The super Melo to Portland thread + The Big Blockbuster

Melo is not what a team that is playing good team ball and which has exhibited great chemistry needs

 

I won't disagree that the system here would be fine for him, especially since it seems like no one even knows what a fast break is on the Blazers. How do we know he isn't falling off because he is 34 years old now though? It's possible that he just isn't that good anymore. I think some people's views are skewed by a physical freak like LeBron from the same draft class who looks like he is evading father time.

 

Those are the same minutes. They aren’t both getting 10 minutes per game. They are each getting 10 minutes per game when they play, which isn’t usually in the same game. You have to look at games played.

 

No. Jake doesn't take possessions out of the hands of better players. Which in Carmelo's case is just about everyone.

 

This place almost comes crashing down because of this thread and now he's actually gonna end up here!?!? HA!

 

Heading over to PDX now!

 

They’re not the same minutes. Leonard played almost 20 minutes last night. Against the clippers Leonard played 12 while Biggie played 8.

 

Won't really know till this thread has well over 500 pages i'm sure.

 

Sorry, but I'm not sold by sporadic hot games. His last three stops have not indicated that he's anything but a net liability.

 

I use to say that Layman was our 15th best player and there was a large gap between no. 14 and no. 15. However, I'm seeing some real improvement in Layman.

 

Marc Spears says Lakers aren’t going to be an option. He threw out Miami and Philly. I don’t see Philly, but maybe Miami.

 

Well that’s going to be awhile

 

The Rockets since getting CP3 are a half-court team. Their pace last year was 13th in the NBA, their entire offense was built around the idea of CP3 or JH doing the ISO thing and penetrating to score or passing to an open shooter. Nothing changed as far as their offense this year. It is still the same thing - only they are not shooting anywhere as well as they did last year.

Again, I fail to see how taking Melo from a system where he is supposed to be one of the open shooters in an ISO half-court offense into Portland's motion offense (especially in the 2nd unit) is going to help anything with him being a ball stopper. It just does not compute.

 

Philly need any player who has ever shot a three. This might be possible.

 

Its been more than just one game...

 

Can't believe some people still want this guy... he'd be, by far, our worse defender, and his lack of effort on that end is contagious. He isn't a good 3pt shooter anymore, so what does he bring? Inefficient, ball-stopping, isolation offense, combined with locker room problems since his ego can't accept a reduced role.

Why the hell would we want that?

 

Maybe Dame thinks he sees something. He did retweet what Turner wrote.

 

The rockets strategy is still not a fit with what Melo does best. All they do is launch threes. Melo is actually a decent set shooter, better than Aminu statistically, even in his “washed up” phase, but he’s better when the offense runs through him. I don’t see why that couldn’t happen with the second unit. And like I said it before, he wasn’t always a ball stopper.

And it’s funny, for a supposed “cancer” there sure seems to be a lot of top players coming to his defense, including our very own.

I see more upside than downside.

 

I was on the we might as well try the Carmelo thing last year, but this year the only way I'd say they should do it is if Dame wants him.