Silas sounded good in the press conference. If he works out, i'm glad the Rockets was the one who gave him his first HC job.
Did you believe Morey anymore than you do Stone when he said Tilman would spend into the tax ? .... I didn't. I knew he was just saying what he had to say knowing it wasn't true at all. Tilman has shown us at every single opportunity that he isn't willing to go into the tax .... and I believe that's ultimately why Morey walked away from the $32m left on his contract. Everything Morey did from the day Tilman took over was contrary to anything he did prior. He was the guy turning nickels into quarters into dollars ..... now all the sudden he's handing out $100 bills like they are worthless. Never made any sense to me. How can he put a competitive team around $80m in superstar contracts when he uses every available asset to duck the tax ... and in the case of the MLE in back to back years not spending it at all further reducing assets and available contracts. Building a winner with Tilman and Junior was an impossibility and he simply walked away knowing he had Philly in his back pocket.
why is it closed. That is very pessimistic. What team in this league is dominant? Why do rockets fans like you tend to be so negative and talk about closed windows when we still have the same team and 2 elite players still playing at a high level? What do you want for Rafel Stone to show his pearly whites the whole time? Is that the only way to show excitement? Did they say anything that would make you think otherwise? You choose negativity while fans like me choose positivity and optimism.
Everyone on this board is so negative. Why not give this Stone guy a chance? He seemed like he could run laps around that piece of $&@“ Morey. Sorry to all you “smallball” losers/lovers....but it is over with the great new duo of Stone and Silas.
The ironic thing is morey never actually said tilman and the rockets will pay the luxury tax like stone just hilariously did. Tilman and co leaked that they would and they leaked that morey is authorized to do so. But morey didn’t actually sit on a chair and lie through his teeth like stone just did. Textbook rookie mistake by stone since he had no idea what else to say. Because at the end of the day morey knew he had to duck it per tilman. And the casuals would believe they wouldn’t be anyway. It’s that selective memory these casual folks have. The only other person publicly saying the rockets would pay tax on several occasions was tilman. Some of these casuals need to get that straight rather than posting fake news just because that’s your narrative you prefer. Just like @J Sizzle said. Only an absolute idiot would believe stone and the non LTS at this point. Remarkably embarrassing indeed
At least Silas knows our offense and defense were predictable lol...that alone sold me. Be less predictable, add wrinkles, SWITCH it up when it doesn’t work. I like this guy over MDA already.
It's a Herculean task and you have to crunch numbers and save costs. And be a Yes man to Ferntits. You have a rookie coach, a rookie GM and a sophomore or at least inexperienced, obnoxious owner. What could go wrong? Yay the positivity!
"I think the focus on the tax is sort of a strange focus," Morey says. "People should focus on: How do you make the best possible team? When that requires us to go in the tax, we're going to do it. Tilman's fully authorized me to do whatever we can to make the team better." https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...amn-turmoil-unsettling-vibe-surrounds-rockets
like i said Morey never went on some rant to say I'm going to pay tax. He left it at he was authorized to do whatever to make the team better. yeah im not going to spend when harden is in his 20s. but I want to pay tax. gtfoh This is even more telling while tilman gets in his feelings once again about tax. But Fertitta sure doesn't find it funny. "When I even hear a mention of trying to save money on a bus or something else stupid, I'm just f---ing furious, because it's so far from the truth. OK?" Fertitta says, his voice rising. "Did I say I don't want to be in the f---ing tax one out of three years, I don't want to get in the repeater tax? Absolutely. OK, but I would have spent whatever this past year if [Morey] would have said, 'I can get this player, and this guy's going to help us win a championship.'" The original leaked report But according to a question and answer with Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle, general manager Daryl Morey is not necessarily looking to avoid paying the luxury tax again next season. Q: So how do they get better? A: Never rule out a bold move, but the most likely avenues are with the mid-level exception and minimum contracts. They could have as much as $9 million of mid-level money to spend, though given what that would take under CBA rules and the roster constraints that would bring, it is much more likely they operate with the $5.7 million exception. Though spending the exception money would push the Rockets back into the luxury tax, general manager Daryl Morey has already been given a green light to pay the tax, a person with knowledge of the team’s planning said. https://rocketswire.usatoday.com/2019/05/12/rockets-gm-daryl-morey-luxury-tax/ the good thing is we now have the hindsight answer since so much time as passed since all the we pay the LT comments by Tilman. How's it going? Well most of us know it's utter bs
You said that "The ironic thing is morey never actually said tilman and the rockets will pay the luxury tax". That's not true, he did say that TF would pay. Its's in the article that I quoted. Am I missing your point? Morey clearly said that Fertitta was willing to pay the tax.
being fully authorized to do whatever we can to make the team better is morey telling tilman I want to spend more time with my family.
I have no idea what your reply means. Morey clearly said that if he needed to go into the tax then TF had ok'd it. What am I missing?
both are nothing more than comments to help save face for tilman's dumbass. and doing whatever you can to make the team better includes a variety of avenues. It wasn't some idiotic rant like stone went on
I liked Silas in this interview and think/hope he can be a great coach for this team, he said a lot of the right things. Unfortunately I don't think it matters. The current roster is not even close to being good enough to win, we have too many bad contracts, and we all know this team isn't going into the luxury tax. So it's hard to be enthusiastic about the immediate future of this team. We aren't championship caliber and we aren't a contender. Maybe we can be enthusiastic about Silas being a great coach for the post Harden rebuild.
yup. The one small thing is Silas is probably a solid coach. I like his energy thus far. But he has a ton of work ahead of him being put in a mess of a team. Outside of harden and a few others, this roster is incredibly flawed which was one at the top of the list. Until that gets fixed w/ better ownership nobody should expect this team to be better
