There are 16.8 points left in 2018. Anthony, 34, was laid off by the team after only 10 games with the Rockets!

Although he has been suppressed by LeBron James and Kevin Durant for a long time, Cameron Anthony can definitely rank among the best small forwards in the NBA so far in the 21st century. Not long ago, Melon was also successfully inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame this year, which is undoubtedly the greatest recognition of his career honors. However, looking back at Melon's NBA career, it is still a pity, especially in the summer of 2018. She had already contributed 16.2 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.3 assists before, and her overall condition was pretty good. She was only 34 years old. However, after joining the Rockets, she only played 10 games and was directly hidden and laid off by the team, and she once reached the point where she had no ball to play. So what happened to Anthony at that time? Let’s find out now!

1. He has a good personal style, but he is contrary to the team.

First of all, one thing that must be admitted is that Anthony's scoring ability is indeed unparalleled. In the NBA for so many years, he has maintained a stable output every season. Before joining the Thunder, his condition had declined, he was still able to output 22.4 points, 5.9 rebounds and 2.9 assists in his last season with the Knicks. In that season with the Thunder, he averaged 16.2 points per game as a choice other than Paul George and Russell Westbrook, which is enough to prove his strength. Moreover, Anthony is a standard star style of playing, requiring a lot of ball holding, so as to play singles at mid-range and low posts, or directly pull out and shoot after holding the ball. Although he also has a certain ability to play his best value, he still needs to give him enough ball rights. In fact, Anthony cannot be blamed for this. After all, since he entered the NBA in 2003, he has always had this style and could not make obvious changes for the moment.

And the Rockets' success at that time was based on the "magic ball" system created by coach D'Antoni. Under his request, the Rockets' offensive rhythm was the fastest in the NBA, and even the Five-Star Warriors were slightly inferior in front of them. Under this system, the team needs a large number of three-point shots and impacts at the basket, and almost completely abandons mid-range shooting. In other words, the Rockets' ending method is basically to focus on fast attacks, plus large-scale transmission of positional warfare, so as to score through three-pointers from the outside. Therefore, this system actually has high requirements for flanking, and it must be able to have stable attacks on the outside, and can also quickly convert on the defensive end to limit the opponent's outside. Therefore, Anthony is in a very embarrassing situation in this system. He is indeed able to make three-pointers, but his career three-point shooting percentage is only 34.7%. Such efficiency cannot maintain the Rockets' tactical requirements at all. In addition, at the age of 34, he has obviously deteriorated on the defensive end, so in the game, his position often becomes a breakthrough for his opponent, so being laid off becomes an expected thing.

2. Dissatisfied with the role positioning and huge pressure on record.

In addition, let’s talk about other issues. As a 10th All-Star player, and since entering the NBA, whether in the Nuggets or later the Knicks, including joining the Thunder, Anthony received a star-level treatment. He himself is used to developing a tactical system around himself and obtaining a lot of ball-holding rights. In fact, even though he later became the third leader in the Thunder, the team would still give Anthony a tactical arrangement for singles, which is why Anthony is very grateful to the Thunder. But when he came to the Rockets, the situation took a sharp turn. Here, James Harden was the core of the team, and even Chris Paul had to assist Harden in some rounds. Of course, Harden at that time was worthy of this choice. Anthony, who basically had no tactical choice, struggled extremely hard to play, and what he couldn't stand was that D'Anthony put him on the bench, and the number of shots per game reached the lowest 11.4 times in his career, with only 13.4 points and 5.4 rebounds in the end, Anthony broke out completely. In the end, there were more and more conflicts between Anthony and the team, and it was impossible to deal with it at all. The result was the complete breakdown of the relationship.

Of course, the Rockets were either not giving Anthony a chance. They signed him in the hope that this All-Star forward could share the pressure of Harden at critical moments. After all, Anthony was once the key man in the entire NBA, except Kobe Bryant, who was the best at killing the throat with one sword. Although he had never won the championship, he had been fighting in the NBA for 15 years and had a rich experience, so the Rockets also placed their hopes on Anthony. But the problem is that after Anthony joined, the team's record did not rise but fell. You should know that the Rockets' record reached 65 wins and 17 losses last season, and in the Western Conference Finals, it once put huge pressure on the Five-Star Warriors, and finally lost until the tiebreak. So logically speaking, their record should be better, but the result was that the team only got a 4-6 start, which made the fans very dissatisfied. Under the pressure of the record, and Anthony himself continued to express his dissatisfaction, the team also made a choice. In the end, they only cooperated with Anthony for 10 games and gave up completely.