That is 100% on Morey - his JOB is to build the team, hire the coaches and put people in a position to be successful, if the team is flagging it is 100% his fault. That is the roll of a GM/CEO of any organization. DD
I was gonna argue and had a long post typed out, but **** it. You won't change your incorrect opinion regardless. The GM is not the problem this year.
Thats the problem with that line of thinking. The GM's job doesn't just translate to a 1 yr issue, coaching hires, an offensive philosophy that doesn't fit the players is something that is more of a chronic disease as opposed to an acute one. Vindicating him is pretty naive, but placing complete blame on him isn't fair either. Either way, you can trace many of the issues to him. There is no excuse, 4 yrs in, to implement the most 3 pt centered offense in NBA history and not sign competent 3 pt shooters. There was no excuse to keep McHale here after the portland loss. Yes, the bad play this year was not his fault, but he festered the issue by "play hard" , pick-up ball style basketball that has led to the lack of discipline we have now. If the rockets are the spoiled teenagers, the GM and coach are the ones that are held responsible for them. Giving up 100 pts 3 quarters in and attributing our bad play to lack of making shots? Are kidding me? Yup great message to send to the team.
He's also been chasing that big fish of a 3rd star for quite some time. In that time he could have gone after Lowry, competent 3pt shooters.
You aren't understanding what I'm saying, apparently. The coaching staff has won 45, 54, and 56 games each of the past 3 seasons. They reached the Western Conference Finals. They have PROVEN that they are successful. It's not like Morey's coaching hires were a flop. They have won a LOT. The players have PROVEN that they are good players. They won 45, 54, and 56 games the past 3 years and reached the WCF. Morey DID build these successful teams. There is no reason why this year's team shouldn't have been just as successful. It was the same winning coach, and the same winning players. It's not on Morey. The coaches and players have already proven they can win. It's not like Morey put all of these players together this year and it was a complete flop. These guys have been winning together for the past one, two, and even three years with some players.
This isn't a new team that Morey assembled and it turned out to be a failure. This team has already won a ton of games as recently as last year. If they are not winning this year, it's not the GM's fault as last year it was proven these players can win a lot of games together. The GM did his job. The players and coaches have failed to do theirs.
Feels like the right place to put this... http://www.hoopscritic.com/ranking-all-30-nba-gms/ 10) Daryl Morey, Houston Rockets: Morey has obviously done a great job in Houston turning a formerly consistently mediocre organization into a Harden-Howard led contender, although their slippage this year is noticeable. Morey’s deep attention to analytics and superior CBA knowledge are enormous assets in Houston: Still Morey has one critical weakness: he struggles with the human element to the job, and sometimes fails to capture the human, non-statistical aspects of the job. Morey has consistently allowed critical pieces to enter and exit in recent seasons on the belief they were not superstars and thus should not be paid. There is a penchant in Houston for making players feel more like assets than people, and that has been disruptive to team chemistry.
That's the perception based on a couple transactions in the past that got attention, like the Lin/Melo thing and Dragic. If it were constantly true, especially now, you'd hear actual players trashing the franchise, Morey, or the FO. I can't remember much of that, if any. Players leave and still say good things about the team, plus keep in touch when they return.
The GM is not the problem - but he is the one that hired the incompetent coach, he is the one that brought in players that did not fit, he is the one that paid Brewer 8m a year. You can't be the guy in charge, and then pass the buck, that is NOT how SR. management works. And many many Sr. management get fired when a major step backwards happens on their watch. I am PERSONALLY not in favor of Morey going - but I can understand if Les wants to hold him accountable, and when I read statements that focus ONLY ON THIS SEASON - that concerns me because a GM is supposed to be focused on both this season and the future, but that reads like there may not be a future....just conjecture on my part. Yep, lots of good role players out there performing elsewhere...wouldn't we love to have Scola here? I Know I would. DD
To me, this feels like lazy analysis void of any insight to what actual Rockets fans feel are blemishes to his resume of which there are a few, but no more than any other GM.
With all due respect you have been wrong literally 95-99% of the time. It is not an exaggeration, it is as if you are trying to be wrong. I appreciate the passion.... but whatever opinion you have, post the opposite please.
That is incorrect, I am right a LOT more often than wrong, but when you put yourself out there as I do with opinions people will always hold on to the wrong ones, as a way to discredit a particular opinion in an argument. I have certainly been wrong, probably about the same percentage as everyone else......and I could be wrong here......I am just stating what it looks like from my perspective. Feel free to disagree - doesn't bother me at all. But let's not make this thread about ME, let's stick to the topic of Morey - whom again, I don't want FIRED....but I could see it happening.....if the team does not come around. DD
I stand by what I stated few years ago and again recently. Morey is not a top 5-7 GM which makes him just an above average to good GM. Not extra ordinary and one of the best in the NBA as most here would have it.
I'm still trying to figure out how it's Morey's fault that these guys couldn't hustle back, defend Greene and the rest of the spurs at the 3 point line last night just for starters
