OT LMAO Rockets, Bosh going back to Miami

I made it to page 6 before I started feeling bad.

 

You really shouldn't. Fuck Houston fans.

 

scratch one possible destination off of next years LMA FA sweeps. I know he gets the 5 year MAX here but still a good feeling it can't be Houston.

 

The Spurs got 5 championships by making pretty safe moves. The last two Laker titles came off pretty safe moves (I mean, that Gasol trade was a no brainer). Hell, the Mavs chugged along slightly improving their team year by year for over a decade before finally winning the chip. Then they tore that all down to try and hit a homer and ended up completely screwing their contender status.

I'm not saying that Morey was wrong, necessarily, but of the past decade or so, only the Heat and the Celtics won championships by playing super risky. (Off the top of my head) Obviously luck plays a huge part no matter what route you take, but it doesn't really look to me that making safe moves is a bad thing.

 

The Spurs are unique, in that they're just unusually brilliant at finding under-the-radar gems and coaching them up. I don't think any of the great teams of the past measure up in that respect...sure, the old Bulls, Lakers, Celtics, etc, occasionally found good role-players that the rest of the league didn't see beforehand, but mostly they had a great core and either added known-good veterans or so-so players who didn't get in the way.

I would say, though, that most of the championship teams had a Hall of Famer that they drafted. But that's very rare, you can't plan around making that happen. If you're not one of the teams that is fortunate enough to land a Duncan, Jordan, Kobe, etc, in the draft, I would argue that you generally have to make some significant high-risk plays that pay off to win a championship.

I'm not saying safe moves are always wrong. I think you have to make safe moves too, to augment the core. But landing the core is the hard part and, if you don't fall into a franchise-changing draft pick, that takes risky, high-upside effort.

 

Right, but the Rockets (arguably) already have TWO franchise changing players. Regardless of whether or not they got them from the draft or signed them later the point is they already had their core. Their goal should have been to find players that helped augment those two guys. Not gut your entire team in the hopes that you can get another one of these players. That is just being cocky and greedy. If it worked then obviously he would be hailed as a genius, but in this case it failed and I'm betting Morey wishes now he didn't hedge his championship hopes on the decisions of others.

 

I hope both sting equally....like your girlfriend of 7 years who you're madly in love with suddenly calling it quits.

Fuck the Rockets.

Also, I found this gem on Clutchfans, obviously before Bosh:

"I live in Cleveland so my two teams are 1. Rockets 2. Cavs. This could not have worked out better for either."
- ScolaIsBallin in the ClutchFans Forums

LOL

 

Jason Lieser: One Western Conference exec said Bosh "pump faked" the Rockets. He wondered if they still would've made the Jeremy Lin trade.

 

now If I'm Pat Riley I'm on the phone with Luol Dang.

 

Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!
Oh man, I concur with everyone in this thread - this is the best news of free agency, BY FAR!

 

Fans down here are losing their minds, Portland style

 

That makes me happy, OKC style:

"Tough shit!"

 

Houston can go suck a big bag of dicks.

Fuck you Houston. I hope we knock your ass out of the playoffs again.

 

The only bad news about this . . . the Laker's draft pick from Houston just got better

 

I sense some antipathy towards Houston.

I can sense these things.

 

Daryl Morey is a legend in his own mind. He praises himself, so reporters think they should too. This is a big failure.

 

bwahahahah egg on face, Daryl