It is Morey, planning for the future. I feel sure that McHale is frustrated but he will get over it quickly. Nothing to worry about. But if was JVG or Adeled-man then it would be a "Katy bar the door" situation.
So we should be ready to blow up the roster again after a few months when the team is looking at max cap space in the summer to make another major move with? People talk about needing to be patient with Robinson, how about being a bit patient, at least for 2 more months, with what is already the youngest team on the NBA before you trade 3 of the rotation players again for no help in return?
The present is a part of the future and it matters to the future. Another 7-game losing streak collapse out of the playoffs could doom the team's attempt at Dwight Howard.
Sounds like you're the dense one. I'm justifying the Patterson for Robinson trade by bringing up the Lowry trade, a move that made us worse in the short term but put us in a position to get a star. Idiot.
Wow, this is incredibly stupid thing to say. Not that McHale is stupid, he's not...but this was a dumb comparison to make. The Rockets are a team TRYING to get to where the Heat are. The Heat had a lot of turnover and pretty much gutted their entire team sans Wade to get to where they are again. Of course the Heat aren't going to have 13 new players after winning a championship lol. The Rockets on the other hand are TRYING to build a championship team. Not a team that's just playoff fodder, always reluctant to make moves, and over valuing role players like Patrick Patterson.
No surprise , as a Coach your job hinges on winning games....Daryl just made it way harder for him. Shouldn't he be upset? Adelman was.
If the rockets get the 9th seed again I guarantee you it will hurt the team's chances at getting another star. Why do you think it was so hard to begin with? The team was a perenial 14th pick waiting to happen.
We was using hyperbole more than he was using a metaphor to prove his point. The idea conveyed is that serious turnover negates any short-term success that can be expected by a team.
McHale is a childish prick for saying that. McHale isnt luring nobody to play for the rockets like he gave the celtics Kevin Garnett and left that Minnesota franchise without their balls.
No need to overreact. I'm sure both McHale and Morey are more focused on doing their jobs than on quotes in newspapers. The board is so negative these days. I wonder if it's just general anxiety of the times.
Getting rid of Patterson and Morris isn't "blowing up the roster" (I was against the Morris trade, for the record). It's getting rid of two guys, one of whom you labeled a bust anyway, who would have helped us make the playoffs this year but had probably reached their ceilings. Beverley is probably as good as Douglas, so that's no big loss. Aldrich is trash. I don't see how holding onto Patterson was going to help turn this team into a championship contender. I just don't. We all knew what he was and what he wasn't.
for a team that is trying to make the playoffs both those 4s were integral, they just traded them away for a bag of potatoes. Both of them didn't need to be traded for Dmo. And the trade for Morris could have happened in the off season if getting a 2nd round pick was so damn important.
And if making the playoffs this year was the organization's #1 goal, they wouldn't have made the trade. It's not.
What some people don't realize is that Patterson and Morris combined barely make up a bag of potatoes and the bag of potatoes they got in return has a hell of a lot more potential than Aldrich, Douglas, Patterson, and Morris combined. DMo will give you more offense than either Patterson or Morris and neither of them could play defense worth a damn so the fact that DMo is struggling on that side doesn't really matter.
I believe people on the board knows he was doing that but subconsciously he's also putting himself in a position of being the victim and having an excuse if his team does not make the playoffs. Just tells me he's all about business and he's negative... That can easily trickle down from coach to players. Making comments like that this time of year just is not the right thing to do IMO. McHale just needs to do his job and knowing they really run no plays and the defense is one team off from being the worst in the league... I ask myself what really is Kevin McHale doing anyway?
The problem is once the off-season comes the Phoenix 2nd rounder might be worth more than Morris. The season hasn't ended yet so if Phoenix ends up sucking even more we might have to cash out more to get the pick. We know the 2nd rounder will be high, and talent wise they are not much further off from late first rounders. Contractually speaking however they are much much better for the team. So yes Morey made a big move removing Morris and Patterson. The Patterson trade I have no problem with because if Morey didn't do the deal another team would have. Morris could have been kept, but I understand why he needed to be traded. And I don't exactly like the idea of Morris starting for this team, he hasn't looked good at all not long before losing his starting job back to PPat.
