The Sixers inquired about Amar'e Stoudemire? Oh word?

Fans are so fickle. Amar’e came here, changed the culture, got submarined by a trade that marginalized both him and the coach, and now has struggled for all of 20 games, and it seems like everyone would love to ship him out of town.

I’m sticking with Amar’e. Even if he and the Knicks end up sucking over the long haul, at least I can live with myself.

PS: I’m watching Gallo defending Chris Paul (on a switch—we all know about those, right?) relatively well on NBA League Pass. Man I miss that dude. If they’d just held on to him in the Melo trade…ah. Will I ever stop driving myself crazy about that one (and how excited I was when some random, erroneous Twitter report came out suggesting the Nuggets suddenly wanted Fields instead of Gallo)?

Not on a switch. Karl is CHOOSING to have him on Chris Paul. Granted, he just got burned. But still…

the addition by subtraction thing. i myself also dislike melo far more than stat and would prefer to move our SF… but… if we (and i hope we do) get to the point when we realize that this marriage just isn’t going to pan out, than we’d be foolish to turn down a trade that gives us 75 cents on the dollar… because 75 cents with tyson and whichever of stat and melo remains, provided they’re more complimentary (which is a given being that stat and melo are completely UNcomplimentary), makes us very dangerous.

would love any combination of iggy (perfect compliment to melo and can run the point), thad, evan, lou or jrue… though i doubt the sixers are willing to give up jrue, their only PG, unless they really wanted to unload brand and paired them up.

Melo will forever be greater than Danilo. Get over it.
Stat would easily be the best player in any trade with Philly. He cannot be replaced on the roster through any of the BS scenarios people are coming up with. My guess is that some think Harrelson is a starting PF in the NBA… probably the same people who were shouting to the moon about starting Walker over Fields and that Tyson was a bum.

Face it, the Knicks are the 49ers (pre Harbaugh) of the NBA — plenty of talent but saddled with an incompatible system.

Remember Miami last year when their offense looked horrible at the beginning of the year and that’s what everyone was saying? Let them same be said for NY, because once Amare and Melo get it and realize how to make this work they will be impossible. Come on Miami worked and granted LeBron and Wade are a hell of a lot better than Amare & Melo, but I think Melo and Amare compliment each other so much more. Remember the heats offense last year how bad it was, now they both found a way to make it work and realize they are both athletic as hell and are throwin alley oops left and right. Come on guys, these two are superstars they’ll make this work

Everyone ready to deal STAT to Philly please understand that Philly will start by offering Elton Brand.

not a chance.

for the following reason:
Sucessful teams build a roster and keep it together. The Knicks have been Terrible for a decade because they have had zero stability, which shows a lack of vision and direction by the franchise. If the Knicks truly want to become a championship caliber organization they need to pick a direction and stick with it. Changing players and coaches as frequently as the Knicks have over the last decade is part of the reason the Knicks have spent much of the last decade as a joke. the Knicks have had 7 different head coaches in the last 10 years. How do you make progress like that. D’Antoni is the longest serving Knicks coach of the decade (266 games) in his first year he coached 23 different players, year 2 20 different players. year 3 20 players and this season he has 8 new players. That is 71 players over the course of 4 seasons. How in the hell does Dolan expect this team to be anything more than a joke. D’Antoni has coached so many guys I doubt he remembers their names. So an organization that is screaming for stability wants more instability? The definition of insanity is doing the same things and expecting different results.

A. I don’t think they’ve had enough time together with a competent point guard. Chauncey wasn’t right in our offense and this year we haven’t had a point guard.
B. I don’t think Lin is an NBA level player but he’s more of a point guard than TD or Shump and Bibby just doesn’t have any more in his tank.
C. The insurance situation is what it is. He’s healthy now and just starting to get his legs back.
D. His defense is not amazing but again that’s one of the reasons we have Tyson.

This is not an easy process what they’re going through. The Knicks gutted their team twice; once to get under the cap and to get the Carmelo Anthony trade accomplished. They don’t have nearly the depth of talent that Miami has. To expect them to compete with Miami in a series right now . . . that’s not happening."

Van Gundy added that in order for the Knicks to be in the same class with Miami they’ll need better guard play, quality depth and most importantly the team’s two superstars have to play together.

"I think they’ll figure that out," Van Gundy said of Anthony and Stoudemire. "There is an important lesson you learn as far back as kindergarten – sharing. That means sharing the responsibility, sharing being a great example in practice, sharing the ball, sharing the unglamorous work of defending and rebounding. All those things are directly related to the end product, which is trying to win a championship."

"Listen, you really have to want to play in New York," he said. "It’s not for everyone. When you play in New York you’re going to be given an incredible platform to perform on, but you’re going to be held to a high standard by the fans. And there is nothing wrong with that.

if you talk about firing D’antoni people make excuses like he never had a stable roster, he had no players, yadda yadda. You make the best of what you have, and D’antoni so far, has’nt done that. Is that entirely his fault, absolutely not, but part of his problem is that he has’nt adjusted his playing style to the talent on the roster. I think the Knicks should play a half court style with the ball going inside to Amare and Chandler because we have some decent shooters on the team. Amare needs a facilitator to get him easy buckets while Melo can get his own shot, so I think they can play together because there game is different. Even though Landry and TD are not playing well this team should NOT be this bad. I think people get caught up in revisionist history too much, pre- Melo the Knicks gave up 105 pts a game and were on like a 5 game losing streak. They were fun to watch and I loved ILL Will and Gallo, but let’s be honest, those two had a habit of disappearing in games down the stretch. And Felton was averaging almost 40 min a game, how long before he would have broken down. That team, I believe, would not have made the playoffs the way the Pacers and Sixers played down the stretch. I think this marriage of Melo and Stat can work, but like all the D’antoni apologists would cite, it needs more time.

Melo is younger has less history of injuries has never missed the playoffs in his career is a top three player at his posision amare may not even be in the top five power forward and you wanna talk about building around somebody melo can play well with less than amare with amare all you hear is he cant play without a point guard he cant play with tyson chandler in the paint all the time everyone makes excuses for amare but before melo got hurt in the memphis game look at his numbers he was playing fantastic closed out the boston game Amares situation is too big a risk to take if he is tradeable trade him