1. Now they can go somewhere where they take credit for their own success. 2. Now they can "claim" credit for the success that Houston has since they were here when the major moves were made.
We are so screwed. Hinkie, Rosas, and Karnisovas were behind every trade and decision made. Morey was just the media mouthpiece b/c his good looks and sweet talkin
Congrats Gersson on a likely well-deserved promotion! Now, go die in a fire. I hate your guts, stupid MFFL.
While I expected something like this, I honestly didn't expect it so quickly. It does seem like the new-age owners are more in tuned with Morey's ways, so they're poaching from us so quickly. Basically, what Morey needs to do is find people who can help us stay ahead of the pack. Find newer market inequalities and in general better at finding talent.
Story from The Monitor newspaper in McAllen: http://www.themonitor.com/sports/ri...cle_d848d446-f2f6-11e2-a5cc-0019bb30f31a.html ============================= Posted: Monday, July 22, 2013 12:47 pm Dennis Silva II | The Monitor It’s been a busy July for the Vipers. After head coach Nick Nurse left for an assistant coaching gig with the Toronto Raptors on July 9, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban confirmed Monday that Rockets VP of basketball operations and Vipers general manager Gersson Rosas is his team’s new general manager. “We wanted to add not just brainpower but organizational, management and process power. I asked (Mavs president) Donnie (Nelson) to go out there and find out who we thought would be the person to do that,” Cuban told ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM. “He came up with Gersson’s name. We’ve been talking to him for, I don’t know, maybe a month or so. We decided to go for it.” Rosas was not available for comment Monday. Vipers president Bert Garcia said he was aware of the reports of Rosas leaving. “I can’t comment yet because the league nor Gersson have confirmed details of his role,” Garcia said early Monday afternoon. Rosas, 35, has overseen a Vipers franchise that won two D-League championships and made three Finals appearances since he assumed the general manager role in 2009. A Yahoo! Sports report said he will handle the Mavericks’ pro and college personnel departments, free agency and scouting. Rosas was with Houston for nine years, working his way up from a start as video coordinator before significantly helping to reshape the Rockets’ roster and earning a reputation as an elite talent evaluator. “We really needed somebody with stronger organizational and management skills to pull these pieces together,” Cuban told the ESPN radio station. “When we found somebody with that process and management skill like Gersson and also someone who has had experience working with an analytics group, working with a D-League team, working in talent evaluation, that was just an added plus that made him the perfect candidate.” Rosas is the third Rockets front office member to leave this offseason. Executive Sam Hinkie left in May to become the Philadelphia 76ers’ general manager and earlier this month the Denver Nuggets hired away scouting director Arturas Karnisovas to be their assistant general manager. The Vipers went through a similar circumstance in their second offseason following the 2008-2009 season when they saw a drastic overhaul of personnel that eventually brought in Rosas. Garcia said he expects things to be handled similarly this time around. While he and ownership will likely be involved in the hiring search for each respective position, the Rockets will have final say. “I would consider this like trying to start over,” said Garcia, whose franchise will be looking for its fifth head coach and third general manager. NOTES: Garcia confirmed Monday that the team will initiate a renewed three-year lease with State Farm Arena beginning with the 2013-14 season. Since their inception in 2007, the Vipers have played all their home games at the arena. Garcia said the franchise reviewed other options, but found the best fit was still in Hidalgo. “This new contract will adjust to some of the things we were facing financially and structurally,” Garcia said. “It adjusts to what the economy gives us and the size of the team we have now. There’s just not as good of a facility with the quality that State Farm Arena has.” … Guard Chris Johnson was the lone Viper representative on the NBA D-League Select team that competed against NBA teams in the Vegas Summer League. The D-League team went 4-1. Johnson, a 6-6, 201-pound guard out of Dayton, played in all five games and averaged seven points and 2.6 rebounds in 16.8 minutes. He averaged 10.6 points and 4.2 rebounds in 39 games with the Vipers last season, which included a brief call-up to the Memphis Grizzlies in late January.
I'm not worried. Sam is already up in Philly eff'n up. He traded for a big man with a knee injury (they just had Bynum and he trades for Noel.. Noel probably would have fell to the 11th pick anyway), a pick in next year's draft that will probably land outside the top 12 now that Orleans has Holiday, and then he drafted a point guard who can't shoot and doesn't finish at the rim well with their lottery pick. He traded a young all star stud point guard who has a good contract so he can gather asset and trade for a star player. He doing it wrong. He got "Sam Presti'd"... And Gersson is a GM not a fireman and Dallas has a dumpster fire going on over there.
This has to be a bitter pill for Cuban to swallow. I also think it's more about money than running your own team, because there is no way Rosas calls the shots in Dallas.
I think Morey also learned from our past failures recruiting Bosh et al. This time, he placed Les and the Rockets' bigs on the frontline to recruit Dwight. He said during the recruitment meeting with Dwight, he just tried to screw things up. Even during the press conference, he kept quiet. So I don't know if the Phillies and Mavs can replicate our success that easily. Teams have wised up and won't give away a Harden-type of player that easily. And LA with Kobe--that's a unique case. I don't think any other team will allow a player to have that much leeway over the team.
One of the most underrated people in the front office. Didn't want to see him leave. He's a star in the making with his eye for talent and the use of metric. Great hire by dallas.
What a compliment to Morey. Everybody likes what he is doing so much that they keep hiring all of his front office so they can copy him. I hate to see them go but I'm sure Morey can train some more people to do the same thing.
Not exactly sure either but I went to my optometrist on the 11th. I always bring up the Rockets when I go to doctors, you never know who they know or what they know. He told me Macha had just been let go. Said Charles Barkley called Macha something like the shorter white version of himself or something along those lines when Barkely was here. My doctor said that Macha was going to San Antonio Spurs, not sure if that was 100% certain or not, but he was also going to get paid for the remainder of his contract with the Rockets. Rockets will attract a lot of talent though to fill these positions now that they're becoming the best path to land a GM position.
