BallerTalk wrote:Hoopzilla wrote:BallerTalk wrote:Yep, that's some impressive mental gymnastics.

How is life in the land of denial? The fact that he is unretiring a month into the season gives my narrative more weight than anything you could try and sell...

Quite the contrary.
Every single report contradicts your position, including the most recent one regarding Bzdelik's wife and why he won't physically rejoin the team until the end of the month.
There's a mountain of proof that says you are wrong. I've seen none that suggest you are right.
The facts speak for themselves. As such I'm really not trying to sell you on anything. I certain won't begrudge you your right to be wrong. I know it's hard for some people to accept when reality doesn't fit their desired narrative.
So by all means believe as you choose...sane, silly or otherwise.

There is a mountain of evidence and common sense that speak to my narrative.
1) Melo signs with Rockets; and
2) Bzdelik retires to "dedicate more time to his family" a few weeks later
Melo was the one that got Bzdelik fired from the only head coaching job he ever had in the NBA. Melo refused to buy into the defense Bzdelik was demanding in Denver. Bzdelik lost Ariza and Luc and the only real replacement was Melo, a guy who refused to buy in when he was younger and is incapable even if he wanted to now as he is an older stiff. There is a very simple and direct connection here.
What are the Rockets and media going to say when he comes back? He left because of Melo and now he is coming back, but everything is cool?
If he left to tend to family matters, as you are selling, why does Fertitta make it clear he had been trying to bring him back from the very second he walked out the door? Are we supposed to believe Fertitta was told "I am getting old and my family needs me, so I am retiring" and he just keeps trying to talk him out of it? If he left to tend to family matters, Fertitta wouldn't continue to beg him to return. That only makes sense when it was because of Melo and Fertitta has now given him assurances that Melo will not be a problem or Melo is gone.
Your narrative only works if you are saying Fertitta was begging an old man who "hung it up to tend to family matters" to leave them and come back to his team. And then for some reason Bzdelik gives in and returns less than two months after retiring...
