re: Report: Rajon Rondo done in Dallas 'as long as the coach is back'

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You like to re-write history.

Daryl Morey entered with a team already in place. The stars were Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady.

Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady both were injured a lot at the end of the season when trying to make a playoff run. There is nothing Morey can do about that.

Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady both had what were essentially career-ending injuries. Imagine that... the two franchise players magically disappear into dust and you can't even make a good trade for them. They ended up worthless. Morey could do nothing about that.

So for 3 years after that, Morey had to find a star player without tanking. The owner, Leslie Alexander, did not want to scrap everyone and tank.

With nothing but role players, and no real star player, the Rockets finished 9th in the West 3 straight years, just barely missing out on the playoffs each time. Those Rockets teams were the equivalent of OKC without Durant and Westbrook or the Pelicans without Anthony Davis. And they still competed for a playoff spot.

Then Morey gives max money to bench player James Harden. Many people thought OKC won that trade. I can even pull up the thread here where everyone was talking about how the Rockets got "trade raped".

And since then, he's made a bunch of moves, including signing Dwight Howard, and in the second year of Harden and Howard, the team earned a 2-seed and are looking to make it past the first round.

He re-built a team that lost both of it's star players for nothing in about 3 years.




Morey has done a fine job.

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So well put. Not to mention that Morey has gotten us Donatas, Parsons, and Capela, outside of the lottery.

If you actually look at Morey's work, there isn't a better GM in sports. He does all you can ask of a GM.