During his appearance on The Old Man and The Three podcast with JJ Redick and Tommy Alter, the Portland Trail Blazers star small forward Carmelo Anthony talks about his time with the Houston Rockets playing with Chris Paul and James Harden why it didn’t work out:
“I get to Houston and when I get to Houston, now I really feel like an outcast. But because I got CP there, PJ (PJ Tucker) and James, we’re gonna work this out. I am the piece that that (Rockets) team needs”
“But that wasn’t their thinking. They wanted me to come in and be a spot-up, corner shooter. Run to the corner, spot-up and that’s it and it didn’t work at all. I used to tell them like look, ‘yo throw me a bone. Like on a switch, just throw it in there.’ I need that feel, I need that touch. You know, I’m a rhythm player.”
“First of all, I can’t come off the bench and then shoot three 3s in a row. I just can’t do that (with the Rockets),” Anthony said, via ClutchPoints.
In the 10 games he appeared in with the Rockets, a 10× NBA All-Star averaged a career-low 13.4 points and shot only 40.5 percent from the floor and 32.8 percent from deep.
