Fab Melo: The C's didn't give me a chance

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Straight to the point glad we still have the rights to Iverson than Melo.

Iverson is on a different planet skill wise than Fab Melo.  Much rather have Iverson. 

Melo's complaints don't ring true to me.  He just doesn't have the skills to contribute.  If he did this year's celtics of ANY team out there would have kept him.  If he had ANY shot at helping us inside with 10 min a game DA would have kept him.  That says everything you need to know about this situation.

Good luck Fab, but maybe you shouldn't be complaining about all that money you made.

[D.o.s.]

He was a fair gamble on a draft pick when we were expecting a couple solid playoff runs and had no expectation of actually playing him any meaningful minutes. You have to pay someone, after all, and if he does pan out you've got a 7ft shotblocker with 6 fouls on a late first round rookie contract.

Then, you know, the band broke up, and all of a sudden it was "dude, we might actually have to play him in real games," and out the door he went.

So...  you draft a kid because "we don't expect him to play  anyway...", and when you are now suddenly in the mode of player-development (and in desperate need of seven footers), you throw him out?

Makes sense to me....   

Would you keep him if, after two years, he hadn't shown any improvement? There's got to be a time limit on projects when they officially become lost causes.

[ImShakHeIsShaq]

I liked Fab, nothing bad to say about him as a player b/c it doesn't matter, he's not a Celtics so it's w/e.


I just have a problem when people get paid millions to do NOTHING then have the nerve to complain! Let me sit on a bench waiving a towel, carry bags, or do w/e stupid thing the vets want me to do and I will GLADLY do it for a couple million! People are on the streets right now who can play ball (probably BETTER than FAB) who will NEVER get a chance to even try out for ANY NBA team let alone make a couple million and he is complaining? They did give you a chance, the day they drafted you, the people who didn't get a chance are the ones who didn't get drafted and didn't get picked up by a team! Miss me with that FAB! Miss me!

[bfrombleacher]

He was a fair gamble on a draft pick when we were expecting a couple solid playoff runs and had no expectation of actually playing him any meaningful minutes. You have to pay someone, after all, and if he does pan out you've got a 7ft shotblocker with 6 fouls on a late first round rookie contract.

Then, you know, the band broke up, and all of a sudden it was "dude, we might actually have to play him in real games," and out the door he went.

So...  you draft a kid because "we don't expect him to play  anyway...", and when you are now suddenly in the mode of player-development (and in desperate need of seven footers), you throw him out?

Makes sense to me....   

Would you keep him if, after two years, he hadn't shown any improvement? There's got to be a time limit on projects when they officially become lost causes.

Plus, more importantly, Melo was let go to save a ton of money. Don't forget that point.

[LooseCannon]

Fab Melo was given a chance and he blew it.  All he had to do was get past the door, but he failed that test.

[Birdman]

Only time Melo will see a regular season game is if he buys a ticket or watch one on tv

[the_Bird]

He was a fair gamble on a draft pick when we were expecting a couple solid playoff runs and had no expectation of actually playing him any meaningful minutes. You have to pay someone, after all, and if he does pan out you've got a 7ft shotblocker with 6 fouls on a late first round rookie contract.

Then, you know, the band broke up, and all of a sudden it was "dude, we might actually have to play him in real games," and out the door he went.

So...  you draft a kid because "we don't expect him to play  anyway...", and when you are now suddenly in the mode of player-development (and in desperate need of seven footers), you throw him out?

Makes sense to me....   

Would you keep him if, after two years, he hadn't shown any improvement? There's got to be a time limit on projects when they officially become lost causes.

I'm just saying that you're being logically inconsistent. 

[manl_lui]

He was a fair gamble on a draft pick when we were expecting a couple solid playoff runs and had no expectation of actually playing him any meaningful minutes. You have to pay someone, after all, and if he does pan out you've got a 7ft shotblocker with 6 fouls on a late first round rookie contract.

Then, you know, the band broke up, and all of a sudden it was "dude, we might actually have to play him in real games," and out the door he went.

So...  you draft a kid because "we don't expect him to play  anyway...", and when you are now suddenly in the mode of player-development (and in desperate need of seven footers), you throw him out?

Makes sense to me....   

Would you keep him if, after two years, he hadn't shown any improvement? There's got to be a time limit on projects when they officially become lost causes.

I'm just saying that you're being logically inconsistent.

the problem was, we did give him chances and he blew all of them. The myth of Doc doesn't play rookies is completely false. He played Sully a lot as a rookie and Sully slowly played his way into the starting role a couple of times until he went down with the injury.

