this is idiocy. Morey was a great GM for us. do you realize he never tanked until he got to Philly? You think creating winners without tanking is easy? Presti isn't sht without his picks from tanking. also tanking is the easiest part. the little trades you have to make to generate value when you have little cap space is the hard part and that was a huge strength for him. Stone can't do any of that. compare Moreys first 6 years to Stones first 6 years and come back to me.
Stop getting bent out of shape you small man. There’s more important things in life. 2 different circumstances. Can’t compare 2 different circumstances if Morey indeed was tasked with not tanking.
All true. And yet he built two Rockets WCF teams. You can forgive people slightly for wearing rose colored glasses for that era compared to... this. Morey was generally also better than CD who largely inherited the championship teams. Still, retreading Morey at GM aint the way. Damn it has been a long 30 years of Rockets mediocrity.
Why would he want to come back to this **** organization lol? Ya'll still think they are serious about winning huh? The owner isn't serious.
Why bother quoting posts if you're not even addressing any points that were made? You can actually post without randomly quoting people you're not even replying to, you're aware of that, right?
I’m not saying that. But if they make Stone walk the plank, anybody else would be better than Morey. He’s one of the most overrated GMs in basketball.
I suspect that there will not much interest around the league for hiring Morey this offseason. Dude has lost his shine.
Fans forget that Morey is similar to Stone in that the decision making was collaborative. It was a collective management team making decisions that included Stone. People gave too much credit to Morey. Stone also was the negotiator for many if not all of the trades. “Stone was involved in the Harden trade, as he was locked in the war room with Morey for three days before constructing the deal that would eventually bring the former MVP to Houston. This was just the beginning of Stone’s involvement with player transactions, as he was also a big part of the Chris Paul trade and all the transactions that had to be made in order to complete that trade.” https://spacecityscoop.com/2021/01/...ockets-rafael-stone-isnt-typical-rookie-gm/2/
It's because like somebody earlier said with the fastball analogy - what Morey excelled at, every team does now as standard. He set the standard but now everybody caught up and he hasn't actually innovated anything in nearly a decade at this point. Rated very fairly in his prime as a legitimate frontrunner and analytical mind who redefined the way basketball is played and viewed, but not really a top tier GM in 2026 at all.
What evidence do you have to support that? The Embiid or PG contracts? The burning his bridges with the one player who justified his reputation? I don't think Stone is much cop either, but Morey's recent track record really aint **** tbh
Morey has been living off the Harden trade for almost 15 years now…Dwight left LA for Houston because of Harden…Chris Paul chose to leave the Clippers for the Rockets because Harden recruited him it was his one shining moment, and he hasn’t come close to that since like an actor who starred in an award winning movie back in the day, but has been in decline ever seen and in the current day is basically trash/washed Morey went from an Oscar nominated actor to straight to DVD/streaming on Tubi
I'm personally of the opinion that his biggest "successes" were in his true "Moreyball/moneyball" era pre-Harden where he was keeping a bunch of misfit scrubs with niche skills competing at the bottom of the playoffs on a shoestring (what the moneyball philosophy was actually designed to do) and then Harden came in and gave a LOT of credit to the overall concept/strategy of "all threes and layups" by being an ACTUAL genius on the court. I think once Harden got here the initial successes were Harden's talent more than Morey's and then the true competitive era was Harden and D'Antoni working in concert to actually make the Morey philosophy work in competing with one of the greatest dynasties ever. I think if you put almost any other player in the Harden role that doesn't work and there's also probably not many coaches you can put in D'Antoni's role and also have it still work. Obviously this doesn't count the very end when we'd min/maxed to the point we just become completely predictable and easy to beat just by tiring James out.
