Tmac did not sell signing Howard season ago as a monumental move with the help of McHale, then fired McHale and still clinging onto declining Howard.
Thank you! Morey built the team he built and every one of us (including him) expected the team to do well until it didn't. No one could have predicted it and no one did.
No one predicted a rapid decline of so many players simultaneously. But I did say last offseason that letting Smith walk was a mistake. Which it was since we were left with T-Jones, a still injured D-Mo, and rookie Harrell at the 4. I did question the drafting of Sam Dekker with the team already loaded at the 3(assuming Brewer and McDaniels resigned which they did). I did have concerns about Dwight's health and declining athleticism which have been major issues this year. And most importantly, I never liked how Morey picked up the 4th year option on McHale after he blew the Portland series and then extended him so quickly a month and a half into the following season. Morey rolled the dice on everything working out great(injuries aside) like they did last season and instead got almost the opposite result. So yes, the Rockets' woes do start with him. The real questions going forward are how can this be fixed and is he the right GM for the job. On the latter, I'm firmly in the camp that believes his time is up and he needs to be fired.
A trolling thread title would be: "Morey blame fans for season's woes" :grin: Anyway, when Morey retires and writes his autobiography, I want to know what exactly happened this season. I have a feeling that he knows what's wrong but has no way to fix it, and cannot say it out in public.
I didn't predict the steep downfall like this. But I said after last season that while everybody was piling on how lucky GSW were, the Rockets were the real lucky team. I also said that that team, despite the WCF appearance, had a lot of quit in them. People say this team lack talent. I'd say this team has talent alright. What they lack is character.
Everyone is responsible but he claims it starts with him? What does that mean? You can't apologize and then claim something is not your fault.
This season taught us that Morey should get players based on character, team chemistry and not on talent. He mentioned that his strategy was to just get the most talented players out there and make it work thereafter. I hope Howard and Harden's chemistry and effort has taught him him that doesn't work.
We have one player on this roster not named Harden who can actually create his own shot and we signed him from the CBA. Yeah, Daryl, this does start with you.
In terms of personnel, the only real blame that Morey deserves is becoming "loyal" after the results of last season. Namely in the re-signing of Brewer to a deal that I am certain that he regrets. The other mistake that he made in signing KJ over Smith was quickly rectified when Smith returned. The re-signing of Kevin Mchale screams emotional Les to me, I'm pretty certain that Morey would have waited until the end of the season before making such a move. Morey landed Ty Lawson, which was an excellent move, but it blew up in our face. The inability to incorporate Lawson was a true indictment on our terribad coaching staff. Morey had his hand in molding our offense into this mess, but the threes and paint shots philosophy isn't what has failed, it has simply been adopted by the rest of the league. The rest of the league "caught up" to the strategy, and has become more disciplined against our extremely simple offense. Our initial idea of having Mchale be the "motivator" and have an offensive coordinator (Chris Finch?) and defensive coordinator (Kelvin Sampson was our defense then surprisingly JB who did well last year) actually was a pretty innovative idea. What really disappoints me is how Chris Finch apparently implemented Rick Adelman's system for two years in the RGV, and our team has now apparently forgotten all of its principles. On defense, the "gambling and pressure" style that worked so well for us last year has been our doom this year. Probably the main problem is that last year we had Dmo, Josh Smith, Tarik Black, and other smarter defenders who worked their tails off, and this season we had an uninspired Dwight and TJones. Also Ariza dropped off hard and Harden reverted. At the end of the day, Morey has given us a lot more good seasons than bad. The wheels fell off the cart this season, and our coaching should take most of the blame. The lack of a system (I don't think this is on Morey) and lack of discipline ultimately falls on the coaching staff, who should all be turned over next year.
Yes Morey. It is on you. I was initially going to blame Anise Parker and Joel Olsteen, but then I realized that it wouldn't have made much sense.
Morey's not wrong, he is the one who hired the laughably incompetent JBB as head coach, he's the one that put the roster together. I don't think Morey should lose his job, but if his next head coaching hire isn't just drastically better then he'll need to go then. He gets sort of a get out of jail free card right now due to good things he's done in the past, but now that it's been played, he won't have it anymore.
If anyone is to blame, it's BOTH Les Alexander and Daryl Morey. Les was so outraged by the teams play early on that he, without thinking, forced Morey to fire McHale. Then let an unproven, inexperienced assistant coach lead a bunch of scrubs who refuse to play defense. Morey's fault is enforcing a style a play that doesn't fit with the makeup of this team. They're supposed to be a 3-point shooting team, yet no one on the roster can make a 3.
Hm very rarely have I seen a gm openly take responsibillity like that. Because they are usually too afraid to get fired. Which makes me believe Morey feels secure enough about his job to make such statements.
I remember what you said bro, I remember it all too well which is why all these people claiming "nobody could have known!" are making me shake my head. Instead of building a team, this dude was star chasing and puppeteering with Mchale at the helm since Harden got here. I can find countless posts where TheRealist, TheFreak, you, me and a number of other posters predicted that the rockets would fall flat on their face. Not gonna rag on DM anymore though, he is a SMART and very capable GM. He just got very over confident and arrogant...to the point he thought he could coach the team from behind the FO and say things like "coaching doesn't matter." I hope he has learned that the culture in an organization is key and that having someone at odds with him like Adelman is good, since the coach and GM will keep each other in check.
