I don't see how anyone can complain about Morey. He took over a team with Yao, T-Mac and not much else. Oh, and the team had bad contracts too. Since then, he acquired a good cheap PF (Scola), Artest and a solid bench (Landry, Brooks, Barry, etc). And if it doesn't work we are still in a good cap situatiom come 2010. What's the issue?
sure, but i wish the reporter asked, "so after you computed 170 petabytes of data over the last 3 years, why is luther head still on your roster" i can imagine daryl face go pale and say something like "i'd go back and find some explanations and bring it back to ya." ho ho ho j/k <3 morey
From some of the posts in this thread, some people are just not grateful with what they have. It is like saying: "Hey you may have given me $3 million, but damn, you could have gotten me $5 million." Worst still, these guys do not think about this scenario: What if the Rockets GM was not Daryl Morey, but Isaiah Thomas? Think people think. And be grateful.
Just because the Mavs and Kings picked good players late doesn't mean that Morey didn't. He's been in control of two drafts with low picks in both rounds. Don't discount his work to obtain the high 2nd round picks where he netted Landry and Dorsey. He traded some of them for Ron Freaking Artest. The other he took Brooks who is already our backup PG, and if he plays anything like he did last night against the Kings, he's going to be a "gem". Plus they got him on the cheap, so to me, that's a win. Also, I'm using the word "gem" in a relative sense. These draft positions are where players are generally marginal. Most don't make it in the league more than say 5-6 years. Morey has managed to snag Brooks (good player who will start one day), Landry (no explanation needed), and Dorsey (TBD). I consider players like this and where they were drafted as "gems". I'm confident these guys will stick around the league for more than 5 or 6 years. To top it off, these guys are all under Rox control for the next 3-4 years, and they don't cost much. For some solid rotation guys....again, I say its a win.
This is a bit crazy to me. It is expecting the kind of foresight that satisfies 20/20 hindsight. Signing Francis, and James, although I did not like either player very much, made sense to me for several reasons. 1) clearly there has been a concern regarding the PG position on the Rockets over the last few seasons. 2) these veterans came with a history of being able to produce in the past. (Past performance is a good predictor for future success) 3) these veterans were available at a relatively low price In other words, we had a perceived need, and James & Francis provided a low cost and potentially decent return. Low risk, good return. With both, although I wasn't ecstatic about having either player on our team, it seemed to be sound decision making. As someone else mentioned, you want to see "big mistake" as you say? Please see the New York Knicks over the past 5 years. Or look at our own house. How do these mistakes compare to the signings years prior? Cato, etc. Trivial, they don't hurt the organization very much. Damon Stoudamire? Pssh. You're making the same call that your criticizing Morey for making two years ago (Stoudamire for all purposes is not different form Francis and to a degree James). In hindsight, it didn't work out with James and Francis, but it is a worthwhile shot with well controlled risk, not stupidity a la Isaiah Thomas. I appreciate Morey's dealings - I think he has done a great job. Lots of surprises each offseason. Each has the same quality of a well-calculated gamble, with knowledge of what is being given up and what is being gained in return. Having said all that, I would take all this praise of Morey with a slight grain of salt. Not because I think he has done anything wrong thus far, but because it's hard to stay on the lofty peaks. Hopefully his methodologies will keep him from making any real big mistake but that time could conceivably come and then Clutchfans/media will ruthlessly through him under the bus...
