0-5 and 0-6 isn't bad? Really? He has two games where he didn't make anything how come he has only 1 bad game? See you say he isn't the scapegoat but then you make Harden the scapegoat for game 6 when you say its well documented what happened. Far from the reason we lost? Spurs lost their SF and their PG guess who destroyed the Rockets? Oh yeah it was Lamarcus Aldridge who had 18 pts and 14 rebs game 5 and 34 pts and 14 rebs in game 6. Guess what position LMA played? Oh right it was PF slot, where Anderson's D was so bad MDA had to bench him and so Ariza and Harden had to take turns guarding Lamarcus ****ing Aldridge. Harden has been hard carrying the team since r1, he can have a bad game here and there because he has been the main force for the Rox for the entire season. Anderson is getting paid big bucks, he's the 2nd highest paid member on the team and his role is just to shoot so if he's not shooting a lot and at an elite percentage why are the Rockets paying him 18M a year? I don't even understand what you mean by "easy scapegoat", you don't need to scapegoat him Anderson was the single worst player on the team once playoffs started. If he was making 6M a year ok you can forgive him for choking but for 18M a year that kind of performance is unforgivable. No defense, no rebounding and then shooting only 28% from the 3 for 18M a year. There's a reason Rockets have been trying to shop him everywhere.You defend Anderson by saying he just shoots 3s so his % will be low but: Regular Season 3 pt% 40% Playoff Season 3 pt% 28% How do you explain the drop in % except it was Anderson being a mental midget and choking? It's what killed the team the Rox are the most 3 pt dependent team in the L if your second highest paid guy shoots 28% from 3 they are gonna lose every time. And Anderson's 3 pt percentage would be even lower if MDA didn't put him out of his misery and bench him, dude was crapping his pants every game.
pretty much confirms what I was thinking the reason was in this case. Yeah the reason the rockets are shppping him is to get a star. That's just obvious and was always the plan. But if they're unable to do so for whatever reason he'll still be here and still fits what they're trying to do.
Fit isn't the question, ability is the question. And it wasn't always the plan otherwise they wouldn't have signed him to 4 years at 18M a year. Obviously they thought he would blow up in a system tailor-made for him and were disappointed when his production is the same as in New Orleans and disgusted when he crapped his pants in the playoffs. Regular season 3 pt:40% Playoff 3 pt: 28% And that's not choking? LOL
Wish @Snow Villiers would edit his Thrread Title since all reports have said the news is not true and the tweet in the OP was deleted. This is click bait for Alex Kennedy. He fooled you OP, and got you to start a thread and is now saying he's got nothing for days, "but keep coming back." Lulz. Nice trick Kennedy. it worked. Fake News got the OP, and he'll just keep promoting it by not editing the thread title like others do when news is fake
Oh right. now the discussions goes from Spurs series to entire playoffs. Got it. Of course the original point of Ryno was the reason hou lost to the Spurs needs to be changed in your case.
??? I'm just pointing out Anderson's crappy performance was for the entire playoffs, his performance against the Spurs was even worse than against OKC. What do you mean it needed to be changed? I already said SaS lost Kawhi and tony Parker to injury, SaS still won because LMA killed the Rockets. Is that not Ryan Anderson's fault? So in addition to shooting like crap (including two 0fers) he also got abused on defense and allowed LMA to get off. He had 18 and 14 on game 5 and 35 and 12 in game 6, is that not supposed to be Anderson's responsibility? You have some insane bias for Anderson it's ridiculous, dude can do no wrong and is being "unfairly blamed" in your mind despite the fact that he was clearly the 2nd highest paid guy and therefore has the 2nd highest responsibility of lifting Rockets to wins.
Oh he can do plenty wrong. But just his fault in the Spurs series. Nope that's just stupid. If your going to nitpick game 5 and game 6 ok. What happened in game 2 when ryan was the only one who showed up that game from the start? Yeah all his fault. So what happened after ryan put Houston up with about 40 seconds left in the game 5? Yeah Ryan's fault. What happened from the very start of game 6 by our best player? Yeah all Ryan's fault. You think ryan is the one guarding lma on all those possessions. Your sadly mistaken. But yeah again the narrative. Just all his fault. You nailed it
It's not all his fault you're building a straw man argument. How is Lamarcus Aldridge going off supposed to be nitpicking? LMA is the 2nd best player on the Spurs I guess him going off is nitpicking? LOL! So what if Anderson wasn't guarding LMA all those possessions he went off? If he wasn't it's still his fault because as the 2nd highest player he was supposed to carry the team and because LMA was playing his position. Why were Harden and Ariza forced to defend LMA? It's because Anderson sucked ass, that's his fault. All your posts about Anderson ignore reality, you say he did not choke in the playoffs when his 3pt percentage clearly dropped to a disastrous amount. Pointing out the few times he played good doesn't help his cause, as an 18M player he is supposed to play to that level all the time. Harden puts up those numbers almost every game so the few times he lays a dump on the floor like game 6 he can be excused, nobody is perfect they all make mistakes. You are building a strawman argument when does "Ryan was the weakest link" translate to "It's all Ryan's fault". I never said Anderson was the SOLE reason Rockets failed against Spurs why are you saying that? You are either Ryan Anderson or someone close to Ryan Anderson the way your bias for him is overflowing is just ridiculous. I don't have bias for Ryan Anderson I have a bias for the Houston Rockets. If he plays well then he wouldn't get **** from the posters here in CF. If he didn't sign a ridiculous 18M contract nobody will give an F if he pooped all over the floor every home game. You can argue that's not his fault it's Morey's fault for signing him for that amount but when he inked that contract he should prepare his thick skin because by agreeing to that deal he now has a lot of responsibility to help the team win. If he can't handle that then he should've just asked for an MLE deal instead.
You never said ryan was the sole reason. Ok your posts definitely say otherwise. Thats the whole reason this has gone back and forth. My point from the beginning regarding losing against the spurs. Then you go from spurs to entire playoff. But yeah its ryans fault no matter what. My new hashtag.
