As much as I **** on what the rockets have/have not accomplished in the Harden Era, the heat making it before the Rockets is just due to good timing and building a solid team. That heat team is not better than a few different Rocket teams. Nowhere close to the 18 squad. Not to take away what the Heat have done. They’ve built a really good team that should only get better going forward.
@Reeko How did the Astros make to the World Series before the Rockets ? How did birds fly before fish ?
He co-built the Miami Heatles. He co-built the Cavs from 04-09. Gave his input to the Cavs team that beat the GSW years ago. It didn't help Morey because Morey isn't the best player on the planet. He can only do things off the court.
Morey isn't even close to being in the same league. Riley has played, coached championship teams, did manager jobs, he did it all and was a legend. Of course he got more appeal. Morey is a glorified stats nerd but a good one, hasn't even played basketball professionally, just a table tennis amateur. What street cred....
LOL Remember this? If you team up with LerBon, only gonna win 45 games, no championship. If you team up with broken Yao, you're gonna win 60 games! #MoreyAnalysis "Morey's analysis whereby with Yao and Bosh, the Rockets could be a 60-win team, whereas a few superstars and some minimum contracts would only get Bosh 45 wins or so." "The Rockets will also stress that if Bosh joins the Rockets, they're likely a 60-win team. If he forms a triumvirate with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade in Miami, the Rockets believe the team won't have enough supporting talent to support a championship team. The Rockets believe such a pairing would produce a 45-win team."
Dwight Howard is a Champion Dwight says Im a Champion literally. Even after never Winning One Championship. Media made fun if him after that statement. Soon he will be Champion. Talk about Mindset aligning with Good Karma.
Being the best player in the league for the last decade helps. Also it's easy when you can literally force a team to trade you a top 5 player.
Easy answer They care about coaching. They care about quality depth. They care about utilizing the entire basketball court.
and with all that brilliance, they missed the playoffs 3 of the previous 5 years. we got people who b**** and moan about the 2018 rockets winning 65 games and only getting super close to beating the most talented team ever even with the cp3 injury. i shudder to think what mental states those posters would be in with 3 non-playoff seasons in the last 5 years. if you don't count the years their brilliant front office got lebron james because their best player was best friends with lebron, the heat have won 1 playoff series in the previous 9 non-lebron seasons before this one.
One more thing. Riley is a tampering cheat. Got caught twice but the second time he found a loophole. Rocket River
imagine going into a meeting and telling Bosh he’d win only 45 games with Lebron and Wade... this is why 99% of the players think analytics is sh*t and buy none of what Morey is out here selling
