i feel like if you want morey gone, you need your head examined. straight up and down. this man is one of the better GMs in the league. you want him gone..?? lol for who? this isnt even a "for who" type of debate where the common answer is "well nobody who is better is available". morey has done a GREAT job, we are fortunate to have him here in houston. really, its a chess vs checkers thing..
yea and it could have taken 3-4 years.. the point is morey was prepared for the situation. collecting assets, clearing cap, finding contributors with bad draft positions. when the opurtunity presented itself, morey pounced..
guys - TheRealist (the thread starter) and have the posters who support this proposition are... the rest are idiots
I'm totally with this..and I'm not a "in morey we trust" guy either. I can't imagine arguing he hasn't done a good job of assembling a good young nucleus to build from. Love that they stopped playing make believe and got real, even before the Harden trade. Really excited about the direction of this franchise. The most excited I've been about the direction since about 1997.
My only question re: Morey is will he have the discipline to chill out and stop making trades if we can nab that superstar max player this summer. Team continuity helps. Otherwise he's the best gm in the business.
Why would he stop making trades if we get a superstar player??????? He is a gun at 'incremental increase' - that is, taking a roster spot, and through a process of churn, increasing its production. Let's say we got a superstar in the off-season and manage to have a very very very nice 8 man rotation. I can't see Morey being satisfied with 9-15 being crap, he'll do whatever he can to upgrade in those areas through a process of moving bits for picks or bringing in the D-League superstars etc etc. He'll always be on about improving the team, and rightly so - that's his job as GM.
This isn't even the worst thread on Morey. You guys should check out the threads on Morey around the draft this season. When we couldn't move up, couldn't trade for a star, and even when we landed Lin and Asik. All during that period clutchfans was filled with idiotic threads raging anger on Morey. They will pick on Morey getting Ariza, forgetting Morey quickly cut losses and turned him into Courtney Lee. They will say we sold low on TMac, and let Yao play too long, forgetting both were top 10 players we couldn't replace and Morey inherited no cap room or young talents. They expect that if Morey drafted 14th, there shall be no better player drafted 15th to 60th that year (forgetting Morey himself picked up Parsons, Landry, Brooks, Budinger etc etc late in 1st or in 2nd round). They expect a PF to transition to SF on day 1 of training camp. They say Morey failed to land a superstar ignoring nobody outside of the big cities & Miami has landed a superstar in the last 5 seasons, but Morey has pretty much incrementally improved the Rockets in every trade he made. They say Morey plays it safe and gets no high upside players, but kills Morey for the risk he took in T-Will (who they then wanted released, the Kraken not the player). To them ... no championship = Morey failure, ignoring the best GM in the league acknowledged by many (Presti) also hasn't won a championship. We even had a poster that dished out 3 line poems on Morey that is so laughable in retrospect.
Did the Lakers not make the playoffs with Kobe and Nash last year? I don't think perimeter defense is a requirement.
If we hope to get anywhere past the first round and actually be considered a legitimate team, then yes. Perimeter defense is a must. This feels like freakin' McGrady-Yao again. Great stuff on paper, never seems to quite work out.
