I was shocked when I saw MCW in the playoffs. Then realized he was playing for the magic and I wasn’t all that surprised. Ennis is good enough this year to be the 10th or 11th best player on a championship caliber squad. I think he will improve over the next two seasons and then hit his ceiling.
Ennis and MCW are square pegs that didn't fit the round hole that was Houston's roster. Useful players, but not useful players in our system. You could say the same about Melo except for the useful part.
Ochocinco (Chad Johnson) could play for the Bengals.....but could never get it with the Patriots. Just saying...
Ennis isn’t that bad tbh. MCW will always be complete garbage as far as I’m concerned House and Rivers make them obsolete anyway
I guess MCW regressed in playmaking, he was a hybrid coming into the league. I still dunno what he excels at.
Bringing in MCW, in our system was a total brain fart. I rarely doubt morey or I’m 100% about anything because again, obviously he’s 1000x better at his job than I am. I was 99,9% sure mcw was going to be terrible. Obviously, like he usually does morey fixed the mistake and then some
Well when your max superstar players are pounding the rock for 98% of the time, it tends to limit the abilities of said players. Different franchises have different systems, its just that they cant be fully utilized in ours.
Good for them we don’t hold any grudges, they just didn’t performed or fit well with us. MCW was just terrible with us, he would do so many bad things and would make a good play then right away butch it. It’s nice that he is playing well with Orlando but we always knew he was gonna make bunch of mistakes and miss easy layups. Ennis imo was okay and he was playing better before he was moved. But it seems the other players like Harden, Cp3 and Tucker didn’t really like what he was bringing. So no chemistry here he had to be moved.
That is not accurate. He exchanged toxic for sh*tty and later swapped sh*tty for innocuous. The way Anderson's name and contract had been bandied about in the media and rumor mills over the last two seasons it had garnered the reputation as one of the most unmovable contracts in the league. Most people speculated it would take multiple first round picks attached just to move it. Morey moved that albatross for the "sh*tty" contract of Knight (and Chriss) which had dubious potential but, if nothing else, were less notorious than the Anderson contract. When that didn't pan out it was easier to move those deals for what we have now in Shumpert: a more useful/playable player on an expiring contract. This is why, given full context, I don't see how anyone can objectively view that as a bad move.
Even in your alternate reality where they didnt suck they wouldnt play. We already have a 9 man rotation: Capela, Tucker, EG, Harden, Cp3, Rivers, House, Faried, Green. 10 if you include Nene who is there for matchups and 11 if you include Iman Shumpert. Who would Ennis and MCW beat out in the rotation exactly? I dont care how much they contribute in a LEASTERN team they wont get mins on the Rox and thats why they were traded.
Don't peddle a false narrative. I said we needed a playmaker. I said Rubio was great and would be great running MDA's PNR offense. And I advocated to trade for Maker and his potential. And I said I believed Maker would turn out to have a better career and be a better player over the course of their respective careers than Capela. And I also said if I was wrong on Marker I'd still trade for him because Capela's contributions are replaceable and we won't be stuck making a free agent decision on him. In both cases I can still make a great case. Rubio makes less than half what we are now paying Paul. I love Paul's game. But.... we could still have all those Clipper assets plus Rubio.... or possibly acquired another younger superstar to go with harden and Rubio with those same assets we traded for Paul. And be out of the tax with as good or better team than we have now. Until and unless we win a championship with Capela and Paul I can still make logical arguments. So I have no clue why you want to bring this up again seeing as wr haven't won a championship and Paul with this current contract and age now has negative trade value. Your simpleton analysis that Paul is better than Rubio today and Capela is better than Maker today falls woefully short of consideration of all the factors to building a champion. While everything I talk about concerning this team, it's players, and possible traders/ acquisitions has to do with building a champion. Two different things. We're not even on the same planet.
He's a good playmaking point guard that defends well. He will have to play on the ball running pnr for an NBA team to get value out of him. He would've been fine he as the designated backup pg.... if we didn't have both Paul and Harden.
