If Les Alexander and Mark Cuban switched teams, would the Rockets be better?

Sometimes, you just gotta let it go...

 

Cuban is the best owner in sports IMO

 

$10 from you. . . .

 

Morey and Cuban would not co-exist. Remember when Gersson Rosas left the rockets for the Mavs GM job. He and Cuban parted ways after half a season because of philosophical differences.

 

No, not at all

 

Rockets had an injury plagued season and are still crushing the Mavs, currently at #2 in WCF. The Mavs' trades this year (RONDO) have been incredibly bad. They had a promising backup C in Wright and gave him away for a piece of garbage PG who is worse than Jameer Nelson. Hope they rot away in mediocrity like they did in the 80's and 90's.

 

We'll see about that. He has one championship to his name. Lets see what he does when Dirk retires. The Mavs have not been a consistent franchise, not even close to the Rockets. Outside of the current Dirk era they have been a mostly irrelevant NBA franchise.

 

I think pairing Cuban with Morey would be excellent.

 

Mavs suck. Everything about them sucks. I don't understand- you put down the owner for the Rockets' only 2 championships? And the coach who has you at a #2 seed in the West? As a Spurs fan, some of you like this Tinman are not really good Rockets fans. You should follow the suckass Mavs if you like Cuban over the rockets owner. Cuban is a media w****, he constantly makes dumb decisions, and he has 1 championship to your Rockets two.

Shocked at how little some of you support your team.

 

I love Cuban's passion for his team but at the end of the day he takes things too personally. You can't go crippling your own team just because a GM of a team pisses you off and you want to get even. Parsons signing will end up crippling them, good player but on superstar money and I would be surprised if he's ever an all star, the Rondo trade is horrible to them and you wonder if it wasn't because of the rumours of us wanting him.

 

Cuban spent an extraordinary amount of money on luxury taxes, about $250m, more than the lakers i think.

Under the old cba i'd definitely take Cuban, simply because more spending meant more winning.

Under this one, breaking the apron hamstrings your ability to get better which is why teams (except the nyets) won't do it until they feel they are perennial winner types (see Miami), in this cba where salary cap gymnastics has become more valuable than open pockets, the owner who gets out of the way is better, so Les.

 

Blasphemy. Cuban is a douche and if he owned the Rockets (god forbid) we would not have Morey. If you read between the lines of any Morey/Cuban interviews, their disdain for each other is real.

I'll take the best GM in basketball over a douchebag any day.

 

This is the same interview where he said Chandler Parsons "has no ceiling" and didn't disagree that he could eventually take over for Dirk. So, yeah, it's safe to say that Morey wasn't being completely honest. If Parsons really had no ceiling then there's no way we wouldn't have matched his deal. $15 million per for a guy with limitless potential would have been a steal.

 

There's a saying about fences make great neighbors. These guys couldn't coexist.



This is a dump on Les thread if you guys couldn't read into it.

 

You're leaving half the equation out of it, it's $15 mil plus pretty much no way to trade him if he doesn't perform. Put poop and potential in two hands, see which one fills up faster. Potential is great, we don't need potential, we need a performer already there. If we are shelling out that cash and a contract that is hell to trade, he's already got to be actualizing a decent amount of that potential. CP25 still needs work.

 

Surprised at just how Patterson built the rosters for our 2 title-winning teams, but his rep has taken massive hits with how he ran the Blazers and now at Texas as the new A.D.

 

Not really apt. It's more like saying I'm a genius for buying apple stock right before the iPod came out. The Rockets might have had the right pieces in place, but it's not like they were exactly at the top when he picked them up either. In '91 they got swept in the 1st round, in '92 they didn't make the playoffs, in'93 they lost in the 2nd round, then under Alexander in '94.. well you know the rest. I'm not undervaluing Patterson's contributions, I'm also not overvaluing Alexander's either.

If you asked me for a situation where Alexander has kept the Rockets from succeeding because of his pocketbook (like James Harden and OKC) I would be hard pressed to find an example. Does it suck that we couldn't just pay Dream gobs of money to play a final season in red (or actually the ugly ass blue)? Yup. Did that dramatically set back this team? Not really.