The Myth of Daryl Morey: Co-Starring Bill Simmons and a Naive Public

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Walt said:
https://medium.com/the-cauldron/the-man-who-sold-the-world-3df16d8b754a

The Man Who Sold The World

Daryl Morey’s greatest fleecing as a GM? Selling the media and public on Daryl Morey.

Last weekend, the Dallas Mavericks outmaneuvered the Houston Rockets’ supposed wunderkind GM, structuring their offer to coveted restricted free agent small forward Chandler Parsons such that Morey was forced to blink. Morey, in the process of explaining Houston’s decision not to match, somewhat derisively deemed the contract “untradeable,” even as it conjured memories of the recent deals for Jeremy Lin and Omer Asik that Morey tailored in Houston’s favor.

Compounding the loss of their young, dynamic, marketable player (his nickname, “Chandsome,” tells a story in itself), the Rockets couldhave kept Parsons at the bargain price of $960,000 for the 2014-15 season, but they declined a team option so as to avoid letting the 25-year-old hit the market next summer as an unrestricted free agent.

In short, the Rockets lost Parsons because they strategized specifically not to lose him — a confounding turn of events. Morey either underestimated the demand for Parsons or overestimated the Rockets’ chances to sign marquee free agents Carmelo Anthony or Chris Bosh. Either way, this was a horrific misstep that, at least for now, cripples a team that was harboring immediate title aspirations.

In essence, Morey has replaced Parsons with Trevor Ariza, an inconsistent journeyman coming off a career year who also happens to be a Rocket retread who lasted all of one season (during which he shot just south of 40 percent) during his first tour of duty in Houston before being shipped out. It’s not the first time Morey has re-signed a player he previously dumped for more money the second time around.

All of this leaves the Rockets in an all-too-familiar spot: heading into yet another season positioned to be an also-ran.

Will the heretofore fawning media finally begin to scrutinize Morey’s bonafides as a GM who can build a legitimate title contender? Seven seasons, countless fluff pieces, and annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conferences later, will someone with public sway finally confront the Daryl Morey conundrum: the most-celebrated, highest-profile general manager in recent history hasn’t actually won anything.

Read the entire piece here:

https://medium.com/the-cauldron/the-man-who-sold-the-world-3df16d8b754a
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I was listening to the radio yesterday on the treadmill and what I found funnier than anything is, this dude's "legend" is so exaggerated and mythical that one of the guys critiquing the Rockets moves this summer went on to imply that Morey must have some trick up his sleeve. :pachaha:
 
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Saw earlier that Bomani tweeted out this article, didn't realize you wrote it :leon:

Will read it later today
 
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