It is the Scola trade by a landslide and it's not even close. He got him for Vspan who never even played again in the league and think about the fact that we payed him only $3mil per year for 3 yrs. Given the asset we gave up (if you call Vspan an asset) and the salary we got him at, the ROI on Scola is by far the highest of all Morey's deals imo both short term and long term. Does anyone recall starting Ryan Bowen at power forward not three years earlier?
There have been so many contenders for this title. This would also be a great poll. I had a hard time deciding on Morey's best move. I lean toward the Scola trade in terms of impact and what we gave for what we got. But it was the Brooks pick that really taught me to always trust Morey to know better than me. I was flabbergasted and completely confused by the pick (I think most people were) and I was so, so wrong and he was so, so right.
well, Scola was unproven, but we gave V-Span because he is bad and didnt fit with the rockets, so its not like we were giving one of the best players for an unproven player. Its like when you trade for picks, you dont know how good the players from that picks, they are unproven in the NBA. Like drafting Landry, Brooks and C-Bud, they were all unproven, but turns out to be great players.
The scola trade has been his best, but the exploiting you speak of i don't get.They could have and probably signed scola, but they had a hangup. Morey stepped up and made the deal, but the spurs drafted his replacement months earlier in splitter. All in all, it was a good deal though.
I don't know all of the details of the hangup. But, I have to think that the fact that Duncan needs to occupy the post for their entire system to run meant that Scola was redundant. There's probably more to all of this, but at the very least, this made bringing him over much less of a priority. If they really wanted him, they would have.
Most of the draft picks were great moves. But you have to have some luck with the draft. As for the trades, the Scola deal and the McGrady deal are the obvious choices for people. But I picked the Rafer for Lowry trade. It was pure genius. It was Morey's talent evaluation at its best. Nobody had Lowry on his radar. Nobody thought it was a big splash. But it is one Morey's top three biggest impact moves so far, IMO.
I'm too lazy to search for the articles. But I think that was well documented. Les was impatient with JVG's style and the bad playoffs exit that year sealed the fate.
