This. I always say chndler or Gallo should of been kept for another trade, or to atleast be a good/great starter. Imagine gallo's or chandlers three opening up defenses for Melo inside. But lets be honest what's really . hurting the knicks is Amare. He is done and getting a max.
I feel like this is eddy curry zach randolph all over again with fans. Zach while stupid and a blackhole (a lot like Melo) wasn't the real problem. It was Eddy. Put zach on a better team and he is still doing his thing, same goes for Melo. Knicks were the second seed with JR just going for his playing for a contract.
Besides Chandler on defense who have the knicks put besides Melo who has been really nice at anything? Nobody. If the knicks were smart (they aren't) they would let amare and chandler expire and build a team around Melo with maybe one more max/near max player.
the amare move was good at the time cause it brought melo and was gonna bring paul
so yeah it crippled our situation, but at da end it was kinda necessary.
what wasn't necessart in my opinion was giving up the farm for melo/melo not waiting for free agency. both sides had fault for that.
we coulda used certain chips to get paul (like you said) and kept our amnesty for use on amare later down da road. I always thought using it on billups was dumb, (even though I love chandler). shyt wasn't insured for a reason
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