in that AMA, morey explained the philosophy pretty clearly: collect assets, find underused talent and maintain enough cap space to swing a deal for a star. they did that while remaining competitive, despite the loss of yao ming.

everyone criticized the lowry deal, then he turned around and used that lottery pick in a trade, just as he said he could. he's the only guy that saw the potential of poison-pill contracts, and his used it to pry two guys he wanted away from two hugely wealthy teams.

morey's not a genius, he just was one of the first guys to embrace the same metrics that every team now pays attention to. why that arouses anger is very similar to the tea party's hatred of nate silver and academia.

you idiots were lolzing the asik signing, the lin signing and the harden trade/signing. all you had to do was look at their numbers from last year to understand why morey made those deals. but you didn't even do that, you just ran your mouths.