What you fail to understand is that "Moreyball" isn't anything more than a philosophy about taking efficient shots. It's not an offense, it's not a defense. A good coach can build and offense around "Moreyball" and have success.....as the Warriors have, a bad head coach builds a terrible offense that just happens to use the philosophy and that's what we have in Houston. There's nothing about the "Moreyball" philosophy that says you shouldn't have ball movement or off ball movement. There's nothing about it that says you shouldn't play competent defense. Hopefully that is straightened out now.
Wow is this true? Hire that dude. What a staff from top to bottom. The real guy who success follows though is my boy Jerry West. My dream GM.
How can he fix this? No big name free agent is coming here. We may not even have a draft pick thanks to the g-ddamn Jazz. We need to find a coach. We need to reload the roster. This is a multiyear rebuilding project we're facing. And we have a stubborn, delusional owner who refuses to tank for high draft picks. I think we're in for a very long period of mediocrity with no light at the end of the tunnel.
the past few years whenever a player starts getting 'extra' playing time a month before the trade deadline, we know the team is showcasing him. that's obviously the front office meddling in player management. just one example, and where there's one cockroach there's typically 100 more. JBB is indeed one of the most incompetent coaches i have ever seen. but going forward now, which competent established coach is going to agree to deal with DM trying to attach strings to his limbs from up top? that's why i say we need another guy in the front office to help keep DM's hands out of the cookie jar..
I see the way ur thinking but lets say we do sign barnes and durant and maybe sign and trade dwigt for vucevic do u think were in buisness? Or even if we just sign barnes and get vucevic. Maybe u throw some money at clarkson and he comes here bc russell will be the startig pg of the lakers
Like others have said... Unless you have a gm lined up (or a plan) this is the worst ****ing time to do this. It'll be like the time the Rockets fired McHale, lol (and I'm not a McHale or much of a Morey fan). I mean if no better gms are available you might as well let Morey swing for the fences once more, and if he fails then... Just fire him and go full rebuild, because that's where this is headed.
Also to add to this. Rebuilding is rarely about those high picks. Mavs got a steal in anderson the dude can flat out defend. He can really be a future jimmy butler. We need to pick late guys like this who get passed on bc of offense and play tremendous defense. Mavs know how to draft. Even if they have a low pick they pick well. We need to get lawahu he will be a player many will say aftet the draft he is a steal. The same i can say for josh richardson and the miami heat
People are stupid to be rejoicing over this news. Give the man at least one more season to see what he can do. If the Rockets fail to produce then you fire him. He has done relatively well (except drafting in the lottery) until this season.
It's the Owner's Fault!! Golden State was worst enough to get shooters! We had to build on the fly and getting picks at 14th, 14th, 14th, years on end!! Les haven't build ****! We had the pieces of a championship team before he bought it!
How is it inaccurate? I think you misread it, I said when Morey took over a big part of the how the rockets run their offense, the rockets moved (from league average) to being the most 3pt centered team----I'm speaking of the transition in that frame of time. The rockets were floating around #11 in attempts when Adelman was here and than leapfrogged in attempts to the top to the point that at 32.7 attempts last season they were the most 3pt centric team in NBA history (more than the warriors of this year too (31.4). I'll repeat it again for emphasis, the 14-15 rockets attempted more 3s than any team in NBA history, even more than the warriors of this year. 14-15 #1 Rockets: 32.7; #4 GSW: 27 15-16 #1 GSW: 31.4 ; #2 Rockets: 30.7 This year golden state is #1 at 31.4 attempts and the rockets are at #2 30.7 attempts (the first season GS has attemped more 3s--barely at that)..while boasting the best 3pt shooting squad ever . I don't know how you look at that and don't shake your head. The rockets shot more 3s than the best 3pt shooting team in NBA history last year, and barely trail them this year (while being one of the worst in %).
The Rockets offense or MoreyBall is nothing like the Warriors offense... The Warriors run a weave with a lot of back door cuts... They look for the open shot and not strictly a 3 point shot. Mark Jackson deserves a lot of credit for installing a system and then working with the GM to get the right players in to run the system. Not Mark did do a lot of stupid stuff while he was there, but he installed a winning attitude with the team. Once Kerr took over he simplified the offense to cut down on the turnovers. Also people like to holla real loud about the warriors having superstars... Well the same to superstars had questions marks over their head when they came into the league, so it's not like they were instant superstars... T_Man
Can we trade him for Durant? I'm joking. Morey has built two pretty good teams, first the Yao-Tmac team ended by injuries, then last year's Harden-Dwight duo which will end due to inexplicably bad play. I hope Les doesn't fire him.
Fair enough, so the Rockets did better when they shot the 3 more than they did this year. That comes down to coaching. Same philosophy, better implementation.
It's not... The Warriors have an actual system in place... The Rockets don't.. So it's not the same thing. T_Man
Nobody has posted a list of potential candidates to replace him because I can't think of anybody and anybody who mentions Shane should get checked out.
I didn't say it was the same thing, I said they use the same philosophy and do a better job of implementing it. They have actual coaching, the Rockets don't.
