In the last couple of weeks I have seen many posters turn on Daryl Morey. This man has gone from a god to another scapegoat. IMHO I think he has done an amazing job with this team. The team has enough flexibility to go in whichtever direction it wants. If we get a superstar, we have players to complement. If we want to rebuild, we have young players to develop and some extra draft picks the next couple of years. IMO the only bad thing he's done is not deliver a superstar. But, that's easier said than done.
Daryl Morey has done a great job. Considering the circumstances and injuries this team has gone through, he probably couldn't play his cards any better. Other GM would probably shoot themselves if they kept having their master plans foiled by the arch enemy "injury plague".
Pfft i don't pay attention to the "Where is the superstar!?!?!" arguments. There are some legit complaints about Morey. Specifically why we still don't have a legit NBA center...but I still think he's one of the best GMs in the NBA. People will miss him when he's gone, as usual..and our next GM puts us in cap hell.
He'll be a god again if we go on a 2 game winning streak. We may even find a new savior on the team by then. Maybe Terrence Williams? Hmm.... Morey's done a pretty good job acquiring ammo, but unfortunately in this league, it takes 2 people to fire the gun. I have no complaints yet with what he's managed to do considering what he had to start with and the subsequent crap he had to deal with. As for how long the honeymoon goes on, who knows? As long as Les' patience is intact?
The only reason he gets a pass on whether MoneyBall works or doesn't is that all the parts are not on the floor. Otherwise, there are serious questions? Such as, does the accumulation of low cost/high potential players really pay dividends? Not sure. Is Hill a find or a fraud? What's Williams here for? What about Lee, good move? Was signing Lowry on the high side a good idea? Was Miller the right choice, he wasn't cheap? Is C-Bud a find or a dud? This is clear, the current team on the floor is very unimpressive. Scola and Martin are impressive offensively, but are defensive liabilities. After that, it is slim pickings. I don't see an easy way out of the mess the Rockets are in. It is no time to pass out GM or coaching awards.
I dont believe in bad luck. You are either good and making the right movs or bad and not seeig the these things that plague our team pop up because your not that good or overrated, Right now overrated category. You dont get no silver stars for incompletes or accidents in life. You keep getting unlucky and use that excuse? Before you know it your the Clippers and are always unlucky losers because you start to accept that its had something to do with luck and injuries. Winners make their own luck somehow. A winner wuld have already had the players who replaced Tmac and Yao here while they were in their primes for a trade because they are injury prone. Then we would have had those great players plus what we have now. Morey didnt do that. So thats on him as much as the curret roster is also built for flexibilty. The unflexible and bad non moves are part of his record too now until he fixes it completely.
The guy had to build a team while its two best players sat in street clothes and occupied a ridiculously large chunk of cap space. At the same time he had to build the team around those same players while still being able to have a core there if we had to scrap that strategy. Hes done some amazing work.
The Yao/TMac experiment is a central issue. It was likely not the best idea to start with, but it should have been abandoned long before now. In fact, I don't think it has been abandoned. The team is still a collection of players intended to be a compliment to Yao's game. Problem, Yao isn't playing and won't be playing any time soon, maybe never. So what now? The game plan should have shifted long ago; the hand writing covered the wall. That's on Les and Morey.
You really expected us to just replace Yao and Tmac in a year? Really? What other Center in the NBA is on Yao's level in his prime...Dwight....that's it. Did you have a plan for getting Dwight or Kobe? Then we could have replaced Tmac and Yao... I'm still waiting for someone that doesn't like Morey's moves to tell me what superstar player we've had a chance at. The only thing Morey could have done was trade both of those players while they still had it but that's not solely his decision to make.
I so understand what you mean. Remember in the draft that landed SA Tim Duncan? SA and Boston were both competing for him. And SA landed on top because they had a top notch organization. They put in the effort and got a superstar. Boston? Nope, they sucked as an organization, which is why they didn't get the 1st pick. Indeed, there is no such thing as luck. You want further proof? The Rockets suck as an organization, which is why they drafted Yao Ming #1. You know what's a good organization? The Danny Ferry led Cavs. You know what they did? They drafted Lebron James. Just one year apart. Houston got pwned by Cleveland in terms of organization awesomeness. In the end, we have only ourselves to blame for our inability to get the likes of Lebron, Wade, Dwight Howard, while getting stuck with the likes of Yao.
True. also, there's a trade deadline coming up, nobody knows what the wiz is going to do. last year's trade was amazing, I don't care what the r****ded fans of that one player said, it's not we traded LeBron away. if Blake Griffin were a Rocket, the clutchfans would have been pissed he missed a whole season and called for Morey's head.
I believe that Morey looks much better than he actually is because folks here are comparing him to the previous GM who was a total incompetent. As such, Morey has spent years cleaning up the toxic mess Dawson left behind which is why this franchise is in the state of limbo you see today. So I understand the limitations under which he has been operating. That doesn't mean that I ever subscribed to all of the "Morey Is A Genius" nonsense - far from it in fact. I reserved judgement until he was able to right the numerous wrongs that had gone down for years with this franchise. But he really earned my skepticism with that whole Artest episode because to me that was exactly the type of ill-advised deal that Dawson made year in and year out. As such, I'm forced to side with solid and thetatomatis in that a true "genius" would not have followed the Yao-Tmac experiment whose failure has set this franchise back for an unknown number of years. Morey has yet to demonstrate that he can craft a strategy that can turn things around and folks are getting a wee bit impatient. Maybe his collection of low rent players for trades will someday pan out - we'll just have to wait and see. I wish him all the luck in the world (because he'll need it) but I'm not very optimistic that things are going to change for the better with the Rockets anytime soon.
A GM should be rated by what he has done more than what he hasn't done. If you expect a GM to go get you Granger/Paul/Iguodala on a whim, you're going to spend a lot of time disappointed. Morey's track record has been solid. Not every signing is going to be a win - but when they're not, the risk is minimal and the flexibility is there. That being said - I will change my tune if we don't have a legitimate center rotation within the next 6 months. In fact I will be beyond angry at Morey. (I'm already disappointed he seemed to place his bets on a healthy Yao Ming.)
I think Morey is just playing the waiting game with what he has. I don't give him much credit, this is a job he's suppose to do. I'll give him credit once he wins us a ring. I think he's doing his job the best way he can imo. Is it great? No or is is bad? No. I think he could have done better.
Not every move is the GM's decision. For all we know Morey could have wanted to trade Yao last year, maybe it has been burning in his mind? But Yao made a ton of money for the franchise. Maybe Morey didn't want Kmart or Miller...RA could have lobbied for them. In the end Morey keeps all his options available. The team is still flexible, which can't be said for too many teams in the NBA.
