You could take it a step further and say 'Melo is the risk/reward type player we relied to heavily on. Throw JR into the mix its a double whammy. We...
I agree with you to an extent. But its not "oh if we had gotten more out of A player or B player we would've won", the reality is we got NOTHING out...
Also i find it kind of funny in a sick way that 'Melo told the FO to hold-off on making any trades before the deadline, basically saying we were good...