What Milestones Do You Think Les Alexander Has Set For Morey?

Why fire someone for doing exactly what you ordered them to do? Morey's never done a thing that Les didn't approve of.

 

It should be an NBA finals appearance.

 

How can it not be WCF again? Les is all business. If not maybe a big trade that "looks" like we are heading in the right direction.

 

simmons or bust

 

How do you know Morey is on the hot seat?

McHale was fired because his team was not prepared to play at all, and he lost the locker room.

 

I believe Les said that if we don't get to the WCF's again then this season will have been a failure or something like that before the season started. Not sure if his standard has changed or not based on our play.

If I was Les i'd be pissed, he's paying a lot of tax money for this ****ty team. He's been a good owner, he has been aggressive and has given Morey a lot of green lights to mix the team up and go asset collecting and home run swinging over the years. He's old and wants to see the Rockets win another championship, he's done his part, it's time for Morey and the Rockets to deliver. Not making the WCF would be a step back and should be viewed as a failure.

 

It's silly to think that the owner has set some hard and fast threshold as the basis of making a decision.

If we end up on the same side of the bracket as GSW and we're to lose to them then is that cause? Losing a 7 game series to SA? Nobody is guarenteed anything in the West. Best you can hope for is to be competitive and give yourself a chance. Look what happened to the Spurs last year, they went out in the first round. It's too hard to build a contender to tear it apart based on some preset thresholds.

Golden State isn't even guarenteed to get to the WCF or the NBA finals this year but that should be the criteria for firing your GM? Alexander is a good businessman, he's smarter than that.

 

It's silly to think that the owner isn't f'n pissed about this team's horrid on-court performance thus far. Everybody including Morey is in danger of being jettisoned off this team if things don't turn around soon. This team needs to keep this winning streak going for quite some time just to get back into the playoff picture.

 

Milestone #1- Set up Harden with a nice girl next door.

Status- FAILED.

 

"just don't embarrass me"

 

Sure he's unhappy about it, who's not? That still doesn't mean that he's going to do something stupid.

 

And you would be wrong.

Les gave McHale the extension.

 

Pretty much .... I don't see Morey being on the hot seat.

He brought back most of a squad that went to the conference finals last season in a brutal west and attempted to .... patch the biggest hole on the team with Lawson by moving a bunch of players who were eventually cut and a protected pick.

I don't think any of us would have predicted Lawson being such a disaster .... or the entire team , most notably Brewer & Harden regressing in terms of shooting percentage so significantly.

I have to give Morey a pass on this debacle ... and I have no doubt that he will find a way to jettison the parts that aren't fitting and replace them with more suitable players for what they want to do.

 

when money's involved people get emotional, so making rash decisions isn't entirely out of the realm imo. in previous seasons les actually seemed to lower the bar on the team's expectations for a playoff run. now that the lux tax is in play, all of a sudden he wants results

 

I don't think the lux tax is much of a factor in terms of expectations - It's the fact that they advanced so far last season and you would expect them to improve upon that.
I don't believe Les or Morey would have gone into lux tax territory if they didn't have something to base those high expectations on.

 

This season, btw, is a perfect example, perhaps the most perfect example, of why Morey worships cap flexibility. Even though the season is shot, the Rockets will be able to easily transform the roster next year.

 

Cyber has said that Morey IS on the hot seat. And he also said that the owner has demanded a WCF appearance at least.

I take the word of a confirmed insider >>> than speculation from uninformed posters here presented as facts.

 

Everything CyberX says is just him repeating a rumor that he has heard. Some are legit others bogus. Perfect example is his post that McHale was mad because we didn't put in a claim on Boozer when he was amnestied. In reality, the Rockets weren't even allowed by NBA rules to put in a claim on an amnestied player so it was obviously a bogus rumor. Rumores are fun to hear but don't take them as gospel.