So yes you can rebuild in NY, but it has to be known upfront Walsh did it, everyone knew it too.

Bonn1997 wrote:No, I'd rather have Gallo, Mozgov, Chandler, our two first round picks, and two second round picks.
And we shouldn't have given Amare anything more than a 3 month contract!

It's funny you say that because the Nuggets definitely wouldn't. The best you could say for any of the players we gave up is that they are nice role players; nice role players who are frequently injured. The picks DEFINITELY hurt but considering we have a top 15 player in the game, that is a pill I could swallow. If we ever decide to trade Melo, he'd command a hell of a lot more than we paid to get him. Because of that, it's hard to object to the trade aside from the fact that we could've signed Melo outright.

Bonn1997 wrote:

NardDogNation wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:No, I'd rather have Gallo, Mozgov, Chandler, our two first round picks, and two second round picks.
And we shouldn't have given Amare anything more than a 3 month contract!

It's funny you say that because the Nuggets definitely wouldn't. The best you could say for any of the players we gave up is that they are nice role players; nice role players who are frequently injured. The picks DEFINITELY hurt but considering we have a top 15 player in the game, that is a pill I could swallow. If we ever decide to trade Melo, he'd command a hell of a lot more than we paid to get him. Because of that, it's hard to object to the trade aside from the fact that we could've signed Melo outright.

I don't care what the Nuggets would do, or more specifically what NardDogNation claims the Nuggets would do.

And what about what reality would suggest?

The IT era had the double whammy of keeping us awful, but trading away our picks (unprotected) so we couldn't capitalize on it.

I didn't actually mind the Walsch era, or the Melo era- at least those had hope and we were average to pretty good.

The last two or three years were not as bad as the IT era, I don't know why people bundle them together.

NardDogNation wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:

knickscity wrote:The Knicks had decent attendance rates even when the team stunk, but no one is paying current prices for that kind of product.

So yes you can rebuild in NY, but it has to be known upfront Walsh did it, everyone knew it too.

How many people we re up there tix at these prices next year when we win 31 games and watch Denver use a top 10 or 3 pick on a player that should be ours? When fans realize the team will likely be the same shtty team because James Dolan capped us out and gave away everything to get Carmelo?

We gave away everything for Amare, not Melo. Even in his current funk, Melo is and always has been a top 15 player in the league for us. That carries with it significant value and I'm sure we'd be able to recoup our "losses" if we decided to trade him. Amare's a different story. We effectively gave up Zach Randolph, David Lee, Jamal Crawford, Jordan Hill, our 2012 pick, several 2nd rounders, and a host of opportunities to trade for late first round picks to penny pinch for 2010, to have the chance to sign him and another star that never materialized from that offseason. And for what, half a season of stellar play?

NO...THAT WAS FOR LEBRON. AMARI WAS JUST A PANIC MOVE.

Clean wrote:I can forgive the stuff we gave up for Amare because in actuality it was not for Amare. It was for Lebron and it was looking like we had a good chance to get him at the time. We did make a mistake settling for Amare. I don't like that we gave up all those assets for Melo. Melo is a great player but he is VERY flawed. Melo is a robin and not a batman. Melo is great when all he has to worry about is finishing. The problem is he does not seem to notice that himself. He wants to ISO all the time and make things harder for himself and our coach loves ISO just as much as he does.

Last game we ran a play and he got an easy open mid range shot. Did we ever run that play again? No, we did ISO melo the next 3 times down. Sure he will put up numbers because he is a good player but the shots are almost always bad shots. Either long 3's without even thinking about passing the ball that possession or contested shots where he is being doubled or triple teamed.

yea, giving amare the contract was a risk with his knees, but no way was dolan going to sit back and not get a thing....Amare only cost us salary cap space, and honestly no one expected his knees to give out this fast... well steve kerr hinted at it, but honestly, this fast?

Melo is a great player but he is VERY flawed.

let me ask you this? how is that possible? being VERY flawed is the reason why guys are not great..

arkrud wrote:

tkf wrote:

Clean wrote:I can forgive the stuff we gave up for Amare because in actuality it was not for Amare. It was for Lebron and it was looking like we had a good chance to get him at the time. We did make a mistake settling for Amare. I don't like that we gave up all those assets for Melo. Melo is a great player but he is VERY flawed. Melo is a robin and not a batman. Melo is great when all he has to worry about is finishing. The problem is he does not seem to notice that himself. He wants to ISO all the time and make things harder for himself and our coach loves ISO just as much as he does.

Last game we ran a play and he got an easy open mid range shot. Did we ever run that play again? No, we did ISO melo the next 3 times down. Sure he will put up numbers because he is a good player but the shots are almost always bad shots. Either long 3's without even thinking about passing the ball that possession or contested shots where he is being doubled or triple teamed.

yea, giving amare the contract was a risk with his knees, but no way was dolan going to sit back and not get a thing....Amare only cost us salary cap space, and honestly no one expected his knees to give out this fast... well steve kerr hinted at it, but honestly, this fast?

Melo is a great player but he is VERY flawed.

let me ask you this? how is that possible? being VERY flawed is the reason why guys are not great..

LOL
Great player with many flaws... Thats cool.
It's like great product but most of the time it does not working.