holfresh wrote:This is a joke right???..Gallo hasn't played in two and a half years..The Mayor who I loved when he was here never improved..Mozgov never improved..16 pts 8 boards makes u a franchise player??..That trade isn't even close at this point..
Yet where have we gotton?
This isn't a bash Melo thing for me because that's not what I do. With that said, for me, when we gave up those assets, we should have expected serious progress. We hardly made any progress besides 2 first round exits and a second round exit... and now we are on our way to a first round pick which we aren't guaranteed to even have, yet we find ourselves DESPERATELY needing it. To top it off, we find ourselves HOPING Melo remains hurt so we don't f' that up, thinking it will all just go away at Summers end, even though we know perfectly well (as Knicks fans) that it doesn't work that way with knees that have seen many NBA miles.
With that said, you can go ahead and say "We didn't give up anything" and "Melo is a franchise player, stop bashing him" and "Melo can't do it by himself" all you want. However, that trade hasn't done jack squad for us 4 or 5 years later and I sure as in hell expect more from Melo than shooting 38%, 42% and 41% from the field, especially when he had other players around him playing well on offense in that second round exit.
“Whenever I’m about to do something, I think ‘Would an idiot do that?’ and if they would, I do NOT do that thing.”- Dwight Schrute