Comments on: Is Daryl Morey following the Danny Ainge playbook?

By: londonaiooo

londonaiooo — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:00:44 +0000

Well they recently won a title, still have their best player and have plenty of cap space for the future, on top of a probable playoff team this year. I imagine they’re feeling pretty good about it.

By: skinsfanwill

skinsfanwill — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:38:20 +0000

Ask Dallas how that “high risk -high reward” method is working for them.

By: mdp44

mdp44 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:23:53 +0000

At least we have the texans, cuz every other team in this city sucks

By: omie34

omie34 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:52:57 +0000

Oh and add montejunas to that list

By: drunkenjunk

drunkenjunk — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:08:15 +0000

give this man a prize, he just killed it.

By: therealhtj

therealhtj — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:46:57 +0000

Other than China stuffing the ballot box for Lin, there isn’t an all-star among them.

By: therealhtj

therealhtj — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:38:18 +0000

Doesn’t matter what game he’s playing – none of the high powered pieces have any interest in playing on his board.

By: omie34

omie34 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:00:18 +0000

As a houstonion I honestly hope daryl stays with this young core of the 3 rookies we just drafted plus jeremy lin, asik, chandler parsons, patrick patterson, and marcus morris. They’re all young and talented and at least half of them will be all-stars one day. If they can strike a deal for dwight and another star to go with lin fine but giving up all our young assetts for just dwight isn’t smart. Dwight Howard and Jeremy Lin aren’t winning a championship alone. We’re in a great position to rebuild on the fly with lots of young talents, picks, and flexibility I wouldn’t trade that for anything but an obvious championship contender

By: londonaiooo

londonaiooo — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:22:20 +0000

It’s nice to see an organisation go for a high risk/high reward play. The point of the NBA at the end of the day is to win the title, so it’s important to try and follow a route you think can get you there. It worked recently with the Celtics and the Heat, so completely worth a shot. Hope it works out, though at this point if I were Morey I’d be looking to swipe Bynum over Howard, he seems like a disaster waiting to happen in Houston.

By: dylude

dylude — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:20:14 +0000

Morey is playing chess and getting “checkers criticism” from ppl who can’t see the bigger picture. Ainge didn’t make Ray Allen or Kevin Garnett available, he got lucky that they were and had the pieces to make it happen. Morey can’t dictate when Dwight will be available, but he has the best pieces to get him and likewise Bynum.

I’m sure some “checkers criticism” will come in the comments section of this post.

By: dgl1

dgl1 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:50:49 +0000

Hey Kurt, “with-malice” (Don) here…

Except that in Morey claiming this publicly, he undermines every young player on the roster he just spent all summer getting. The more and more he says things of this nature, the worse his bargaining position is going to be. If by a very real chance the trades dont come off, Houston are stuck with a bunch of disenfranchised young guys who know very well they were not in the team’s long term plans.

And the reality is that the recreation of the Boston scenario is extremely unlikely. In his initial years at Houston, the big song and dance was over what a magician Morey is. Now that it’s been years of finishing in the middle rungs of the NBA (the absolute WORST place to be), I now believe that everyone’s afraid to call Morey out.

So while everyone’s singing his praises on his dice rolling, I remain singularly unimpressed.