This season is on Morey. How did we know these free agent signings sucked and he didn't?

Our main problem this year hasn’t been the loss of Ariza. It’s the stupid freedom of movement rule. I have no idea what the refs are calling half the time. But we get called for literally every tick tack foul I’ve ever seen in my life and makes the games soo hard to watch.

 

Luc should’ve been retained, but no way Ariza was going to turn down that 15 and no way we would match it.

As for everything else, we didn’t have any cap to be in the market for suitable upgrades or quality depth pieces.

 

This too.

 

Taking too many risks while trying to contend is never a good thing

Everything blew up in his face at the same time. If Harden goes down from playing so many minutes, we will literally turn into the worst team in the league since CP3 is never consistently healthy.

 

You knew the same way that people here "knew" that Luc was a bad pickup, that PJ was overpaid , that CP3 and James wouldn't work , that Ariza was old and on his last legs.

No one knows **** . And GM's ... even good ones can be wrong . Morey had to try to think outside the box because there is no way that we would have improved by just keeping the core together . Ennis has been good . MCW trash , Gary Clark good , BK and Chriss have been zero's .

The teams play on the court is a combination of : coaching , talent , chemistry . It's impossible to tell which is ****ing up worse for us right now . But to single out that the roster is **** ... is not enough because MDA hasn't earned his paycheck because the talent we do have hasn't been on the same page .

 

After Chris Paul held him to task on the Super Max Moreys hands became tied. While Morey overextended in the end I'm sure he thought maybe Paul would give him room to operate, but there was no compromise and you cant NOT sign Paul and let him walk after last year right? .. mother of all conundrums.

 

I could not respectfully disagree more with this statement. A team with no more than 6 (being generous) solid NBA players is going to struggle regardless of rule changes. A team that starts Ennis III (and he's played well, like tonight) does not win you a championship. When your bench is Clark, Chriss, rookie Hartenstein and career D-leaguer House Jr, you're not winning anything.

Take out the 3-game lightning in a bottle sweep of Pacers/Warriors/Nuggets and this team is getting blown out by average teams, and playing down and losing to the bad ones. This roster can't compete, the FO needs to address this before we reach January or the season will be completely lost.

 

Morey has brought too trash. We played so well last season, but Morey has again destroyed the team. U can not do so bad things for sign Melo,MCW, Ennis. I can understand to let Ariza free but u should sign a good player in MLE

 

Tilman did not want to spend and Morey thinks we can get away with it with fillers.

Then It backfires.

 

The Rockets’ have no bench (they got outscored something like 50-12 tonight), but it honestly looks like there are chemistry issues with the team. They aren’t playing with purpose for long stretches, and there’s little to no communication on the defensive end. Eric Gordon, in particular, is playing like he knows it’s not if, but when, he gets traded.

 

I could’ve sworn a lot of people on CF were killing the media for saying this team was much worse and our offseason wasn’t good...”media is stupid/biased/clueless”...”we don’t need Ariza or Luc”

 

with only 5 rotation worthy players on the roster we were set up to fail from the get go. with paul out we're down to only 4 nba rotation players logging heavy minutes each night. we won't beat the worst teams like that.

i still think we trade knight and pick(s) for a starting forward this season. that would get us up to 6 nba players. then the contracts of chriss and nene with a pick might get us a 7th nba player. it should be enough to make the playoffs. if coach B returns to the sidelines we might even make the second round or WCF again. but no shot at beating the warriors without home court and with our top players being gassed by carrying the load all season.

then next year we will be strapped with paul, harden, ego, capela, and whoever we trade knight for. once again, we won't be able to afford using the MLE to add talent and we will be without our first round pick.

the only way forward is to KEEP OUR PICKS. if we intend on keeping paul/harden/capela/ego, we will need cheap talent. rookie deals are the only way to stock the team through the end of the pointgod era. it will be a wasted season but spending picks to acquire talent just to make the playoffs is actually worse for the team than standing pat. i'd rather take the late lotto pick, move knight as an ending contract over the summer for tax savings and spend the savings by using the MLE on a real player.

 

Still confused on why people think Ennis is bad. I'm not still not mad at it

 

They need a scapegoat. He's far from bad. He's a discount P.J hound-dog kind of player.

 

Media has been wrong about the Rockets seasons for close to a decade+.. Morey has had a max 1 bad season as a GM coming into this season. This is not an "I told yo so moment"

 

Hell, you're still seeing this here, now. The blinders some people are putting on is some real work.

 

Yup. Off-season was littered with delusional fans, most drinking the "We trust in Morey" Kool-Aid

 

Ennis isn’t a bad player, but he gets blown by a lot on the perimeter. Which makes him a bad fit at the three next to James Harden. He would look better in the Luc role off the bench.