Melo Trade Thread "Ice Cube Family movie edition"

[VirginiaKnickFan]

Forget freckles for a minute. What about the guy wearing #7?

What guy?

[drekwins]

Defense, IQ so vision too, and maybe we could say shooting if we compare with others top 10 pick...

he was picked way too high. should have been a late 1st rounder. too much unknown.

Unknow for you, not for scouts and guys who know euros prospects...

In order to give an analysis, you need sample size. We just don't have it. Online, there's a limited number of games. We don't even know the size of those players. Also, we have no benchmark to go off of. If he played AAU, High School and NCAA, we would have seen him regularly against other prospects. Then, we'd have an idea of how his speed/height/first step really stack up. Against the compeition he's playing, I'm sure they're very good, but, we don't know them. We have no clue about their measurables.

So, to put it another way, it's like looking at a picture and being like, "Wow" that"s a big burrito. Then, you put a quarter next to it and realize it's not that big. We need a benchmark in order to know.

Maybe if you watch french PO like others people here, you could have another speech... His skills are know against confirmed players.

I did watch the French playoffs. Which of those players are known? Do you know all of their true heights? Do you know their verticals? How about their full court sprint time? Because that's known on every AAU player. So, when you see Fox blow by someone, you know the caliber of the player he just blew by. Or, when you see Jackson dunk right over someone, you know their vertical and standing reach. That makes it much easier to project someone. When we saw Frank drive to the hoop (which isn't common), we had no idea about the wingapan, speed, athleticism stats of the players he was going against. Therefore, there's more unknowns. Now, don't question me or jump to conclusions until you know the whole story. I like Frank a lot but I'm not biased...unlike a lot of fans.

[Marty McFly]

i present without further comment.....mr samuel sosa

if he shaves his eyebrows, is the skin under them still dark? would he look like a cross dressing pink chola?

[drekwins]

Believe what you want but everyone (but you) knows he always wanted to be a New York Knick. Can't figure out how any Knicks fan wouldn't know this.

Hate to break it to you but he's right. Melo was very willing to go to Brooklyn. Brooklyn had a lot of hype at that time. Melo wanted to live in the city. At the end of the day, he probably preferred the Knicks but he would have taken whichever deal got done first. He didn't care if it was Manhattan or Brooklyn.

Ummmmmmmm i never said he wouldn't of gone to Brooklyn, i said he wanted to be a New York Knick so you didn't break anything to me cause i never said he wouldn't of gone to Brooklyn. I did say he wouldn't of signed an extension with Brooklyn cause he would of signed with the Knicks after his deal was done. Thank you

You're wrong about that.... he would have signed an extension. That was the whole point of the trade to him. He wanted to be traded so that he would retain the right to sign a longer deal and get more guaranteed money/higher annual raises. The trade wasn't forced because he couldn't wait to be a Knick. It was all money related.

[OrangeBlueSkies]

Someone tell me some damn realistic 4 team deals. You realgm are so annoying. Why can't I make a fresh thread? Who wants to read through 90 pages of posts not directed at what I want to know. PM me if you must mods.

[NotPhilJackson]

Would you guys do 2 Houston 1st round picks and Ryan Anderson? Do you think Houston would go for that? I feel something like that would be a lot easier to get done rather than adding 3rd, 4th, 9th teams to make it work. Keep it simple. I think Houston does this as they are basically like guaranteed contracts for early 2nd round talent.

Personally, I would get a 3rd or 4th team involved, so we don't have to take on Anderson's contract. He's 29 and has 3 years left on a bloated contract. Trading Melo for him doesn't really help the Knicks much salary cap wise. Ideally, I'd like to see Melo go to Rockets, Anderson goes to TEAM X, and we taken in picks from the rockets and Team X, and probably a scrub or 2 as well. Obviously that's drastically over simplified, but something like that I'd be really on board with. I don't want more aging vets with big deals.

Yeah so basically the Rockets give us a 1st for us trading them Melo and the third team gives us a 1st for taking Anderson's trash contract. Makes perfect sense..

[Shoryuken]

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[SelbyCobra]

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[msanchez2725]

Trade talks have been shelved for now according to Woj.

[BKlutch]

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[Shoryuken]

i wonder why is it because of the perry hire?

[Billy Goat]

lololol

[ChaosHamster]

I hope its because they were focused on GM acquisition.

[DaKnicksAreBack]

Nice let's see how far this team can go

[HoneyNutMelos]

:lol:

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Probably turned their attention to Scott Perry and will resume talks after they get him on board

[Shoryuken]

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[DLTGWH]

i present without further comment.....mr samuel sosa

SSTGWH?

[el13adnino]

Pause the trade talks, pause this thread

[Tron Carter]

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not like there is a rush and we just hired a new gm. ya'll should probably go outside..

[Knicks93]

Guessing teams were trying to force bad contracts on us thinking they had the leverage of melo wanting to leave. Glad we aren't taking back crap. If anything just bring melo off the bench, let the 1st team of kp Timmy and Willy develop together and melo can give us some firepower off the bench