I loved Patrick and his steady eddy game, but the reality is that the PF position is a position we need to upgrade. Is the TRob trade the right one? Still too early to tell IMO but we get to evaluate DMo and have a looksy on a high lottery pick when we shipped out 2 players in Ppatt and MMorris that skillset wise they reached their plateau. You hang on to role players like PPatt when you already have your core superstars intact, otherwise players like him are liquid assets to get to where you want to be teamwise. Whether it's DMo or TRob or some free agent they pursue, Morey and company are showing they aren't satisfied with the PF position and will keep tinkering with it until they get a player that fits what they want.
# of NBA games Marcus Morris played when he was traded: 71. # of NBA games Thomas Robinson played when he was traded: 51
It would be funny if we lose our next 3 games to Sacramento. They've been playing extremely well since the trade.
If TRob flames out Morey will just ship him out like all the other liquid assets he's dealt with in the past. He doesn't get emotionally attached to the employees he oversees.
I think Carl's point was that Morris only played 20 more games than Robinson, and Morey was ready to dump him for a 2nd round pick. What makes us think that Robinson would fair better than Morris? If Robinson is shipped for another 2nd rounder, then it's pretty much a big down grade from Patterson... unless of course Morey picks another Parsons in the second round.
Morey has made mistakes and will probably make more mistakes, he moves on and doesn't dwell on them. I highly doubt Morey will lose his job if the Trob trade flames out, the Harden trade has bought him pretty much the length of Harden's contract extension to build a team around Harden. Are we really going to keep grinding our gears over a player like Patterson? I'd understand if we traded Asik or Parsons for some unproven lottery pick, those guys are worth a whole lot more to the Rockets grand scheme of things than Patterson. But we had a glut of PFs and Morey needed to see what he has in Dmo and take a lottery pick flyer like he did in Hill and TWill.
Patterson started 38 of the 47 games he played with the Rockets. "I said, 'I know you've been starting on a team that was in a big playoff race,' " Smart said. "He said, 'Coach don't even go there. I'm willing to do whatever it takes on the basketball team. So however you want to use me, that's fine.' You need pros like this young man." http://www.sacbee.com/2013/03/20/5276979/kings-notes-patterson-returns.html
I'm convinced, Patrick is Shane Battier Jr. Patrick will toil around middling mediocre teams like Shane did with the Grizzlies and Rockets until he can find his superstars to carry their capes. Expect Ppatt to join the Thunders when he becomes a free agent.
This thread is growing old we are so much better off giving Dmo the playing time. Next year we will wonder why anybody ever thought it was a bad idea to trade him.
How in that hell he "peaked out" after playing last than a full season's worth of games? You must have a nice cystall ball.
Morey's stats team is the one with crystal ball, not me. But the fact is, most of our guys peaked out when they are on Rockets, and regress after they got traded: Landry Brooks Lowry Hayes (was not traded, but samething) even Ariza
With constant reminders by Carl H. that this was a horrible trade, I'm starting miss you PPat. PPat so far has been able to maintain his TS% above .600 with SAC. In 12 games his TS% = 0.632, but only 9ppg in 20 mpg. He also shooting 0.588 from 3pt range. PPat contract is expiring 2014 not next year. DM could moved you next year, but whatever.
No one doubts Patterson's shooting ability, that's the ONE thing he does well. He's a traffic cone on defense and he's not a rebounder though. Both DMo and TRob are better than Patterson defensively and on the boards and DMo has more offensive potential than Patterson. Give it a year and no one will care about Patterson being gone
