Melo and Rose have no chemistry. That's the problem. Melo is a shooter, a scorer, a gunner. He is supposed to play that way. I have little problem with Melo more with Rose being our PG. Rose is supposed to have come to NY to adjust his game a little, be in a different role he said having all this talent he never played with. Instead Rose plays to score almost all the time. He looks to pass as a distant secondary option. There's no organization. No leadership from Rose as the PG.
When Baker was starting, I saw ball movement and Rose play a SG. Since Lee went back in, Lee has looked good, but as a team our ball movement sucks starters wise. Lee/Rose backcourt is awful for ball movement. Both are shooting guards. KP is also a shooting guard. Melo's a shooting guard. What you're seeing with the starters is an inept scoring 5 who can not do anything but set screens and board and 4 players who are most comfortable being shooting guards.
Horny is to blame as well. Why is he starting players in their wrong spots? He found something with Baker at PG, and Rose at SG. Why abandon it so fast? Baker moves the ball. He struggles at times, but he takes pressure off Rose from being what Rose can never be which is a real point. So Baker plays point and moves the ball. Why are we still starting Melo at 3 and KP at 4 with Noah? We need more movement players to get in spots quicker so the easy obvious pass is more available.
There's just too much "I'm a veteran star, I'm making 20 million or more a year, so I have to start" going on with this team. We should be playing KP at 5, Melo at 4, Rose at 2. We should be playing Baker at 1 and either Holiday or Kuz at 3. Or maybe if we want to play bigger Willy at 5, KP at 4, Melo at 3.
In the end though one thing this crystal clear. Rose and Melo must be split up. They do not work together. Sometimes you put two good individually players together and they play off each other. In this case it just doesn't happen. What Melo needs is a point guard that will pass, shoot open 3's and orchestrate the offense. What Rose needs is a spot up 3 baller, a good screen setter than can roll.
We would be a better team with Love instead of Melo, because Rose would be the alpha and Love would play off Rose instead of Melo who prefers to handle the ball and create his own offense. When Melo does that it makes Rose useless as he can't shoot from outside. So Rose ball watches and his man leaves him knowing Rose can't shoot an open 3. If we traded Rose for Dragic, we would be a better team because Dragic does things that a team with Melo as the #1 would need. It's just been a really bad fit between the two of them. When KP was playing like an all-star we had so much talent that we just got by on talent. Once KP's achilles starting hurting, our talent level is no longer that much that we can get by on it. We never actually played good ball as a team anymore than a game or two every 5 games. Most of the rest was just having 3 talents like KP, Melo, Rose all playing well individually. If KP gets back to playing like he did before the injury, we'll start winning half our games again. It doesn't say much about the team though.
This team needs to broken up ASAP. Starting with Rose/Melo. One of those two has to go. I like Melo more than Rose. However Rose is 28, and also a free agent. Melo is going to be 33 and may be easier to trade and fetch more in return because his team would be assured of having him for 2 more years.
