Simmons: Rockets struggling because the League got gooder

PeppermintCandy · Nov 29, 2010

The other problem for Houston that doesn't involve the words "Yao," "Ming" and "holding us hostage": GM Daryl Morey had spent the past three years accumulating assets so he could pounce if a potentially disgruntled All-Star like Bosh, Melo or Paul came on the trade market. Unfortunately, he couldn't have predicted the "Ocean's Eleven" Decade of under-30 stars only wanting to play with each other. I'm not sure you can land a superstar for multiple pieces unless (A) you're New York, Los Angeles, Miami or Orlando, and/or (B) you have a second superstar already. The days of stealing T-Mac in his prime for Steve Francis, Cuttino Mobley and Kelvin Cato are over. Bad news for Daryl.
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I believe a big part of McGrady coming to Houston was the fact that he wanted to play with the next great dominant big man in Yao. No theft was involved.

Also, Morey could not have believed his chances of landing Bosh was ever high, even without the Heat Three conspiring to play together. It was pretty obvious that Yao's injury status would keep most superstars from flocking to Houston.

AirBud#10 · Nov 29, 2010

k-money said:

its better, not gooder.
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Good call

SmeggySmeg · Nov 30, 2010

JCDenton said:

Spelling and capitalization aside, who do you think it is?
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we don't have one, surely that is the point

which teams that made the even the second round of last years playoffs didn't have at least one stud

we should have strategically tanked last year!!!!

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