Maybe..just maybe... Daryl Morey isn't "that" smart

First you say they overpay because they are under the cap know you change everything you said because you're wrong. You have no idea what you are talking about. Second, what type of "Genius" goes after a player he has no chance at keeping? A second max player? Who would that be? Howard is not coming here. It's a pipe dream. If he does, it will take every draft pick we have and anyone on the team with any upside (meaning Lin and Asik will still be here). Then Howard leaves and we are worse off then we are now.

 

We are about to sign Hasheem Thabeet(at full potential) in Asik if you look at the advanced stats, and we got worse at the PG position from last year.

Thank god for the rookies

 

In fairness though, I don't think anyone is claiming that Morey has been perfect.

Just very very good at MANAGING the team's resources and assets. (He is a General MANAGER after all)

He has made a couple of moves that I would classify as 'bad'.

1) Ariza. The guy just never was what Morey thought he was going to be. Lucky for us that Morey was as good as he is though, since that move did end up as Courtney Lee, who proved to be every bit as good as advertised, if not arguably better. Still, I do not believe Morey picked up Ariza with the intent to flip him for Lee, so I still ding him for the move in the first place.

2) Giving NJ a 1st rd pick for Terrence Williams. I am surprised people do not howl about this a lot more. Losing a 1st rounder for nothing at all is a really bad deal, but I hardly ever see anyone mention it. Now to be honest, while I am being fair, I do acknowledge the very real possibility that Williams' failure here was not so much do to Morey making a bad deal as to Adelman not wanting to play him. In fact, I feel pretty sure that T-Will was the straw that broke the camel's back and led to Adelman's dismissal. Regardless of the reason, whatever Morey saw in T-Will, Adelman did not see it, and we wound up cutting the guy. Possibly, had the coach actually played Williams, this could have ended differently, but if and coulda don't really mean anything in this situation, because what happened happened. Terrible return on a 1st-round investment.

Other than those two glaring examples, I have not really had any problems with Morey's moves, even taking into account that I had as much manly love for Dragic as anyone.

That's a pretty darn good record, as far as I am concerned.

 

Wow, all three nearly identical troll posters all in a row in the same thread.

dreamshake1 = youngshev03 = obamafan

Whaddya wanna bet?

Smells like DD around here...

 

I don't like Asik but this is just idiotic.

 

For the life of me I cannot figure out why these trolls continue to be fed.

 

Well said.

 

Not really. Giving someone big money after two years of averaging 12 minutes a game each, and who plays only one aspect of the game is short sighted.

For every should of would of you want to point out, I can name a billion "what a bad decision that was"

Have we all forgotten Kelvin Cato that quickly?

 

haha i dont need to troll, and im not DD never really even talked to that guy(he had what 100,000 posts or something like that lol)

 

Its funny i NEVER said Jeremy Lin sucked.. I said he isnt better than Lowry or Dragic. And its the truth

 

LMAO! Somebody tells the truth and they are a "Troll". Just because I don't say everything thing this dude does is "Genius" and I see it for what it really is? Being a fan doesn't mean you have to agree with everything your Team's front office does. He's not the worst GM in the NBA but he is nowhere near the best and is no "Genius" as you all would put it.

 

Nowhere near eh? Name the many gms better than him and give an explanation as to why. I can only think of a few.

 

Then why do you care so much what is said about Morey, then? I don't think Morey's Jesus Christ, but the law of averages says there will be some who think he's not that great (yourself) and most will be in the middle range, and a few who think he's close to God. That's just the nature of a normal distribution and the bell cuve.

Also not that you are on a Rockets fan site, where opinions will mostly shift that bell curve to the right, and opinions will tend to favor Rockets players and staff. That much should be relatively obvious. I know some people say Dream was better than Jordan on this board, but I don't go out of my way to make threads trying to make a whole bunch of Rox fans "abandon" their icon and shove my opinion down their throats: even if it may be true.

This whole pro/anti Morey campaign battle is becoming a board cancer, and we all need to help stop threads like these.

 

How does that equate into determining whose the better gm?

And btw 2011 bobcats and hornets had nothing.

 

Milwaukee
Charlotte
Toronto


There is 3. So you aren't behind the rebuilding process?

 

Quick...get a rope!....

 

I could and could keep this going, but this is pointless. Everyone of you will just make another excuse to cover up all the other excuses when you're proven wrong. I'll just leave you with this. What exactly has he done since he's been here? Have the Rockets even come close to a Championship? Have the Rockets even come close to building a serious contender? It's gotten to the point where signing Jeremy Lin is the only way the Rockets are on Sports Center when they used to be on every night. It's gotten to where people bash the Rockets everywhere you look when they used to fear us. Meanwhile, the Texans "A Houston franchise with an actual good GM) has turned an expansion team into a contender. There is no point arguing or "trolling" or whatever you call it. If he's a "Genius" to you, so be it. My idea of a genius is someone who gets results and he hasn't even come close to that. Come on, the fan base is ecstatic because we signed a mediocre point guard. Thing is, I don't hate Lin like most of these people do. I actually like him as a person and was excited last year watching those games like everyone else. I'm also a realist and know what I'm looking at.