He's over rated for sure except to his "In Morey we trust"fans. First time GM with no track record and with a worse team then when he arrived. Donnie Walsh may be on the ropes in NY, I would take a flyer on him and dump Morey if he becomes available.
Now imagine how well the Lakers would have done with Kobe or Pao out for 75% of their games. Or the Celts missing either KG or Pierce 75% of the time. Morey had an impossible situation. Add to that the fact that one of the oft-injured superstars is the owner's cash cow and couldn't be traded and it becomes pretty hard to blame DM for what has happened.
I think the Spurs first asked the Cavs if they wanted Scola, and they declined. But I'm not sure why the Rockets shouldn't get credit for pursuing something that 28 other teams decided wasn't worthwhile.
nah, I calmed down. I think I'm moving into sad. How can I work, eat or sleep with this tension!! COme on Morey.
LOL Morey is great! Boston Celtics was the worst team in the league... Morey had them so sorry they became able to afford 3 great superstars then Morey picked Rondo, Perkins, a trade in the draft got them Big Baby! Then Morey was out of Boston LMAO... lets keep Morey around!
Hey guys, we are Houston. We are the perennial underdogs. And we used to be proud of that. We used to wear it as a badge of honor. We never confused ourselves for a glamorous city like New York, we never wanted to be anything like them. What we did was beat them for a championship. We never cared to be LA, never really cared if FAs didn't come running for us. We were proud of who we were. We as a city were defined by a workhorse mentality like Moses, our humbleness like Dream, our grittiness like Elie. You think this is the first time we have ever struggled as a franchise. Open your eyes to our illustrious history, it is not filled with happy endings. It is filled with a lot of fight and a lot of pride. And that is what makes Morey great. He is like the rest of us, he doesn't have the luxury of Melos and Boshs wanting to come here. But he sure as hell tried. You think the system he uses to evaluate players makes his job easier. It is time consuming work, looking at the game in ways you never cared to. But when stars don't line up at your door, that is what you do. You work extra hard and take advantage of every trade you get. You make sure you win every trade to field as much talent as possible on your team. You don't let a man's size determine his worth, you let his fight do that. We have had to overcome the premature collapse of our foundation in the span of two years. The Lakers with half of their Kobe/Shaq star duo couldn't accomplish what our team did last year with none of our Yao?Tmac duo, and they never even had the success of Shaq and Kobe. That is how it works to be an underdog. You don't get handed Gasols. You take the Scolas when you can, you trust in Hayes when others wouldn't, and you never overpay for Catos. That's what makes Morey great, he isn't impatient like some here. You want the young players to play, look at the coach. All Morey can do is bring in the players, and he has done an admirable job in his stint.
Ugh didn't miss, but definitely forgot about these beautiful moves made by CD before his tenure ended. I'm still reading through the responses (didn't think it'd hit 3 pages this quick, I just left to lunch and came back lol) but I guess comparing the garbage deals by CD, your standards were already lowered and thus Morey's deals have been a pleasant surprise of actual brain and negotiation skill vs. CD blowing Les' money.
Okay. Compare him with "good" GMs then. Put those GMs in Morey's shoes over the past years, and tell us how we'd have multiple championships by now.
Comparing what CD had around Yao and Tracy to what Morey put around them is enough for me to see at the very least Morey is a decent GM.
I hate to pee in Rudy T's cheerios but imo he deserves equal credit/blame for those bad contracts, he had as much personnel decision power when he was here and CD was GM. Moochie Norris' contract I blame Francis, cause he was looking out for his boy.
Yep the good ole Yao Tmac days under CD. I remember the championship parades like it was yesterday... I sure do miss having three first round draft picks in the same year and spending them on the likes Michael Dickerson, Bryce Drew and Mirsad Türkcan. Or the Jason Richardson, Jason Collins, Brandon Armstrong for Eddie Griffin deal. I sure wish we could get some more Matt Maloney/Kelvin Cato/Moochie Norris like contracts on this team. Yep CD left the team as world champions, and Morey has just been dragging us down ever since.
Morey has his few bright spots here and there. He has pulled off some pretty decent transactions but I wouldn't say he's great until he can somehow pulled out a blockbuster trade that will put this team up top with all the contenders. Morey is more into numbers than actually watch a player plays. He usually goes after players with high efficiency. He did pretty well over the years with draft picks even though it was the lower picks. Like every GM in the league, Morey has his goods and bads. The good thing about Morey is he usually make low risk move. Basically he usually go after players that are good and cheap. He milks the player to their full potential and then try to move them. Lets just say Morey is all about business and dont get emotionally attach to players. The bad thing about Morey is he can sometimes get caught up in numbers that he will miss out a highly potential player for a safer low risk player with a potential of an average player. Because Morey is all about business, Im certain many players in the league will hesitant to signing with Houston. But anyway, I wouldn't considered Morey great until I see him get this team back on track. He had made a few mistakes over the years. The biggest mistake I believe he made this season was depending on Yao too much and not try to go a different direction in the offseason which put us back in square one like last season.
I think people also forget that luck plays a huge part in professional sports. Up to this point Morey has labored under pretty bad conditions and still managed to put a quality product on the floor. Its also what he hasn't done i.e.: strapped us with a bunch of unmovable contracts, brought in scrubs out of desperation, put the team in luxury tax hell. In hindsight there will be mistakes but I'll take our current situation over any of the other teams struggling at .500.
Anything is timing and luck. The #1 pick got us Yao , #2 pick in SF then for TMAC. Both #1 , #2 picks are big assets, are the rewards of a GM's work. If Morey could get our hands on #1 pick and #2 pick, I think this tread and other tanking threads should be non-existent.
Let me get this straight. Morey inherits a team where everyone knows that the clock's ticking on its star players, who were under contract for a long time. And that Morey had a choice between A. Telling his stars they should go F themselves and tank for #1 picks or B. Trying to assemble good role players around those stars before they fade. Obviously, Morey's an idiot for picking option B. If only he were a true genius and benched T-Mac/Yao so we could've tanked for Durant.
This. I don't understand why people don't get that you don't judge a GM by whether they bring a championship, but whether they make the most out of their situation. That's why you can't credit Kupchak for LA's championships since Gasol was gifted to them by their old GM (whose statue they just erected). Jerry West still works for the Lakers. You could put the best GM on the worst team and they might never win anything simply because they don't have much to work with. Imagine putting the best GM possible on the Clippers with Sterling. They won't ever win a championship.
