dk7th wrote:

fishmike wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:

fishmike wrote:

Uptown wrote:

fishmike wrote:

meloshouldgo wrote:Distasteful. Unprofessional and unprovoked dig at their own team.
Wow - what a franchise. These guys and Melo deserve each other.

clearly you just got here. Before he was all hot for Melo Morey was the greatest GM ever. Now he rolls out the red carpet for Melo and he's classless, useless, etc etc etc

Pretty funny

Wonder if Phil will get crucified if he resigns Melo and gives him a penny over 14mil? I have the feeling that Phil will probably be exempt and Melo will be blamed for forcing Phils hand....

yea... when Melo resigns you can see the options:
1) Melo forced Phil
2) Dolan forced Phil
3) Phil is old

I was leaning towards number 2 if Melo got the max, but I'm having second thoughts about that scenario. Usually we hear stories at this point about Dolan interfering, but there hasn't been a peep about Dolan since the medical staff controversy. If Dolan really was calling the shots I believe someone would have leaked it by now.

I don't want Melo to get the max for the sake of cap room, but maybe Phil is smart enough to find a way around that problem. If believes he can build a contender and still give Melo the max, that Melo is an important part of his plans, then I'm going to trust his judgement and experience and I guess we will see what happens.

Hope those who are vehemently against this scenario will do the same. Sure don't want to sift through page after page of these Melo wars next season if he does come back. Hope posters will just tune out those who want to keep this going ad nauseum, maybe they will get the message that this stuff is beyond played out.

dont worry... It will be like it was 2 years ago. Knicks winning tons of games and the grumpy duo wont have much to say because the rest of us will be watching our Knicks from the top of the Atlantic division standings. They will say stupid things like we are flip floppers and band wagon fans and are only liking Melo now so we enjoy the wining and they will wait with desperation for the Knicks to fail in the post season so they can start their anti MElo jihad again, because thats the "fans" they are... they would rather lose with Melo and be right then win with him and just enjoy the team. They have literally invested years of hate into this guy and under no circumstances and stomach the Knicks winning with him

but melo has already agreed to not take the max to become a knick! that's what phil jackson has been saying about his talks with melo for months. "no courting no wooing." "you want to be a knick then don't ask for the max because you won't get it."

don't tell me you think it's okay to for melo to be a hypocrite and pay lip service. then again, isn't paying lip service what melo is all about?

and while we are on the subject of what has been said, lets not forget that "sources close to melo" are already reneging.

this is going to be an EPIC showdown.

CrushAlot wrote:

dk7th wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

dk7th wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

fishmike wrote:

dk7th wrote:

fishmike wrote:

meloshouldgo wrote:Distasteful. Unprofessional and unprovoked dig at their own team.
Wow - what a franchise. These guys and Melo deserve each other.

clearly you just got here. Before he was all hot for Melo Morey was the greatest GM ever. Now he rolls out the red carpet for Melo and he's classless, useless, etc etc etc

Pretty funny

he is an excellent gm in terms of taking advantage of dumbasses like the knicks in trades.

what the hell does that have to do with his social skills? he's still a great gm.

best GM ever. They are on their way to duplicating the same epic run Melo had out West with the Nuggets.

Yep. Donnie Walsh made some guys look really good.

walsh was not in las vegas.

Hah? You don't think the Mc Grady trade was a huge win for Morey?

the bigger mistake was acquiring a jayvee player who insisted that he be paid at the varsity level.

also what's your point about mcgrady? you don't approve of clearing cap space in 2009-2010 to land two max free agents that summer of 2010 that hurl the knicks into win-now mode? do you need draft picks when you have two top-tier players?

make up your mind, was he doing these deals to rebuild from scratch or swing for the fences, a philosophy that his boss, dolan, advocated?

Make up my mind? Not sure what your are referring to. I do think the Mc Grady trade was a horrible trade. I hated the 2010 plan and it didn't help that everyone that did business with Walsh knew what his endgame goal was. As stated yesterday when discussing the possible outcomes in the Melo situation, Phil has options no matter what happens. Walsh had no options if he didn't get LBJ. Look how things worked out. In regards to not needing draft picks because you are anticipating signing top tier players it is a pretty poor approach to business don't you think? I might buy a lottery ticket but I am not going to quit my job because I am sure my numbers are going to hit.

the 2010 plan was a dolan-mandated agenda. yes or no?

walsh did his best to execute it. hence, the acquisition of two "names"-- while personally repugnant to me in theory-- was being carried out. hence you should not be complaining about the mcgrady deal.

cut the crap about everybody knowing too. this was the summer of lebron. was walsh supposed to demur for two years?!? get real. he was following a transparent mandate from a very very stoopid person. that same stoopid person who decided to fly to vegas to consummate a colossally stupid deal.

this is the same stupid person who finally admitted to the world that he did not know what he was doing, and insofar as the melo rape was his "signature move" we can all safely assume that this was the worst possible thing he has ever done as an owner.

so if you were in favor of melo's services then you endorsed the owner's agenda, who is a colossally stupid bungler.

