. . . and on more than one show I've heard people mention McHale as a coach of the year candidate. The people that actually know basketball love McHale and Morey. Do people realize that only 7 teams have won a championship since 95? You can do a good job and still not succeed. To make a deep run in the West you have to have the stars align in your favor. This is the first time we've had a loaded healthy team headed into the playoffs with home court advantage. If you're still pessimistic about our chances I'm not really sure what to tell you.
Huh? You can't give high praise to a GM for regular season moves, then imply it doesn't matter what we do moving forward in the playoffs. The playoffs are EVERYTHING. Rocket fans were miserable last year when we lost to Portland, as any die hard Rocket fan should be. You can't keep praising Daryl Morey as being an elite GM but keep lowering the standards for him too. Eventually results have to become a factor
Cuban and Morey together? No way!! It seems to me that Morey needs and has earned the right to make decisions freely without having an owner scrutinize every little move he does, at least that is what i feel Les gives him, space and authority to do his job. Given their rivalry these past couple of years I dont think Cuban would be interested in Morey anyway, and if he did hire him i seriously doubt Morey would have the liberties he enjoys in Houston to do his job.
Kinda pathetic how some posters only come on here to b**** when things aren't good but completely disappear when things are going well.
This year you can. Howard is still getting into shape. Bev is out. Jones is banged up. DMo is banged up. This team can't win playoff games without most of those guys being able to play at a high level. Morey has put together a team that is capable of winning regular season games with all those injuries but it is damn near impossible to put together a team that can win playoff games without their best players healthy. I'm not sure the Rockets can get there with cohesion with so little time left and I'm not faulting Morey for that.
Almost every team in the west has had injuries. Absolutely no excuses at this point. You have a MVP candidate & a elite center near 100%. You're giving Morey credit for having a 50 win regular season (which he deserves), but wanna add a disclaimer in case that 50 win team doesn't succeed in the post season series?
Honestly I don’t understand why people b**** so much about Morey, from my point of view this is the first year that Morey has built a contending team. We all know what happened with the Yao/TMac team he inherited and how he improved it to a point where we were very promising but unfortunately lady luck was not on our side back then and our cornerstones broke down, that is hardly anybody’s fault. Then after a few years he manages to rebuild and once again the Rockets became relevant thanks to his moves. People get confused because they incorrectly believe that last season’s team was good enough to contend but in reality we were not. We all thought we had a good enough team but we didn’t, we know that now because we can compare the difference between having Parsons and having Ariza, between having Lin or Garcia and having Brewer, between having ASik and having Smith, the truth is we are much better now then what we were last year, so much so that we have played about 50% of the season without one of our superstars and we are still having a better season than last year. If even with all these improvements we still end up getting knocked out in the first round this year then I could understand people wanting changes in management, and even then it would be hard to agree with that. In the meantime we just have to wait and see what happens….. My personal prediction is conference finals, I think we are arguably better than anybody but Golden State, but if we do end up making it to the NBA Finals I think we should be the favorites against any team from the east.
There is a huge difference between having injuries and having two of your starters out for over half the season and having a third that is now gone for the year. Teams don't just magically step on the court and play well together. It might all fall into place for the Rockets in the playoffs but there is also a chance the guys don't get on the same page in enough time. How exactly is that Morey's fault if the latter happens?
vice versa. Beat wizards, we could win the chip guys. Then goes on and says we coukd lose in the first round
Injury excuses not allowed? Then I guess OKC should fire Presti since his team is clearly in decline based on the win/loss record and them barely making the playoffs (assuming they do).
Yeah that is such a joke, I wonder if the GM of the Patriots needs to get fired if Brady is injured and they don't win the super bowl, or if the president of Barca should get fired if Messi gets injured and they dont win the Champions league.....
It's basketball. The Clippers lost Blake around the same time we lost Dwight. Jamal Crawford has been injured. Just about every team has had injuries. There aren't any excuses at this point. Dwight is 100%, Harden's playing MVP ball & our bench is very productive. We are fortunate enough to have 98% of our team healthy going into the postseason. Aint no excuses for Morey anymore. You can't have it both ways. If you're giving him credit for building a fantastic regular season team, you can't act like he's getting a raw deal with that same team going into the playoffs. "Morey has built this team into a contender even with all the injuries we've suffered.....In Morey we trust" or "If we do lose in the 1st round again, we can't blame Morey this time because we had all the injuries. Morey got a raw deal". Which is it?
If there is anyone out there who can blame Morey's decision in the last 10 months, I think its Kpap and his agent. Morey's decision to bring him over and the way the contract was signed, could basically end his career as a NBA player. He is the perfect example of Morey treating a player like the stock exchange but not the player himself. If he will be granted a similar contract like Capela and will join the Rockets with a rather long term goal, he could very well have a much better ending than he is looking at now.
Its this one... " we could win the chip guys but the weatern conference is so tough anyone can lose". Built in disclaimer.
