No, he should stay, but this off-season is make or break for him. If he goes the all-in on Durant route while Al Horford, Conley and others get snatched up left and right he should be fired. I know Leslie is behind this star chasing, but since Leslie will not leave, we need a GM who at least understands building a basketball culture and has been around the game more extensively; a GM who looks beyond numbers and actually get players who fit the philosophy. Preferably a GM who is not Twitter happy, keeps his mouth shut and just does his work behind the scenes.
Damn, I wish you hadn't quoted that since he's on my ignore....but holy crap that has to be sarcasm...nobody is that stupid.
Morey unfortunately failed us. What happened since the conference finals? Let's see: * That Brewer contract. Why? Because he helped us win the Clippers series? * Re-signing Terry (wtf) when he's old as hell. * Drafting Dekker with our 1st round pick only to find out he has back issues and Bobby Portis went 3 picks later. * Not trading Terrence Jones last off season when he had some value (could have replaced his body with Portis). * Ty Lawson failure then not having a backup plan. * Firing your head coach 11 games in when you know it wasn't his fault entirely. * The way he and the entire team handled the PR afterwards. How did our team have so much leaked information yet no one confirmed or denied this information? * Replacing him with one of the worse (and youngest/inexperienced) coach in the NBA. When you have two stars you need a coach that demands respect. It's obvious Harden didn't respect JBB. * Signing Gouke as your back up plan when you know he can't shoot 3s or do anything special. * Marcus Thorton could at least shoot but you got rid of him for nothing and for what reason? * Not trading Howard at the deadline because you wanted TWO first round picks. * The DMo rescinded trade makes you look like a fool now and to think he will resign with us is a joke. Oh wait he's restricted we will overpay for his services only to have his back give out on him again. * Signing Michael Beasley and re-signing Josh Smith only to take away minutes from our young guns Capela, Harrell and KJ (who is now worthless). * Now Ariza's contract looks un-trade-able after this miserable playoff series. * And finally not telling the team to tank those last two games in order to get a 12th pick in the draft. If the Spurs did it an entire season for Tim Duncan why can't we do it for two games? Everything that made Morey special ended up blowing up in his face. His philosophy has always been 3s and paint which analytically sounds good however the above transactions made it feel like he went backwards and tried to do something totally different. His team should consist of players that can hit 3s and take it to the hole at will. The only person you have on this team that does both is Harden. All of the other players on this team can't do either efficiently. He dumped or traded multiple players that could have helped (PPat, Marcus Morris (best LeBron defender), Aaron Brooks, Asik, Canaan, hell even Lin to some extent and many others I can't recall at the moment). These smaller transactions can make or break your team (see GSW moves such as Livingston, Speights, Ezeli, Barbosa). He needs to re-evaluate why the hell he messed up so bad and not make anymore of these costly mistakes. The blueprint is there (Warriors, Spurs) he just has to execute.
it's a relatively modest contract for a decent player who ended up looking much worse after the contract. he only cost 1.5M and can sort of shoot. that doesn't seem like a crazy signing for a guy you probably hoped would play 10 minutes per game. ok, not good. we already had a backup point guard in beverley. how much more backup should there be considering you have limited resources to use? definitely weird. maybe the catastrophic start or the player's making it clear they didn't want to play for him made us think we had to do something. hiring JBB obviously wasn't the something we should have done wasn't the report that thornton was at odds with the team and thus there wasn't much point in keeping him? did we get offers that didn't involved messing up our cap? i'm asking, i don't know. the trade being rescinded makes us look like a fool? shouldn't we have tried to trade him? the other option seems to be overpaying him this offseason or getting nothing in return? it's a good contract, especially with the cap going up. it was fairly difficult to predict that trevor ariza, who shot 39% on 3's the previous 3 seasons in the playoffs would shoot 14% (14 percent!!!) in the playoffs this year. none of those guys are that great and most were traded/not signed because we needed capspace or flexibility. we can't keep everybody who is decent from every year's roster. they do make or break the team. but often only after you have all the other things go right like a curry or draymond. last year those guys probably help, just like brewer and ariza and capela did. but if those guys were on this complete implosion of a team from this year we'd probably think livingston can't spread the floor, speights doesn't play defense, ezeli has no offensive game, and barbosa is old and doesn't guard anyone.
Only want him to continue if he stops chasing a 3rd star, actually assembles a roster for his philosophy (SHOOTERS!!!!) and hires a competent, independent (not that JBB puppet crap) coaching staff. I like his trades, but Morey shouldn't insist on running the basketball philosophy and interfering with the coaches.
His time is coming to an end He doesn't stand out anymore and just another average GM with some good and plenty bad Right from being a poor first round drafter (Picks 1-20) to disrespecting the value of coaching to enabling Harden to have this team by the cojones to not holding people accountable to emphasizing flawed philosophy with brickers to making delusional statements that rubs off on the players (in a wrong way), he has too many flaws. Time to either demote this number crunching, analytical geek for a real basketball guy or dumping him outright.
We don't judge DM on overall results, we only judge him based on his successes, for example he was able to land Harden and Howard, but everyone ignores the fact we've only had minimal playoff success. The contracts to Pat and Brewer are flat out ridiculous. Time to move on from the DM phase, it's broke, blow it up!
His biggest problem is he thinks he's better than he actually is. His ego doesn't match the overall disappointing results we've had
