Sources: Morey wanted Dragic over Lin, Les forced him to get Lin.

Just curious - could we have still signed dwight with dragic's contract? I imagine it would have been do-able with Morey's ability to maneuver the cap, im just wondering

 

Lin's contract is more expensive than what Suns is paying Dragic.

signing Dragic would not have prevented us from signing Harden or Dwight.

 

Thanks again cyberx but jeez that stings.

 

Lin makes more than Harden and Noah next year....just to name two

 

I just KNOW you felt SICK in the pit of your stomach when Lin turned the ball over and Mo hit that 3....... There is NO way that Dragic turns the ball over.

We go from a probable 2-2 tie and serious momentum to a 3-1 hole.... This Rockets team could win a title with Dragic running the point.

 

There is no way you could know what Dragic looks like under McHale.

He played mediocre at times under McHale. Towards the end.

 

I do remember the game where Les decided he wanted Lin. Lin's Valentine's day game against Toronto, Morey and Les watching the game and Lin bringing the Knicks back from 15 down in the 3rd quarter and hitting the game winning 3 in the last 5 seconds.

Les: DM tell me why we let him go again. He's playing very well.

 

Goran Dragic 2011-2012

At what point was Dragic "mediocre"? The period when he came off the bench as Lowry was going off or the period when he started and went off?

 

The Lin signing will go down with Cato as the worst deals in Rockets history

 

BINGO!!!

 

I agree with you to a point, as Dragic is very dependent on the P&R.... but to think that we don't know how Dragic would look under McHale isn't true. He blossomed under McHale and his advanced numbers were better than any season of his career other than this season.

 

Nah, Lin was bad, but it's only a 3 year deal. Cato was given like a 6 or 7 year contract. That period from the late 90's to the mid part of last decade was dreadful from a player personnel standpoint. Think of the horrible contracts handed out. Cato, Moochie, Matt Maloney, Mo Taylor, Shandon Anderson. The trade for Glen Rice. Passing up Rashard Lewis twice for Bryce Drew and Mirsad Turksan. Trading 3 first round picks for Eddie Griffin. Drafting Boki Nachbar.

I think Morey's made his share of mistakes, but they are nothing compared to the destruction caused by Rudy T. And it didn't just lead to 4 straight lotto seasons. It also left the organization with its hands tied in the early years of the T-Mac/Yao era with regard to cap space so they couldn't surround those two with a decent supporting cast. It wasn't til they were broken down years later that they finally had Landry, Scola, Brooks, and others on the team and by then it was too late.

Morey at least has left the Rockets with a lot of flexibility going forward. It may not happen for one more season if no one will take Lin or Asik off our hands, but come 2015, the Rockets will be major players in free agency. So at least there's a very bright light at the end of this dark tunnel. It would help though if he hired a competent coach next season to maximize the potential of the current roster(which is still pretty damn solid IMO).

 

Cato actually made an impact the one time he was in the playoffs.

He did a very good defensive job on Shaq.

 

Very small point, and aside from the other posts in this thread, but no he doesn't. He gets PAID $15M out of pocket next year, sure, but we're only talking about cap space, because if we aren't, people SURE AS HELL have been ignoring how Lin only makes $5M this and last yr; especially all those whining about the $8.3M and how for less it'd be more understandable, yada yada...

Cuts both ways...

 

Paying Lin $5 million this year is just as bad. We could have signed D.J. Augustine for the minimum and he's better than Lin.

 

Whoa whoa ....lets not talk crazy here. Salaries aside, Jeremy Lin is a better player than DJ Augustine. Beno Udrih on the other hand.....

 

So is he going back to ny or what?

 

good point pwny

I guess more of the point i was trying to make was....he will earn more money from just salary(against the cap or not) playing basketball than a lot of more talented players. No offense to Lin. He cashed in, he's living the american dream.

The good news is, is that he will be wanted by a lot of teams to shed cap space for 2015.

the cap hit is ~8.3 a season with him right?

And im not defending Lin in anyway, but he is no point guard.

Not saying Rondo is the be all-end all of what the Rockets need, but had he had the ball last night in that situation i dont think he makes that mistake. I also dont think the Rockets squander all those fast breaks with an excellent passer/dribbler running them. There was no need to try to rush the ball up court there at the end. If anything he coulda taken a intentional foul. Im still confused by that series of events to be honest

 

I think we ALL felt sick. Even people that aren't Rockets fans probably felt sick.

However the Rockets were a completely different team back then, and the Blazers were a completely different team back then.

Goran Dragic had just had a "Breakout year" where he scored a whopping 11 PPG & 5 APG in his SIXTH NBA season, and Jeremy Lin was a 2nd year player coming off a season where he was hitting game winning shots over Kobe Bryant on the biggest stage in the league.

Having any sense of reliability two years later was a gamble at best. I think its time to move on. Maybe we can just use this as a lesson to not give up on guys so damn fast.