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Daryl Morey: Beating Golden State 'the only thing we think about'

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  1. Air Langhi

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    The Houston Rockets boast an NBA-best 25-5 record and have the league's top offense based on offensive efficiency, but general manager Daryl Morey said those achievements aren't especially important to him.

    Foremost in Morey's mind: beating the Golden State Warriors, who have won the Western Conference title the past three seasons, including two NBA championships, and eliminated the Rockets from the playoffs in 2015 and '16.

    "It's the only thing we think about," Morey said on ESPN Radio's The Ryen Russillo Show on Thursday. "I think I'm not supposed to say that, but we're basically obsessed with 'How do we beat the Warriors?'

    "Last year the Spurs knocked us off, so we're very worried about the Spurs, they're always one step ahead of every organization and guard us better than anyone. But we calculated it -- it's like 90 percent if we're gonna win a title, we've gotta obviously beat the Warriors at some point. So we're extremely focused on that. A lot of our signings and what we do during the year is based on that."

    Morey is regarded as one of the NBA's leading proponents of analytics and co-founded the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in 2007, one year after the Rockets hired him to run the team's basketball operations.

    With Morey as the team's architect, the James Harden and Chris Paul-led Rockets have scored 115.3 points per game, second in the NBA to the Warriors, but they are No. 1 in offensive efficiency at 113.7, just ahead of the Warriors at 113.4.

    Houston's defense also ranks seventh in the NBA in defensive efficiency.

    Morey said his obsession with beating the Warriors boils down to the fact that winning a championship is the primary objective in the NBA. And in order to win a title, the Rockets will probably have to get past Golden State.

    The Warriors eliminated the Rockets from the playoffs in the 2015 conference finals and again in the first round the following year. Houston lost to the Spurs in six games in last season's conference semifinals.

    "I don't know why you'd do anything else," Morey told The Ryen Russillo Show. "Like, what is the point of this league except winning a title? So we'd love to get the 1-seed, we'd love to win more games than any in Rockets history, which is 58. Those are all nice things, but frankly we spend most of our time just figuring out how we might just knock the Warriors out in seven games. Because we're pretty sure that's what's going to define our season."

    http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...s-team-obsessed-beating-golden-state-warriors
     
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    Thread #2:

    I calculated it -- it's like 90% if we're gonna see 3 more threads with this title.
     
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    Tis the season to be giving
     
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  8. Air Langhi

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    I don't go through and read every thread. At least people should use the actual title of the article.
     
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    I'm just having fun with Morey's odd quote, no biggie.

    fwiw: Both threads are using the ESPN title. ESPN has a Headline page title that @justtxyank used "Rockets obsessed with beating the Warriors", and a different inner title when you click the link, which you used.
     
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    ...I thought we only thought about wining the MVP?
     
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    in what way do robert brown and chinanu onuaku help us beat the warriors? they develop actual nba talent and have actual nba players sitting at the end of the bench waiting to contribute. while we have waste of fuking time deadweight scrubs who can't even sub in for 2min when we're down to just 4 rotation players. morey just talks a lot as usual.
     
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    Fire himself?
     
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    No doubt in my mind we have the tools to beat them if playoffs start now. ( cp3 preinjury).

    the question is, how do we get to playoffs with 50+ games to play without hurting our 8man rotation?!?!?
     
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    Jesus you sound like an insufferable ass.
     
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    and you sound like a whiny little morey fanboy ass-sucker. there is absolutely no reason for this guy not to have added a 4th guard to this roster the entire autumn and now one day into winter. so FOAD if you don't like my post.
     
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    Come on, you two. It's the time of giving and not dishing out.
     
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    Aim for the 8th seat. Save up the starters for the playoff.
     
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    Good grief. I think Morey has done a pretty good job. Look at the Warriors, they have vet players that have agreed to play for little or nothing because they are chasing a ring. Maybe if the Rockets go far this year, vet players will come to Houston to chase a ring.

    I think we have seen that Morey is ALWAYS looking for good cheap talent. Not sure how anyone can be critical of Morey at this point.
     
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    if you play the bench, we're not getting the 8th seed, it will be 18th.
     
    #20 cebu, Dec 22, 2017
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