You Just Might Be a Moridiot If...

This guy is trollin. The alternative to his caricature being that we can be like the Lakers and try to avoid three pointers in favor of bricking mid-range jumpers (since nobody on that team can get to the rim), and ride a 36 year old has-been to a 20+ point loss. Glad you're not the GM, Hotballa. We'd be lottery fodder if you had any say.

 

Hey also turned the corpse of Tmac and AWFUL role players into this in 6 years, that's quite a solid rebuild.

Morey inherited a terrible situation and because people praise him on making really solid trades (he has), people think WELL HE HASN'T WON ANYTHING YET HAS HE. That isn't really fair. It takes time and luck to put together a contender unless you can luck into a Tim Duncan or Lebron James, or if you are LA and can lure Shaq there.

He is a top 5 GM in the game, and I'd much rather my GM constantly be looking for a big splash, unless you are 100% sure your team is a contender (we would have been with Bosh, Current 100% contenders: OKC with a healthy Durant, SA, Clev, Clippers (I'm assuming Blake Griffin has taken another big step based on preseason which would make them contenders), that's it).

 

The only argument you can provide is that we didn't sign Kyle Lowry this summer to court the superstars.

And even this decision might be vindicated yet if we can get Paul Millsap or Al Horford, or a player of the same talent level as these three, at the trade deadline.

A big change is coming this next offseason in that the salary cap is increasing and the Rockets are set up really well to outright sign a quality player that wants to play in Houston.

We're in good shape if you look at the big picture. Don't think the rockets don't know where they're coming short, nor that they aren't working to improve.

This is the best part about our Rockets office: I can confidently say they do more homework than any other team and are the most prepared for different transaction possibilities. This impresses me completely.

 

I should have just trusted the star rating system and not clicked on this thread. I'll never get those 5 minutes of my life back....

 

You realize that you just made the case for why you should ALWAYS shoot for the stars, right?? There are a limited number of stars. If you can create an opportunity to hoard 3 on the same roster, you do it. You have to make do with what you can get your hands on.

 

That's a silly comment...you could make that about almost any team in the league. Harden is our star player. If any team's star player were hurt, they'd have a hard time making the playoffs...

...Unless they're in the East or something lol.

 

Hard to take hotballa seriously when 99% of everyone else disagrees with him.

Is Morey perfect? No. Has he made mistakes? Yes. But is he also one of the best GMs in the league? HELL yes.

There aren't many options out there better, much less available ones. To whine about the flaws of a great GM, in a non-constructive way, is moronic in my opinion. Morey's mistakes are generally fixed quickly, and he's still one of the only GMs ever to have turned a team that SHOULD have tanked and sucked...into a playoff contender within 3 yrs WITHOUT TANKING. Like, seriously, huh?

If I were an owner OR fan of an nba team, Morey would be on my short list of GMs to hire.

 

This is just flat out incorrect. If Morey really wanted to be a lottery team he could have easily tanked some of our mediocre seasons instead of trying to patch together a team that continually made the 9th seed. If he wanted to stay in the lottery, he wouldn't have tried to trade for Pau Gasol in the vetoed LA trade. If he wanted to stay in the lottery, he would not have traded for Harden and had McHale try and develop Jeremy Lamb and potentially Steven Adams.

 

You might be a moron if you're vehemently disagreeing with people that might be agreeing with you.

..if you reply every second or third message of an otherwise discussionless thread.

 

There is no point in building depth without a core that can win and Morey has stated pretty clearly, he is not sure that our core can do that in the West without a 3rd star.

 

At what point during all of Morey's signings and trades would we now have a championship if he had done the opposite?

By my count, only once - and that's the ludicrous case where he divines the exact peak value of Yao and McGrady before they crash, trades them for Kevin Durant and Pau Gasol or some other ridiculous thing, and rules the world.

Everything else is just degrees of losing that (given the sudden collapse of two max players) no GM in the world could have fully salvaged.

You have exactly one argument with any basis in reality, the depth one, and it is valid for this year but completely ignores his history. Pull up any Morey hating post circa 2010 and its about how he make great depth moves but sucks at bringing in superstars. It's pretty convenient for you that he magically lost his depth ability right when he gained his recruit superstar ability.

 

Save yourself the grief and just stop watching until we get a new GM. Why put yourself through the agony? It's not good for your mental health.

 

So it doesn't matter that the Rockets are a 54 win top 4 team in the West unless they do it with the coach and players you specifically want.

 

Next time, I'd go a step further and shut off your computer along with your tv. Then do us all a favor and take a sledgehammer to the computer.

 

If 25% of the first page posts belong to the OP, you know there's a false premise being bandied about.

 

I like how this random dude is mocking the GM who went to MIT for being an idiot

You remind of that meme with the guy holding up the "Read the bible, morans!" sign. Why is it always the dimmest lightbulb who thinks he's the one guy above everyone else?