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Daryl Morey speaks on recent Rockets roster moves

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Deuce, Sep 11, 2018.

  1. heypartner

    heypartner Contributing Member

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    Sandbagging means they are not telling us everything in their hand. Pops sandbags all the time.
     
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    have you asked him what is his clutchfans nick?
     
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    "More optimal" is the new meme now.
     
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    TheRealAllpro Morey only fan

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    I have sooo many questions? But I’ll just start with:

    • What event was this? Was it for season ticket holders?
    • Did you take notes?
     
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    One of the most illuminating things I’ve read here in quite a while.
     
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    Yeah, but it's a long-winded way of saying,,,in my Zboy voice,,, "it's easy to land players who suck on defense. we just have to hide them, to make them at least "ok"?

    Didn't work for Ryan Anderson and Kantar, though.

    wait...MDA takes people from ok to good....and good to great all the time, if we're talking about objective measures like offenses efficiency.

    I think you're right, though. I just don't think you need to suggest it only works with deficient skills. That just makes them more available for trade, and shows Morey uses the philosophy you pointed out to continuously recharge a roster that is well over the cap.
     
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    His point was that mathematically speaking it's easier for someone to go from terrible to mediocre than it is from mediocre to good or good to great bc the room for improvement is so much greater. in MCW's case, they're confident that they can make a marginal but much more impact improvement on his shooting bc he basically has nowhere to go but up and that's really the only thing they think he needs improvement on.

    it all goes back to how they assess value and their strategy to look for guys that they believe are undervalued compared to their skill set in relation to our system.

    he also said he's learned to be a lot more careful what you say to anyone at anytime bc it all ends up online eventually. point in case.... haha
     
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    Fast Forward to the WCF.
     
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    This shouldn't be buried here, I.D.I.O.T.

    This is good stuff.
     
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    It is funny how he said players are underutilized on another team but MDA is just giving fringe players 10 to 15 min max. and due to a short rotation.

    In addition they can't give out more minutes because a Top 1 seed last year should not be playing too many of those 'projects'.

    He just completely swallowed that one.
     
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    why should fringe players get more than 10-15 mins? and last i checked MDA played a lot of guys last year during the regular season. the post season is a different story altogether, of course.

    they know what they have more or less - they just need quality depth guys that can allow our stars to rest more during the regular season so that they're fresh in the playoffs. they're not bringing in guys like MCW and Ennis bc they think they can mold them into all stars, they bring them in bc they think in their system they can be quality contributors off the bench, allowing MDA to spell harden, cp3 and carmelo more often without the ship completely sinking.
     
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    omg thank you.... the way some interpret things make my head hurt.... glad you explained it.....
     
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    Then he should have not sounded as if solely other teams underutilize players. Rox and most teams did the same.
     
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    I'm willing to give Morey a pass on his off the cuff "compositions," considering that he's got a computer science degree from Northwestern and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management. That screams Geek, to me. Daryl's using Geek Speak.
     
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    You are misinterpreting what he means by "underutilized". What he means is "mis-utilized" or "not used optimally". For instance Brandon Knight's big flaw is that he is an inefficient offensive player as seen from his below average TS%. But that is because in other team's systems he shoots a quarter of his shots from long 2 range, where he shoots 35%. This is what is killing his efficiency, and he won't shoot any of these shots in the Rockets system, thereby improving his offensive efficiency. His game is then optimized, or correctly utilized. Same goes for Chriss, who the Suns used as a stretch 4 even though he shoots 30% from 3. In the Rockets system playing as a back up rim running center, he will be correctly utilized according to his skillset. Morey does not mean these guys aren't playing enough minutes. Neither will play more than 20 mpg here, but they will be used in a more proper role to play to their strengths.
     
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    "See if it works." The last line in the interview. I can't argue with that. We'll see if this team, as currently constructed, works. If it doesn't work the way Morey thinks it should work or thinks it could work, with some fine tuning, we know what he will do. Fine tune the roster. The Geek will tweak. Perhaps no tweaking will be necessary.
     
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    You guys are over-thinking. What Morey said is simply this: "When we get a player, we believe that he can be more optimal than he currently is."
     
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    Did you get a sense of where MCW is on the depth chart? I have been envisioning him as 10th or 11th man, and out of the rotation other than spot minutes when there is a need (more if there is an injury).
     
  20. SWTsig

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    No he didn’t expand much beyond that unfortunately but you’re probably right. That said, we’re not even to training camp yet.
     

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