Is it sometime before or after the start of the season? Then yes, it is definitely time to wildly extrapolate.
He was looking for that elite 3 back then, too-- remember Ron Artest? Too bad that TMac's career essentially ended in the middle of that season and Yao's essentially ended in the playoffs. I am not saying that Morey is wrong about Dwight and Harden. He likely has plenty of data supporting his position. But as players Howard and Harden have to think otherwise. Or else what do they do? Just punt the season because we don't have that third star to make us a true contender?
Yao and Mcgrady had ****ty role players, and when we finally found some reasonable role players, they broke down. Just bad luck
You know how after we got eliminated and Dwight was saying how not everyone was on the same page and winning? Just speculating here, but after these comments, seems like he possibly could have thought Parsons might have been one of those guys (that wasn't on the same page) and that he's happy to have a guy like Ariza that has winning as his #1 goal.
I love Dwight, but it just doesn't sound like Harden is as committed to winning as Dwight is. Doesn't seem as mature.
It was not secret Chandler was primarily looking for a big pay day. We don't really have anyone like that now. Sure, the young guys may want that one day, but i think right now they are in their "i need to get better" stage that CP was in 2-3 years ago.
Isn't Harden in Asia right now? I'd assume it'd pretty hard to hear from him due to the timezones. Of course, that's just wishful thinkin' and that he's totally not unreachable.
This is definitely thread worthy because over the last couple of weeks a large number of informed posters have been spewing crap that Howard is probably so mad and out of here in two years because of this. I said it all along. This isn't the same Dwight. He understands what it takes it win. Paying 15 mil to a role player won't make us win. Glad we can put the "Howard is probably raging so hard zomg" nonsense to rest.
Regardless of what he is thinking internally, Dwight is publicly saying all the right things, and has consistently done that since he's arrived in Houston. He's really learned and matured since his time in LA, and leaps and bounds over his time in Orlando. Much respect. With a media-shy/ambivalent Harden as his running mate, this guy carries the load of the off-court image of the Rockets and he's more than held up his end of the deal both on and off the Court. Hope we get the pieces to get him that Championship.
