what good is it to draft and not “hold onto” players you believe are good lol. He waived most of those players you mentioned which means he didn’t think they were good enough. That doesn’t qualify as “eye for talent”
Let’s not start that nonsense. Did Foster guide the hands of the players or swayed the movement of the ball 27 straight times? Did MDA make any adjustments when the shots weren’t falling? I didn’t know he had telekinesis
did they win anything? I thought the goal was championships? Or are we satisfied with regular season and a couple playoff series wins only to come up short against the best teams in the West?
He found them before he waived them. He has a good eye for talent. What he lacks is economic awareness, he struggles to properly measure the opportunity cost of players during roster construction..
Did we make 26 other shots? Let’s not deflect blame from flawed roster construction, less talented players, and coaching errors
I saw him at the Toyota center this past Saturday for the Mike Epps We Them Ones tour. Called out his name, said what up and ran away downstairs to the Lexus lounge. He was exiting the suite next to me. so ya haha.
He was doing just fine until ownership meddled and forced him to trade CP3 for Westbrook, which was the beginning of our end.
They lost to a ****ing dynasty, wtf, because they didn't win a championship they were trash? Some of you guys have the takes of 13 year old girls
This is spot on. Took the words right out of my mouth. DM had a star in Harden for years and could never figure out how to bring in quality players to surround him without giving them huge contracts. He over paid for Howard during his down years, then gave up 3 quality role players and a 1st for an over-the-hill Chris Paul, only to trade him for a guy that was past his prime with a terrible contract in R Westbrook. Perhaps what the I disliked the most about DM was how he gave away draft picks in his attempt to lure over-rated big name players. How many times did the Rockets sit on the sideline during the NBA draft watching other teams draft talented young players? Yeah, hard pass on Morey.
Lol what? He acquired great role players like Aaron Brooks, Carl Landry and assembled a team of Artest-Yao-T-Mac with depth that would have won it all if not for health. Then he fleeced Presti for Harden, then eventually built a team that took the GS Warriors to 7 games when they were a superteam. It went downhill when ownership forced him to trade CP3 for Westbrook, then he spent his remaining time trying to salvage the roster by doing slightly odd things like trading for Covington and having him start at center. All of this was due to ownership meddling which explains I think why he could no longer see eye to eye with Fertita and left.
He won nothing with CP3. Had an 18-19 season to avenge that loss and brought in game changers first tier talent (ennis, House, Clark) and once again got bounced. He couldn’t beat those top teams in the mchale/MDA years losing to spurs, lakers, GSW, OKC. The pattern is clear. He simply didn’t build a team good enough to win it all. Stone is somehow replicating these flaws
