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Daryl Morey: Beating Golden State 'the only thing we think about'

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Air Langhi, Dec 22, 2017.

  1. rockets13champs

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    Warriors over everything... we must beat em
     
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    We got Top 5 talent, but not Top 2 because our front court is still lacking more talent. MDA is fine, very good coach but not the best coach in the game, he has to rely on Bzdelik to shore up our D.

    I think most teams have to get through adversity in the playoffs together to know how to win it all. Lebron was the only guy who could come in and win it in his 2nd year but with lots of help obviously.

    The natural thing is to gather a team for years and not change it up every year.

    I think Morey is still after the 3rd star but the time is running out on Chris Paul, he won't be good and durable forever. Harden won't be that good forever.

    I think getting Top seed or maintain No. 2 seed in the West is more easily attainable right now than winning it all.

    We have a chance to win it all and beat the Warriors, but everything has to click in those 1 or 2 months, everyone has to be healthy.
     
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  3. Amiga

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    Just play enough starter times to get a first round against the warriors. Got to beat them sooner or later. Save up those legs and reduce risk of injuries for the ultimate goal. Might increase the chances from 90 to 93.4 ;).
     
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    well there's been a whole lot of criticism of him this season when CP3 or EGO or both have been out with injury, something any casual nba fan could have seen coming with high probability. so why hasn't he gotten another guard? why are we running an also-injured harden into the ground? i mean the guy signed canaan and then inexplicably dumped him 2 days later. everybody knows pringles is not going to play brown or weber, so this leaves us with 2 guards who can play minutes still 2 months into the season now. absolutely ridiculous. meanwhile GS hasn't just benefited from adding ringchasers. they've developed rotation players in mccaw, bell, and looney who have been helping them all month while they have multiple rotation players out w/ injury as well.
     
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    brown, jackson, weber, chianu, williams have talent?
     
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    So let me get this straight - bc I'm not absolutely CRUCIFYING morey for not adding a "4th guard" I'm a "whiny little morey fanboy ass-sucker"? Never mind the fact that morey assembled hands down the best 3-guard rotation in the league, it's the fact that he hasn't nabbed that 4th guard 1/3 of the way into the season that should really be what we judge him on, right?

    I'm going to go out on a limb and say you being an insufferable, ungrateful ass that likely never stops b****ing about anything is infinitely more likely than me simply being a "morey fanboy ass-sucker." With the attitude you have I bet your life is a pure joy #sarcasm #lightenupfrancis
     
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    yep just win 1/3rd or 18 of our remaining 52 games, then play our best to beat gsw on the road with a fresh 8-man rotation

    this is our best option if Morey/MDA will not do a thing to improve or expand our 8-man rotation
     
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    I hope we get/ stay healthy bc I think we can beat the Warriors this year.

    I'll go so far as to say they are scared of us though they would never admit it
     
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    you're a whiny little morey fanboy ass-sucker for coming to me and b****ing about my post because it criticized your idol. i don't fuking care what you think about him or post about him yourself. if you want to post that he's the greatest GM of all time, i'm not going to follow and reply calling you an ass or anything at all.
     
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    He will usually pull out a rabbit by the trade deadline, Josh Smith, Ty Lawson, Sweet Lou and so on. Some are duds.
     
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    that's basically why most people here are critical at morey and mda's 8-man rotation
     
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    Maybe he should have thought about stopping Lonzo Ball!

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    Bahahaha this is awesome. Essentially since I’m not verbally castrating morey over our lack of a “4th guard” he’s now my “idol”... that’s rich. What’s funny is that I agree we need a 4th guard, I just don’t think sounding like an incessant, petulant child is the way to get your point across.

    Just think - this is what you sound like when we have the BEST RECORD IN THE LEAGUE w victories over GS, Cle and SA. Heaven help us if we lose a few more games.
     
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    I didn't say any of those guys have talent. I said Morey is always LOOKING for talent. I have no doubt Morey is looking for possible upgrades right now. There is only so much he can do when we are maxed out on salary. But, I'm sure he's trying to improve the team.
     
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    wow your obtuse skull is truly impenetrable. again, you are whiny little morey fanboy ass-sucker because upon reading my reasonable post criticizing one aspect of his performance as GM, you immediately jumped into action to call me an ass and save his honor. and regarding our record and who we beat and we're still a good team, ya that's the typical peon mentality to be expected from unaccomplished losers who idolize morey.
     
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    i would like to give him the benefit of the doubt as well, but last season we had a depth problem at center which morey completely ignored even at the deadline. then when nene went out (he's gotten injured 7 years in a row so it's not like this wasn't something foreseeable) we were left with harden guarding the sperms' bigs, which basically sealed our playoffs fate. again i want to believe that morey will get up and do something, but past performance is definitely at least somewhat an indicator of future returns.
     
  18. SWTsig

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    ooooooh ya tell me more about my "loser mentality" bc i don't call morey out for doing nothing but "just talking as usual.... while we have waste of fuking time deadweight scrubs who can't even sub in for 2min when we're down to just 4 rotation players" or how morey's apparent (according to you) lack of even trying to address our 3rd string center position single-handedly ended our playoff run last year (again, according to you). this is what you call a "reasonable post".

    it's almost as if trading for harden and cp3 and signing gordon and luc and pj tucker and nene and ariza and drafting capella never happened - it's that darn 4th guard and 3rd string center that daryl "all talk" morey deserves to be vilified for.

    you're so angry.... who hurt you as a child?
     
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    You getting Lonzo a jump shot for Christmas?
     
  20. pippendagimp

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    again you have major reading comprehension issues. your loser mentality is tied to your "we have the BEST RECORD IN THE LEAGUE w victories over GS, Cle and SA" statement, and not "bc i don't call morey out for doing nothing"

    also, if you don't believe that losing nene and having nobody left to guard LMA/gasol was a major factor in us losing an overtime game 5, then you're even dumber than i thought you were 2min ago. who dropped you on your head as a child?
     

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