Opinion: The New York Knicks Should Trade Carmelo Anthony For Pau Gasol
Peter Vecsey of the New York Post wrote a very interesting article about the Los Angeles Lakers’ Pau Gasol situation. Vecsey is asking a rather intriguing question, should the New York Knicks consider a Carmelo Anthony-Gasol swap.
This idea raises a few questions. How can two egos like Kobe Bryant and Carmelo Anthony coexist? Why would the Knicks trade for another big man when they already have Tyson Chandler and Amar’e Stoudemire in their lineup and why would you not try to make the Anthony and Jeremy Lin system work?
Vecsey argues that the play of Landry Fields and Steve Novak are a direct correlation to Lin’s ability to play the point guard and with Anthony looking rusty Monday night, it could be good for the Knicks to cut ties with Anthony.
However, Anthony still has a large sum of money owed to him and Gasol is aging and losing confidence with all of this trade talks.
The Knicks are more than unlikely to make a deal of this stature but you never know.
Vecsey also mentions that there have not been any talks between the Lakers and the Minnesota Timberwolves regarding a Gasol for Derrick Williams deal.
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i say yes, carmelo is a ball hog and it would be a good adjustment to the team because big man puts up numbers carmelo doesnt he shoots and misses. with him, jr smith, STAT, and lin? we will be generating big numbers. the knicks needed a point guard for a long time we got a point guard. before lin came in the people who got the most points were the 2 STAT and carmello. now with lin in everybody is getting points, before lin it was melo shoots stat shoots everybody pass the ball to melo and stat. if melo was out of the equation and gasol is in? i mean come on. we will be serving up points like its hot cakes. CHEMISTRY is a huge thing, if you have a team that is comfortable with each other then people are happy. when people are happy confidence is up when confidence is up we are scoring and moving forward.
Another illogical trade rumor started by Peter, this guy gets pay to write stuffs like this? Logic 1) Knicks already have a soft scoring-only PF named Amare Stoudamire. Where would Paul Gasol play? Or is Peter trying to suggest the Knicks should have a Chandler – Amare – Gasol front court? Yeah, that would work real well in chemistry. Logic 2) Why the heck would Lakers do this? The Lakers realizes Kobe wants to be “the man” and shoots 40+ a year. Kobe doesn’t want someone to share the ball but rather want only complementary players that will shoot enough to keep the opponents honest. Getting Melo makes no sense for the Lakers. Logic 3) James Dolan is the one that overruled both Donnie Walsh and Mike D’Antony and traded (back then) the whole team for Melo. He is too much an arrogant POS to trade Melo this soon, this early. (Don’t be fool by Grunweld’s title, he’s just a puppet of Dolan who of course listens only to Isaiah Thomas.)
Get the Wolves involved. It’s clear they want Gasol, and they’re willing to part with Michael Beasley and Derrick Williams. Make a trade happen in which the Knicks pick up Beasley and Williams (young talent that can fill in for Melo), the Lakers get Melo and perhaps Toney Douglas (creating an extremely potent duo with Kobe, and someone to plug into the PG), and Minnesota gets Gasol (his tandem with Love would be devestating) . Get in a 4th team and throw some draft picks and filler around.
It’s a nice idea to generate headlines but that is about it. If Pau can’t deal with the swirling rumors to the point that it is a distraction to his game then he would surely wither in the media circus of NY, the only place where he might get more scrutiny than in LA. In LA they are deferential to their celebrities, in NY your taxi driver will tell you if you stunk up the place last night.
Secondly, Melo has demonstrated his ability to play with a point guard in the past. Once he’s back in condition he’ll adjust nicely. The real problem in NY is what it has always been under D’Antoni; a lack of defensive presence. Improvements have been made but a systemic change may be what is in order. How do we make that work for this season? I’m still scratching my head about that question.