Not sure who was worse handling the ball and with decision making...Melo is obviously the better shooter/scorer but both of them should never get their posessions imo, MCW should just cut and prey that someone passes him the ball while Melo should just do the Ryan Anderson and run around the perimeter to get some open shots.
I was never a fan of the Melo signing but I'm willing to bet things will get better as the year goes on. He actually is trying to play within the system. Defense is pitiful though, he isn't willing to sacrifice his body when there are times he can step in for charges. I hate that he just moves out the way.
I think he would be more effective if he stopped trying to fit in so much and start being the more assertive Melo that he’s been throughout his career. Right now, the Melo we are seeing is a random fringe NBA player, and no better than a typical 11-12th man. Take one of those ISOs that either Harden or Paul would have taken. I would love if the team suddenly became a 3-headed ISO machine.
yeah Gordon drives 4 times in a row getting blocked and still is assertive. Melo misses 1-2 shots and he goes quiet in the corner for the rest of the quarter. Also several times he had mismatch in the post and no one passed it to him. I mean damn i know we don't want to post but if Melo has point guard on him 5 feet from the basket u fkin pass him the ball instead of letting MCW play 1 on 1
So we have gone from, "CP and Harden will make Melo awesome with the open looks" to "Melo ISO" which has never yielded any success. Haha
I'd consider running some plays for him out of the post or at the elbow …. where he can play the old man game. I don't like him at the 3 point line. It would add a wrinkle to the offense …. might make Harden's job a bit easier.
If you are going to change your offense, why change it for a low efficiency player?? Makes absolutely zero sense to me. Here is a better idea: More mid range jumpers out of pick and roll for Chris Paul.
You make a good point …. I'm just wondering if he's any more efficient from the high post than he is at the arc and if so maybe he initiates the offense getting the ball to Harden in other ways instead of just the ISO / pick and roll. Its not necessarily changing the offense …. unless of course Melo is a black hole. I dunno , I was envisioning Harden running off of multiple picks like Reggie Miller back in the day - in a Princeton style offense …. but with all these switching defenses , defenders really aren't chasing guys off of those screens anymore. Crazy how this game evolves.
That Melo isn’t fitting into this offense is surprising to no one... except everyone on the Rockets organization apparently. Bear in mind this is a saga that took months the first year and this past year. Months DM could have been thinking about actual good ways to continue to evolve the team to the modern nba. This was possibly DMs worst offseason. It’s not too early to say that. Because the moves he made were all very planned and deliberate. It wasn’t let’s take Royce White because you never know. This was the team he wanted to design. Still ways to salvage it though. However probably no ways to salvage Melo. It’s VERY simple math... which is what makes it so surprising from DM. Offense at bad efficiency. Defense at no efficiency. That’s not a winning player.
If you think about it switching defense(and whole league is adapting it) favors skilled bigs heavily. I wonder if NBA scoring philosophy will come to a circle
People who expected INSTA-CHEMISTRY Suck! LOL IF Melo is not better by All Star break . . . cut him but I don't think 3 games is enough Rocket River
'We'll see how it fits': According to the data on Melo and the Rockets, it just doesn't http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...agree-carmelo-anthony-houston-rockets-odd-fit #mediaconspiracy @Os Trigonum
