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Ok let's summarize this Things that are Not Melo's fault : - CP3 got himself suspended for a few games & really looks to be either hitting an age hurdle himself or just playing off - Brandon Knight & Marquise Chriss are hurt or can't get on the floor - Harden missed a few games with injuries - Eric Gordon has looked like sh!t to start the year and has been hurt as well - Gerald Green has looked like a guy who was on the streets to start the '17 season However, let's be honest here. The game as it's played now, has passed Melo by. I don't think it's just our system, but I'm not really sure there's a team out there that plays a style where his game would be a positive addition to it. He's a slow footed one-dribble shooter without great handles or play-making ability. Defensively he can't guard any spots on the floor anymore (especially with the freedom of movement calls now being made). I for one was hoping that coming here, he'd find "Ariza & Luc" type spots on the floor offensively that he could be effective in. I thought, hey - I'd much rather have a shooter with Melo's acumen taking wide-open 3s than either Ariza, Luc or hell PJ for that matter. But his shot(or what thought was a decent 3pt shot) just hasn't come to fruition. I mean Ryan Anderson had a helluva first half last year with us, but we were also playing a lot faster tempo then. I think the slow pace that we now play at also probably didn't help the Melo situation either. With all that being said, I agree with those that said this was a low-risk/high-reward gamble. Now it's proven that it hasn't worked out, time to cut your losses and move on, imo.

I think Melo is the worst defender in the NBA right now. How the game is currently played, I don't think there's one player he can actually guard!

Agreed Hayes & Ramey need to replace Sims & Febres in the starting 5 ASAP!

He doesn't do anything else exceptionally well, so I'm guessing he must be shooting it lights out in practice for him to have earned a starting spot. So hopefully it'll eventually translate ONTO to court as well!

Ramey is definitely a little hooper! I think he should start ahead of Febres. He's just flat out a better player. I get his offense off coming off the bench, but why wait and have your first unit struggle?

3 of the last 4 teams to play "true" road games are from the Big 12. Doesn't surprise me one bit. When you play in 'arguably' one of the best conferences, why schedule yourself into an early season hole? Non-conf - feast on a few cupcakes and manage to supply yourself with a few resume builder opportunities along the way. I see no problem with it at all.

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Maybe they could start by putting more effort into marketing these events better. I'd consider myself a fairly engaged fan and I didn't even realize it was going on cause I never saw it advertised anywhere.

This right here^^^^!!!!!! JV is a F'n ACE and will show exactly what that entails tonight. 2-hit SHUT A MF'ER DOWN complete domination tonight! He has 24 consecutive scoreless innings in elimination games...that streaks gets to 33 tonight!

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Overlooking the Gulf from my office in Galveston Island! TEXAS!!!!

The kid is never going to be Colt when it comes to his accuracy. But let's not act like the WRs helped him out a ton either. Duvernay made a great catch for the first TD, but LJH/#14/Porter and a few others dropped some very catchable balls in important situations. No one's perfect so I wouldn't expect him or them to be either. There's enough blame to go around. I blame play calling/scheme to be the biggest concerns. There should've 5/6 possessions that they came out decisively & went up tempo. It's just obvious that the entire offense is more efficient when they do. They went with it 1 drive in the first half, scored and never really ever committed to it again! Super Frustrating!!!

Dream takes the ball at about the :30 mark and illustrates the move for Zhou. Those feet still have quickness and some agility in them. I want to see more footage of him teaching guys these kinds of moves...just bad@$$! thanks for sharing

Didn't he also go in on SA again? Thought he said something to the effect that you have to "weigh'em twice" down in SA, lol!

Any word on Luc? Is he playing today?

What's latest timetable for Luc's return?

I didn't want the Spurs. I see that we're better than them just like everyone else rationally does. However, the mind of an athlete/coach can be a fragile thing and until they've proven that they are over the mental headlock the Spurs seem to have over them(D'antoni & Harden/Rockets), I'd rather just not have to deal with it, imo.

You could probably write a similar summary for each team we've played multiple times this season, to be honest with you! The Rockets beat teams by attrition a lot of the time. They wear on you because they have a bonafied All-Star playmaker/creator and 1on1 wizard on the floor at all times(CP3&JH). You may hang w/ the 1st team, but can your 2nd team handle CP3 or Harden distributing and making plays with our 2s against your scrubs? And if you handle it in the 1st half can you do the same with tired legs in 4th? They just keep putting pressure on you in waves. That's why there's been some games that stay tight, but just like GS in years past, you never know when they'll drop a quick 15-4 type of run on you and bust a 1or2 possession game wide-@$$ open.

OKC looked good game 1, but the playoffs are about making adjustments. OKC still has their hands full with Utah. So I wouldn't just pencil them into round 2 just yet.

Good Luck to Los Spurs tonight! I really want to see a good long series and to do that, a win tonight would go a long way! I personally would switch out Anderson for Gay in the starting lineup to hopefully create some more offense. The SA starters were outscored 81-33. Although Javale McGee giving them 15 as a starter was probably an aberration.

Yeah, you just hope its not PJ or Luc you're having to rely on hitting those shots in those situations, but rather EG, CP3 or Anderson instead.

Anyone sitting/resting tonight or is it all hands on deck for this one?