if Morey was good, there were not droughts on playoffs for 3 years. If Morey was unlucky, we would be trying to explore every possibility to trade out Gasol and Nene.
Seriously? After your 2 superstars go down with injuries, without high draft picks and without a team that stars really want to go to (like LA, NY or Miami) you don`t even give your GM 3 seasons (in which the team still gets a winning record) to rebuild the team? And after those 3 seasons, you don`t even acknowledge him with one of the youngest, most talented teams in the leage without even one bad contract - oh and let`s not forget this real young superstar he miracleously obtained? And then after that you go out and call him out on a trade that got canceled - a trade, that would`ve put us in the playoffs - and that would`ve made us contenders for LeBron, Love or Bosh because all our salary would`ve ended at just the right time? Luck is always a factor in this business. But Morey did more than any fan can realistically ask for. You can`t show me many teams with this kind of turn around - and outside of the big cities I don`t think you can show me any team (and don`t start with OKC - that team sucked and was out of the playoffs for a real long time - even with 2 superstars on board...).
I think you guys missed his point. We were lucky that some of the moves didn't go through, which I actually agree. The OP is not pointing at the ones that worked out, which I think he and all of us have stated in one way another is the cliche 'good preparation meets timing.'
With Dragic, Kmart, Parsons, Pau, and Nene we would have had a way better season than we had this season.
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Judging from that and most of the responses, most people failed to read even the SECOND sentence in my original post ..... "I'm not talking about the Harden trade, which unlike many, I attribute less to luck and more to his great management in getting the right players with the right contracts in the right situation. The smallish trade like Patrick Patterson and Marcus Morris is the perfect example of that, he knows that he would do not like either for a long term deal and both would be harder to move if he did. He SOLD at exactly the right time like he did many times before (Brooks, Courtney Lee, Budinger, Battier, and etc). ". The luck part was him not getting succeeding in getting a few of the players that he's coveted that would've put us in a worse position than we're today.
What I remembered was that we kind of knew DH12 wasn't happening with the way the draft unfolded so that's when we went with Asik.
