron helps. It also helps if Melo and Amar'e are on the court.

Man, you guys realize 24 hours ago how different ALL OF YOU sounded?

Uptown wrote:So basically, this is yet another thread/poster that hated the trade for Melo?! Why wait until we lose to Memphis? Where was this post when we beat Philly? Where was this thread when we beat Boston? Instead of creating another thread, why not just re-up one of the hundreds of threads created toward the end of last year that bitched and complained that we traded a bunch of nice complimentary pieces?

+1
martin, please lock this thread now.

Our wins
Philly (7-3)
Boston (4-5)
Kings (4-7)
Detriot (2-9)
Bobcats (2-9)
Washington (1-9)

Our loses
Lakers (8-4)
Memphis (4-6)
Toronto (4-7)
Warriors (3-7)
Bobcats (2-9)

crzymdups wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

MS wrote:That's the big issue. What is the plan here?

Our big weakness last year was never scoring. It was defense. What's are weakness now? Scoring and defense. Just make sure you're improving on something before you make a deal.

We could have had Chandler this offseason if we didn't trade for Melo. Which would have made us a better team than we are now with guys that could keep improving. We would also have our amnesity to us use.

Defense is actually a strength now.

And yes, the offense is still being figured out. Baron helps. It also helps if Melo and Amar'e are on the court.

Man, you guys realize 24 hours ago how different ALL OF YOU sounded?

All of who? MS, Raven, many others, and I have consistently disagreed with the path the team is on.

the tone of the board. i'm sorry you must not have posted after the sixers game or else i just didn't read your posts

BasketballJones wrote:Hatterz vs. Homerz

Seems like no middle ground.