If Given The Chance How Would You Change The Rockets Orginization?

Trade Les for Cuban.

 

I think the Rockets should follow Spurs footstep. They have made the playoff for 15th consecutive years. Thats impressive. The reason is that they have a same coach and same players for a long time. Having same coaching staff and players help them know how to win together and understand each other well. I think Rockets should keep McHale and keep good players while tweaking the rosters so we can finally contend. Keep Morey too. Hopefully soon we have a franchise player. We cant just change the roster every year, because new players need more time to get used to Rockets playbook system.

 

They can keep their core of players because they actually have a good core. I'm pretty sure there's no one on the current roster you can compare with Tim Duncan. Keeping Lowry, Martin, and Scola for a long time won't make us the top seed in the conference.

 

I asked Maury to avoid the 9th seed and that was it. He failed. Time to start with the personnel guy and then move forward from there. What's going on is unacceptable, minus Bill W. Everything else can be argued in favor of letting it go.

 

I know keeping Lowry, Martin, Scola, Parsons, etc. wont make us the top seed in the conference but we just gotta keep tweaking roster until we finally be a contender for a long time.

 

So my ten steps as a terrible armchair GM:

1. Trade anyone for a franchise player if possible.
2. Resign Dragic
3. Resign Lee
4. Trade Lowry, Scola, and Martin (plus any other necessary pieces) to get more picks, higher picks, or franchise player.
5. Resign Camby
6. Decline team option on Dalembert
7. Pursue Roy Hibbert and Spencer Hawes (preferring the former over the latter)
8. Sign Motiejunas
9. Draft like a boss.
10. Bring Sergio Llull to split time at 1 and 2 with Dragic and Lee

... just kidding, you said it had to be realistic.

10. continue to wait forever until we get to trade for a franchise player.

 

There are no organizations which are known to take care of their players most, which regret doing it.

This quality seems to be the defining quality in good/bad organizations, since it affects so many things.

- Players focus more on basketball than money/posing for next job.
- Star players want to come.
- Star players want to join star players.
- Fans trust and love an organization which treats its people well.
- Employees, like players, focus more on improving the Rockets than fighting for survival.
- Chemistry of the entire organization improves.
- Draftees will do what's in their power to join us.
- Agents would prefer dealing with us.
- Good coaches really disect management before they accept jobs.
- There is no PR more awesome than players/coaches praising the way your organization treats people.

Though I am 100% onboard with "moneyball", I think keeping the info internally privileged creates a sense of distrust with players and some employees. It could be that Daryl is excellent at moneyball and terrible at managing relationships - would you really be shocked? Seems almost stereotypical.

Another thing is I believe an NBA team must have a policy on whether to accept ex-trouble makers or not, and if they want to accept people like Terrence Williams then they need a strategy for developing them. Quite silly to do the same thing to Terrence that New Jersey did, and expect different results.

 

I would tell Les that retooling rather than rebuilding doesn't work well in the NBA.

I wouldn't bother changing anything else. And I certainly am not smart nor knowledgeable enough to make personnel moves. If I do, I would probably go Isiah Thomas on the Rockets.

 

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First off, I will force Les to sell this team. Then we start from there.

 

les ain't selling and 4 nice Rox for 1 superstud ain't happening, so:

#1 - - ramp up the PR. Make Rox relevant by mouth (see: Cuban, Mark) including mega-satisfying player perks (see: Cuban, Mark).

 

Mark Cuban has enticed exactly ZERO star players to sign with the team. The Mavs get their talent by severely overpaying. The Mavs sign Kelvin Cato/Mo Taylor types to big contracts but live with it because Cuban pays the tax.

Now that even Cuban fear paying the luxury tax with the new CBA, we'll really see if players want to go there.

 

I would do what I had to do to make sure we got a top 6 pick and get it over with. Going to have to do it sooner or later. I'd accomplish it by trading for a star (or some sort of significant player) that I know won't be staying here. I'd trade some of our talent for this guy that I know is leaving after that year. Perhaps he stays, I suppose, but probably won't.

That's the best way to do it while saving face in my opinion.