Are We Just Going to Ignore the Monster Improvement of the Greek Freak

who made the trade?

 

Carroll Dawson. Morey wasn't the GM.

 

oky, lol.

Chris Wallace was the gm of the grizzlies, but Jordan Adams was clearly a Hollinger pick.

It's also well known that Mike Heisley forced Chris Wallace to draft Hasheem Thabeet.

I think you are reaching with the Carroll Dawson claim.

 

Umm I think Morey's most famous trade at this point would be trading two bad draft picks and a guy named Lamb for James Harden.

 

Yeah, you are right. That's probably the best trade. But the Gay-Battier trade was more shocking, because of the circumstances.

Morey was making the trade with the king of the draft- jerry west, and getting back a player, who at the time, seemed more like a good role player.

I think that trade shocked the world. Also, jerry west, it was well-known that he didn't appreciate Shane Battier's skills, so if there was any ushering in of a new era of basketball, from the jerry west(old guard) to Morey (the new guard), it was this trade. Batttier for Gay.

It's a very important trade for the legitimacy of analytics. The james Harden trade was more of an old guard trade.

 

It wasn't Rudy Gay for Battier. It was the pick for Battier.

And Rudy Gay is terrible so who cares

 

It was an important trade. People will look back at that deal as a pivotal moment for analytics. IMO, this could be a subject for a 30 for 30, in my opinion.

We really don't know everything that went on behind the scenes but I am sure that more than a few gms were laughing at Daryl Morey for this deal.

 

Yeah and Battier became an important player for playoff teams (including the Heat) while Gay gets passed around to the dumbest bidder

 

If Giannis hits his potential, he could be a top 5 player in the NBA.

The Seattle Bucks are shaping up to have a very bright future.

 

Can you imagine if we somehow got him in the 2013 draft? The guy would be huge for us.

The lineup would be Beverley-Harden-Giannis-Jones-Dwight. That's a really sexy starting 5.

 

Imagine also if we got Bosh

 

A guy that announced his retirement in 2007 made a major decision that affected the entire structure of the houston rockets for years to come.

I don't buy it.

Wasn't Carroll Dawson just like a figure head by that time? You ain't going to convince me that a soon to be gm and a coach was going to defer to a guy that was announcing his retirement a year later.

Carroll Dawson had no say in this deal whatsoever.

 

I think you're right generally, but some said that Morey would have gotten a better deal, even though the overall idea was Morey's

 

I still have no idea how 14 teams passed on him in one of the weakest drafts of all time. There were no sure things in the entire draft and barely any players with even all-star potential. This is why bad teams stay bad.

There were plenty of us who saw his potential

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I actually am trying to give credit to Daryl Morey for laying the gantlet down. With the battier deal, and with so much on the line, he made a deal which I doubt many other gms would have the balls to make.

And to a certain degree, he won that deal. Think about it: battier was this no athletic kind of albatross: everybody knew he made winning plays, but nobody really was willing to put a value on that kind of basketball player till daryl morey came along.

Daryl Morey put his money were his mouth was in that deal and he did it against the best evaluator of talent of our time: jerry west.

To me this deal will go down as a historic deal.

 

You could be right

 

Don't want to. It hurts when I do

 

Then imagine if we drafted Kawhi