Yeah, no. There’d always be some who complain, but the vast majority would have accepted it. Just like we accepted the 90s teams. It was frustrating to be less than the Bulls and the Rockets, but we all loved the heart of those teams.

Just like in Melo’s case who was voted 4th!
“There’d always be some who complain, but the vast majority would have accepted it.”
The only difference is that “some who complain” are all gathered in here!
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A federal judge in Denver recently ruled that four-year college players from the high school class of 2022 are eligible for a fifth season in 2026/27. That ruling is expected to be appealed, so a reversal is a possibility. But for now, a handful of unsigned second-round picks technically have the option to essentially become domestic draft-and-stash prospects.

The temporary injunction applies to Smith, Tyler Nickel (Knicks), Dillon Mitchell (Celtics), Richie Saunders (Grizzlies) and Lajae Jones (Warriors). While Smith’s illustrious college career has come to an end, Trotter hears Nickel and Mitchell are “expected to explore their college options.”

In this case Smith is Braden Smith picked 38th in the draft and he said he has no intention of going back to college.

See the full article at
https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2026/08/second-rounder-braden-smith-not-considering-purdue-return.html

And that wasn’t Melo’s fault. It was management’s (Dolan’s) fault for making the deal. They should have called both his and Ujiri’s bluff and they didn’t.

And please, stop with the Jeremy Lin stuff. He said himself that he made a mistake, and knew it at the time. And he was never a difference-maker after Linsanity. Those teams needed a lot more than a decent backup PG.

There was so much wrong with that team. Amar’e was shot. Chandler came up tiny against Hibbert. JR was a flake. Melo was the lightning rod, and deservedly so, but he took way more blame than he deserved at the time, and that continues here today. And we can guess as to whether he would have succeeded if he had a better supporting cast here, but we’ll never know for sure.
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If you could air drop Melo in his prime onto the 2026 Knicks I think he’d fuck it up.

All You Need to succeed Is a better supporting cast, a smart coach and some Love!

Exactly. But Melo couldn’t have those things because he’d rather be Melo.

Melo is the reason the supporting cast sucked most of the time. He’s why Lin left for nothing. He’s why we didn’t have Gallo and several other rotation players.

He’s the reason a good coach left town in D’Antoni. The only reason Melo let Woodson play him at the 4 was injuries and then it worked so well that he couldn’t refuse anymore.

At the end of the day, KAT bought in. He played defense. He passed. He didn’t need to score. If KAT hadn’t done that, then we wouldn’t have won a championship. Those are all the things Melo never did and it’s a large part of why we never won with him.

I’m actually saying that if we had lost 0-4 by the Spurs nomatter how hard everyone played ALL PLAYERS’ game Limitations and blunders would have come up like dead fishes in the sea and every knicks fan would shoot them till the sun stops shining

Yeah, no. There’d always be some who complain, but the vast majority would have accepted it. Just like we accepted the 90s teams. It was frustrating to be less than the Bulls and the Rockets, but we all loved the heart of those teams.

I dont hate Melo as a person. But yeah, I dislike everything about his game, the manner of his coming to NYC, and basically the entire way he handled his professional business. He wa solid that one year but not that great.

And I think Gallo was the better player, full stop, when the trade happened. Advanced stats backed it up, such as we had at the time.

Certainly, I would have liked our team much more just keeping Gallo and all our assets and cap space.

The Nuggets were much better after that trade. And then Gallo blew out his knee.

And Gallo was a real SF