Let's wait and see if Morey can magically trade him for something of value before we assess the degree of failure on this pick.
I would think waiving Jeremy Lin only to sign him for $25 million the next season would be a fail. If we would have kept him on the Rockets, he would have probably still had a run like that but it wouldn't have been blown out of proportion and he wouldn't have become overrated like he is now. Therefore, if we wanted to give Lin a new contract it might have been for much cheaper. That's just speculation though. There are a lot of "woulda, coulda, shouldas" when it comes to these things.
Homework/Diligence was done and they knew the risk. With three picks in the same area it was well worth the risk too. Hindsight is 20/20.
Marcus Morris is the biggest fail for Morey. Look at his first year stats. 2.4PPG on 30FG% awful for a 1st round 14th. Oh wait... You can't judge a fail with the draft in the first year let alone in a few games where the player never had a chance to play. I know about his mental heath issue. But is not like the rockets are planning to play him anyways or most of the rookies this earlier. Let not jump into a knee jerk reaction chain without knowing all the facts and without letting the time settle things up. But well this is Clutchfans is to be expected. Lol and people want Demarcus Cousins here.
In terms of results, TWill trade was the biggest in Morey's history. But if we were to assume White just disappears off the face of the basketball world, then this would be higher, IMO. If only because TWill pick was a future pick(picks devalue with time into the future) and easily could be in the ~20 range. While White pick was a present pick near lottery level. That said, in the context of the team, this wasn't a failure. Lamb was good enough that OKC jumped on the chance to give us Harden. And Jones has avoided the dreaded "sent down to DLeague" call that the Rockets seem to give all their rookies. So overall draft has looked okay so far. But I'm not going to deny it. It would be so much better if we had Zeller right now.
That run isn't that overrated. He did save the Knicks season. The way they were going, with all that talent, they weren't even going to make the playoffs. That would have been a disaster, especially in NY. He led a team with just scrubs in the starting line up, and the best player on the team beside him in Tyson Chandler to a 7-0 run while averaging numbers that only legends have averaged in his first 7 starts. It would have been a big deal either way.
this is the winning post. letting lin go allowed the knicks to make the playoffs, which netted us the non-lottery 16th pick, which got us royce white. EPIC FAIL.
Morey by far, Derek Fisher. Luckily, he didn't suit up, it is like bringing John Stockton, or Karl Malone to the Rockets.
Didn't read through the entire thread.... So I don't know if anyone's brought this up... But in the Grantland documentary about Royce White, didn't the agent say that it was Kevin McHale who was fighting for us to draft Royce White, while the rest of the room (which had to included Morey) was against it. If that's true, Morey isn't entirely to blame if indeed worse comes worse and we do end up moving or releasing Royce White.
Way too soon to call and much bigger lapses available to choose from... -Not signing Artest but picking up Ariza and trying to convert him to a SG. -Some would argue the Landry trade but given the time they were still expecting Yao to eventually come back it was only a bad move in hindsight. -Embarrassing himself and the Rockets fan base with his attempts to get certain free agents, I won't bother naming. -Terrance Williams, nuff said. -Trading Battier for beans and a clumsy young Center. -The entire handling of the Lowry/Dragic issue and its echoing the same problems we've had whenever a backup PG showed promise and the starter was forced out that seems to reoccur during Morey's tenure. -The fact that he hasn't made a big impact first round selection since Aaron Brooks.
I highly doubt he gets on the Court when the Rockets had two players in front of him playing at an all star level. And I don't know if, without the ability to perform with no expectations for a desperate Knicks team, he ever has the opportunity to bust out ever and probably just continues along the path of journeyman career backup. Either way, it's not a big deal - the Rockets have him now at a price point that if he's as good as you think he is, is a relative bargain, and the weird backloaded structure is arguably more valuable insofar as if he sucks, his near-max deal becomes an asset around the trade deadline in the last year.
What was so great about his talent? The pick I really questioned was the white pick. When the draft was going down, I thought they would get henson 1st,then lamb,then tj,pj3,melo with the 3rd pick. They didn't and so it is,but I never thought white and his issues were worthy of that spot.
