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  1. 12 minutes ago, Jhawk said:

    Probably the best analysis of melo yet. Even if he comes off the bench he’ll want to be the guy who gets all the shots when he is on the floor. 

    I also like the analysis of Houston winning with defense and not offense. Those 30-40 point WCF blowouts will be 50 point losses if melo see the floor. Who do you put him on? Klay? Durant? The simple answer is green but if Capela is on the floor and green is at the 5 then melo is going to cost about a million points. Unless green is playing the 4 melo can’t be on the floor. Even iggy would woodshed him on defense just by making cuts to the basket. 

    Warriors got a lot better and Houston is hoping they stayed the same but more likely got worse. 

    He doesn't want to come off of the bench and that was one of the reasons besides the massive luxury tax hit that he was discarded by the Thunder. Melo still feels like he is the man (He's always been extremely overrated in my eyes), should be starting and playing 30+ minutes a night. It's an experiment that's likely going to blow up in the rocket's faces. They're inheriting a ball stopping iso volume shooter that doesn't pass the ball who came off his worst season after beginning to slowly decline. I'm not talking about PPG, I'm talking about fg% he was flat out awful last season. Melo is one of the worst defenders and with declining ability he's not going to be able to improve in that area even if he wanted to. He already ran D'Antoni out of NY because he didn't buy into his system, then he didn't buy into the next coaches system then he didn't care for Donovan in OKC. So I'm assuming the reunion tour will go just fine and dandy this time around? Rocket fans can't comprehend why everyone is bashing the acquisition of melo. Who cares if he was signed for next to nothing? $$$ was never the issue, it's about his ego, declining ability and the potential to disrupt the team immensely on each side of the court.

  2. 11 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    The Rockets don't need him to work miracles, they already have Harden and Paul for that, they just need him to not go 0-12

    He's coming off his most inefficient season yet, his defensive rating equated to allowing opposing players to score at will he has no lateral quickness whatsoever and he stated recently he's above being a bench player and is still one of the best players in the NBA. Good luck with that.

  3. https://sports.yahoo.com/nba-buzz-busy-off-season-003744987.html

    The writer perceives the Melo signing to be a shit signing as well as anyone who isn't a fan of the rockets. It's ok Melo is a future hall of famer and he only costs 2.5 million. He sucked because he played with Westbrook/Paul George and because Donovan is one of the worst coaches in the league, etc etc etc. Stick to hanging your we took the Warriors to 7 games and won the most regular season games banner in an aggy like fashion.

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    5. Rockets: Maybe it's just me, but I'm totally unimpressed by the Rockets' offseason. Losing versatile, defensive minded forwards like Trevor Ariza and Luc Mbah A Moute in favor of a rapidly declining Carmelo Anthony figures to make Houston weaker on both ends. Plus, Mike D'Antoni did not get along well with Anthony when he was head coach of the Knicks and it's hard for me to believe the reunion will work out any better.

     

  4. 1 hour ago, Llogg said:

    Seriously. They just removed the possibility of trading love for youth and picks to do a real rebuild. He has no value as an albatross contract now.

    Anything is possible, by the time the trade deadline rolls around if Cleveland is struggling they could unload Love to a needy team with cap space desperate for an all-star caliber big. The Clippers were able to dump off Blake Griffin and his ridiculous contract.

  5. 6 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

    maybe rockets fans get overly defensive because people go around spouting stupid ass shit like this.  the warriors played two elimination games but the series "wasn't even remotely close."  fuck off with that dumbass hot take shit.

    Someone is rather sensitive. Look at the margins of victory, it wasn't even close. Every time Houston responded the Warriors in turn squashed them. The scores looked reminiscent of something you'd see in the first round of the playoffs with an over matched #8 seed pitted against the #1 seed......but worse.  119-106, 126-85, 115-86, 101-92  The two bold games are flat out hilarious a 70 point margin of victory between those two games alone.

  6. 43 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

    How many of the people bashing the Melo acquisition were the same ones saying Houston was stupid for signing Paul last year because there was no way he and Harden could co-exist?

    Melo is maybe the 7th or 8th man for Houston.  Nothing more.  He is definitely behind Harden, Paul, Capela, Gordon, Tucker, and Ennis.

