Morey's true test as a gm coming in the next two years

Kyle Lowry for $25-30 million? No way.

 

Why are we still setting up tests for morey? He's a great track record... and delivered year after year. There's no make or brake anymore. He's a talent. and we're lucky to have him.

 

Because his approach is different, and it remains to be seen if its a good way to build a championship team or just a good way to build an overachieving team.

 

knock knock
whos there
daryl
daryl who
daryl never be another gm like you!
keep up the good work woooooooooooo!

 

I understand what you mean - we're seeing how his approach works in different situations...

Keep in mind, every year, amongst the 30 teams, there is only one GM (regardless of approach) who is able to prove their ability to build a championship team.

I think his track record is more important than what he accomplishes in 2010...

 

When you say year after year, I guess you mean last year and the year before.

Morey has obviously done a great job, but he has only partially built this current team. Yao and Tracy, who consume the vast majority of the current payroll had nothing to do with Morey. It will definitely be interesting to see what Morey will do next year, and finding undervalued roll players is a COMPLETELY different thing than landing an all-star or a super-star talent.

At a certain point in basketball, I would think the most advanced statistical analysis would be inadequate. The best superstars may not be 10X better than the best role players, but they will still earn 10X the salary of the role players because they are so much rarer. In statistical analysis, bigger sample sizes provide more accurate results. Typically, you throw out the highest and lowest because there are always aberrant factors that will skew the results. With super-star players - they are the aberrant factors. They don't really earn what they are worth. They earn as much as you are allowed to pay them.

There also aren't many overlooked super-stars. They're all getting their minutes and everyone knows about them.

 

Morey has set values and practices... if he doesn't differ, I think he, Rick and Les will lead this team to a championship.

 

An excellent point. You can only have so many overachievers on your team and you can only play 5 at a time.

 

He doesn't even have to win a championship, necessarily. If he can construct a team that consistently gets deep into the playoffs, I think he's done his job. After that, its up to the coaches/players to win it all.

 

Yes, the GM's job is to give the coaches and players the resources to win a championship. After the 2 championships, Dawson consistently gave us fatally flawed teams. We never really had a chance.

It isn't just Rockets fans watching Morey. Over the next few years, a lot of NBA owners will be waiting to see how successful he can be.

 

I have to agree with the O.P. If Magic Morey can do a good enough job to still be in our good graces after the next 2 years, after being handicapped in the 1st one, he will be able to walk into Les' office and do a Duanta Robinson....PAY ME LES

 

Once he gets a championship, he gets a book deal and an espn special... "Moreyball."

 

Maybe on a 10 year deal?

Otherwise I'm with ya!

 

all these guys are mid level guys ... in the NBA today people are constantly holding out for max players and it's a heavy competition to get signed at the MLE ... the rest of the people get worked in as the salary cap allows ...

 

I thought it was cool for Morey to go all the way to Toronto for a preseason game, most G.M's wouldn't do that.

 

man, morey and rick need to be signed to long term contracts,period

 

The true test will be seeing if Morey can do anything to bring us a superstar. We would trade all our supporting talent to do that, because in theory Morey could just find some other bargains off the waiver wire like he's been doing the past three years.

 

is it 30 year contract?

 

the only person i can see leaving this team for money elswhere would be landry

he showed signs of leaving 2 years ago when he got an offer from the bobcats plus he wants a starting job and that cant happen if we still have scola.