Will Melo be in the 6-man rotation vs the Warriors in playoffs?

Lol yeah.

It's like Melo's past never happened.

Rockets are getting a MVP at 34 year old.

If Melo the inefficient chucker is Rockets second leading scorer, something went wrong....

 

Yes, MVP is the next step up from being in the rotation.

 

Dude is the biggest hater I've seen. He just plain and simple hates Melo, no point in arguin with him.
He should be better off to spend his time and energy on something more positive for sure.

It is strange how Melo is labeled as "inneficient" at 45% Career FG, but somehow Kobe, Harden etc are not but they are at the very same 45% for a career. Just strange.

 

NBA vet min is the next step to being out of the league. Especially when only one team is looking at you.

 

See? He's getting 10x All Star at a supper discount and he is not happy.
I don't know how moderators allow this type of s**t here. Hating does not improve quality of discussion in any way.

I'm just happy that this guy will look like a total clown by the time season kicks off, I will open new "Zboy is a clown" thread every f**king day.

 

so edgy

 

We exposed Dirk.

Then we exposed Kanter.

Maybe it's karma finally getting back at us?

 

Keep making those leaps in logic. You are good at it.

 

So is Melo as good a scorer as Harden if they both hit 45%?

 

Right now? Of course not.

 

please look at TS% and not just FG% when talking about efficiency...a guy like Harden has been a way more efficient scorer than Melo for obvious reasons

even if u are to look at just FG%...Harden would be higher than 45% from the field if he wasn’t taking so many threes a game

 

But if they both hit 45% from the field, how can they not be equivalent?

 

Anderson was too scared to even shoot in the series.

Both will be stuck on Curry island, but at least Melo could isolate somebody on the end, wouldn’t be afraid to shoot.

 

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Melo fans need to relax. I know they have been desperate for any success for thier idol and are excited that he might finally play for a wining team after a long time, but remember this. Rockets does not need Melo as much as Melo needs Rockets. No one other than Rockets is even looking at him. and he is at vet minimum. This team will win plenty of games in regular season just because of Harden + CP. Melo, on the other hand, does not really have much going on for him at this stage of the career. He should be consider himself fortunate that a team like Rockets is even willing to give him a chance given his record.

I have said it before and I will say it again. The best use for Melo on the Rockets is using his chucking ways during regular season to ease off the burden on Harden/CP during 82 games regular season grind. Both will set him up for some easy shots and can conserve their energy. This team is so much better than most teams in the league that against average and below teams they will coast against using this strategy.

Regular season is not going to be the gauge for Melo. This team will win a ton of games with or without Melo. It is the playoffs that will be the true measuring stick for Melo and that is where he will get exposed and and attacked just like Jazz attacked him this recent playoffs.

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I was talking about career FG% not just this particular moment. Right now Harden is way better scorer, he is in his prime while Melo is past his prime.

For example, Kobe is a career .550 TS%, while Melo is .542 TS%. I see Harden is more efficient than both of them, can't argue that.

 

a lot of people do get on Kobe for his chucking and bricking, but he got 5 rings so it’s not held against him too much

 

Green can actually defend if he's focused, especially man to man, he's one of those guys that can get lost in team defense but can defend man to man, similar to Nick Young.

Melo has physical limitations that prevent him from defending well, and he's not always focused either. One armed Luc is still better on defense. Melo is most compostable to Anderson on defense and Anderson was not playable, but Melo has some possible offensive qualities that might be useful. Really we'll have to see, OKC tried, so can't discount their experience with him on defense. The season will be telling.

Also the Curry comparison is obviously a bad one because Curry is elite on offense, and he's still better on defense than Melo. If Melo was elite on offense, there would be less concern about him staying on the floor because at the least he's making it back. Current Melo can't make back what he gives up on defense or more on the other end.

 

Kobe was also generally quite efficient in the seasons when he did win, especially comparing to league average, and we have to also look at playoff TS%. I believe in his best seasons he was a 57% TS guy. Also Kobe was a good playmaker and passer which Melo is not, and Kobe was not just a capable defender, he was even able to play lockdown/elite defense in spurts even though he had his coasting moments later in his career.

 

So you're saying not right now, but in general when people have similar FG% they are similar scorers?