This cannot be a serious question. House was let go because, for every game that he hit a few shots and lit the joint up, there were two or three that he was godawful. Playing House is like pumping coins into a slot machine with a huge house take. Once in a while it will pay off, but usually it just depletes your resources.
The House experiment has failed in Boston as well. Yes, he had one big playoff game, but generally he was a detriment. Boston is looking at free agents to fill his role, and speculation is rampant that House will be elsewhere next season.
In fact, D'Antoni gave House every opportunity to succeed, not only giving him regular minutes far beyond what he deserved, but going out of his way to sing his praises whenever he did something right. It took D'Antoni longer than I expected to figure out that House's weaknesses outweighed his strengths, but he got it eventually.
Yes, D'Antoni preferred a short rotation, to a fault. But the main reason that the 9th-12th guys never got off the bench is that they were scrubs. House is a scrub, Burke is a scrub, Marks is a scrub, Tucker is a scrub. The fervent anti-D'Antoni crowd -- which, bizarrely, is almost exactly the same people who were the fervent pro-D'Antoni crowd, until the moment it became clear he and the Suns were parting ways -- now wants to blame the coach for every last one of the team's shortcomings. But categorizing House as the Key Role Player who Got Away is well beyond the bounds of rational thinking.
