We can argue over individual moves all we want But in my opinion, our biggest problem is the fact that we treat everyone as assets and not people I think that reputation is catching up to us, with free agents and our own players alike No matter how big the player and how big the ego, most people want to feel "wanted" Under Morey, everything and everyone is a business piece, a chip . . . Morey is a very smart man, but he won't build a champion
We treated Parsons like a person by making him a FA early so he can get paid, worked out real well for us.
And yet, the biggest potential blunder of Morey's GM career is treating Parson's like a warm & fuzzy human being and letting him out of his league-best value contract a year early so he can get paid...and we know how that turned out. I def think there is a balance that can be struck but at the end of the day, its a business and most people will act in their best interests--and it goes both ways.
Gee it'd sure be nice to have some assets to trade right about now....too bad we let our best one walk away cuz we treated him like a person.
The problem is that Morey badly miscalculated what kind of offer Parsons would get. Players are assets, I don't have a problem with that. But a GM should have a pretty good handle on what his player will bring on the open market.
Lol, truth. What the op is doing is probably the reason morey decided to act human instead of doing his job and looking out for the best interest of the rockets organization. Screw what a few dumb posters on a forum think. Now they are saying we are wasting dwights prime and he will leave us. Cynicism leads to more cynicism. We need to trade all the cynical people to dallas.
Dear Houston Rockets, Don't treat players as assets. I am tired what you did. You won't win championships by doing that. Okay, please just take note what I did. 1) Being loyalty to the players for many years 2) Don't chase big time FA 3) Hire and keep a great coach for at least a decade (You did not do that to Rick Adelman). If you do those three things I said, I guarantee you will win multiple championships. Sincerely, San Antonio Spurs
That's because we didn't want him to become an UFA. Morey was supposed to be a wizard at the RFA game.
Guess he should have calculated mark cuban and his hate for houston (his excuse was we ended to be knocked down a peg after what we did to chi and ny, but we all know why he really hats houston and it goes back) would have made chandler parsons the most overpaid role player in history. That he would end getting paid more than our superstar james harden, Stephen curry, and lamarcus aldridge.
Yeah, I disagree here. The Rockets let Parsons go & let him get paid early for no reason. The Moreyball playbook reads that they should have picked up his TO and then traded him at the deadline or this Summer if they felt like they were going to lose him this Summer. The PROBLEM folks is that Morey didn't follow the logical steps to the Moneyball playbook. He essentially made the mistake of going to the ATM after a night of gambling in Vegas, and put his money saved up for next months rent all on black at the Roulette table instead of looking at the pay tables, and playing a game for which he had more control at in smaller more controlled doses. Instead he went all in and paid the price.
Dwight signed here, ariza just signed here, if it wasn't for a crazy max contract Bosh was signing here. I don't think Moreys rep is the problem. He took a risk and it didn't work. That is all.
If the Rockets hadn't believed they were going to sign a big name free agent and then use Parsons Bird rights to resign him they never would have made him a RFA.
And you really think Players like parsons don't look after themselves first. It's a business man. Players are assets and players look to get paid. To think otherwise is naive.
