Yeah, I am scratching my head. Morey seems to be determined to find an undersized F that was overlooked for being too short and prove his moneyball metrics are so valuable. Dorsey fail Harris fail Adrien fail I hope Morey doesn't roll the dice again on another 6'6" tweener forward.
Exactly. The only reason why the Rockets kept Adrien was because Chris Finch was so high on the guy. He totally ****ed us.
No need to pile on Adrien. Lin v Flynn is the debate. It was an easy decision from the beginning. Not in hindsight.
Question: If the Knicks had Lowry and Dragic on their roster, would Lin even see the court? Hell, Mike Breen said they were pretty close to cutting him to, but due to injuries they decided to keep him around. It took A MONTH for D'antoni to put Lin in the rotation despite crap PG play, and don't tell me he doesn't know how to evaluate PG talent.
Thabeet has been bad, but maybe not, who knows, since the organization has clearly proven they are not great at evaluating players by letting Lin go.... DD
Keeping Lin would at least give him more time to earn time, maybe allowing a trade of Dragic for additional asset. W
Exactly. I've been a huge supporter a Lin when he was with us, but Morey cutting him made perfect sense. Lowry and Dragic are perfect at the 1, it's not a position of weakness it's a position of strength. And Morey did want to keep Lin, he tried several times to keep him including the veto'ed deal that would have sent Dragic to NOH, when that failed he tried to free up cap to sign Dalembert and keep Lin.
You do realize you can't reason with Houston sports fans, right. Dumber than a Box-of-rockston, TX doesn't have many smart cookies rooting for its franchises. Just a, for the most part, group of a people with a false sense of entitlement. Lin would have never played here unless that CP3 deal goes through. That's fact.
The difference is that Mike D, didn't get him in training camp, he only got him during the season, where there are very few practices. McHale, Morey and the coaching staff saw him every single day, and let him go.....for free. SMMFDH ! DD
Seriously, did anybody see Linn play tonight? My word, what is this? Is this one of these "Beltran" moments where a player is so hot they go all world or is this kid for real? I don't know, but I would really like to punch Morey right now. So many of us came to the board and pleaded that Linn be kept. It was so obvious that he was better than Flynn. Now, he looks better than all our guards. If this continues, it will go down as one of the dumbest decisions the Rockets ever made.
Now you might be on to something here. So far the blame for let the kid go has been only on Morey, but McHale is the one who saw Lin in practice the most. Is it too far fetch to say McHale thought more highly of Flynn (obvious connection) than Lin, and therefore told Morey the pg position was well served with Lowry, Dragic and Flynn?
he traded for flynn during the draft. his ego is too big for him to admit that he made a trade that backfired, especially that shortly after making it. therefore, flynn was the easy call for him. that's the answer you are looking for.
Morey fails, if he wanted a big man. Adrien is not the guy to choose, when you lack size. He is 6'6.5". He would have been the shortest F. He gives up inches to Budinger, Parsons, Morris, Scola, Hill, and Patterson. He was about the same size or shorter than our shooting guards, Kevin Martin and T-Will. Morey waived big man 6'11" Greg Smith for Adrien's spot.
Two reasons I can't take this seriously. First, I keep saying it, you've been arguing all along that Morey made a mistake for having so many players playing the same position. That directly contradicts this current position of yours that the Rockets should have kept Jeremy Lin despite having 2 good PGs already on the team plus a third. Second, just the other day after Lin already had 3 huge games you said you'd prefer to have Greg Smith over Jeremy Lin. And that's exactly where we are right now.