    You do realize that Melo refused to assume a bench role in OKC right? Did you miss that key detail along the way? He never bought into D'Antoni's system in NY and ran him out of town.

    http://www.nba.com/article/2018/04/28/oklahoma-city-thunder-carmelo-anthony-not-interested-bench-role

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    I think everybody knows that I've sacrificed kind of damn near everything," Anthony said. "Family, moving here by myself, sacrificed my game for the sake of the team, and was willing to sacrifice anything and everything in order for this situation to work out. So it's something I really have to think about, if I really want to be this type of player, finish out my career as this type of player, knowing that I have so much left in the tank and I bring so much to the game of basketball.

    The egomaniac still believes he's some sort of amazing talent that is better than a bench player.

    https://nypost.com/2017/05/09/mike-dantoni-comes-clean-i-quit-because-of-carmelo/

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    Former Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni admitted to the worst-kept secret of his departure — he resigned on March 14, 2012, because of Carmelo Anthony.

    On the day of his resignation, The Post ran a back-page story, citing a source, that Anthony didn’t want to remain a Knick at the trade deadline if he knew D’Antoni would return next season. D’Antoni resigned later that afternoon.

    Good luck with that.

  7. 10 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

    All these Spurs and Mavericks fan in here hoping and praying that this Melo addition destroys the team that had the best regular season record and pushed the team of the century to 7 games in the WCF cracks me up. The Rockets might not be able to beat GS but they’ll damn sure be good enough to kick the shit out of those teams.

    Are you by chance an aggy? Are the Rockets planning on hanging a banner to celebrate pushing the Warriors to game 7 in the WCF? Coulda, shoulda, woulda, but y'all didn't win shit of significance. I guess the best regular season record is something to thump your chest about when your team was completely irrelevant for the better part of 20 years.

    The series may have been 4-3 but it wasn't even remotely close. 119-106, 126-85, 115-86 and 101-92. That's hilariously bad losing by 30+ in the conference finals, but I suppose it's not quite as bad being buried 114-75  with the opposing team's superstar on the sidelines.

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  8. Rocket fans will be tired of Melo 2 weeks into the season. If you're expecting him to embrace a bench role and be productive off the bench y'all are in for a rude awakening. If you're expecting him to gracefully share the court with CP3 and Harden without slicing into their share of the pie y'all are in for an even bigger rude awakening. Blame Westbrook, Donovan or whoever for his shitty 17-18 season, he's been on the decline for some time. Last season it accelerated and I wouldn't blame the coach or the players he was playing with. D'Antoni couldn't keep him happy as the #1 option it'll be hilarious when Melo inevitably begins to turn the locker room against him.

  9. I'll admit I didn't know much about Poeltl before the trade, but after reading about him I'm anxious to see what he can do. He's a very good defender who should fit in well and continue to grow. He's never going to be an offensive juggernaut, but he'll eventually anchor the defense and is more than just a shot blocker. The 1st rounder the Spurs acquired can also be used to dangle as bait towards a package to dump Gasol or Mills. Gasol's 16 million yearly in particular  is an obstacle towards making any moves, I'm still scratching my head over that  contract he was awarded which allegedly was going to be a team friendly deal and Poeltl's acquisition makes him expendable.

  10. Rocket fans better be careful what they wish for with that shit stain Melo. He's been declining steadily, still thinks he's the guy and isn't going to embrace a lesser role as evident last season. It's ok CP3 is a baby sitter and will keep him in line because they're good friends. That loser hasn't won anything of significance in his NBA career and will retire that way too. Hopefully he finds his way out of the NBA sooner rather than later.

  11. 9 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    CP3 will have him in line and selling insurance before the new year. 

    Why not take a one year shot?  Who else is there that the rockets could realistically add to challenge GS this year?  He will also be playing with two of the best distributors in the league, not Westbrook and George. 

