[Reaction] 3 baffling aspects of our moves at the deadline

Thabeet makes Jordan Hill look like Sir Isaac Newton himself.

EDIT: I guess I can't be all glum, two first rounders is a good net haul, don't care how weak the draft is.

 

I don't get all this complaining about acquiring picks. We've all seen the gems Morey pulls out of the draft with 2nd rounders. Do you guys really question he can't pull the same talent with these late 1st rounders? I see nothing but good from these minor moves.

 

Let's review his draft history.

Aaron Brooks- the best player he has drafted. Traded for a scrub and a pick slightly higher than what was used to draft him.
Carl Landry- only pick that he got back significant value for
Joey Dorsey- worthless scrub
Chase Budinger- career 10th man on any team with a modicum of talent
Brad Newley- worthless scrub
Steve Novak- worthless scrub
Maarty Luenen - worthless scrub
Sergio Llull - worthless scrub
Jermaine Taylor - traded for a bag of chips. Actually, scratch that, he was traded for nothing.
Patrick Patterson - too early to judge

Morey drafting well is a myth. He had one good draft in 2007 and has been coasting on reputation since then, throwing away a lot of money on picks that haven't panned out.

 

@JCDenton: You are a moron. You being considered intelligent is a myth. Quit embarrassing yourself and shut the hell up.

First off, Novak was drafted in 2006. Morey took over in 2007. You can't attribute that pick to him. I like how you include him and not Eliyahu who was recently a Euroleague player of the week.

Budinger has been good for us.

Llull is supposed to be good in Europe, too early to judge on him.

Only worthless scrubs on that list:
Dorsey
Neweley
Luenen

That is a pretty good success rate

 

Euroleague player of the week...it's laughable that you have to tout such a pathetic, worthless "honor" to defend Morey's poor draft decisions. Too bad these players weren't drafted to be "good in Europe." They were drafted to be good in the NBA, something they have almost no chance of doing considering that they can't even make our lottery-bound team of scrubs.

Similarly, Budinger has not been "good for us." He has actually gotten worse from his rookie season to this one. He would not even be in the rotation on a good team. Every time he goes out there he gets lit up and schooled even by marginal players and the other team goes on big runs.

Morey has two successes, one marginal failure, five complete failures, and a question mark. He is below average at drafting. And even if he could draft a Carl Landry or Aaron Brooks quality player with every single pick he has, our team would still blow. He has no plan to bring us a superstar and has not been able to get any assets that are of value to other GMs.

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....wait, wait...what? Euroleague(?) player of the....WEEK(?!?)?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

No, he hasn't. He's been below average overall and his ceiling is pretty low.

Yeah, if you're selling kool-aid, Morey is a master. He wasn't handed the best situation but who the F cares at this point? I'm sick of hearing that crap. He's had WELL enough time to make moves to account for the fact that he was hamstrung by a questionable Yao as the cornerstone up till now. His plan of hoarding "assets" for a star (or at LEAST a difference maker or two) simply DID NOT WORK.

MOREY = FAIL

 

He hasn't even had the opportunity to get Yao's contract off the freaking books.

My goodness, some of you guys would be terrible owners.

"What the hell, you haven't been able build a championship team in 3 years despite your biggest star player not being able to finish a single full season? Man, you're terrible. I want you to sell everything we've got for picks so we can tank and get a superstar in the draft."

*Morey goes out and sells everyone on the team*

"WHAT THE HELL, YOU SOLD ALL OF OUR TALENT. WE COULD HAVE MADE THE PLAYOFFS!"

 

You are an idiot. A donkey. A r****d. You can't read (I said Novak was drafted in 2006, Morey was GM in 2007, if you include Novak on the list, you should include Eliyahu who has potential to be decent given the success in Europe).

All of his draft picks have been late 1st rounders or 2nd rounders. Rarely ever do those type of picks ever amount to anything.

He has 2 successes, and 2 question marks (Chase is still young, he can be a solid GM in this league).

You act as if it is so easy to bring a superstar when you are handed a team which has a bunch of large contracts and only had late 1sts/2nds to work with.

Just stop embarrassing yourself and shut the **** up.

 

List every trade the guy has ever made, almost all of them have improved the squad.

He was handed a team with 2 stars, sadly, neither of them were able to live up to expectations (mainly due to injuries which you cannot control).

You act is if you are so smart but fact is, you are a ****ing r****d.

 

Morey stated in his press conference that the Memphis pick it is indeed a 1st round protected pick starting in 2013.

We should all root for the Suns to sneak into the playoffs so we get the higher pick in 2011.

 

Learn some history you noob. Morey was in the organization and pulling the strings when the 2006 draft happened. Novak is on him. And I'm happy to include Elyhu, that pushes Morey's total to six complete failures. Call me when one of Morey's euroscrubs gets into an NBA game.

 

Not buying it, CD was still incharge. I know that the Battier trade was Morey but not buying that all decisions were Morey. I don't think CD was doing nothing.

 

And so what if a 2nd rounder doesn't pan out here and there?

That makes him a horrible drafter?

The fact that you are so damn stupid really does boggle my mind.

 

What I am still trying to understand is why Marsarinian posted this thread, then three minutes later quoted his complete first post in his second post.

That move is unheard of.

Not even MacBeth pulled that off.

R-e-s-p-e-c-t.

 

These trades are nothing to get excited about, but I don't have a problem with either. We weren't going to pay Brooks this summer, so why not get something for him. He had a great year last year, when he was asked to pick up much of our lost scoring, but he hasn't done jack this year, and I would rather have a PG who distributes like Lowry. We also got something for Battier before losing him for nothing.

Again, nothing sexy about these deals, but at least we seem to have picked a direction. Wasn't that the big complaint recently....that we haven't picked a direction? Well now we have.

It's never good enough for some folks.

 

Too bad it's not a pick here and there not panning out, but rather 3/4 of his picks being totally useless.

 

Hate to say it, the team is becoming unattrative for good players because of the way the team treats its players. Why always wait until the last minute to match another team's offer (Landry, Scola, Lowry)? Why did the better players always leave unhappy (Artest, Tmac, Brooks)? Couldn't they ship Battier to a contender?
Sometimes you have to give up an inch to gain a foot. You just can't get this reputation for always being stingy, otherwise no one is willing to do business with you.

 

This team is now fullfilled with tons of disappointed top draft picks.

I guess DM wants RA to turn someone to star, which another teams can't.

Now, we surely are rebuilding. Even Yao can recover fully, in today's nba, i don't think he will come back to rocket.

 

Morey needs to come get his hoes. B!tches runnin wild around here.

 

You know what, because DM is fairly new GM in the NBA. The best he can do is find some unfound talents. Those GMs are old school, sometime they made decision base on relationship, which DM can't never get at this point. JAZZ-NET trade prove it all