If you were the GM.......what would you have done different ?

Pat Riley. He completed S&T for Lebron and Bosh. Recruiting free agents to join your cause is a talent. Lesser men like Alexander, Morey, Gilbert and Colangelo could have lost Wade instead of gaining him co-stars.

Sam Presti. Drafted Harden, Durant, Ibaka, Westbrook. Traded for Perkins.

 

Look at him. He is very fat for man his age. Perhaps if he stops sitting on butt analyzing sheet and play some basketball for himself he will understand game better. See that you need center to win. Many good trades is nice, but hole at center = very big hole.

 

Never opportunity to draft or trade for center when Yao break every season? “Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.” We are in state of despair because of bad preparation by Morey! Big oversight, but no one will admit.

 

Two words. DeAndre Jordan. Other than that, good job.

 

You are right on this one. Going two seasons without drafting a decent big man, no matter where he is in the draft, is a big no no.

 

Morey is a good GM. I still have faith in him. If I were in the same situation, what would I have done differently?

1. Stop making the players believe that everyone has a good chance to be traded tomorrow.

2. Spend more time talking to the coach, especially a future HOF coach. Listen to his input. Explain to him my vision. Try my best to get him on board BEFORE I make a move.

3. Tell the owner to keep his dirty hands off my coach, politely of course.

You see. These have nothing to do with making moves. Morey has done a fantastic job making deals. What he needs to improve on is understand more about the human side of the business.

BTW, blaming Morey for not having landed a superstar is as irrational as blaming Adelman for not getting the team into the playoffs.

 

Which 7 footer from the last 2 drafts should we have drafted to fix our interior? BJ Mullens? Henk Norel? Hassan Whiteside? Jerome Jordan? Soloman Alabi? Hamady Ndiaye? Those are pretty much all the centers from the last two drafts. None of those guys is the solution. Quality centers don't grow on trees and simply sticking a crappy tall guy in the middle isn't going to fix our problems.

Plus, Morey DID get a center from the last 2 drafts, he traded for Hasheem Thabeet. And as terrible as he looks, Im pretty sure he's still better than all those other centers taken. We're just gonna have to be patient and wait for the RIGHT center to become available. I personally hope we can find a way to steal DeAndre Jordan from LA, but that just won't be easy because teams aren't especially willing to give up a rare quality center.

 

This.
Morey low balled Gortat, (even though Orlando would've just matched.)
He gave Bosh an Ipad, a multi-millionaire as a recruiting tool vs Lebron & Dwade.
Doesn't offer his own players extensions, (even the beloved Chuck Hayes) until the market is set by someone else.

He kept trying to build around Yao until the whole world started to roll their eyes every time they hear Yao's name.

These are some of the reasons of why he hasn't recruited a major talent to H-town. He's a wiz on draft night but there is a serious disconnect when it comes to recruiting players.

Put away the spreadsheets for minute my friend & learn some PR because it's a PLAYER'S LEAGUE.

 

I think Morey is a great GM. He has drafted well and made more good moves than bad.

That said, the upcoming moves (new coach, draft picks, FA signings, and trades) will ultimately define him. He now is out from under TMac's and Yao's contracts, and the players on the roster going into the season are on his watch. The team's on the top (SAN, DAL... and extending to UTA and LAL) are aging and it is time for HOU to move up or Morey's time at HOU will have to be viewed as unsuccessful.

 

Talent evaluation isnt the only thing that makes you a great GM...Morey is doing an admirable job with the power he has.....BUT his window is shrinking everyday...He works for two of the most impatient , what have you done for me lately, and non-sympathetic people in Houston......The owner and the fans!!!!!!!!..Its a no-win situation

 

Morey had excellent opportunities to get Tyson Chandler or A. Stoudemire, but he wouldn't take a little risk in order to get them.

 

Honestly I would have kept Gay instead of Battier.. But other than that he has done a good job.

Not sure if the move was Morey/ Dawson deal which I really don't care who did it.


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note: not trying to start another gay/battier thread.

 

DragonGirl - while I agree with you in theory, it's probably not quite as simple as just going out and getting a new good center. There aren't that many available at any one time and there's a VERY high demand for them at the moment.

Oddly enough, I read a Sports Illustrated article a week or two ago that stated that undersized point guards are the wave of the future and that bigs in the paint aren't going to be in as much demand, but personally that wasn't what I saw this season myself.

When Morey took this job, the Yao contract was already firmly in place; you might argue that he should've unloaded the contract, but he tried to and there were no takers. It just so happened that the season he tried to offload Yao, teams weren't needing to take on his expiring contract for cap space and Morey was stuck.

I expect that Yao wasn't dealt in any earlier seasons for many reasons, probably foremost among them is that when he's healthy and he can play, he's a superstar and a game changer......it probably made a certain amount of sense to gamble on him one final time this season - and for all we know, the Rockets front office may have tried quietly to move him and we the fans never heard about it.

I do wish he'd tried harder to get Chandler or Stoudemire and I'm not sure why either of those didn't work out...but they didn't. From listening to the podcast that AnnaMegan posted to her thread, it sounds like Morey is going to go hard after some European bigs this offseason. I'd venture to guess that we're going to have a nice tall center by the start of next basketball season...whenever that will be, that is.

Now that Tmac, Yao and finally Adelman are off the books, this will be Morey's baby - and it's all on him. At this point, he'll either make the team, or break it.

And all we can do as fans is sit back and watch.

 

The Perkins trade was genius (or maybe just stupidity by the C's), and I give him lots of credit for drafting Ibaka and Westbrook (a guy I originally thought would be a bust but has since turned into one of my favorite players). Drafting Durant was an absolute no-brainer that any GM in the league would have done in a heartbeat. He had the #2 pick, and Oden was taken first. There really wasn't much of a decision to make. And Harden? I think he is a solid player, and he has some potential. But he was the 3rd overall pick in that draft! I personally think Tyreke Evans or Demar DeRozan would have been better picks. I guess my point is, this guy had the #10 pick in 2006, #2 in 2007, #4 in 2008, and #3 in 2009. There are A LOT of GM's who could have picked some great players with that many high draft picks.

 

This was a much, MUCH bigger mistake than not trading for STAT.

 

i would have done exactly same thing as morey did. i can't dwell on this roster and enjoy my achievement which hover btw playoff and lottery pick. stability won't be in my dictionary until one or two superstars arrive in h-town.