[BR column by Feigen] Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey Sees High-Profile Status as Part of the Job

redhotrox · Oct 1, 2014

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2216228-houston-rockets-gm-daryl-morey-sees-high-profile-status-as-part-of-the-job

Kam · Oct 1, 2014

Don't worry feigen, I clicked the link.

J.R. · Oct 1, 2014

He's pissed and he's not gonna take it anymore! :grin: (and I like it!)

Good to see folks like Morey and photojoe call Cuban's ass out.

Daryl Morey said:

"I get disappointed when he is not asked the follow-up question, 'If you believe in chemistry, why do you break up a championship team for no return down the road? If you believe in chemistry, why do you have as much turnover as teams you say you have less turnover than?' I think what Mark is doing is very intelligent. I get disappointed in the media that doesn’t ask the simple follow-up questions.”
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photojoe said: ↑

I am so sick of Cuban. He is a fan. He's competitive. I get that.

But stop saying that the Rockets only value analytics and that you value chemistry so much.

Don't use the lockout as an excuse for breaking up your championship team.

You said it yourself. You looked at the schedule for the lockout season (66 games, including some back to back to backs), and thought that your older team would not be able to hold up and compete again. You made a decision to let key pieces of the championship team go and pursue younger superstars.

You said:

We basically saw the 2011-12 season as a throw away no matter who we signed. With out the time to prepare and get their bodies ready, throwing a team with with an older starting lineup right into the fire was going to be tough. Young guys can walk into an NBA game any day of the year. Get to your mid 30s, not so much. So to bring the gang back , we would basically be losing a year.
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The season after winning a championship is a throw-away season? How is that even possible? That shows how much faith you had in your team and in your 'chemistry'.

So what did you do? You traded away players, created cap space, and tried to get a max player. You said

We had hoped that Dwight Howard would be available. But he wasn’t .
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You tried to get Dwight. But Dwight opted in and was traded to LA. You tried to get Deron. But he went to Brooklyn.

After you missed out on them, what did you do? In your own words:

We made the decision to sign one year deals , hope we can make them work and hope that we had a team that could compete for the playoffs and be better than we were before.
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Made the decision to sign one year deals...and hoped to make it work? That sure doesn't sound like chemistry.

The next season, after those one year deals expired- you tried to get another star player again. This time

We had hoped that Chris Paul may be available He wasn’t. So Dwight Howard was our first target once again.
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You didn't get Chris Paul. You didn't get Dwight Howard.

Instead you signed Monta Ellis. It looks like you got lucky and Ellis is performing better and more efficiently than he did in Milwaukee. And you also signed Calderon, who you traded one year later....chemistry be damned....for one of the players that you let go at the whole beginning of this mess.

Dirk took a massive paycut, so you still had a lot of cap space. After missing out on Deron Williams, Dwight Howard, Chris Paul and others, you used you used that cap space to throw star money and overpay Chandler Parsons. Who has been one of the better role players in the league for the past couple of years, but is not a star.

You can't compare what Morey has done to what Cuban has done. Cuban bought the Mavs and Dirk was already there. Morey had to try to find star players after T-Mac and Yao broke down. Which he did with Harden and Howard. Cuban tried to find other star players (Deron and Dwight) but so far hasn't had any success. Cuban talks about chemistry- but just comes across as a hypocrite. The Mavs have not been an example of chemistry no matter how much he tries to say that they are.

(all the quotes that I used were from Mark Cuban's blog, found here: http://blogmaverick.com/2013/08/03/lets-talk-mavs-mffl/)
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“The last two summers have been, ‘The Rockets are geniuses, can do nothing wrong,’” Morey said. “So, the inevitable tumble makes for a natural anti-article. 'They are a bunch of idiots; they can’t do anything right.' It’s natural.”
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Even as a past Morey-critic, true.

Of course you still have those who say he got lucky.

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