With Melo, this season would have been about us building towards the Ws/Rockets playoff series. Without, it's about competing with the Spurs for a division title. That's a huge drop off. All those downplaying this are deluding themselves - and I'd bet those are the same people who were saying early on the RA could be easily traded. Ryan Anderson as a starter in the playoffs does not, can not, and will not work. No amount of mental gymnastics will change that. That said... whatever. Oh well. In a couple days I'll get over it and will have adjusted my expectations for this season. ... but I'll probably still cringe extra hard when Anderson plays like garbage at Toyota Center and looks like a lost child in the playoffs.
I'm less upset about us not getting Melo and more about a rival getting him for arguably a worse package.
Precisely my feeling. Felt the same when Paul George was in play. Amazing that OKC got BOTH for jack $hit
Don't include me in that. I've always maintained I just wanted to replace Ryno with Melo. I didn't think Melo coming here meant a championship, in fact, I still think WCF is our best outcome, 2nd round exit our most likely outcome. We didn't gut our team for Melo, good, because we can still turn Gordon and Capela into magic if the time is right. Good for Morey for not getting desperate.
Counter offer... it took triple doubles on more than half the games played to drag these two sorry asses to the 6th seed.
I'm not upset with Morey for not trading away our team for Melo. I'm more just pissed at the situation - had the Knicks kept Phil for just a couple more weeks we'd have gotten Melo for RA no problem. But unfortunately they had to go and finally do the right thing by firing Phil. Bastards. Also Ryan Anderson isn't someone I want on my team anymore, just in general. So that stinks too.
I just saw something scroll across the screen saying that Carmelo did in fact waive the no trade clause to make this happen.
It's **** but not worse than what Houston offered. One year less. One ehm prospect. The best second rounder. Much more than we supposedly offered.
Kanter isn't bad for a team without playoff aspirations, and is an expiring deal next year, which will have value.
i wonder if we can trade feigen for hornacek's daughter at least. make it happen maurie redeem yourself!
So will mcbuckets at the trade deadline. He can land them another 2nd. Also, they could possibly flip kanter for Monroe in Milwaukee. Gets them an expiring and it's a slight upgrade for Milwaukee l. The package has much better ability for flexibility than ours
I wonder if the narrative around the league will be 'is there enough ball to go around in OKC with 3 ball dominant players'. Doubt it.
OKC has a shaky future. Brodie could still walk. PG could still walk. Even with PG and Melo, Rox still better. We have 3 defensive stalwarts, Capela for two of the best PNR guards, a deep roster, and three point shooters. Playing all three of our defensive specialists could be problematic offensively, but they have shown to be capable 3-and-D. So if we gotta go that way, then we got the all-stars to find them in the open. Cp3 could walk too, but to where? Cleveland can't outright afford him without discounting LBJ and not as deep as us. Boston has Kyrie. GSW is pretty much capped out. Portland maybe, but not as deep, and they would have to find ways to fit both Nurk and CP3s contract while already employing Dame. Lakers could be a potential sleeper team, but RW is younger and they seem to have mutual interest.
Well we will see what Melo does in the playoffs compared to what Anderson and Capela does when the time comes. No need to really debate.
