Tag: Daryl Morey

  • Houston Rockets – James Harden Following the Daryl Morey Plan

    Houston Rockets – James Harden Following the Daryl Morey Plan

    The analytics movement isn’t isolated in just one place in the NBA, but Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, might be the biggest symbol and advocator of it, which has shaped his team in more than just the way they choose their players, but also in trying to control every aspect of the game, including the shooting of a superstar like James Harden.

  • Houston Rockets – Kevin McHale Shouldn’t be the Head Coach After This Season

    Houston Rockets – Kevin McHale Shouldn’t be the Head Coach After This Season

    The Houston Rockets have something of a depressing year ahead due to the negative turnover in talent during the offseason. But there is a silver lining: Kevin McHale might be gone by the end of the season, unless they foolishly decide to renew his contract.

  • Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Shows How Bad Daryl Morey Is at Basketball

    Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Shows How Bad Daryl Morey Is at Basketball

    One last time about Jeremy Lin and the Houston Rockets. There’s a new chapter for him beginning with the Los Angeles Lakers, but it’s still very interesting to look back at how things went badly for him on a team that believed a bit too much in the “genius” of Daryl Morey, only to be left with James Harden, Dwight Howard, Kevin McHale and currently being very far from the contender status they were hoping for.

  • Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Turned Into Nothing More Than a Trading Chip

    Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Turned Into Nothing More Than a Trading Chip

    From a promising young point guard who under the right circumstances could have been an All-Stat level player by now, the Houston Rockets made all the wrong moves with Jeremy Lin, turning him from being a essential part of the franchise’s rise back to prominence into nothing more than a trading chip in a cap clearing deal this offseason.

  • Houston Rockets – James Harden, Sadly for Jeremy Lin, Isn’t Going Anywhere

    Houston Rockets – James Harden, Sadly for Jeremy Lin, Isn’t Going Anywhere

    The end of the season before the actual off season starts is time for speculation and maybe doing some daydreaming. The Houston Rockets find themselves in a crossroads situation. It has to do with their head coach Kevin McHale, but they’re sticking with him. It should have to do with changing the role James Harden has, and the same going for Jeremy Lin, but it’s hard to believe any of that wishful thinking.

  • Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Needs a Change, James Harden Needs to Change

    Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Needs a Change, James Harden Needs to Change

    The season is over way too early for the Houston Rockets who have themselves a head coach in Kevin McHale who really doesn’t know how to make all the moving parts of James Harden, Jeremy Lin and Dwight Howard work together, preferring to simply wing it and let his star nearly decimate an entire series on his own than try and teach this team some actual offense and defense that would have gotten them through.

  • Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin & James Harden Pulling in Different Directions

    It has been proven over the two seasons in which James Harden and Jeremy Lin have been teammates that there are rare moments the two can co-exist on the floor and bring out the best in each other, but most of the time it’s more like a one way street. The question is – what’s best for the Houston Rockets?

  • Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin is the Right Direction, James Harden the Wrong One

    Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin is the Right Direction, James Harden the Wrong One

    The Houston Rockets want to win an NBA championship, but the direction they’re taking, giving James Harden complete control of the offense and the team while relegating Jeremy Lin back to the bench in a reduced sixth man role isn’t going to get them anywhere anytime soon.

  • Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Deserves Better But Might Not Get It

    Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Deserves Better But Might Not Get It

    One game of the Houston Rockets actually playing very well without Jeremy Lin playing a major part of it doesn’t mean that the team is actually better with him as a sixth man while James Harden is paired up with Patrick Beverley in the backcourt, but obviously, there is more than one side to this.

  • Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Becoming a Sixth Man

    Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Becoming a Sixth Man

    Unless Kevin McHale has a change of heart at the last minute, it looks like Jeremy Lin is going to come off the bench in the early games of the 2013-2014 NBA season, which means Patrick Beverley is being preferred to play next to Dwight Howard and James Harden for the Houston Rockets in the starting lineup.