There's at least 3 important phases a team undergoes in its life cycle: Rebuild - gather cheap core assets, draft gud Playoff mediocrity - form principles and a system to attract FA and elite coaching talent Championship contender - ideally they're "one or two last pieces away". More importantly need to manage cap space and delay the tax apron time bomb. Murry was good at the second phase, meh on the third, but avoided the first. Stone is getting good grades for the first, but still unknown for the other two
The long winter may be over soon enough. Hopefully the acquiring stars phase of the rebuild is as successful as the acquiring future draft capital phase has been.
Well **** - turns out he isn't a chemistry builder as much as he is a "PEARL CLUTCHER" the guy holds on to everyone - and can't make a decent trade. Drafting is easy, but you have to flip picks and players for ones that fit. We have drafted decently but we have FLIPPED miserably..... Stone started out ok and has FAILED miserably.....ugh. DD
This! The front office and Ime need to sit down as soon as the season is over figure out what the direction of the team is. Stone did a great job in acquiring assets. He did exactly what he was supposed to do in collecting assets and draft picks during the start of the rebuild. The question now is what and who are we building around. If we're building around Sengun then Jabari might have to move to the bench. Alot of the pieces do not compliment each other and they need to figure out what we are doing. Some people here wanted Harden back in Houston but that would most likely mean that Alp is gone. Harden will want to push the pace and definitely not slow it down to allow Alp to work in the paint which is his strength. I believe that is why he left Philly. What we are seeing right now is a perfect example of too many Chefs make the soup go bad. If we don't see any course of action this offseason in getting all the right pieces to the direction we're going, Stone is done. Next season marks almost 5 years since Morey stepped down and we're no better of a situation than when he left.
This hasn’t aged well.. A GM has to understand all aspects of the team, and although he’s done some good things, at this point, he’s amassed almost too much youth and draft picks. You can’t hoard all of this. Should’ve flipped some of these assets for a star player or one on the cusp, to team with Sengun. Perhaps that will come this offseason. The team doesn’t carry a balanced roster. Need to figure out how they want the team structured.. not this hodgepodge of players tossed together in a blender and told good luck, figure it out
Some of y’all hated Morey so god damn much when he was very good at his job. Hopefully one day Stone gets to his level. Not going to say he can’t or won’t, but he hasn’t come close yet.
Morey inherited a roster with Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady talk about apples to oranges! His first 3-4 years saw the awesome moves of landing Kevin Martin, Kyle Lowry, and Goran Dragic! Hey at least we didnt "suck" we were just Loveable Losers! Amazing what guys like James Harden will do for GM and coaching resumes!
Yeah Morey inherited Yao and Tmac but then they went on to have their best Rockets seasons due to Morey's moves. Then the two years the Rockets were mediocre, after the season Yao went out for good, so not going to count this against Morey. That was also the same season Tmac had the fluke comeback. Morey is really one of the best GMs in the NBA the last 30 years. He'd have hardware to show for it if his team wasn't facing the GOAT NBA team but even then almost took them down.
