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Fire Daryl Morey

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by SportsWorld, Nov 1, 2015.

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I've had enough, I want this idiot fired. Losing to the 76ers is the last straw.
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You know the 76ers are also big on Morey's strategy, so your post is rather damned if they do/damned if the don't.

#101 jamescar, Nov 27, 2015

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jamescar said: ↑

You know the 76ers are also big on Morey's strategy, so your post is rather damned if they do/damned if the don't.
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two teams following Morey's strategy are the worst teams in the league..

#102 tehG l i d e, Nov 27, 2015
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this is a championship calibre roster. they're just unmotivated right now because morey's lost their belief. les can make tad the interim gm.
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Tad Caca Brown can go to hell too after being a twitter w****.

#103 cheke64, Nov 27, 2015
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tehG l i d e said: ↑

This team is a monstosity Frankenstein of a team that Morey created.
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M'lord you speak the truth. We must order 66 on Morey but team is already doing it.

#104 cheke64, Nov 27, 2015
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I dont get why people want Morey fired, who would yall hire to replace him? Morey is the best in the league at acquiring talent, he just needs to let go of the moreyball **** a little

#105 TesseracT, Nov 28, 2015
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We have a good team, what does a bad shape has to do with Morey? They should just start playing...

#106 Normalus, Nov 28, 2015
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who would hard cap a team to keep a rookie PF that can't shoot in today's NBA, to play next to centers who can't shoot & have a system that's big on shooting 3s ????

MOREY THATS WHO !!!!!!!

#107 Play07, Dec 1, 2015

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Has this franchise ever had a 60 plus win season? I knew it wasn't happening this year before the season even started.

#108 Cstyle42, Dec 1, 2015
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He's a decent GM. But you can't keep letting him have input on the coaching strategies. Its clear his gimmick offense doesn't work unless James balls out and drops 40. For a guy who loves 3s he has put together a team full of guys who can't shoot the 3 and it's been like this for 3 years now.

Morey need to just focus on obtaining players and bring in Thibs and let him run the team

#109 ksny15, Dec 1, 2015
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We have a good team, what does a bad shape has to do with Morey? They should just start playing...
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Morey's in bad shape. Clearly a case of poor leadership, setting a bad example. (Table tennis aerobic capacity notwithstanding).

#110 txtodd, Dec 1, 2015
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morey is a great GM. he has constantly made us a better team, except for this season of course.

#111 SeabrookMiglla, Dec 1, 2015
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SportsWorld said: ↑

I am tired of this know-it-all "genius" running this team. Every year it's the same old s***, let's put together a bunch of misfit toys and hope to regain what we had the season before. This guy is not the genius people make him out to be here. Would a genius really extend Kevin McFale after what we've seen the past few seasons here? No. This guy needs to go, give me a guy that knows how to build an actual team.
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#112 cheke64, Oct 27, 2016

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TesseracT said: ↑

I dont get why people want Morey fired, who would yall hire to replace him? Morey is the best in the league at acquiring talent, he just needs to let go of the moreyball **** a little
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Lol.

#113 Cashmoney, Oct 27, 2016

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TesseracT said: ↑

I dont get why people want Morey fired, who would yall hire to replace him? Morey is the best in the league at acquiring talent, he just needs to let go of the moreyball **** a little
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I wouldn't say he is the best in the league at acquiring talent, he has struck out quite a few times on big free agents. He isn't out problem though. It is our incompetent owner who keeps hiring dipshits for coaches. We have yet to have a coach come in here and play our players to their strengths.

#114 davidio840, Oct 27, 2016
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why the **** you waived Prigs and keep 3nnis, 3nnis sucked ass big time. the guy can't do nothig, no offense no defense, he had 4 TOs in 12 mins.

#115 ilovehtownbb, Oct 27, 2016
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4. Two really interesting Memphis-related tidbits in this excerpt from Michael Lewis’ new book, which was recently reprinted in Slate. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/...conomics_to_revolutionize_the_art_of_nba.html. The excerpt is about Daryl Morey’s attempt to rationalize the NBA draft process. As part of that effort, Morey and the Rockets built a statistical model, which did well its first year. Then came 2008: “That year the Rockets had the 25th pick in the draft and used it to pick a big guy from the University of Memphis named Joey Dorsey. In his job interview, Dorsey had been funny and likable and charming — he’d said when he was done playing basketball he intended to explore a second career as a p*rn star. After he was drafted, Dorsey was sent to Santa Cruz to play in an exhibition game against other newly drafted players. Morey went to go see him. `The first game I watch he looks terrible,’ said Morey. 'And I’m like, `F…!!!!’ Joey Dorsey was so bad that Daryl Morey could not believe he was watching the guy he’d drafted. Perhaps, Morey thought, he wasn’t taking the exhibition seriously. `I meet with him. We have a two-hour lunch.’ Morey gave Dorsey a long talk about the importance of playing with intensity, and making a good impression, and so on. `I think he’s going to come out the next game with his hair on fire. And he comes out and sucks the next game, too.’ Fairly quickly, Morey saw he had a bigger problem than Joey Dorsey. The problem was his model. `Joey Dorsey was a model superstar. The model said that he was like a can’t-miss. His signal was super, super high.’”

5. The other anecdote concerned Gasol. If Morey’s experience with Dorsey demonstrated the limits of the model, his experience with Gasol demonstrated the limits of the subjective opinions of scouts: “Freshly exposed to the human mind, Morey couldn’t help but notice how strangely it operated. When it opened itself to information that might be useful in evaluating an amateur basketball player, it also opened itself to being fooled by the very illusions that had made the model such a valuable tool in the first place. For instance, in the 2007 draft there had been a player his model really liked: Marc Gasol. Gasol was twenty-two years old, a seven-foot-one center playing in Europe. The scouts had found a photograph of him shirtless. He was pudgy and baby-faced and had these jiggly pecs. The Rockets staff had given Marc Gasol a nickname: Man Boobs. Man Boobs this and Man Boobs that. `That was my first draft in charge and I wasn’t so brave,’ said Morey. He allowed the general ridicule of Marc Gasol’s body to drown out his model’s optimism about Gasol’s basketball future, and so instead of arguing with his staff, he watched the Gasol get taken with the 48th pick of the draft. The odds of getting an All-Star with the 48th pick in the draft were well below one in a hundred. The 48th pick of the draft basically never even yielded a useful NBA bench player, but already Marc Gasol was proving to be a giant exception. (Gasol became a two-time All-Star in 2012 and 2015 and, by Houston’s reckoning, the third-best pick made by the entire NBA over the past decade, after Kevin Durant and Blake Griffin.) The label they’d stuck on him clearly had affected how they valued him: names mattered. `I made a new rule right then,’ said Morey. `I banned nicknames.’ ”
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#116 zeeshan2, Dec 14, 2016
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^stoppes reading that article when the author said Morey drafted Dorsey at 25 in 2008.

Completely false. Morey drafted Donte Greene at 25. Guy went on to drop 45 points in the summer league and Morey promptly flipped him for Ron Artest.

Really bad journalism when you can't even look up a simple fact.

#117 DudeWah, Dec 14, 2016
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oh yea...to go from a 2015 season of chaos to being on the verge of winning 50-55 games this season total turnaround revamp hiring MDA etc...yea Fire Morey..he's worse than Rick Smith for sure

#118 PhiSlamma15, Dec 14, 2016

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Really funny readingback the comments then. "Who runs a gimmick offense that just shoots 3s? Morey, that's who" LOL

#119 roslolian, Dec 14, 2016
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There is no way to sugar coat or sweet talk last season. It was a disaster on so many fronts.

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