Safety Pickle wrote:bwgood77 wrote:cosmofizzo wrote:There are very few superstars who add so little to this team as Carmelo. Anyone you pair him with at the other forward spot becomes redundant next to Melo. He doesn't make us any better defensively or on the boards, where we're weak. TJ could be every bit as good a scorer in two years' time. It's just not a good fit.
Yeah, no Melo. Too expensive, too much of a black hole who is a high volume shooter who is overrated. He has never won a damn thing and can't even get a team into the playoffs in the weak east. Stars get their teams into the playoffs regardless. He has past his prime and we are not going to win anything major for the next couple of years. Don't sacrifice future for trying to win now. Too shortsighted. That's all.
He led his Denver squad to the playoffs every year he was there and took them to the WCF in one year. If that doesn't count as winning, them we don't have a single player on our team that was won anything, even our golden-boy Dragic.
Also you wouldn't take him even if you only had to pay him 10 mil/year? You wouldn't pay him 10 mil a year to put up 24/6/3 on 46% shooting? Ok
Well, they only got really good once George Karl took over, and I think he is a winning coach. Melo never got them past the first round until they added Billups who knows how to win. I think Anthony is a decent player, and he'd probably be worth $10 million a year, but he is probably on the downside of his career and we are a young rebuilding team that needs to develop our players and draft picks. A trade bringing in a young star or even a very good role player would be nice, but this Melo discussion is pretty pointless since he wouldn't want to play in Phoenix anyway and he's not going to get traded.
I think he was saying that would be the Pacers lineup... if they traded PG for Dragic.
