And next year, hopefully without injuries and with a few new players, we’ll be in much better shape than Denver. That’s something for everyone to keep in mind as we deal with the disappointment of how this series has gone.

Everyone knows that basketball (unlike baseball) is more about team chemistry than individual efforts. Come on man, you don’t have to watch a lot of b-ball to understand that.

I would say those players’ chemistry fit together on our team much better. There are so many intangibles (and tangibles) that prove that. Even Fields played much better with the old players. It’s all chemistry.

However, I do believe that this team has more potential than the old.

I wonder how different the series would have gone if that offensive goaltending on Perkins gets called at the end of game one. Denver would have had a good chance at stealing that one. Oh well.

OKC has the size, depth and scorers you need to win in the playoffs. A Lakers-Thunder western conference final looks pretty likely to me, and I’m not sure the Thunder would be that big of an underdog in that series.

First of all, Denver loved Billips and only traded him because they didn’t want to pay him 14 million for next year. So why the hell would they now want to get him back at that salary? As for the Knicks, they’d be capped out if they took back a re-signed Chandler, and then they’d have to re-sign Felton the following year. They need a center and a young point guard to compete for a championship and this trade would certainly not put them over the top. Don’t let your sentimentality get in the way of your judgement.

Now that the Knicks have become the only team to get swept out of the first round, and Gallo was instrumental in Denver’s win over OKC in game four, what are you "just sayin’" now?

If you’re going to call the post “dumb non-logic,” it should be noted that these are highly invalid logical refutations to the argument that the trade was the correct move.

But I agree with rxmeister that our loss against Boston had a huge amount to do with injuries – its a bit unfair (if not, perhaps, “idiotic”) to compare the two series without taking note of that. I loved the players we lost in The Trade, but I think its going to be harder for Denver than for us to reach contender status in the next five years. But in the end, no one knows, so we’ll have to wait and see.