They can't be a cohesive team as long as he thinks he is playing chess. As soon as the players get used to each other he ships them for other pieces. He has no idea what TEAM means.

Darryl needs to go. Read articles about him. He changes the roster too much.

I think you underrate talent. In the NBA EVERYTHING can and should be traded for talent. If the Rockets (they do) think the best player in the deal is Robinson, then the deal is smart. Nothing of significance was lost.

In fact, if Robinson gives you marginally better production than Patterson, Greg Smith is ready for minutes and the entire rotation gets much better.

The concern is the 6mill/2 years for Garcia. Even that is reasonable enough to be flipped eventually for something else. Otherwise, maybe the Rockets don't go all in on a bad max player like Millsap or Josh Smith and wait for a better free agent class in 2015. This might actually be a brilliant move long term.

Patterson was the only piece of significance they're giving up. I'm sure Morey sees more upside in Robinson. Morey's a pretty decent judge of talent, so I'm ok with it.

If you think the Rockets can win with Patterson at PF, then you're smoking crack. He's a good guy to have off the bench and that's about it. The same for Morris as well.

Of course, Morey did spend lottery picks on these guys so blame him for that.

I stayed with him even before the harden deal. After that I realized he's one of the best. We are rebuilding by adding a 23 year old superstar who can add other superstars around him. I'd say that's damn good. The draft is hit and miss anyways. The thunder got lucky. Besides Atlanta coulda told him they wanted thomas Robinson for Josh smith.

Correction. Garcia's got a team option for next year that won't be picked up. So there is almost 0 downside unless you think that Morris or Patterson will improve significantly.

Patterson has reached his potential and morris is crap. Get over it.. this does nothing to hurt us

DP

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Wow OP, Morey just pulled a heist and you're calling him an idiot. Robinson is a very talented big man. He gave up scrubs. Good trade and good GM.

in Morey I trust.

The responses in the other thread confused me. I think this is borderline trade rape.

We just got the cap space to add a max contract this offseason.

Every nba writer and media person is in awe of what morey just pulled off, and you want to fire him? Whata joke.

One of the best GM's in the NBA.

So if it was rape and he is such a great gm then why are the rockets mediocre? He has been in that seat long enough. Again, this is nit chess. The Rockets need to show it on the court, not the message boards and the think tanks. As of now the Rockets are not holding a firm hand as far as production.

Agree with all the recent posts. Even if you can't see his plan, and even if a plan falls through(DH12) he makes the best of it. In the Howard situation I think we need to be glad we didn't get him. Harden is only 23 and is a superstar. Great GM.

Just checked to make sure I am not mistaken nd yes the rockets are the 8th seed and as it stands will be swept by the Spurs.

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So if it was rape and he is such a great gm then why are the rockets mediocre? He has been in that seat long enough. Again, this is nit chess. The Rockets need to show it on the court, not the message boards and the think tanks. As of now the Rockets are not holding a firm hand as far as production.

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You're kidding? We dropped the average age by 6 years and added a superstar to build from. This means we never take a "rebuilding" period. We had a team with no direction because of no stars and a 9 spot in the west. Now we have as good a direction as anyone in the NBA. We can sign Dwight or Josh smith this offseason on top of the 23 year old good team we have right now.

Rockets are the youngest team in the league. Led by a 23yr old superstar in Harden, plus however young Lin & Parsons are, plenty of cap space for free agents and have draft picks. When Morey took over this team was old and had no cap money. The Rox have stayed fairly good on the court while transforming to a much better future now with all of Morey's moves.

Ok. So next year when the Rockets either do nit make the playoffs or get bounced in the first round and he shakes the roster up again ya'll will say what? I know. I will trade the chair I am sitting in right now for two ,lesser chairs so I can then flop those chairs for a btpetter and lesser chair only to turn that into gold.

I hope all of you are right. It is much better around here whe the rockets are good.

Give morey credit for doing something. He was going to build around yao and tmac and injuries cut that plan short nor was it his fault.

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If we sign DH12, josh smith, or Paul millsap you won't have to worry about being contenders. Even if we don't, we will be major contenders for many years. T-Rob should be really good tO build with harden Lin parsons and asik

When Morey got here, we had an old, unathletic team that was saddled with the massive contracts of Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady that put us in salary cap and mediocrity hell.

He's flipped that into potentially the youngest team to make the NBA playoffs since the NBA merger.

The reason he's not sitting on this roster or any roster before this is because we did not have a championship roster. If you are not continuously striving for a championship, then you are not doing your job. He has said, and it is known, you need multiple elite super stars in order to win an NBA championship. This last offseason, he finally turned a few quarters into a dollar when he landed James Harden, a legitimate top 10 player in the league and arguably the best shooting guard in the league right now.

This upcoming off-season, he is positioning himself to be one of the few teams with the cap space to sign a max player (Dwight Howard, Josh Smith, or someone else).

That is to go along with Omer Asik, who has to be one of the best values at center in the league, with 11 points, 12 rebounds per game at $8MM per year. Don't look now, but Jeremy Lin has averaged 14 points, 6 assists, 2 turnovers, and 46% behind the arc in the last 5 games and has been turning it on big time. Chandler Parsons is one of the best 2nd round draft picks in recent years and combined with Carlos Delfino, we are actually getting top-half play out of the SF position.

Morey is doing exactly what he should be doing. Making the roster younger, more athletic, and keeping the team flexible and collect the assets to acquire a second super star in order to build a championship roster.

Great write-up. Sounds like a real article and you hit the nail on the head.

OP is an idiot

OP - your best bet is to pretend like you were trying to troll. you're completely clueless on this.

We lost nothing that valuable. Patterson is a good backup 4, but not a good starting 4. Douglas gave us good minutes though

I think Patrick Beverly's trip to the NBA has made Douglas more expendable. It's hard to tell just how good he's been in his limited minutes, but he's looked very sharp and the team has been better with him on the court.

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Just to clarify, didn't DM trade for Tracey? I don't recall him being here prior to the DM regime.

Man, I just had to chuckle to myself that Morey just:

1. Got a top 5 pick from the last draft, who was picked over Damian Liliard and Andre Drummond

2. Cleared the remaining cap space needed in order to be able to offer a player a max deal this off-season

And the best player he gave up was flipping Patrick Patterson! The same position as the best player we gave up... and we got more upside and a longer deal at a more affordable figure! AAAAH!

Nevermind that was CD.

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Morey started as GM in 2007. McGrady became a Rocket in 2004.