what a garbage, alarmist post. you've basically outlined every negative outcome and ignored every positive outcome simply to justify your position. you realize not every possible outcome is a negative one, right? and if you think OKC is better than us today bless your heart. we beat them 4-1 in the playoffs last year - they add pg13 we add cp3 and all of a sudden they're just as good? history alone tells you we should be favored. step off the ledge dude... it isn't that dire.
Melo is only good if he comes to Houston, if he goes anywhere else he's a washed up chucker that plays no d
Says all you need to know about Melo's value at this point in time. Teams want him...if they can get him for the bad contracts they want to dump. The Knicks are not getting Capella for Melo, forget it. The best they can hope for is that Morey gets so desperate and trades Gordon. Capela, forget it. Out of sight and mind that the Rockets would trade their best under 25 player for him. The Knicks are dreaming if they think they can get that for a 33 year old player that they were going to release and has a NTC. Eventually, the Knicks will have to face reality.
This Melo to OKC foolishness seems like a weak attempt by the Knicks to get Morey to up his offer. Why would Melo choose to go play with 2 ball hogs in OKC instead of playing with 2 of the best point guards in the league?
The oddsmakers don't agree with you. I'm also curious how you think OKC managed to overcome an 8-game gap between themselves and Houston. Are Paul George and Patrick Patterson 8 games better than Chris Paul, P.J. Tucker, Luc Mbah a Moute, Tarik Black, etc.? https://www.sportsinsights.com/blog/2017-18-nba-win-totals/ What Eastern team has that kind of money? You'd need at least $60M in cap room to make that even remotely doable, and even then it would require significant paycuts across the board. And if Chris Paul wanted to go to the East, or to team up with one of those players, why didn't he pursue it this year, when he was a free agent? A Kyrie-for-CP3 trade would've been feasible for Cleveland, and you know well that LeBron could've made it happen.
Agree. Who in this market, and considering the current style of play in the league, would give Kanter the tax-payer MLE, let alone the full non-taxpayer MLE?
This. Obviously the Rockets have to go out and prove it, but on paper they're clearly the second best team. They had the third best record in the entire NBA last year and on paper they got substantially better. The Spurs, meanwhile, moved backwards. And Paul George and Patrick Patterson are nice additions for the Thunder but they don't move them ahead of the Rockets. I don't even think they'll get to the 55 win mark the Rockets achieved last year.
not gonna waste any more time thinking about Melo to OKC...it's only slightly more plausible than Melo to Portland CP3 is 1 of his best friends, and we've been recruiting him heavy for weeks. OKC is gonna jump into the game so late and snatch him up all of the sudden? He is deadset on Houston. His list is 2 teams long, and at this point, I'm just about ready to rule out Cleveland.
Melo can only be good if he changes his play style and is the 3rd option on a team. If he has to be "the guy" then he'll remain the same awful chucker that he has been in NY.
the only way I could see Melo expanding his list is if the Rockets move on and stop trying to trade for him...then maybe he'd be willing to go to teams like the Thunder
