Nalod wrote:
Rockets needed to get an injection of yoot with upside.
They needed 3 And D wings who were cost controlled. And they needed a lot of them. Basically they needed Melton times 3.
Brandon Knight is coming off a major injury and wasn't exactly setting the league on fire before that. Chriss is an idiot. Look at Chriss' demographic. That is his ONLY media protection. No different than the sports media somehow refusing to just call Mike Vick a low IQ QB. Watching Chriss play, he's a dummy. Zero BB IQ. Doesn't know where to be or why he needs to be there. If there is a decision tree and there is one good decision pathway, two bad ones and just one plain horrible one, Chriss will always choose the outright horrible one.
Jamal Crawford knows what the right play should be, he just doesn't care. He chooses the selfish play.
Chriss doesn't know what the right play should be. Nor does he even know what the wrong play should be. He doesn't understand the difference. He chooses the path of least resistance on the court. "Feels Over Reals"
They've also pushed Melo into the starting lineup.
As Charles Barkley quips, what are they going to do? Cut the ball in half? Paul NEEDS the ball in his hands to run the offense. Harden is as ball dominant as you get. That team can barely function with those two. Plus Melo and his ball stopping ways? At least Anderson spaced the floor, Melo is going to clog the lanes going for his 15 jab step long twos at the worst possible moment.
Jab step. Jab step. Head fake. Jab step. Jab step. Jab step. Jab step. Off balance jumper, long two, with two teammates wide open. Clank. Bitch to the ref about a phantom foul call Melo hoped would come just for being an Olympian. Rest of his team getting gutted in transition the other way on defense.
My first hand experience -
You can play with a guy who is ignorant ( tries hard but is low sports IQ). You can look at the guys strengths and hope you can find the right tradeoffs.
You can even play with a guy who is stupid ( average sports IQ but lazy/irresponsible) It's tough but you can sometimes overcome.
But you can't play with a total ******* ( zero sports IQ plus doesn't give a ****)
Melo - Total *******
Chriss - Total ******* shaded by the fact that's he's still young
Ryan Anderson, for his flaws, is still more valuable than both of them.
