Would you prefer Jeremy Lin over either Dragic or Lowry?

Again, no we did not. Patterson couldn't practice due to surgery, and we signed Dalembert late. What part are you not understanding?

 

They offered him a deal, GS offered a better one with a higher amount of $$$, Dallas could have offered more I guess.

Fair enough, I just don't give a crap about Dallas - all I care about is the Rockets don't screw it up.

Again, as a Rox fan, I just care about their mistakes, or hits vs misses.

DD

 

We signed Dalembert before the season - they could have kept Lin, they CHOSE to keep Adrien.

They had a deal with Dalembert on the table, while they tried to move other pieces.

Either way, you and I are not going to agree about this RowdyRicky....

DD

 

I know we're not going to agree, I'm just letting you know that Dalembert signed late into training camp, which is kind of important. Before he signed, we had Thabeet (lol), Hill, and Scola.

 

They COULD have kept Lin but we would ONLY have 3 healthy big men.

You really just need to acknowledge the fact that our PG position was deep and was our strongest position. That means, the area that needs the least depth and concern.

On the other hand, we only had 3 healthy big men, one of them is Thabeet and the other is Hill. Meaning, there are only 1.5 half players you can rely on (you can't rely on Hill playing 30 minutes) to play the big man position. Patterson was injured, and even if he did eventually come back there is no telling whether he could contribute right away or how long he could contribute.

It makes no sense, absolutely none. To reinforce your strongest position with a person who has unconfirmed potential when you already have 3 players over that position. It makes even less sense that you would make that your priority over your shortened big man rotation where you essentially have one proven starter.

 

When Morey was pressed about this earlier in the year (BS reports) he aluded to the better option would have been to eat the cost in waiving a guaranteed contract to keep him. I assume he's talking about Flynn getting waived.

Not to be an APOLOGIST, but Im pretty sure thats about as close as your going to get with Morey acknowledging he made a mistake. Even though it was one nobody could have projected.

However, taking things into context, like should be done, but is not, Lin most likely would have ended up in the D-League or in Europe (Like Lin said in an interview that he was looking to do before the Rockets picked him up) before the Rockets openly showcased him in the last two preseason games. Which led to New York picking him up after the Rockets waived him.

So to be fair... which we all arent, you cant blame Morey, without blaming 28 other teams at the same time that didnt give him the chance that the Rockets DID give him. It would have been nice to have Lin backing Dragic when Lowy went down last month, but in that case Jeremy Lin would not have been Linsanity, the player we think we had. He just would have been another backup point guard from the D-League at the end of the Rockets bench.

Blame Morey for this one, but please put things into context.

 

In retrospect, the Rockets would have kept Lin of course. Next time, they need to make use of their crystal ball before making personnel decisions.

 

Exactly. Just putting it into context of what Morey was alluding to what they wish they would have done Hinesight of course, looking into their crystal ball.

 

He still would be 3rd string and never really would have got time behind proven players in Lowry and Dragic, who have both been better than Lin this year. So it's a catch 22. Yeah he's not some Dleague scrub like Flynn but he wouldn't have been a "star" if he stayed with us anyway.

 

Damn, you're stone cold killing me.

I'm going to refrain from responding in kind because obesity is no laughing matter.

 

Come to think of it, miscalculating Dragic's was more costly because it probably led to the belief that we could sign Dragic back in the offseason thereby letting Lin go wouldn't be much of a problem.

There's no way Morey was not thinking ahead about Dragic's free agency. At the time, having 4 PGs seemed a lot but if you believed that you were going to lose Dragic and Flynn wasn't much of a player, letting Lin go didn't make sense.

 

Can't believe 32 people voted that Lin is better than lowry and dragic. I hope that they're just trolling lol

 

Why are people still trying to cast blame? The point of this thread is that Morey made the right call for our particular circumstance. He saw that the kid had talent and had improved but at the end of the day he still wasn't good enough to crack our guard rotation. So they cut him instead of eating a contract just to hold on to a 3rd string PG.

Lin is still a lower tier starter, he found himself in a good situation. He is not an all star.