Cuban OWNS an NBA team and is worth over $2.6B. I don't think Morey will EVER have the last laugh. Morey doesn't have the luxury of keeping his job forever... And for the record, Mavs have enough space next year to sign another Max deal. So cross out point 1. Point 2 is valid. Point 3 is not. Point 4 sums up the Rockets best. Find talent in the 2nd round and see them disappear within 2-3 years. If Morey keeps this philosophy up, he won't even get a first laugh in.
So its the GM's fault that players want to play in bigger markets? Or it's his fault that Bosh took 30 million more from MIA that HOU could not offer? Or that DAL offered CP the max when everyone in the league knows he isn't a max player? Your agenda is obvious, but you don't have to go over the top with it breh..
sidenote... if yer Dirk, how do you accept that Chandler is making almost twice the $$$$ you are? LOL!
mark cuban: 1 championship daryl morey: 1 playoff series victory you're right. daryl morey owns mark cuban.
This is my position as well. He's the strategic leader of the team. He's responsible for all the bad things that happen. He knew or should have known the risks of sacrificing all those guys for cap space hoping a big free agent will sign. Just like he knew or should have known the risks of being mediocre with Scola and Martin while trying to lure a free agent, or of riding the suspect health of Yao and T-Mac. Not that he shouldn't take these risks, but part of his job is to manage risk and take good bets. Maybe this offseason was a good bet, but he sure as hell didn't win it. Just like Yao/TMac was a probably a good bet, but he lost that one. And, having Scola and Martin waiting for Godot was probably a bad bet and he lost that too. I know the counter-argument will be that these things (especially the 40 years wandering in the wilderness with Scola and Martin) are Les' fault, not Morey's, but I don't accept that either. Les might be the boss, but Morey is the professional -- he's supposed to find a way to make the team win. He needs to advise Les, or find alternate routes to victory when there are constraints. Making excuses for him is like saying it isn't Tony Hayward's fault the Deepwater Horizon blew up. He had nothing to do with it blowing up, but also unfortunately nothing to do with it not blowing up. Leaders get the blame; that's the way it is. Besides, if Bosh had signed, he'd be basking in the glory of the coup right now, so since Bosh didn't sign he has to wallow in the shame of failing.
The Rockets could not offer as much money as the free agent's former teams. The Knicks could offer Carmelo an extra year and more money. Same with the Heat and Bosh. That's what makes it so difficult to snag a big-time free agent. No team in the NBA could offer Carmelo what the Knicks did or Bosh what the Heat did. Morey had Bosh until Pat Riley panicked and gave Bosh a max 5-year deal.
It's kind of difficult when the franchise players could not stay healthy due to injury. If Yao and Tracy didn't have chronic injuries plaguing their careers, don't you think the story would have been much different? Not only did that hurt the team on the court, but it hurts their value on the market. So they couldn't win on the court, and not much value could be recouped. That was pretty devastating for the organization. Yet Morey was able rebuild the team to what we have now without ever tanking or landing a star through the draft. That's a pretty incredible feat.
^^^ +1. Imagine what the 2000s Laker dynasty would have been if Kobe and Shaq had chronic injury problems. Morey took pretty much zero and if he had 'run hot' this offseason we could be one of the top 3 teams easily. He got unlucky and we still have a team with about a 5% shot of winning it all which isn't bad. To put it into perspective, the 94-95 championship team had a slightly worse shot of winning.
Yep, people will point to Portland having similar issues with Oden and Roy but forget that they also had Aldridge the whole time. Morey is a friggen alchemist and some of you clamor for him to turn water into wine.
Of course, if you're talking about who is worth the most, Cuban will always win. If i'm talking about wittiness, I place my bet on Morey. You can't help but wonder if Terry and the second-round picks trade for nothing is a little jab at Cuban, when Morey said earlier this offseason, "develop talent, not overpay for one." I'm willing to roll the dice on Jason terry to see if he has something in the tank. All we need him to do is catch-n-shoot off the bench. Harden and Howard will probably make him a better player and wide open shooter. If it doesn't pan out, his contract expires after this season.
Stupid thread. Morey is an analytical/money ball guy. He has his system and he sticks to it. Morey does not makes moves for the Houston Rocket franchise based on owning certain other nba front offices or gettting the last laugh. That is for Mark Cuban and the rest of the Dallas Mavericks organization.
You hit it right on the money. Morey has yet to get the last laugh. This roster does not look ready to make it past the first round. He's so many steps ahead that the man seems incapable of looking at the task in hand which is to win now. This season isbon him if we don't go far into the playoffs.
