The Carmelo Anthony Era In Houston Is Officially Over

We always knew this was coming, but now it’s official. The Carmelo Anthony Era in Houston is over and much like we all predicted when this first happened, it was a complete disaster. There were some Rockets fans out there that wanted to believe it was going to be different this time, that replacing Ariza with Melo could work because if you looked really close at Melo’s stats in OKC he wasn’t that bad they said. He can work in this system with Harden/CP3 creating open looks they said.

They were wrong.

In reality, nothing about Melo fit in HOU the same way he never really fit in OKC. Back then it was because of Westbrook since he’s always the fall guy for when things don’t work, well now what, was the problem Chris Paul? One of the greatest point guards in NBA history? Or was the problem what we all knew it was, and that was Melo. The numbers were pretty bad in his 10 games, with the lowest scoring average of his career and pretty poor 40/32% splits. You can’t play on this Rockets team if you can’t shoot, and that’s Melo’s reality right now. His shooting ability is pretty much gone. I’ll admit, you have to admire his finesse ability as I’m pretty sure he’s making close to $30M this year from being paid by like three teams. That’s HOF stuff right there and I will certainly slander him for his basketball playing ability, but I will never speak bad on his finesse ability.

Now the question becomes where does he go, because there’s no way he retires this year. Why should he? Someone is going to give him a chance simply because of his name and I think we can all agree that needs to be the Lakers. Don’t make us wait Magic, that’s all I ask. They’re playing pretty well right now so I need Melo on this team ASAP. In reality he shouldn’t make a roster and he should just take TMac’s advice and retire because at this point a HOF career has become mostly a joke and that’s sad.

From the Rockets perspective, this team is THIN at the wing position. I wouldn’t sleep on a situation where Trevor Ariza gets bought out in PHX and ends back up on this team, but in the meantime they do not have any sort of wing depth go to along with the fact that Eric Gordon apparently forgot how to shoot. I don’t know what Daryl Morey was thinking, but for such a smart GM he sorta boned himself with this whole thing.

So I ask you, of all his recent spots, where did Melo have the best tenure? OKC had it’s ups and downs but he was serviceable, in ATL it was so short he couldn’t infect them so that’s a win, and then we have HOU where clearly it was a disaster. Who ya got?

Oh how times can change. This was a month ago