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Post #1 » by **Mr. E** » Sat Apr 28, 2018 3:41 pm

To everyone who freaked out last summer when Morey wouldn’t overpay for Carmelo Anthony...

Are you feeling better now?

It worked out well.

MaxRider · Post #2 » by **MaxRider** » Sat Apr 28, 2018 5:46 pm

I was a little sad but I was okay with no Melo.

Post #3 » by **TMU** » Sat Apr 28, 2018 8:02 pm

Congrats to Melo for leading the Utah Jazz to the 2nd round.

Post #4 » by **King Roosk** » Sat Apr 28, 2018 9:56 pm

I was 100% off Melo.

Then we got CP3, and I convinced myself that Melo would be the perfect replacement for Ryno (but I wasn't willing to give up anything other than Ryno in the trade).

Imagine if we had his $27M on the books next year. In hindsight, trading for Melo would probably have ruined the CP3-Harden window.

Tip of the cap to Sam Presti for saving us yet again.

K_chile22 · Post #5 » by **K_chile22** » Sun Apr 29, 2018 11:58 pm

MaxRider wrote:I was a little sad but I was okay with no Melo.

Same. I think him going to OKC made it worse for me, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise lol

Rocketsbaby · Post #6 » by **Rocketsbaby** » Mon Apr 30, 2018 3:03 am

yeah melo for ryno would have been okay but anything else would have been disastrous. I never wanted melo. I was only okay with the ryno trade because it frees up a year of cap space.

moofs · Post #7 » by **moofs** » Mon Apr 30, 2018 3:22 am

I’ll admit that I got to a point where I thought he might be an improvement over Anderson this year, but an even bigger cap hit that was probably going to be bad long term.

I pretty much never figured OKC would win much over 50 games at best with those guys, though. Mostly for us, I figured that the Carmelo pursuit was to throw other GM’s off Morey’s tail by not being so transparent about REAL intentions.

Post #8 » by **King Roosk** » Mon Apr 30, 2018 3:39 am

moofs wrote:I’ll admit that I got to a point where I thought he might be an improvement over Anderson this year, but an even bigger cap hit that was probably going to be bad long term.

I pretty much never figured OKC would win much over 50 games at best with those guys, though. Mostly for us, I figured that the Carmelo pursuit was to throw other GM’s off Morey’s tail by not being so transparent about REAL intentions.

I definitely thought it was gonna work in OKC, and I was clearly very wrong.