Again, it's a stupid comparison to make. Again, why bring up Miami at all? What's the point? If he wanted to be sarcastic he achieved that in one sentence.
I disagree, I don't think they were bad players, bad starters? Maybe. They were solid bench players. Also look at the probability of TRob developing out, taking into account the fact the guy lacks vision, hands, and finishing touches around the basket. Thats what scares me more than anything.
The only people who are judging McHale for anything are the Lin groupies who are a cancer to the fan base. McHale has been fine and it is expected to be difficult to make the playoffs with the loss of Patterson/Morris/Douglas. But an extra six games this season is not worth the opportunity of putting together a championship roster this offseason. It just isn't. I can't believe anyone would question Morey's techniques when he just delivered a 23 year old superstar.
How do you know those deals would have been available in the summer? PHX 2nd rounder is a high 2nd round pick that maybe at the time they decide to keep instead? If you have a deal you like you take it, you don't wait around for it or else it may not be there.
McHale can go **** himself. Morey's job is to get the best 15 guys he can, McHale's job is to create a rotation within that 15 to win the most games he can. Now that Morey's actually has some pieces he can build with and let grow together, the fringe of the rotation will have turnover to find the right pieces. Even Miami has been tweaking the rotation after the Big 3 to find the right mix.
Sanders, Bledsoe, Kawhi, Vucevic, and Faried were selected after Patterson/Morris. All those guys have been tagged as potential foundational players. Granger and JSmoove, star players in Morey's sights, were 17th picks.
Rockets coach Rick Adelman would not comment when asked how the Rockets’ trades might impact his desire to return as coach. "I really don’t want to answer that at this point,” Adelman said Friday. “There is no reason to. I’m in the same situation these guys (players) are. I have to do whatever I can to try to see if we can get in the playoff picture. It’s tough. I lost two guys I really think a lot of and really meant a lot to us.“I look at the team today. In 3 1/2 years since I came here, we have only two guys left, Luis (Scola) and Chuck (Hayes.) That’s not a lot of stability. I came to coach Yao (Ming) and Tracy (McGrady) and ended up with Luis and Chuck. It is kind of amazing those are the only two guys left. I told them, ‘This is the group we have. What are you going to make of it?’ That is the same approach I have to take.” "He hasn't been playing for them (Grizzlies)," coach Rick Adelman said. "I don't know what I'm supposed to do with him. Let's give him 36 hours and we'll figure it out." This season at the trade deadline, they dealt last year's leading scorer (Aaron Brooks) and their best defender (Shane Battier). Yet they are 9 -3 since those deals. "I don't know if agreeable is the right word when sometimes they do things for reasons other than basketball," Adelman said. "But I've learned you can get really ticked off about it. You can brood. You can be a malcontent and everything else. Or you can turn and say, 'OK, this is what I have. Let's see what I can do with it.' "Because that's the only way the players are going to stay with it. If they still feel you believe in them, they'll continue to play and that opens it up for them to be that way. So I've learned that if I can't control things, at least I can take that challenge head on and see what I can do with it. But, in speaking about the direction of the franchise, Adelman seemed to indicate that there was a rift between him and the front office, at least going back to the late February trades that sent away small forward Shane Battier and guard Aaron Brooks for younger assets. “I have tried to be positive about the fact this has been a good group to coach,” Adelman told reporters. “I’m sure (members of management) have some thoughts about the way things should have been done or will be done in the future. I have the same things. I want to hear what they have and what their opinion is. ..... “You cannot succeed in this league unless everybody is on the same page. You may not agree with everything together, but you have to be on the same page, and you have to have each other’s back, or the players, they sense it. They know it when there is a disconnect. “Frankly, I would say in the last month and a half, since the trade, people have gone their way and we’re here to fight the battle. I think you can't do it that way. It’s probably not something that was intended. It just happens.”
Patience is keeping a newly reconstructed team, also the youngest in the league, together for at least a season before trading useful players to chase another asset who has a substantial chance of not panning out.
I wonder if Rick Adelman would like to be coaching James Harden. Probably. But it took all those moves he didn't like to get him.
... and Parsons, Beverley, Greg Smith. Morey let Dragic go for Lin, so while he likes Lin, I'm not sure he's writing thank you cards to Morey. Harden-Asik-Delfino have been McHale's anchors, the three I would guess he would consider to be his most valuable and trusted rotation members.
I see it different. This isn't a team. This is James Harden. The rest is just a bunch of trade chips to get the rest of our team here eventually. Due to league rules, our collection of trade chips has to play together every other night against another teams.
Another team might have acquired Robinson. New ownership might not have been willing to move Robinson. That isn't something you can afford to wait on. The Morris trade I'm a little miffed on. Initially I figured he wanted the cap space to possibly make another deal, but obviously that didn't end up occurring. Maybe it was forcing Mchale to play Robinson and DMo. Your guess is as good as mine.
