I guess people on this board must have short memories.....

Gallo - has been blasted when he was drafted and throughout his career. When the kid had back problems everyone thought his career was over. There were comments that the Knicks drafted him because was a friend of the family and the only reason people liked him was because he was tall and white like Larry Bird or that he is not in the same league as Dirk and is a poor man's Kukoc. Waste of the #6 Overall Pick.

Felton - when he was aquired I distinctly remember someone saying he was slow and had short arms. They posted a picture of a T-Rex as a comparison LOL. He did relatively little for Larry Brown and was a waste of a contract and cap space.

Moz - When he was aquired and people looked at the YouTube Clips - many made fun of his lack of athletic abilities, bad temper and bad hands. A certain poster lambasted him and clamored continually for Barron based on his 11 or so game stint last year. Many thought he was a project at best who would never see any PT.

AR - most loved the trade and had high hopes for AR. Some comments compared him favorably to Camby's skillset. When he continued to ride the pine for MDA - most now bash him.

Chandler - over the years - many have questioned his decision making, competitiveness and desire.

Now all of a sudden most are clammoring for these "assets" are like they were budding all stars.

Most here now were lukewarm or hated the Amare pickup. Selfish player, Lack of Maturity, Knee Problems will give us only 3 years. Good Scorer but does not play Defense. Not a team player. David Lee is as good if not better in the Knicks system.

Now on The Melo Trade. He is one dimensional, the next Bob McAdoo in a Knicks Uniform - who will not be able to play alongside Stat nor in MDA's system. How we gave up way too much of our young homegrown assets - guys we love.... I guess everyone forgot how much they disliked those moves when the players listed above were acquired....or is it that people like to complain in general about everything.

The team has not won a championship in 40 years, I think we can all wait 20 more games to give the new roster a chance to gel a bit and see what happens. How about we give it a chance and see what happens before we boo or denounce our Knick fanhood?

foosballnick wrote:or is it that people like to complain in general about everything.

I think this option nails it

nixluva wrote:Finally after the sad way we never found Ewing a Co-Star, we got Amar'e one inside his 1st year!!!! Do fans realize how freakin amazing that is?

Nope - they don't. I didn't love the trade - gave up too much. However the upside can be tremendous if it works.

PS - forgot to add that many complained about Donnie during all his salary dump moves. Now they are calling for him to Quit as he Dolan is ruining all the good moves he has made LOL.

Loved gallo...really was beginning to love his drives to the paint and getting to the line and natural Italian fire.

He's the only one that spoke to the press yesterday. all moxie.

Loved mozgov as well, but just like Frazier said, love affair with the 12th man.

Melo will be winning games for us NIGHTLY.

You guys have to understand...we can officially complain about losses to sub .500 teams and not have to sugar coat it.

We should only lose to Boston and Miami tops from here on out.

That same feeling when amare was rampaging for 30 point games.

That feeling "we are winning this game."

Can anyone in the history of basketball find me a team that traded

their starting C SF PG 6th man off of a wiining team? We gave up 7-1 6-10 6-11 6-8 i could go on here my man. This has never happened in basketball young team that was going to grow. Now you have two players who play the same way--ball dominant medium range jump shooters no size for a coach who plays different style LOL

there is no way i will root against the Knicks but I think we just had a major league FU. AND if anyone goes down--thats not part of fate--we took that risk when we gaev away a whole etam of deptha nd assets.

role players role players are NOT felton chandler and gallo role player = bill walker

Cash wrote:The only player of real value we lost was gallo as he has the potential to be a superstar. He was really getting to the line well but he is no melo and he was up for a contract after next year. Melo couldn't play with gallo anyway, I don't think. I'll take a billups rental over a felton rental any day of the week. They are both gone after next season. Chandler is not a bright player nor is Randolph, they are not important parts.

We may have overpaid in the sense that we could maybe have gotten melo for free but how would any of us really know that?

I think gallo could play with melo. gallo defers so that would not have been a problem.. I am with briggs, what team in history has traded so much, while having a winning record...?

tkf wrote:

Cash wrote:The only player of real value we lost was gallo as he has the potential to be a superstar. He was really getting to the line well but he is no melo and he was up for a contract after next year. Melo couldn't play with gallo anyway, I don't think. I'll take a billups rental over a felton rental any day of the week. They are both gone after next season. Chandler is not a bright player nor is Randolph, they are not important parts.

We may have overpaid in the sense that we could maybe have gotten melo for free but how would any of us really know that?

I think gallo could play with melo. gallo defers so that would not have been a problem.. I am with briggs, what team in history has traded so much, while having a winning record...?

So u put amare at center, melo at pf, and gallo at the three? Would that have worked and honestly I am asking a question more than anything?