Miami Heat? Also, the Spurs present core are not their lottery picks. Aldridge was a FA, Kawhi was pick 15. Duncan doesn't count because he is washed up.
The only reason he wasn't a lottery pick was because the team picking at 14 decided to go full stupid and pick Marcus Morris. Also, you know he was talking about the draft and you are trying to be disingenuous. You also know that Parker/Duncan/Gino has been their core and they brought Kawhi (another guy they drafted) to win the ring just the year before last.
The Heat pulled off the coup of signing 2 superstar former lottery picks to team up with their own former lottery pick. If the Rockets pull off that miracle, more power to em.
THIS. But in Moreys defense I think a lot of not tanking was on Les (14th pick) Alexander, he always wanted a winning product on the floor. But some of Moreys draft picks over the years have been questionable.
When you are thaf analytical as DM is you are far removed from understanding psychology and emotion. Left brain right brain stuff. You can not rely solely on numbers as people are not robots. Is DM a good GM? Yes he is. His ability to work contracts and terms etc to mainain flexibility etc is excellent. However he needs a consultant that has his ear that is his equal in psychology and interpersonal relationships. Somone who has a much better feel for what personallities will mesh and those that won't. This is the element that Morey does not have. He does view players as numerical assets that can be shuffeled with no ramifications. Who knows what kind of psychological effect not bringing Josh back had on the team, who knows what kind of effect Lawson and Thornton had. The measurable effect Harden's slacker defense has. You need someone who can measure that every bit as much as the stats. We are seeing the result of boiling the game down to numbers and numbers only has and it is not pretty.
Yeah, Les wouldn't let Morey tank, as he wanted to do; Morey let himself get bent over by the national pundits over the "team-not-awful, team-not-great, draft-pick-mediocre" thing rather than, of course, blame the boss who would then fire him. Morey often does better on getting that diamond in the rough later in the first round than he does in the lottery, this is for sure. Kawhi Leonard...well, we were all screaming at the TV screen, "Kawhi Leonard is still available! YAY!" And then dumbfounded when he went with Marcus Morris (who he then traded away a season or two later for 2 cents on the dollar to help us get Dwight). Morey was also going to go all in on Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (when we had those three picks; I think he was also gonna throw in Chandsome). So I think he tends to outsmart himself. Sometimes the choice is a little easier than he makes it. I do still think this year's pick, unless someone he likes slides (and this isn't an especially deep draft for someone to "slide" in), will go into some sort of trade, even if we don't know it right away and Morey has to say all the b.s. that he says about how great a player is (ten seconds after getting off the phone with the GM who's gonna wind up with the guy).
we tried to bring josh back. dude went to the clippers for less money. so much revisionist history here. morey definitely deserves another year. 1 bad year in 9 (do you really blame him for the 3 years of 9th seed post-yao/mcgrady?)
let's also remember morey tried his best to trade up a few times. dude really wanted Drummond, Lillard, and cousins.. to name a few.
Why get rid of morey?. To me he's done all he can. He got a steal on harden, he signed howard and although we lost our on them he's discovered talents such as Lowry and dragic. He's also made good pick ips in beasley and smith
So basically you are saying same offensive concept by both teams but different grade of players doing it. Which leads to poor personel decisions and the fault of the man hiring or acquiring these players. Morey?
The difference between HOPE and HOT is Pee and Tea, and the similarities are limited to a Ho. Make of that what you will.
Why was George Karl fired from the Nuggets? Same reason Morey is on the hot chair. We fired a coach that got us 22 consecutive wins. JB can get us 22 consecutive losses
Cuban is more a star-fker who trades away his picks rather than using them on players to kick down the road, later. btw: in fairness, the Antwan Jamison for Stackhouse trade was brilliant as it netted the #5 pick as well (Devin Harris). It doesn't show up as a Dallas pick, because they couldn't trade two 1st round picks in consecutive years. So, Washington agreed to consummate the trade after they picked Harris for Dallas. So, technically, it wasn't Dallas' pick, but WSH did pick for them.
CYBERX- Any news on the coaching search? Who are we looking at? Mark Jackson, Thibodou, Brooks, Jeff Van Gundy?
