Morey...I Was So Wrong. Morey Supporters...Please Forgive Me.

This ain't one of them there roster analysis posts. I just had to put this on the record.

Before I get to Morey, I thought of something.

There was a running joke/conversation my buds and I had back in college just a couple of years ago...or maybe a decade or two ago?

Anyway, when we used to meet other students at bars, parties, around town while at Columbia University (In the Great City of NYC!...Frank Isola living there is an abomination) and it would go a little something like this:

Almu: Hey, what school are you guys from?
Them: We attend NYU.
Almu: (smug look) really? Thats nice.

Almu really thought: NYU is a nice school. But its not Columbia!

Yea, I was a college snob. But if it was Morey who was there he would think...Columbia...nice school...but it ain't MIT. Because if you look at the list of best colleges on the planet, NYU ain't Columbia. And Columbia ain't MIT.

Maybe its because I spent too much time worrying about which woman I wanted to fleece and take home with me. Maybe too many shot gun beer runs. Maybe too much time at the bars in the NYC instead of paying attention in statistics. Maybe its because I was too busy thinking about how much money I can make if I created a dot.com with a catchy phrase and find some venture capitalist who would pay me a bazillion dollars for it...like pets.com or send.com or some of the other lucky ones!

(I think I just dated myself)

Or maybe its just that I don't get it and never will. Which essentially makes me a moron who had an uneducated opinion and came on this forum and posted like if I knew what the hell I was talking about.

So many months I spent ripping Morey for his moves. I didn't' get not ONE with the exception of Harden. I was confused, dumbfounded, amazed, upset, disappointed, angry...it was like Morey was trying to ruin the team I love the most. The team that is the one team I root for that when they lose a playoff game I not only lose sleep over, but come to work and PUNISH my employees as if they were step children who I hated. The company would totally know when the Rockets had a tough loss because a) I would call an impromptu meeting to just vent about anything and b) because they could smell the Patron on my breath because I totally put it in my coffee.

Yea, its that bad. Stockpiling picks? Having 42-44 wins every year for the next 10 is what I thought. I thought Morey was a major, major idiot. The worst GM ever!

But guess what?

Columbia ain't MIT. And it seems like my brain got schooled and schooled well.

I think I am SOOOOO SMART. The Boss as my coffee mug says. The oldest of 4 in my family! Wise and sage, I am! The this and that.

Yea...well, not so much. So many tried to explain it to me but I am such a douche because I just felt they were wrong and I was right! I been a fan of this team for...well, long time. All the opinions from these newbies, younger Milleniums who just showed up to the board because Yao was here or Lin was here or Mc Grady was here...who are they? THEY KNOW NOTHING! They drinking the Morey Kool-Aid. Clutch, please block everyone pre-2003 from this board because they KNOW NOTHING about how to get to the glory years again!

Guess what? This moron right here knows nothing about how its done now.

NADA. ZILCH. ZIPPO.

Because despite the fact that I still think Lin was/is a marketing ploy, I have to say I have never been so wrong in MY LIFE about something sports related like I was about the Morey Strategy.

(Those of us from 1997 still here...I don't count the post about Hakeem not being a Legend from that great year. Please see bar hopping reference above as my continued defense for posting the worst post ever on the forum).

I am not saying Howard will be the end all be all. He could totally be Maurice Taylor-ish...all the headache and none of the potential realized. He could also be Mutombo on defense and some Olajuwon...some Yao on offense. And thats good enough for me because around the league, I don't think there could be another center that can say that. Hope his back is fully recovered. Hope his shoulder would be totally healed. Because he is only 27 and if he is back to Orlando Howard...ooooooohhhh...that would be kinda awesome!

But...damn...I can see clearly now the rain is gone. I see now where Morey is heading with the construction of the team. I can see in hindsight why all the moves...well most of the moves...were the right moves. And the maneuverability was perfect to sign the big fish that is Howard. There is still more he can do too? Nice!

The numbers he used to get here. The +/-, square root over whatever variable to the power of x, divided by this and that +3...WTF...how the hell did he come up with all to get here in just 18 months? I didn't get it.

Probably because I either cut that class and was happy with a C or I just dropped that class and took the Windows 98 elective so I can see all the awesome upgrades over Win 95...as we called it back in the day.

Dated myself again.

Morey, I am sorry. Seriously. I was ready to stone you at the public square. I can see where you are going now. How you gonna get there...well, I won't even bother trying to figure it out. But you are smarter than most. Smarter than me...by what looks like alot.

You keep doing what you do. I will just sit here in a corner, with my dunce cap, and marvel at your MITness.

Now, if Howard turns out to be a dud...your a fu$#ing IDIOT!!!!



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Morey I Trust...ish?