CrushAlot wrote:

dk7th wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

dk7th wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

dk7th wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

fishmike wrote:

dk7th wrote:

fishmike wrote:

meloshouldgo wrote:Distasteful. Unprofessional and unprovoked dig at their own team.
Wow - what a franchise. These guys and Melo deserve each other.

clearly you just got here. Before he was all hot for Melo Morey was the greatest GM ever. Now he rolls out the red carpet for Melo and he's classless, useless, etc etc etc

Pretty funny

he is an excellent gm in terms of taking advantage of dumbasses like the knicks in trades.

what the hell does that have to do with his social skills? he's still a great gm.

best GM ever. They are on their way to duplicating the same epic run Melo had out West with the Nuggets.

Yep. Donnie Walsh made some guys look really good.

walsh was not in las vegas.

Hah? You don't think the Mc Grady trade was a huge win for Morey?

the bigger mistake was acquiring a jayvee player who insisted that he be paid at the varsity level.

also what's your point about mcgrady? you don't approve of clearing cap space in 2009-2010 to land two max free agents that summer of 2010 that hurl the knicks into win-now mode? do you need draft picks when you have two top-tier players?

make up your mind, was he doing these deals to rebuild from scratch or swing for the fences, a philosophy that his boss, dolan, advocated?

Make up my mind? Not sure what your are referring to. I do think the Mc Grady trade was a horrible trade. I hated the 2010 plan and it didn't help that everyone that did business with Walsh knew what his endgame goal was. As stated yesterday when discussing the possible outcomes in the Melo situation, Phil has options no matter what happens. Walsh had no options if he didn't get LBJ. Look how things worked out. In regards to not needing draft picks because you are anticipating signing top tier players it is a pretty poor approach to business don't you think? I might buy a lottery ticket but I am not going to quit my job because I am sure my numbers are going to hit.

the 2010 plan was a dolan-mandated agenda. yes or no?

walsh did his best to execute it. hence, the acquisition of two "names"-- while personally repugnant to me in theory-- was being carried out. hence you should not be complaining about the mcgrady deal.

cut the crap about everybody knowing too. this was the summer of lebron. was walsh supposed to demur for two years?!? get real. he was following a transparent mandate from a very very stoopid person. that same stoopid person who decided to fly to vegas to consummate a colossally stupid deal.

this is the same stupid person who finally admitted to the world that he did not know what he was doing, and insofar as the melo rape was his "signature move" we can all safely assume that this was the worst possible thing he has ever done as an owner.

so if you were in favor of melo's services then you endorsed the owner's agenda, who is a colossally stupid bungler.

We disagree about the 2010 plan. That was all Walsh. In regards to cutting the crap abut everyone knowing Walsh desperately wanted to clear cap space can you think of another cap clearing trade in preparation for the summer of LBJ where a team got fleeced as badly as the Knicks in the McGrady trade. One other thing, if Walsh was following a transparent mandate from ownership and not the plan he proposed when hired why was he only allowed to come back if he took a significant pay cut?

tell me what was the plan he proposed, please? extra credit for an actual article or interview that i can look at myself.

smackeddog wrote:

dk7th wrote:here's what morey actually said in the article:

"It’s always a challenging situation during free agency,” Morey said. “You are always having to recruit players and there might be current players at current positions, might be people with the current numbers. It’s unfortunate that it’s often hard to handle. Reality is, it’s standard practice.When we went after Chris Bosh a few years ago,we had him in Luis Scola’s number. When we went after Dwight Howard he had (Pat) Beverley’s number. I get the sensitivity and I hate that it creates some hurt feelings. I don’t like that, but that’s obviously Carmelo Anthony’s number, that’s the number he wants. He told us that. Bottom line, if Carmelo comes Omer Asik and Jeremy Lin have to be traded. It’s just math. It’s not personal. My job is every day figure out how to win. Sometimes it creates challenging situations."

perfectly transparent, matter of fact.

Being an ******* with zero social skills, will eventually catch up with Morey. He's made enemies already.

He is over rated- he was on the verge of being fired until the Harden luck. He had Dragic and Lowry and let them both go, then wasted all that money on Lin, then decided he wanted Lowry back again. He's great at finding hidden gems, but struggles to do trades due to his ego of wanting to be seen as the all out winner in them. How is forming a team of Melo, Harden and Dwight anything to do with advance metrics anyways? I think he's only after Melo because he thinks it would make him look like a really great GM landing 3 stars like that- Melo makes zero sense for that team!

the quote from the article seemed pragmatic and businesslike. what you are adding here is perhaps accurate and if hubris is involved it will eventually catch up with him. always does.