Daryl Morey - this is your mess - get to work fixing it!

Morey is closer to Hinkie than to Kerr. Good thing Les stepped in and fired Mchale. Just like Silver stepping and putting a stop to Hinkie's bull****.

 

Hinkie..Kerr..Morey

One of those is not like the other.

 

huh???

 

Harden is playing largely the same way as last year. It's hand-waving BS to say that he was playing more 'team-oriented' last year.

 

The things is, action WAS done. It's just that you disagree with the action, because instead of giving the reins to an unproven young coach, you'd rather it be given to an established task master like Thibs. But really think about it, JB has been part of this system and the players know him, so making this move makes more logical sense than bringing somebody else with a completely alien system that might require a complete shift in the identity of the team. And this is (almost) the same team that has proven to be very successful for a longer period than just 1/4 of a season. So why completely change it up?

IMO, getting rid of McHale was almost a symbolic move by management to tell the players to get their ish together. If the problems are deeper than that, then having a full season as empirical proof is needed before you make any drastic changes.

Leadership requires more than one thing, and being reactionary based on emotion, and basically giving up the season by completely changing what has proven to work in the recent past, with essentially the same cast, IS an emotional reaction. The path Morley took is definitely the logical path, so right now we have to see how it goes and evaluate once the season is over.

 

"daryl, if we let kevin go, what's your idea of our nex thead coach? whom you think its gonna be?"

"sir, i think jb should do just fine. my confidence in moreyball and my belief in statistics are unshaken. so no need to get a coach from outside, les."

"ok, then. get it done. i will call kevin tonight. and you give jb a call, alright?"

 

The "thing" did work.

We got to the WCF last year.

No "good" coach is going to disagree with the taking the best shot selections.

 

The Clippers were not a crappy team last year, they were excellent.

Yes we are taking the best shots. Harden contested threes are probably less than 5% of our total shots taken. We simply are not hitting good shots.

Since Harden has been here we have had the 6th, 4th, 12th, and now 13th rated offenses. You may not think it is pretty, but it is effective

The Rockets direction is fine.

Stop complaining.

 

I disagree that the Rockets weren't competitive in the Golden State series. The first two games could have went either way, and game two was literally lost at the buzzer on a turnover. If Harden scores on that last possession who knows how the series might have changed.

 

We were in the WCF 25 games ago. 25 DD, 25 games ago. Twenty five. Last season. The most recent post season ago. Less than 6 months. We lost to apparently one of the greatest of all time teams.

The coach got fired after ten games because it looked like we might not be on the same path. Ten. Ten games, they gave him.

You are ranting, I get it. Rant away. Rant to your hearts content. Be mad, be angry. Be upset. Be disappointed. I can accept ranting. I am not okay with you using your frustration to start making broad and inaccurate statements about what is right and wrong with this organizations, especially given your track record. And when you do that, I will be there to put facts against your absurd claims.

And yes, I do complain, a lot. Unlike our organization, our fans are downright pathetic. They haven't earned any credibility and they don't deserve patience. If you say something stupid, you deserve to be chastised for it.

 

This. For whatever reason(s), coaching, chemistry, effort, injuries, laws of mathematics, or some combination of those things, it hasn't worked out so far this year.

Mathematically the law of averages seem to be swinging back into our favor after baffling team shooting slump. We still have to go through a trade deadline (to address the need for a legit secondary guard and maybe a better wing) and the West is baffling weak in the middle so there's a shot for us to go into the post season as a dark horse contender.

 

Are Les and Morey pathetic for firing McHale?

 

"Part of" it? For you, it's practically all of it. You complain and you overrate white and European role players well after they've been proven to be flops. Those two things add up to 100% of "being a fan" for you. That is why this thread is so annoying.

And the revisionist history is amazing. We underperformed according to you last year? The Clippers were bad? We overperformed in every way last year and to a man everyone here (excepting b-holic complaining about Jones) was thrilled with the offseason.

You have taken "what have you done for me lately" to a new level. Nobody, most especially including you, saw this year's problems coming. And no GM could have reacted more quickly or aggressively in addressing them. That makes this thread ridiculous on its face but probably the worst parts of the thread are your suggestions for how to turn it around.

Never has cf.net had a poster that believed so strongly he knew better than the GM. If only they'd listened to you maybe all those players that returned to Europe or went to languish on the bench of another team would be all-stars, right?

If you included one good suggestion in this thread it might have been worth something at least. Instead all you do is tell Morey to do his job as if he didn't know he was supposed to be doing that. Among your incredibly many armchair GM posts, all filled with solutions that rely on players that failed to make anything of themselves in the league, this is among the silliest.

 

Lol "crappy clippers team" that knocked off the spurs

 

lol morey god