At the end of the day we would be giving up Gallo & Fields, 2 players for one. Draft picks are never a guarantee as sometimes the most promising college prospects are pro busts. Bottom line is the Knicks are better with Melo than without him.

I keep reading on this forum about how scoring is not a problem. Are the Knicks leading the NBA in scoring? Yes but we're also talking about 40 games. We can't expect Felton to play 41 minutes a game and average 18 PPG for the entire year. Look at the team post trade....

C - Ama're
PF - Turiaf
SF - Anthony
SG - Chandler
PG - Felton

Bench
Williams
Walker
Mason, Jr.
Douglas
Mosgov

Walsh may be able to add a piece or two through trade or maybe there is someone down in the NBDL worth giving a shot to. All I know is that Anthony will ease the burden on both Stat and Felton and we should all know by now that Chandler is no slouch and can score and defend. With or without Melo the Knicks aren't winning it all this year but there more likely to win sooner or later with Melo tha without.

I'd miss Gallo and Fields but I would have to pull the trigger on this deal.

CashMoney wrote:Gallo, Fields, 1st rounder (2 depending on the AR trade) and Curry. If there is anyone on this board who would not give up this package for Melo you are CRAZY.

At the end of the day we would be giving up Gallo & Fields, 2 players for one. Draft picks are never a guarantee as sometimes the most promising college prospects are pro busts. Bottom line is the Knicks are better with Melo than without him.

I keep reading on this forum about how scoring is not a problem. Are the Knicks leading the NBA in scoring? Yes but we're also talking about 40 games. We can't expect Felton to play 41 minutes a game and average 18 PPG for the entire year. Look at the team post trade....

C - Ama're
PF - Turiaf
SF - Anthony
SG - Chandler
PG - Felton

Bench
Williams
Walker
Mason, Jr.
Douglas
Mosgov

Walsh may be able to add a piece or two through trade or maybe there is someone down in the NBDL worth giving a shot to. All I know is that Anthony will ease the burden on both Stat and Felton and we should all know by now that Chandler is no slouch and can score and defend. With or without Melo the Knicks aren't winning it all this year but there more likely to win sooner or later with Melo tha without.

I'd miss Gallo and Fields but I would have to pull the trigger on this deal.

+1

TMS wrote:i think if Donnie plays his cards right, he may be able to get Melo without having to include Fields... say he trades AR for a mid 1st round pick & gets another one using cash considerations... he could combine those assets along with Gallo OR Wilson & offer up a better package of assets than the Nuggets will likely get from any other team that's willing to rent Melo for a few months... that's all we can control... after that it's up to Kroenke to decide whether he wants to do what's best for his franchise or what's best for his own ego.

I don't think the Nugs would take Chandler consdering he's a restricted FA at the end of the year. They'd have to match or lose him which doesn't do much for the cap flexibilit their looking for. Gallo is not a restricted FA until after the 2012 season.

We went from a **** team, to a playoff team, and all we can talk about is a guy not on the team at all.

I have pretty much accepted the idea that we are going to lose either Gallo or Fields if this trade goes down, unless Chandler agrees to a S&T to Denver, and even then, I think that Fields or Gallo might be part of the deal, but your team chemistry takes a big hit if Gallinari and Landry both go in the deal.

I still hope to pick him up as a FA.

Let Gallo, Fields, Wilson mature and sign Deandre Jordan to a long term deal. Keep the talent we have and maybe AR gets it maybe he doesn't, but we then have a defensive presence that can rebound and bang with any big man in the league for years to come and can retain Walker and bring Gallo off the bench next season.

Problem solved, no Melo

Paladin55 wrote:

Panos wrote:Oh, yay. Another Melo thread. Is there something new here I'm missing?

We went from a **** team, to a playoff team, and all we can talk about is a guy not on the team at all.

They call it desperation.

to be fair, at least half of the Melo threads being posted are by those who are against us trading for the guy... go figure.

TMS wrote:

CashMoney wrote:

TMS wrote:i think if Donnie plays his cards right, he may be able to get Melo without having to include Fields... say he trades AR for a mid 1st round pick & gets another one using cash considerations... he could combine those assets along with Gallo OR Wilson & offer up a better package of assets than the Nuggets will likely get from any other team that's willing to rent Melo for a few months... that's all we can control... after that it's up to Kroenke to decide whether he wants to do what's best for his franchise or what's best for his own ego.

I don't think the Nugs would take Chandler consdering he's a restricted FA at the end of the year. They'd have to match or lose him which doesn't do much for the cap flexibilit their looking for. Gallo is not a restricted FA until after the 2012 season.

i agree i think Gallo would probably be the guy they'd be more interested in if they were dealing w/us... they'll probably want Fields & multiple picks too i'm sure of it, but that doesn't mean DW has to cave into their demands... i think as long as we can put together a better package than any thing they could get from teams looking to rent him for the rest of this season, that's all we can do... we can't & we SHOULDN'T be looking to match any offer from NJ... our only chance to get Melo is if he nixes that trade.

Denver has no incentive to trade Carmelo for trash when they are stuck paying Harrington and fans decide not to show up for the 2nd half of the season.

They'd be better served keeping him until summer. I dont see Carmelo opting out of his 17 million next year if a lockout is imminent. I dont think Carmelo wants Denver to call his bluff either.

The team is thin. How bad does it look when someone is a little banged up?

CashMoney wrote:Gallo, Fields, 1st rounder (2 depending on the AR trade) and Curry. If there is anyone on this board who would not give up this package for Melo you are CRAZY.

At the end of the day we would be giving up Gallo & Fields, 2 players for one. Draft picks are never a guarantee as sometimes the most promising college prospects are pro busts. Bottom line is the Knicks are better with Melo than without him.

I keep reading on this forum about how scoring is not a problem. Are the Knicks leading the NBA in scoring? Yes but we're also talking about 40 games. We can't expect Felton to play 41 minutes a game and average 18 PPG for the entire year. Look at the team post trade....

C - Ama're
PF - Turiaf
SF - Anthony
SG - Chandler
PG - Felton

Bench
Williams
Walker
Mason, Jr.
Douglas
Mosgov

Walsh may be able to add a piece or two through trade or maybe there is someone down in the NBDL worth giving a shot to. All I know is that Anthony will ease the burden on both Stat and Felton and we should all know by now that Chandler is no slouch and can score and defend. With or without Melo the Knicks aren't winning it all this year but there more likely to win sooner or later with Melo tha without.

I'd miss Gallo and Fields but I would have to pull the trigger on this deal.

Itd be foolish and immature to think that trading our players for Anthony would make us a better team. We need our young players, we need our draft picks to keep building this team, and we don't need yet an other small forward that needs to take 30 shots a game to be effective.

When you're losing 129-121, it's not about scoring 130 ! It's about making change and improving your defense by adding big guys in the middle. Trading for Melo would deny you most opportunities to add a quality big guy either in free agency or through the draft. That is plain stupid.

Now, enjoy the team you have on the floor, and **** all those Melo talks. If he wants to come, he'll join us in the summer. If not, who cares ? We'll have picks and cap space to keep building this team. Those Melo talks are Isiah-garbage-like.