Okay Noah's a nice player, but do you prevent your team from getting one of the best scorers in the game for a 11ppg and 11rpg center? I guess I was spoiled by Ewing, but a 11 and 11 guy is nice complimentary player, i.e. Oakley, Horace Grant, etc. No team would have held up acquiring an arguably elite player like Melo (I think he is, but there have been countless posts to the contrary, which is fine) for a solid, maybe great, but clearly NOT elite bigman. I know he'd just be a part of trade, so we aren't talking straight up, but still. I think most teams would throw in Noah.
Is Noah, for his position, really THAT much better than Danilo. I don't know, you're trading rebounds and blocks for points. I he better than Randolph, yes, because he gets 4.5 more boards and has a 6% better shooting average, but that's not uncommon from guys playing in the paint. But they are all still developing and can improve, stagnate, or even decline at anytime. And are draft picks really any better than young players who have been drafted and proven they have skills and those skills are still developing? It's the same crap shoot in the long run. So I hate to think the draft picks would really prevent the Knicks from having a real shot at landing Melo, but the Knicks have been mismanaging picks for at least a decade (between drafting the wrong people or giving 10 of them to Chi-town for Curry).
Disjointed rant over.
