Pillendreher wrote:SOUL wrote:What exactly did Melo sacrifice? Dude is making 27 million a year and playing 32 minutes a game while he probably should be coming off the bench, but won't even do that. Smh. And I actually root for him to do good but he makes it hard.. don't think he's ever winning a chip.
He's delusional. The whole team (or shall I say the 'Big 3') was engaging in this big circle-jerk all season long and now they're going 1, 2, 3, Cancun because of it. Just look at this:Among the many issues they ended up with -- fit, focus, consistency -- some rested simply in hubris. They lived in denial all season, right up to the bitter end. After getting whacked in Game 4, it was explained away with their missing shots and the Jazz getting hot. Before Game 5, Anthony forgot what time the game started, showing up to the arena as if it tipped at 7 p.m. local time, rather than the scheduled 8:30 start. He walked down the hallway to the Thunder's locker room, nonchalantly looking around and seeing no one, before realizing he was there way too early. He got in his car and left. They told themselves from Day 1 that they were a superteam, but they existed as such only on paper.
If there ever was a true panic button moment, it came in Game 5 when Jae Crowder hit a 3 to put the Jazz up 25 with 8:34 left in the third quarter. For the first time, the Thunder actually freaked out. There was a true, purified sense of urgency for the first time all season. They weren't good enough. They were kind of, gasp, bad really. The "on" switch they dreamed all year of came in the form of Westbrook and George turning into a two-headed monster that overcame and overwhelmed the Jazz.
**** idiots. And I don't know what the hell management is doing. Inmates running the asylum paired with an inept coach.
IMO, Presti should have settled with a more tenured coach. Billy coudnt handle Melo and WB. Donovan is kinda like Hoiberg, and the latter has problems dealing with the vet Bulls until FO decided to ship away the vets.
