TripleThreat wrote:
GoNyGoNyGo wrote:I wish the trade was made already. The new Gm process no doubt held it up.
A) The Knicks don't want to take back a "bad contract" Ryan Anderson is considered a bad contract. The Rockets can only feasibly make this deal ( i.e. not take one step forward but two steps back) by trading Ryan Anderson
B) No other team clearly wants to take on Ryan Anderson, not with the positive assets pushed onto the table now
C) Melo got D'Antoni fired, the question remains if D'Antoni wants him there. Harden had a MVP caliber type year under Morey and D'Antoni. Harden is the franchise player for the Rockets. Taking in Melo and axing Pringles appears to be a no go, esp as Pringles just won Coach Of The Year
D) Melo is best suited for a 6th man role, instant offense off the bench, the Rockets have the reigning Sixth Man Of The Year, Eric Gordon, on their roster. Melo instantly negates Gordon's value when he enters this roster
E) The Rockets just signed PJ Tucker to their roster, who provides critical defense. Melo can't/won't play defense. Running Melo out on the floor, shades Ariza and Tucker in the rotation, which negates their defensive value. Harden is already a questionable defender. You don't sign a guy like Tucker to instantly negate his value to you.
F) Melo to the Rockets, plus the trade kicker, cap locks the roster for the next two seasons. Reducing their flexibility going forward
G) Morey demands and has his players play a very efficient style of team basketball. Lots of threes. Lots of ball movement. Attack the rim. Get to the line. Take what the defense gives you. Melo is a ball stopper with poor shot selection who does not move well off the ball. Where USED TO EXCEL was being able to consistently create his own shot, night after night, in isolation. He's aging, facing more injuries and no longer provides that type of consistency anymore.
Melo creates more questions than answers on this roster. Can he help them? Maybe, AS A LUXURY. Which is why the Rockets will only burn out a bad contract and non guaranteed deals and fringe picks for him.
People like jrodmc will rush into any thread to troll anyone and try to start a flame war with anyone who says anything about Melo he doesn't like. He doesn't provide value to this forum or this site when he does this, and it's all he does is exactly this. I provide actual NBA related content, discussion on the NBA marketplace, trends, the CBA, and the sports culture in general, and the best jrodmc can do is try to keep adding more bait to see who else he can troll.
What he won't do is even begin to cover the issues raised from A-G. These are clear and substantial issues regarding the cap, team chemistry, future flexibility, negative redundancy and looking at the needs/wants of the non Knicks franchise as a whole.
I do not feel sorry for you jrodmc, I feel sorry for Ultimate Knicks when you are on it. The way and manner in which you participate to absolve Melo of any actual accountability in any of his time on the Knicks just devalues the site.
Melo wants to go to Houston, for reasons A-G, the Rockets are not a seamless fit. In fact, they are a very complicated fit. If there was a Win/Win trade possible with Houston, it would have happened by now. It hasn't , and no change in GM is going to shift that. Folks here need to be prepared for the reality that Melo might just be stuck on this roster for the next year. And that he's likely going to make it ugly for this franchise to force them to buy him out.
A trade to Houston is a bad fit. Melo doesn't care. In that way, he's consistent, when it comes to what's best for the Knicks and winning and the team concept, he's never cared.
Melo get his money, Dolan get his.
If Melo will not cooperate in trade or otherwise Mills/Perry can just glue him to the bench or send him to extended Puerto Rico vacation.
Something gonna give.