More like learning from your mistakes. Guy seems genuinely willing to eat some crow; cut him some slack.
Last time I checked we are contenders with five strong years ahead of us, so Morey wins and this guy can go be mad?
I think the Philly writer was curmudgeonly and ignorant and wrong to dismiss the role of analytics in basketball. And, he was wrong about Morey's abilities and prospects. But, there's some truth to the tail-chasing allegation. The Yao Ming era ended in the offseason of 2009 when Ron Artest finished out our valiant playoff push without either Yao or McGrady. The end was obvious that offseason. That we still had Yao on the books and occassionally on the court is just political cover for not having done much of any consequence between 2009 and 2012. It wasn't a 1-year search for a new star -- it was 3 long years. That doesn't justify Morey's approach at all. Quite the opposite -- in a recent interview (Rome?), Morey admitted that they were expecting a pretty bad year before the Harden deal came through. They had given up on being competitive and were saved by Presti.
He's got a point...during the T-Mac and Yao years the Rockets were highly touted in the presason several years. Obviously because of the injuries they never lived up to it....
It's an irrelevant point as it pertains to Daryl Morey. Morey has done a phenomenal job putting one of the most talented rosters in the league together. That alone already proves the article wrong. Now, if something unfortunate happens after the fact, like injuries to T-Mac and Yao... it sucks, but that's not a reflection on the GM. The job of the GM is to put championship-level talent on the floor, and Morey has done that. Relative to the absurd claims of this article, "victory" has already been claimed.
My point was that we all didn't know that Harden and Howard was our end game... It could've very easily been Pau and Nene... I definitely didn't think Morey was doing anything wrong, just that there's no way anyone could've predicted it'd work out quite this well. I'm really happy it did. Just because I disagree with the reaction of this thread (after being brought up a year later) doesn't mean I disagree with Morey or the team. Don't be so sensitive. And of course the Sixers know it, even the writer knows it, as he said in the article that he posted this summer... There's a link to it in the thread. The dude was wrong and realized it... does that mean a year later we should spam him with asinine emails and tweets? It's just silly.
