Ryno could have retooled his game a little and worked on that confidence until his shot found him again. TBF, with Melo coming in as well, the Rockets weren't in a spot where they had to trade Ryno. Oh well.
Dude, you don't remember the reports about the Rockets wanting Ellington and Tyler last year? Nobody is f-cking with the Rockets. Morey traded Ryno the way he did because no one wanted this dude. fast forward 40+ games and all off sudden Ryno is being traded for players the Rockets would have gladly taken? Rockets are being black-balled. This is my evidence, I'm convinced. Case closed.
ANDERSON GOT BENCHED IN PHX! He wasn't playing at all! I agree that Anderson wasn't as bad as Clutchfans thought he was, but the fact of the matter is he contributed heavily to a playoff team and Morey couldn't trade him at all. Ryno was benched on a bottom-feeding team and was traded EASILY.
Yep, and just to be even more clear, i've never liked Anderson as a player, great dude etc but yeah, i've never been a fan. There were rumors the year before we signed him about us having interest, and if i remember well he was in the last year of his contract getting around 8M, i was already against moving assets to get him at the time, and once we signed him i wasn't exicted, but i never expected us to pay him that much...once i saw that i basically died cause in my opinion it was such a huge overpay...but even then, moving him with Melton for Knight and Chriss...ugh. Now let's see if Morey can work some magic, upgrade the team and maybe lower the salaries, but eh...
Suns got over on Morey Then literally gave him awash for an expiring LMAO!!!! Gave us knight and Chriss on longer deals
I liken it to a tech company being given an evaluation they could never attain. Ryno getting the contract he did, did him in more so than anything else. I get that the cap spike caused uncertainty, I get that setting valuations was hard, so Morey took a risk. The deal he got EG has been stellar. Imagine though, with EG's slumps and injuries if he was making Ryno money? Wowwy, that could be bad.
That doesn't sound like moreys fault tho . Do you think that people just really hate dealing with him ? Not trying to be a dick , just legit curious . I think moreys reputation has an impact but it's probably a small one
Not sure about stellar but i get what you're saying so, yeah, at least we got Gordon in the process. But damn, that contract remains by far the worst move Morey ever made, Anderson was never anything more than a good/great shooter, he was always a bad defender, mediocre rebounder with limited athleticism, no passing skills, no upside left...i never really understood how in the hell he gave him that contract...this until i read Nook saying this was basically Les forcing his hand cause he was tired of waiting for the next star etc...
What other explanation is there? the Rockets wanted Tyler Johnson and Ellington last year and couldn't give Ryno away. Ryno sitting on the bench on another team and all of sudden he's traded away? I'm not a capologist, so someone needs to explain it to me.
We could have had Ellington too if we had waited to trade Ryno until now. The difference here is we didn't have to pay Ryno for this half of the season. It's all about timing. These things matter when you're talking about $40M worth of salary over the next 2 seasons.
This offseason, Miami thought they had a team that could compete and weren't interested in a salary dump. After 50 games where many of their key players have underperformed (James Johnson, Whiteside, Waiters), they decided that getting under the luxury tax was more important.
So my guess is this, the Heat have decided that the season is dead today, and are now trying to acrobat their way under the cap. They said no at the beginning of it all, because, well, LeBron had left the East in shambles. LeBron leaving left a power vacuum and Miami quietly saw themselves as a potential top 4 seed in the east. Spols has done some magic before with that line up, and so why not bet on themselves? Now, staring down an 8th place finish, 2 games under 500, just get what you can and slide under the cap as best as you can. Now, why was Morey so hard up on making a trade? I don't know.
What is hard to understand. This year, the Heat traded away two guys to lower their tax bill. Anderson was better for them this year than the two guys that were traded away. During the Summer, the Heat didn't think that was true. Things change. Why do you think people don't want to deal with him? He makes deals every year with different teams. He wins some, and he loses some. If the Rockets fired him, he would have a GM job the day he wanted one. His biggest strength isn't that he never makes mistakes, it's that he is able to move on from those mistakes. A lot of GMs and teams can't do that. They make deals, and then they hold on to bad fits rather than acknowledging the bad fit and move on. It's one of the reasons that the Rockets don't ever bottom out. They keep trying to get better. Watching all of these posts confirms that Morey may not be perfect, but he is better than you at building a basketball team.
Morey knew that as a contending team in the West, it would be easier to break up Anderson's contract into 2 more manageable pieces than it would have been to attach Ryno's contract to picks at the trade deadline. Morey anticipated this, and made his move accordingly. Nothing in this league is in a vacuum. Timing means EVERYTHING. Like you said, convincing a borderline team like Miami at the BEGINNING of the season to put an anchor around their neck is pretty much impossible. Now, things are different. But, on that note, we now have 2 contracts that will prove to be easier to move than one $40M albatross.
