Carmelo Anthony is Washed Up

[EDWARDO]

Top 5 scorer if he gets his head right. Get him while you can and surround him with the right guys. Washed up not nearly the right way to describe him. Head case in the wrong situation. Put him between Ray and KG the last few years and he would have won championships. Pierce for Melo is a no-brainer. He's built to lead the right team in the playoffs. Doc could very well be the perfect coach for him.

If we had done this trade we'd be playing tomorrow night.

Discuss.

If we had done this trade, we lose in the first round as Melo does every season.

And KG definitely retires.

Melo's got to conference finals a few years ago and never had KG, Allen, Rondo around him. I think we get past Hawks and 76ers much quicker with Melo.

This is largely because PP was hurt, by the way. But interesting to note how opposed people are/were to this idea. I reckon having Doc and KG on this team would be more than enough to get the best out of Melo. The best out of Melo is better than the best out of PP at this point. AND PP was hurt.

[EDWARDO]

Top 5 scorer if he gets his head right. Get him while you can and surround him with the right guys. Washed up not nearly the right way to describe him. Head case in the wrong situation. Put him between Ray and KG the last few years and he would have won championships. Pierce for Melo is a no-brainer. He's built to lead the right team in the playoffs. Doc could very well be the perfect coach for him.

If we had done this trade we'd be playing tomorrow night.

Discuss.

Here is my problem with anything people say about Pierce hurting the Celts chances of advancing this year:

The Celts were down 1-0 in the first round this year when Rondo got ejected and Pierce put together one of the great playoff performances in Celtic history to win Game 2.  Without that win, the Celtics at the very best are trying to win Game 7 in Atlanta.

Are we sure the C's would have gotten to the second round with anyone other than Pierce for that pivotal Game 2?

Kinda skipping over the fact that PP was 5-19 for 12 points in Game 1 in the first place. And that we had a week of "Bench PP- he's killing us" posts going during the fist two rounds as well.