right....now photoshop melo's head onto mccartney's body....DO IT FOR ME I DON'T HAVE PHOTOSHOP lol extra gold stars if you can get Morey's head onto Farley's body
I was never a fan of the Melo signing. Never liked him as a player, particularly now with his diminished quickness. However Melo sure as hell wasn't the only problem we had to start the season. It isn't as if we took off as soon as we dumped him, we still stumbled around for a full month afterward playing .500 ball. Gordon was absolute garbage to start the season, Paul was barely going through the motions, nobody was giving any real effort on the defensive end, and we were counting on James Ennis for significant wing minutes. Frankly the person most at fault for the slow start is Daryl Morey. However Carmelo was certainly a noticeable part of the problem. I'm glad Morey is willing to acknowledge a f**kup and fix it quickly. Now our roster is stronger than the one we had in last year's postseason IMO. All in all, it was a damn impressive cleanup job while tiptoeing the luxury tax line.
Melo wasn't to blame for our struggles. He didn't even do anything controversial, and the situation still created all this drama. But CF would have you believe that even with this franchise's experiences with the Dwightmare and the Melodrama, having LBJ here would have been all fine and dandy and everyone would have accepted their shafted roles and gotten on swimmingly.
Damn you. I didn't see your request for the photo, and just thought from your first post that you wanted to see if anyone got the joke. Now I just wasted 15 minutes doing this stupid photo ... i had to I'll leave it to @Os Trigonum to add the caption.
I don’t doubt Anthony played some part (possibly) but the injury to Paul and a complete lack of depth was the biggest culprit. The Rockets were rolling out 3-4 NBA caliber players some nights. Adding Nene, Rivers, House and Faried made a huge difference. Nene doesn’t seem like much, but him back healthy really helped us in some match ups.
it definitely had an effect. he may not have been the most glaring or biggest but he surely was part of the issue. hou never needed him at this stage of his career and they're better without him
Its been such a weird season. All the offseason moves were awful, the team stank to start the year. Then Melo got dumped, Harden started playing like the goat, all the other mutants got tossed, and a bunch of random useful players just showed up. Now the rockets are playing great and are a deeper team than last year. Weird and soap opera-tastic. Very entertaining. Now if only local sports talk radio new we had a pro team...
Apologies... He would have been dumped in the nice beaches of Miami if that org. wasn't full of punks.
I really was worried that they wouldn't let go of Melo because he's best friends with Chris Paul. Thank God that didn't influence them.
That's why we have to trust Morey -- he took a small gamble adding Melo on a vet minimum and didn't overpay to bring back replaceable vets. He was trashed for the first half of the season, but once again Morey worked his magic and the Rockets are a top contender heading into the playoffs.
Yep. I was bummed that we missed out on Ellington. Dude is still close to 40% on over 7 3 point attempts per game. I think he would have been the perfect fit in our system but that’s old news now. Morey did a heck of a job making up for the Melo/MCW mistakes, and hopefully we have enough to win it all regardless.
