I think one of NY problems is coaching philosophy. How do you expect the players to be disciplined and willing on defense when your coach only runs offense in practice. I think their best bet right now is a run at Steve Nash. He is still good enough to revive that team and hopefully turn them into the RunNGunSuns 2.0. That or hire a new coach
This Seriously, the trade wasn't just made to make them better right away. That may have been a small part of it, and it sucks for them that they aren't playing that well right now... but they are in a much better position for the future than they were before that trade.
If Melo was only going to be a rental than of course it didn't make a lot of sense to trade for him. If we traded for Carmelo we most likely would not make the playoffs, hell we are playing great basketball now and still might not make the playoffs. If we traded for Melo I don't think our post trade deadline record would be as good as it is now.
Yeah I've been saying this for a while, ever since trade rumors started. Anthony is a career loser who makes no impact defensively. You don't pay one dimensional players like that max money. Unless you're the Hawks or Knicks.
This can't be that surprising to people. Denver has been one of the better regular season teams in the past, and they had nothing to show for it. They couldn't beat good teams. Amare, in Phoenix, never could get anywhere, and that's with a very elite point guard. These two guys can sell tickets, but they won't lead you to the promised land.
Talent-wise, we would have been better off with him. Personality-wise, screw him and most of the players in the NBA. Spoiled brats. Now get off muh lawn, kids!
Didn't want him before the deadline and don't want him now. He just doesn't fit the mentality of this team. He's a good player, but I just didn't see myself rooting for him. I actually wanted Bosh though. Bosh is just underperforming now since he's playing with Wade and Lebron. He would of excelled with the Rockets playing next to *Yao Ming and bringing us star power that we lost with Tmac.
I read CH's OP and immediately thought this a perfect venue for a post by a certain ClutchFans video maven on semi-hiatus. Said member's dawg may have had fleas, but his take on Melo, at least the early returns, post trade, was better than another member with a rusty blade. ;-)-
This is not about DM, though. DM was pursuing Melo, so whatever formula he had seems to say Melo would add significantly to his new team (or at least to the Rockets). In fact, the most obvious hypothesis under present circumstances is that whatever "formula" DM used to evaluate Melo doesn't seem to have worked out that well. Now, Melo has obvious strengths-- great individual offense, demands a double-team more often than not, gets to the line a ton. Maybe DM believes that Melo's strengths can be better utilized in an Adelman offense than it has been so far in D'Antoni's offense. It seems to me, though that Melo will have to reign in his ball-stopping tendencies in order to help, and that's not a sure thing. XXXXXX On a separate note, I really don't see how NY is going to have good players flocking there if they stay around .500 this year. If your two superstars are on a .500 team, it makes people suspect they are not really that super. Also, unless they get rid of Chauncey's salary, they won't really have much money to chase FAs with this offseason at least.
It helps to have an MVP candidate on your squad. Not sure if that makes the Bulls "balanced," but it makes 'em pretty darned good.
Bingo. This team will get better, but it will never be an elite team until Carmelo and Amare nut up and start playing hard nosed defense. The one over-rated person in this scenario is D'Antoni. He is a joke as a coach.
I agree that until Staudamire and Melo play some defense this team will be avg at best. They need a head coach that demands it's players to play 2 way basketball.
I believe coaching is a problem. I think this is a classic situation where the coach tries to force a system on the wrong or incomplete personnel. They need a Nash type point guard that is ALWAYS running to make that system work. I actually think a guy like JVG would be good for that team.
Well he ain't in the skies. Ever heard of "stop snitching"? We'll start there. And then he claims that he was just playing around with his hometown boys and didn't mean anything by participating. Heh.
You mean not acquiring another in a long-line of NBA prima-donna pseudo thugs with enormous egos and an incapability to accept the inclusive attributes of winning and losing as a team; the type who happily proclaim there greatness but shy away from responsibility, was a good thing? No ****ing way.