    Melo can write a new ending to his career if he can help knock off GS. Carve out some history he craves, a chance to play in important games and prove he’s not done. He may even jog

    CP3 isn't going to keep him in line. He was bitter and disgruntled being the #3 or even arguably the #4 guy last season and playing with this friend won't change that because he's an egomaniac. As mentioned above he's going to cut into Harden's and CP3's shots just because he feels he's due his turn whether it's a good look or not that's the kind of player he is. D'Antoni even admitted he left his HC position with the Knicks because of Melo. I'm sure there won't be any issues playing for that same coach in the same system this time around and he'll all of a sudden embrace that Harden and CP3 are the guys in  Houston and he'll become a good team mate and flourish as a #3 option. I'll believe it when I see it, last season he had no desire to buy into that supporting role.

  12. 2 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    When he had some experience players on D, the D was fine, even if those experience players were more often dudes like Steve Edmond, Duke Thomas, Mykelle Thompson, and Cedric Reed as they were Diggs, Hicks and Malcom Brown. That team was second in conference in total D and third in total D. Unfortunately, it was paired with the worst offense we've had in my 40 years of watching the Horns. Frosh Swoopes behind a balsa wood o-line. Two dinged-up busts in the backfield in Brown and Gray. John Harris and Shipley Lite as the big weapons on the outside. 

    Still, if Ash and Espinosa had not gone down, we would have beat OU (lost 31-26 even with that shit sandwich on O) and UCLA (20-17). And who knows how the other games would have gone?

    Mack's aversion to having more than one viable QB on the roster at any given time (which dated back to the Simms-Applewhite years) totally fucked Strong over. And it makes me wonder -- what if VY had gone down for more than a few plays in 2005? You really think we roll to the NC with Matt Nordgren leading the charge? Mack should have taken that into account, realized that not every QB is VY, but he didn't. And that bit us in the ass vs Bama, and it bit us in the ass again when Gilbert turned out to be a bust, and continued gnawing on the program's hide through last year. 

    The miss on GG set the program back into the stone age and it's still painful to think about. There hasn't been a steady, reliable QB on the roster since Colt McCoy and it just blows my mind. Strong's best shot at QB was Heard and we all saw how that panned out he became another John Chiles. Mack's recruitment of Quarterbacks was rather bizarre it's like he couldn't handle a QB controversy and didn't want to deal with it going through a repeat of the Simms/Applewhite days. Herman seems to be tackling the QB issue head on and there will be an overload of competition at the position in the future which makes me feel comfortable considering how bad the position has been fucked the last decade.

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  13. 5 hours ago, Llogg said:

    LMAO. Not in the East anymore. You undervalued the Lakers by a large margin. The spurs got worse this off season while nearly every team in the top half of the West got better except for oKC and Portland.

    The last I checked DeRozan was a 2nd team ALL NBA player. Last season the Spurs had one All-Star caliber of a player in LMA shouldering the load, injuries galore and still won 47 games. Yet the Spurs are worse off trading a player who played in all of 9 games last season and a player who's skills were beginning to show signs of decline and adding in an All-Star who can put up 30 points in a night and a younger version of Splitter minus the bad calf?

    I don't think anyone is undervaluing the Lakers, but LeBron isn't carrying that team to the Finals or deep into the playoffs. They're a young team, not a veteran team and it's not quite their time. Adding a disgruntled PG and a SG who will log some minutes off of the bench aren't going to put the Lakers over the top. Honestly I'd expect them to finish somewhere as a #5 to a #8 seed. If they finish as a 7 or 8 seed and meet GS or Houston in the 1st round they'll be smoked 4-1 or 4-0.

  14. 18 minutes ago, immortal13 said:

    No way San Antonio should be that high

    Time will tell. You can't make the claim the Spurs are worse off than they were last season when they narrowly missed out on 50 wins and finished as a 7 seed with one player carrying the team. I could see the Spurs securing a 3 or 4 seed now that LMA has a legit All-Star who can score 23-25 ppg to help shoulder the load and won't have to carry the team on his back. A lot of people are critical about DeRozan, but he did lead Toronto to a #1 seed despite vanishing in the Cleveland series. Are the Spurs among the elite ready to challenge GS? No. Are they going to disappear? No. A starting lineup of Murray, DeRozan, Gay, LMA and the shell of Pau Gasol or Poeltl isn't all that bad and will be an improvement over last season.

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