Carmelo Anthony prefers playing with Derick Rose and the Bulls over Kobe and the Lakers

Seems Lakers are going to be going downhill for a while. Good.

 

There really isn't a history of Melo clashing with his coaches though.

I think the guy gets a bad rap for stuff like this. He's a good team player, he takes a lot of shots because quite frankly he's a top 5 scorere in the NBA so he's supposed to take a lot of shots.

 

I am really referencing their style of play. Hard nosed defensive coach having to manage a player that plays zero D and spends all his time jacking up shots. I think it would eventually make for a bad locker room.

 

It doesn't seem much different from Lionel Hollins and Zach Randolph, or Larry Brown and Reggie Miller. Thibodeau himself coaches some terrible defensive players every year, some of them much worse than Melo tbh. He's a great coach.

 

This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

As an assistant to JVG, Thibodeau had to work with Steve Francis and Cuttino Mobley, players who played average defense at best and were pretty good at iso ball and chucking

As an assistant to Doc Rivers in Boston, Ray Allen was the third best player and he's not known for being a defender. Hell, that team had Eddie Freaking House chucking away.

As a coach in Chicago, he's had Carlos Boozer (zero D) starting, Keith Bogans doing whatever Keith Bogans did best, watch Mike James chuck as many shots up as he possibly could, relied on Nate Robinson's offense (and little defense) time and time again, and has his current team owning a winning record despite the fact that they shoot 43% as a team (good for 28th in the league).

Thibodeau's a great coach not because he has great defensive players; it's because he runs great defensive sets. Boozer and Derrick Rose are bad defensive players but within Thibodeau's system, they do more and don't hurt their team. I'll agree to disagree when you say Melo's a chucker that plays zero D (if he plays zero D then what has Harden been playing?). I'll agree with you that Thibodeau is a defensive-minded coach because that's a given. But to try and draw a conclusion that they both can't co-exist because of some trend/style you made up is ridiculous.

 

Having Noah, Gibson, Butler playing defense, and offense to Rose and Melo. Whats not to like about it?

 

Anthony's defense would be fine in Chicago. He is a bad defender, but not as bad as Derrick Rose and you didn't see him sitting in Chicago. Also, Tibs and the Bulls desperately want a volume shooter and scorer, so that wouldn't be an issue.

The real issues are:

#1 Would Anthony want to play on the Bulls with Rose's health and quality of play a real question?

#2 Anthony isn't giving up a 5th year and nearly $40,000,000; which means that it will have to be a S&T.

#3 The Bulls, in order to get the cap space for a S&T would need to jettison Boozer (amnesty), trade Dunleavy (take no salary back), trade Taj Gibson (take not salary back), trade the Charlotte pick and their own #1 and #2 (take no salary back) and then not have Mrotic come over. If they do ALL that, then they can get Anthony.

 

If Anthony is in Chicago, then Gibson and probably Butler are not going to be on the team.

 

Gibson would have to get moved to make cap room, unless Melo takes a paycut. I don't think they'd have to move Butler, though.

 

The coach would whip Melo into shape. Bulls 10x better than Knicks team. As someone else said, Iw ould like this move just to see some more competition in the east

 

Ugh. There is no 5th year in sign-and-trades.

 

The new CBA doesn't allow extra years or money in sign and trades. So he'd have to give up a year and some money either way.

 

Carmelo shouldn't opt out

 

Ohhh MY GOD! I FORGOT, PLEASE FORGIVE ME!

*BTW none of the players on your little list were traded to the Rockets.

 

Thank you, I forgot......

 

But they could have been. What you are suggesting is impossible.