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Rebounding His Own Miss(Morey).
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:48 am
by BBAL
The second N.B.A. executive to hastily misjudge Jeremy Lin was the first to publicly confess his sin.
“We should have kept @JLin7.” Those words popped into Twitter timelines on Feb. 9. They came from the keyboard of Daryl Morey, the Houston Rockets’ general manager and one of the league’s leading outside-the-box thinkers. There was more.
“Did not know he was this good,” Morey wrote. “Anyone who says they knew misleading U.”
General managers rarely admit their mistakes (at least, not in real time), and they even more rarely get the chance to rectify them. Morey did both, and shook up two N.B.A. franchises in the process.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/sport ... wanted=all
I gotta say that's classy and he likely earned some credibility with players and fans for this move, IMO. Good article.
Re: Rebounding His Own Miss(Morey).
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:02 am
by twistedfate
I felt he was always willing to admit his mistakes. Most notably when he smartly turned down resigning Artest and went for Ariza instead. Daryl immediately realized he gave Trevor a bad contract too and traded him for the cheaper (and superior) player in Courtney after only 1 season.
Re: Rebounding His Own Miss(Morey).
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:20 am
by College Boy
In that case, I'm waiting for him to come clean on why we drafted Marcus Morris.
Re: Rebounding His Own Miss(Morey).
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:36 am
by Ribalding
College Boy wrote:In that case, I'm waiting for him to come clean on why we drafted Marcus Morris.
Ouch. Remember the Good Book, though. Just for now:
"Judge slowly, o Israel! Beware, lest you look like a total butthole by the all-star break."It's in Proverbs.
Re: Rebounding His Own Miss(Morey).
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:49 am
by College Boy
Lmao... Proverbs?
Never the less, point received. I will take it under advisement.
Re: Rebounding His Own Miss(Morey).
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:35 pm
by moofs
Ribalding wrote:College Boy wrote:In that case, I'm waiting for him to come clean on why we drafted Marcus Morris.
Ouch. Remember the Good Book, though. Just for now:
"Judge slowly, o Israel! Beware, lest you look like a total butthole by the all-star break."It's in Proverbs.
Re: Rebounding His Own Miss(Morey).
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:41 pm
by moofs
I think another rebound is how he let Dragic/Lowry go and replaced them with Lin/Kneeboy/Mostly unprotected 1st from a crappy franchise, and Camby (top3 C in the league, but also 38) with 2 decent young prospects. He also replaced Scola with Asik, which we'll see how that works out, but which should do fine (32 vs. 26, 10m vs 8m, better rebounder/defender at this point). {More}.
Out of curiosity, has anyone ever tried to nickname Shaun Livingston "The Contortionist"?
Re: Rebounding His Own Miss(Morey).
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 6:03 pm
by Ribalding
It's been 5 (?) years and I still can't re-watch that video of him destroying his knee.
Gruesome.
Re: Rebounding His Own Miss(Morey).
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:20 pm
by College Boy
I have watched it several times. In fact I will watch it again as soon as I hit submit.
Re: Rebounding His Own Miss(Morey).
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 1:11 am
by moofs
Great. Now I'm having to decide between
"Judge slowly, o Israel! Beware, lest you look like a total butthole by the all-star break."
(It's in Proverbs.)
and Utah Jazz Prison Rape.
It doesn't help that the r'a'p'e is now censored from my sig... kinda kills the effect.
Re: Rebounding His Own Miss(Morey).
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 4:00 am
by Ribalding
You'll always be able to depend on butthole. It's tight, man.