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Mez 0ne wrote:

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Stat AND Chandler though? We'd have even less depth, and I think we would be trading away the wrong combination.

That is of course if that rumor is even true which I highly doubt,

If the choice is between the best center in the league or the depth of a sub .500 team, I would go with the best center in the league. Such depth will be easy to replenish

ATGD7154xBBxMZ wrote:

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ill steelo wrote:

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Mez 0ne wrote:

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Stat AND Chandler though? We'd have even less depth, and I think we would be trading away the wrong combination.

That is of course if that rumor is even true which I highly doubt,

If the choice is between the best center in the league or the depth of a sub .500 team, I would go with the best center in the league. Such depth will be easy to replenish

That's exactly what was said at the end of last season. Hell your whole post reads like something said before the Melo trade went down.

They've replaced Felton with Davis, who has been injured. Replaced Chandler with Fields who hasn't played well and replaced gallo with Anthony, mozgov/turiaf with Tyson, and replaced Fields' bench slot with Shump. All of those are either upgrades or lateral moves. The only reason it doesn't seem like that is because of injuries to Davis and poor play from Fields and Douglas and you can't predict injuries or poor play . They replenished the depth just fine IMO

ATGD7154xBBxMZ wrote:

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What you mean predict injuries? We signed Baron knowing he was injured. The Cavs cut him partially because he was injured. Son was well within prediction. Can't call a dude a replacement when he's not in the plans to start the season. A healthy Baron being a lateral move or upgrade for Felton or Chauncey is questionable.

You're bugging if you think a 2nd year player is a lateral move or upgrade for what Chandler was doing. Just for one thing the switching we do wasn't a big problem for him given the multiple positions he could guard something Fields could never do. Fields played great for like half of last year and has lost and he hasn't shown signs he'll ever get back what he showed in his rookie season.

Regardless of that you talking like a 6th man rotation is all we need. We had bums on the roster last year and there's more this year as far as consistency goes after you exclude the players already mentioned.

Anyway my point still stands, dudes talking like filling out our roster and addressing our depth is as easy as pie when we failed to do it the first time. Don't get why ppl are so eager to go through this again thinking it can't get worse. Gluttons for punishment.

With the injuries I was referring moreso to Shump, but I omitted his name by accident. I should've been clearer. And Baron was 15/8 with LAC the last time he was healthy. Billups was 17/5 with NYK, Felton was 17/9. They're certainly comparable players when healthy. Baron was 13/6 in only 25 mins with a bunch of nobodies on CLE. If he was playing starters minutes that translates to 18/9. So it's certainly not a "questionable" comparison

Part of the reason NYK moved Chandler in the first place was because of how well Fields was playing just before Melo arrived & how poorly Chandler was. Wilson was a 14 point guy on 41% shooting in the month of January compared to Fields' 10 PPG on 56% shooting while being solid defensively & exceeding Wilson's contributions on the boards. He was a better fit for D'Antoni's system anyway because he was shooting the 3 much better than Chandler was last season before the trade. The point being, they're comparable players. Nobody could've predicted how poorly Fields would play alongside Melo.

I never said a 6th man rotation is all you need. I said that after the trade, NYK replaced the guys that they sent out with comparable players on paper.