Morey on 790 and 610 to talk about Chandler Parsons leaving

Torocan you are an excellent poster. I have learned a lot from you, but we don't have the assets for a 3rd star. If we had beaten Portland, we might have had a chance in obtaining Love.

DM should try to acquire better role players first.

 

Here's a direct link for those who want to d/l the mp3 and listen on their computer.

https://cbshouston.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/daryl-morey-071414.mp3

 

that wasn't really the point.

the point is these guys only turn into assets rather than returning players. parker, manu, and duncan werent all top 20 players last year in the NBA. houston has 2 top 20 stars already. what 3rd "star" are the rockets looking for? a top 20- top 40 player? do you really need an elite level 3rd player or some guy in-between average and elite?

just feels like the team is just sifting for gold every season. are harden and howards contracts going to expire while morey is continually looking for a 3rd star?

maybe instead of looking for the next star, they should of been building the organization through a system of basketball and developing players to fit into the system.

appears to be asset/value building rather than building a championship team.

 

Dawson didn't build that team at all, he took over because Dawson was downright awful at building around Yao and Tracy. The only person even in our starting lineup for those playoffs from prior to Morey was Yao.

 

maybe we'll work on the shingles in year 4

hopefully while having cap flexibility!

 

Don't forget his torrid love affair with Vassilis Spanoulis...

 

I think Morey's definition of elite is probably different than what we think of as elite.

I don't know what stat models he uses for "elite" so we can't really judge, but I doubt he thinks you need 3 of the top 20 players in the entire NBA.

The Spurs for example has 3 players who were top 10 at their position (Duncan, Ginobli, Leonard) and Parker who was just outside of the top 10 this year but has traditionally been one of the best.

 

As I have said before, if the Rockets weren't planning to match, he should have been traded last year. If they didn't think he was going to be overpaid, they grossly miscalculated.

 

Especially when your 'stars' all make like 7-12 million a year. I'd like to see Morey's plan for pulling that off.

 

We'll see what happens when Leonard is up for a contract and someone offers him the max.

 

Exactly: Dallas would NEVER have drafted Parsons - they probably didn't even know he was available in the 2nd round. Their draft history compared to "Murry's" is dismal. The last player they drafted who actually contributed was Josh Howard.

 

I do feel that DM is overrated, but it was he and not CD who got us into the 2nd round of the playoffs.

Landry, Scola, Artest, Brooks, Lowry, all were acquired by him.


Ironically, we had 2 stars in Yao and T-Mac and then only one in Yao.
We beat them at that time, and now we are stuck.

 

Let's be honest and admit the distinct possibility that Les told Morey not to match. Do you think Morey would admit that? Nope, his job is to take the flack, and let's remember why Les hired him to begin with - to find high value low cost players.

 

The only way for that to happen is for them to decline, look washed up, sign a new contract and then find the fountain of youth.

 

Les goofed up big time too. They shouldn't have picked up Parsons' option.

 

I appreciate his implication that Chandler is not an elite player, he said many times how much he liked him, but never said he was elite. If elite is what he wants then he did the right thing. I think the bigger issue is covering the defensive liability that is James Harden and Parson's inability to do that made him expendable with that contract. Sounds as though money wise, they would have met the money, but the contract was immovable.

 

This is why they will never win a championship like Morey did.

 

It wasn't just the money, it was the poison pills.

 

I guess this is Morey's plan then if he is pointing to the Spurs as an example of how to do things.

 

If we're going to do it like the Spurs we need to tank this year in order to get the #1 pick in the draft.