I gotta agree, you know a lot of people on here keep saying you can't fault him for having two injured superstars, but at some point you can. At some point, it was time to move one of em. If we don't land a big name in 2010 I think it's going to look a lot worse on him for holding on to these guys. If we do, all will be forgotten and he will look like the genious many think he is.
Tschmal and emman, why would you as a gm build around 2 fragile guys like Yao and Tracy? I'll put in to u like this, if you owned a benz and after 3 yrs it kept having major work done to it, do u continue to put rims, paint job, music and other accessories on it and pay a car note or do you cut losses and move on? Having Yao and Tracy are like having those high end cars with a lot of miles that are breakdown and depreciating in value.
I've never heard of trading in a high end car that's breaking down and has high mileage for a newer high end car in better condition and lower mileage without getting upside down with payments. Who wants to trade for a high maintenance car with high mileage without depreciating the trade value? They'll make you either accept a deal where you get bent over so much it will make your head spin, or simply not deal with you at all, waiting for you to crack and accept a crappy deal. It sounds so simple and elementary to get rid of Tmac and Yao, yet the wrong deal/move could tie us up in mediocrity for a long time. I really don't want to go through another Cato/MoTaylor/Francis/Moochie fiasco where a bunch of paycheck collectors are making ridiculous money and tying us up in roster flexibilty.
V.3, I think you're either misunderstanding what i'm saying or maybe i'm not being clear. Anyone can own a benz, but everyone can't afford one. As well as they're built, they're very expensive to maintain. If you only have limited money and it keeps breaking down, eventually you have to decide if you can afford it. At the rate yao and tracy keep breaking down and eating up the cap, can the rox afford to keep building around them? When DD said morey's legacy or stamp as a gm will have a lot to do with how he cleans up the yao-mcgrady mess. The formula for the ring is pretty clear and with the decline of the most expensive guys, is brooks or scola ready to be all star caliber type players? That's what is needed to win the ring especially with the arms race that will be here for at least 3 yrs.
What I'm understanding is that something needs to be done about the TMac and Yao issue. I'm not arguing with that. Everyone can see we've got 2 franchise players that we have a hard time keeping on the floor at the same time. What I'm questioning is after everyone agrees that decision needs to be made on those 2. We've determined the problem, after that it's just rhetoric on the supposed solutions.
What choice was there, exactly? They had lengthy contracts, Yao is nigh untouchable (especially from a monetary standpoint) and no one really wanted Tracy McGrady. I never heard anything concrete about trading him, just pure rumors. Of course it would've been better to trade these guys for someone equally as good and less injured, but you can't pin this on Daryl Morey -- he didn't make T-Mac a baby and train poorly. He didn't break Yao's feet. He can't conjure up magical trades to other teams.
Agreed on all of that......but now Tmac's contract is valuable, especially if he can still play. We shall see, it has the makings of Morey's finest hour. When Tmac left Toronto, no one knew he would develop into what he did.....it is up to Morey to either trade for a superstar, or find one that is just about to become one.....that is his task. So far, he has done a good job reshaping the roster, and has had more hits (Landry, Brooks, Lowry) than misses (Francis, James, Dorsey). DD
except yao is still worth a ****load. secondarily tmac contract is worth a ****load in a nba where the salary cap is shrinking rapidly.
Tracy is as good as gone. Sadly, Les will force Morey to re-sign Yao, even though it's utter insanity to offer a max extension to an obviously brittle player, no matter how skilled they are.
don't forget to add barry to the misses and scola to the hits. one point that i think is good to make is the fact that morey seems to have learned from his mistakes. he didn't try to sign any aging vets this offseason and instead has seemed to focus on just acquiring young athletic players (ariza, budinger, taylor, and pops). i'm very curious to see what kind of deal morey is going to be able to work since he seemingly has a LOT of ammo with tmac's contract and houston's roster is pretty much setup with talented role players that would make a superstar want to come here. i'm also curious because morey does an excellent job of keeping his front office quiet so other teams/media never really seem to know his hand. hell...it's pretty amazing only 1 crazy artest story made it out to the public lol.
Do a google news search for it...it was repeated by a lot of outlets, maybe it was fake but it appears otherwise as of now.
if you inherited a benz that needed major work on it...how would you trade it in for a brand new ferrari? Please explicate. Thanks.
The jury's still out. Morey obviously has made some smart moves. Getting Scola from S.A. was a masterstroke. But the team hasn't yet sniffed a championship under him. How he deals with the Rockets' current situation will go a long way toward answering this question.
GM Morey is doin' a fantastic job right now! He got Adelman, Scola, Brooks, Landry, and now Ariza, Anderson, and Pops. The Yao and T-Mac era is over, he confirmed that during the off-season. The team is going' in the right direction, he made moves that will not only matter now but also in the future. His biggest acquisition right now is Ariza! He is GM's project, a 24yr. old athletic wing defender, shooter and champion. Ariza is not yet on his prime and I bet his move to Houston will showcase all of his natural talents, Ariza is in good hands that is why he chose Houston, he has GM Morey's trust, Coach Adelman's directions, and Shane Battier's influence. What more can you ask for a player who played along with the best player in the NBA, played under the best coach of the NBA, and won a championship in the NBA? He got the ring, which T-Mac and Yao don't have, and think of what's next on Ariza's plans...Most Improved Player? All-Star appearance? MVP? all these are possible in Houston, he knows that, and everyone will soon realyze that GM Morey have already won the 2010 free-agency by locking Ariza this season.
Even stressing Morey's "misses" is difficult to do with a straight face. His biggest mistake was Mike James yet it was a move that made an enormous amount of sense at the time (mainly because it only cost us Juwan fricken Howard) that ultimately netted us Bobby Jackson who was parlayed into Artest. That was his costliest move from a salary standpoint and he still was able to rectify his own mistake and come out on top. Francis? Barry? Those were hardly costly moves. Any GM would have considered those players for what amounted to LLE or vet minimum salary. Dorsey? Are we really criticizing a GM's swing-and-miss on a second rounder?
