Morey was perfectly prepared. Lamb, a productive and expiring veteran in his last year (Martin), the Toronto lottery pick... he prepared this team beautifully to have the ideal package for a team that had to unload a star. Every move he had made for years was with the goal of having the best potential trade package for an All-Star caliber player. If it wasn't OKC dealing Harden, it would've been another All-Star somewhere else. Morey did a masterful job of preparation and it paid off. He deserves credit, but most around the league would rather believe in their non-star fairy tale (Denver) than acknowledge the reality of what it takes to contend for NBA titles.
The Cat's wild hypothesis into the minds of the voters is laughable. Denver went from a 47 win team last year to a 57 win team. Rockets went from a 42 win team to a 45 win team. If the Rockets won 55 games next year, most would be ecstatic at our level of improvement.
To act like anything matters but contending for NBA titles is laughable. I could care ****ing less if we win 55 games with no stars, lose in the first round and have almost no chance to acquire a star. What does that really matter? Whoop-de-do, you've created a mid-tier playoff team on an annual basis. Basically a glorified version of the Atlanta Hawks. That's easy. Who cares? The name of the game is contending for NBA titles. The Rockets have made more progress (on a proportional basis) toward that goal over the past year than any other franchise. ESPECIALLY compared to Denver. If you don't acknowledge that, you're one hell of a homer.
We are the lowest salaried team in the playoffs, 2 games shy of getting 6th seed, on a team everyone says that is headed for lottery, yet Morey didn't get the executive of the year?... SMH... how do they judge this? what is criteria?
The Harden trade was a trade, we had to give something up. IMO getting Jeremy and Omer for free and extracting Bev from Europe were his best move of the year. #bewell cost him big though.
Sorry if this has been posted before. Here's a link to the Grantland interview with Morey at the Sloan Analytics Conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXnE-dOMisI Interesting takeaways: He was surprised to get Lin and Asik. He doubted they could get them. T-Rob deal literally came together overnight He's not as big of a Dork Elvis as I thought
Morey got robbed this year. I reckon if he gets Dwight and the team improves to top 3 in the West, he'll get it next year.
Denver is actually doing exactly what Morey did pre-Harden. Piling assets for that one chance at a star, forced out by unforeseen situation. They have better regular season record because they were able to get assets back from their previous star, whereas our retired. Also the altitude helps too.
We got ROBBED in Executive of the Year and Coach of the Year also. Executive what has Denver done. Nothing. Where Morey came up with Asik, Harden and Lin. Coach because Mchale took the youngest team in the NBA to Playoffs and we gave one of the best team Thunder Hell and took them to Game 6. thats coaching. These are my reasons why Morey and Mchale should have won this year.
What about the trash garbage Nets improvement to one of the worst teams in the NBA to the 4th seed? By your definition, Billy King should be GM of the year.
Daryl Morey pretty much is a lock. No one else has made such a trade as him this year. Harden singlehandedly pretty much won it for him.
LOL at the homers. Morey for exec of the year for replacing 9th place talent with average age of 25.8 with 8th place talent with average age of 24.4.
