2017: Tilman: I decided to purchase the rockets for 2 billions Les: deal! Congratulation! Tilman: Thank you. Looking forward to it. Really excited. Les: and i want to introduce you to Morey. Come with me to morey’s office. Morey: hello, my new boss, Tilman. Tilman: morey, nice to meet you. Umm...Can I speak to you privately? Morey: sure, not a problem. What is it, sir? Tilman: umm...morey. Here is my rule. I may interfere your work. And I don’t want to pay luxury tax. There will be spending limit. If you want to trade for someone, you would need my approval Morey: what? Is this your plan? Les would not do these things while he was an owner (thinking about resigning because of this) Tilman: well....he was no longer an owner Forward to 2020: morey: ok Tilman. I have had enough with you. I decided to quit. Tilman: why you quit? Morey: umm...just want to move to east coast to spend with family. Tilman: Was it about me? Morey: umm...well, no. two days later: morey: (calling Sixers) I want to be joining you now. Sixers: deal! No interview needed. You are hired! 2 hours later: Tilman: (looking at news) what??! Morey, no!!!!!!
Stone may have worked under Morey but he’s smart enough to pave his own path. He’s already doing what I hoped he would do, which is accumulating draft picks for a major rebuild. By the way, this dude is freaking smart. Graduated Stanford law school and worked for one of the top law firms in New York doing mergers and acquisitions. It’s hard not to cheer for a guy that left a law career to follow his passion for basketball.
I will do that but can you give me a paraphrase of the tweet? Is in on his own twitter account? Since you already posted it you would think it would be easy to link too.
That's great, but it's not how 90% of bosses work. Consider yourself lucky but out of touch of how things usually work.
Agreed. Stone has nothing to say about Fertits being his boss. But so far with his hands tied, seems to be very capable.
Stone has major game. Now, he's going to continue this maneuver by using that TPE to reel in another starter+. This guy is a chess player like Daryl, but a SILENT assassin.
I think Stone is a bit freer to do things Morey couldn't. Maybe his departure was for the best for everyone. Morey signing Howard to the 76ers tells me he had little interest in James. Either he didn't think the Rockets would move him to the 76ers or he wasn't seriously interested. In either case, Howard's signing tells me that boat has sailed. For all the great things Morey did, and as funny as it is to say, Morey had too much loyalty to certain guys, especially over the past few seasons. He should have been willing to move Tucker and Gordon. He stuck on to them as part of the core, but did not really think of major overhauls outside of the ones he was forced to make by James. Stone to me has more flexibility. He can trade Russ, heck he can move Harden if the price is right. I think you need a GM with that level of flexibility, and right now he seems to have it. If he is able to operate independently going forward, that will be a huge plus for the teams direction.
I like it if Stone actually showed stones to ignore Harden once he started to use the media to put pressure on the Rockets and make us look like a hot mess. More likely is that Harden hasn’t returned calls. Either way, Stone has a week to clean this up and get the trade out of the way.
I seriously cant understand the love and approval of Stone and so much hate towards Morey when such little time has passed since Stone took over. How bias can you be?
