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scratch one possible destination off of next years LMA FA sweeps. I know he gets the 5 year MAX here but still a good feeling it can't be Houston.
 
Minstrel said:
I don't think it was a blunder. I think it was a high stakes gamble and he lost. I also think it was smart to go for it, because championships are incredibly rare and difficult to get and you almost never get them making very safe moves. This was their chance to risk their second/third round team for a chance at a championship-caliber team and Morey nearly pulled it off.
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The Spurs got 5 championships by making pretty safe moves. The last two Laker titles came off pretty safe moves (I mean, that Gasol trade was a no brainer). Hell, the Mavs chugged along slightly improving their team year by year for over a decade before finally winning the chip. Then they tore that all down to try and hit a homer and ended up completely screwing their contender status.

I'm not saying that Morey was wrong, necessarily, but of the past decade or so, only the Heat and the Celtics won championships by playing super risky. (Off the top of my head) Obviously luck plays a huge part no matter what route you take, but it doesn't really look to me that making safe moves is a bad thing.
 
B-Roy said:
The Spurs got 5 championships by making pretty safe moves. The last two Laker titles came off pretty safe moves (I mean, that Gasol trade was a no brainer).
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The Spurs are unique, in that they're just unusually brilliant at finding under-the-radar gems and coaching them up. I don't think any of the great teams of the past measure up in that respect...sure, the old Bulls, Lakers, Celtics, etc, occasionally found good role-players that the rest of the league didn't see beforehand, but mostly they had a great core and either added known-good veterans or so-so players who didn't get in the way.

I would say, though, that most of the championship teams had a Hall of Famer that they drafted. But that's very rare, you can't plan around making that happen. If you're not one of the teams that is fortunate enough to land a Duncan, Jordan, Kobe, etc, in the draft, I would argue that you generally have to make some significant high-risk plays that pay off to win a championship.

I'm not saying safe moves are always wrong. I think you have to make safe moves too, to augment the core. But landing the core is the hard part and, if you don't fall into a franchise-changing draft pick, that takes risky, high-upside effort.
 
Minstrel said:
I would say, though, that most of the championship teams had a Hall of Famer that they drafted. But that's very rare, you can't plan around making that happen. If you're not one of the teams that is fortunate enough to land a Duncan, Jordan, Kobe, etc, in the draft, I would argue that you generally have to make some significant high-risk plays that pay off to win a championship.

I'm not saying safe moves are always wrong. I think you have to make safe moves too, to augment the core. But landing the core is the hard part and, if you don't fall into a franchise-changing draft pick, that takes risky, high-upside effort.
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Right, but the Rockets (arguably) already have TWO franchise changing players. Regardless of whether or not they got them from the draft or signed them later the point is they already had their core. Their goal should have been to find players that helped augment those two guys. Not gut your entire team in the hopes that you can get another one of these players. That is just being cocky and greedy. If it worked then obviously he would be hailed as a genius, but in this case it failed and I'm betting Morey wishes now he didn't hedge his championship hopes on the decisions of others.
 
So, which dagger is more painful? Damians .9 series clinching 3, or Bosh's long distance dagger from Miami?
 
julius said:
So, which dagger is more painful? Damians .9 series clinching 3, or Bosh's long distance dagger from Miami?
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I hope both sting equally....like your girlfriend of 7 years who you're madly in love with suddenly calling it quits.

Fuck the Rockets.

Also, I found this gem on Clutchfans, obviously before Bosh:

"I live in Cleveland so my two teams are 1. Rockets 2. Cavs. This could not have worked out better for either."
- ScolaIsBallin in the ClutchFans Forums

LOL
 
Jason Lieser: One Western Conference exec said Bosh "pump faked" the Rockets. He wondered if they still would've made the Jeremy Lin trade.
 
OMG! This is sooooo fucking funny! I love their pain. LOVE IT!

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=256394

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Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!
Oh man, I concur with everyone in this thread - this is the best news of free agency, BY FAR!
 
Houston can go suck a big bag of dicks.

Fuck you Houston. I hope we knock your ass out of the playoffs again.
 
I sense some antipathy towards Houston.

I can sense these things.
 
Daryl Morey is a legend in his own mind. He praises himself, so reporters think they should too. This is a big failure.
 
Schadenfreude, oh how I've missed you!
 
Pretty sad but Houston is probably wishing they could trade offseason with Orlando at this point.
 
According to a Rockets insider on Clutchfans, it seems like the Rockets are going after Ariza now. May not even match Parsons.

LOL

From Bron to Melo to Bosh to.....Ariza. A guy they signed a few years back and then dumped. This is GOLD.
 
Minstrel said:
Morey played his cards brilliantly...and still lost.

This is quite a kick in the teeth to Houston. Just when the most important, and arguably least certain, piece falls into place to realize their dreams, Bosh randomly and shockingly decides to torpedo them anyway?

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Much as I respect how Morey worked for this, this is amazingly funny.
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Yeah, it's times like this that I'm glad our guys already have a plan in action that they are waiting to come to fruition. Could you imagine if we won a championship BEFORE getting together a big 3?
 
So now that the Rockets have lost out on Chris Bosh, there are some Rockets fans that believe they will get Rondo....AND Love.

I mean, is this real life?
 
B-Roy said:
So now that the Rockets have lost out on Chris Bosh, there are some Rockets fans that believe they will get Rondo....AND Love.

I mean, is this real life?
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It's hard to give up on dreams.
 
B-Roy said:
So now that the Rockets have lost out on Chris Bosh, there are some Rockets fans that believe they will get Rondo....AND Love.

I mean, is this real life?
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Literally the most entitled fan base...
 
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