first of all, you're making it sound as though the rockets hired him in the midst of a rebuild or right before they began one. six years ago they were still all about tmac and yao. you could say they had to be looking toward the future, but either way they were playing mcgrady until 2010 and yao until 2012.

so the actual rebuilding part was the past couple of seasons and they were fairly aggressive about it with some success, too.

>you could argue that the rockets already gave Morey mad slack
>on the leash as is
>he was just on the hot seat *this* past summer

and what did he do? scramble like hell to land a star, ultimately getting one after it seemed all (D12, Deron) was lost. he also put a more balanced team on the floor this season. to me, they are moving in the right direction. i dont have any real reason to think that other than being sincere. i am not that big on advanced stats (i am sure the proprietary ones they use are much more interesting) and i don't care one way or the other about the rockets or any of their players even.

>not saying dudes garbage cause i think it's hard to rebuild
>nba teams since you need a lot of shit to fall ur way
>but i think his recent moves have been about saving his job
>and he's said as much

yeah i mean this is the time where he gets to shape the team and start fairly fresh, so of course it's pivotal. rebuilding, i mean some teams are stuck doing it forever. the bobcats have been in a perpetual state of rebuilding since they came into the league.

>so don't be surprised if he reaches on a name player who AS
>don't really support
>especially if they miss the playoffs again (assuming he still
>has a job if that happens)

i am not fully aware of their cap situation but i bet they will have to blow some money this summer, yeah, and if only crap is available, they will probably take it. i guess they have some trade assets so if they wanted to get something more concrete, they could make a deadline deal.

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