We tried to develop him but he's just not an NBA player. He was a project that failed and Danny made the quick choice of trading him which in my opinion was a good choice.

[Lucky17]

Looks like the Mavs aren't giving Melo a chance either:

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/230351/Mavericks-Release-Balkman-Ebanks-Kennedy-Melo

I wish him well. He needs to be playing somewhere other than in the NBA right now if he's going to have a future NBA career.

[droopdog7]

Looks like the Mavs aren't giving Melo a chance either:

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/230351/Mavericks-Release-Balkman-Ebanks-Kennedy-Melo

I wish him well. He needs to be playing somewhere other than in the NBA right now if he's going to have a future NBA career.

I said this each time I saw the kid play.  He is, quite possibly, the worst basketball player I have ever seen on an NBA court.  I mean, I am sure he would school some people in rec league, but that's not saying much.

That said, the article below, calling Fab the biggest NBA bust in the lottery era, is ridiculous (not to mention, misleading).  They make it sound like he was a lotto pick.

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2013/10/23/4907368/fab-melo-draft-bust-nba-lottery-era-mavericks

[the_Bird]

That said, the article below, calling Fab the biggest NBA bust in the lottery era, is ridiculous (not to mention, misleading).  They make it sound like he was a lotto pick.

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2013/10/23/4907368/fab-melo-draft-bust-nba-lottery-era-mavericks

Biggest bust ever, no.

I'm not giving Danny a pass on this pick, though.  I know it was a gamble, I know it's always a gamble when you're drafting that low in the first round, not a lot of players picked after him who have been big contributors, blah blah blah.

When you draft a kid who's cut before he gets into year 2 of a 2-year guaranteed contract, that's a BUST.  When your team trades an EXTRA three hundred large - in addition to the money they already owed you - so that you wouldn't play for them, that's a BUST.

And...  it happened with JJJ, too.  Two of Danny's last three first rounders (not counting KO) were SO TERRIBLE, they were waived while they still had ~$1.5M of guaranteed monies due to them (and haven't been able to stick on any other teams, even at a fraction of that cost).

Danny has certainly had a lot of really, really good picks over the years - but those two picks were horrible. 

[the_Bird]

That article is atrocious, though.  The C's didn't cut Melo; they traded him with extra $$ to free up cap space room under the luxury tax line.  And the C's technically drafted Troy Bell but he was immediately traded - wasn't that the Banks/Perkins draft?

[Fafnir]

Looks like the Mavs aren't giving Melo a chance either:

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/230351/Mavericks-Release-Balkman-Ebanks-Kennedy-Melo

I wish him well. He needs to be playing somewhere other than in the NBA right now if he's going to have a future NBA career.

I said this each time I saw the kid play.  He is, quite possibly, the worst basketball player I have ever seen on an NBA court.  I mean, I am sure he would school some people in rec league, but that's not saying much.

That said, the article below, calling Fab the biggest NBA bust in the lottery era, is ridiculous (not to mention, misleading).  They make it sound like he was a lotto pick.

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2013/10/23/4907368/fab-melo-draft-bust-nba-lottery-era-mavericks

Adam Morrison comes to mind.

Though drafting a player who didn't intend to come to the NBA, Fran Vasquez, is another thought.

[fairweatherfan]

That said, the article below, calling Fab the biggest NBA bust in the lottery era, is ridiculous (not to mention, misleading).  They make it sound like he was a lotto pick.

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2013/10/23/4907368/fab-melo-draft-bust-nba-lottery-era-mavericks

How on Earth can anyone say that when Royce White was taken several picks higher the same year?  And that's just one guy - Adam Morrison, Chris Washburn, etc can also qualify.

Fab Melo isn't even exceptional at being a bust.

[mmmmm]

That said, the article below, calling Fab the biggest NBA bust in the lottery era, is ridiculous (not to mention, misleading).  They make it sound like he was a lotto pick.

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2013/10/23/4907368/fab-melo-draft-bust-nba-lottery-era-mavericks

How on Earth can anyone say that when Royce White was taken several picks higher the same year?  And that's just one guy - Adam Morrison, Chris Washburn, etc can also qualify.

Fab Melo isn't even exceptional at being a bust.

This^

Jeeze, there are like, what?  2 or 3 bigs taken after Fab in that draft that are still hanging around?  And Ezeli is the only one of them who looks like he's worth anything.   

Fab was a late first round experiment/gamble.   Danny had two late first round picks and he gambled a little with each.  He gambled on Sully's back and that seems like it will pay off.  He gambled on Fab's "raw potential" (size) and that didn't pay off.

No big deal.   Moving on.