['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

I've grown to agree on the draft strategy. Poo poo on that, fine.

But people are treating him like some kind of a mastermind. As of right now, he has a coach who struggles to figure out how to use his talent. And he has two expensive acquisitions in Lin and Asik who were a terrible fit for the team and system. If he's heavy on analytics, then pre-Harden, why did he have such a mish-mosh of players and coaches who don't work together?

The Harden trade was brilliant. The Howard move worked because they threw a lot of money at them. With the superstars in place, we'll see if a good system follows. Until that system forms, it is purely a strategy of stacking with assets with no vision for how those assets work together.

His focus on analytics is why he identified many of the gems he did. But that doesn't mean that you can win with players that give you surplus value in the latter half of the first round.

Everyone knows how to win in the NBA and there are usually two ways to do it: sign elite players in free agency and draft generational talents. But to get the first you often need the second. And when you have the opportunity to draft the second you have to be lucky.

Morey was able to successfully build a real contender while never having a chance to draft a generational talent. That's pretty amazing.

He acquired a bunch of quarters for dime prices, then traded those quarters for a dollar. And in the NBA, a dollar bill is worth more than four quarters.