Subject: Daryl Morey

• Where Do We Go from Here?

  May 7, 2007

• Wooing Lord Voldemort

  May 14, 2007

• The Rockets Explore Their Dark Side, and There Is an "I" in Biggio

  May 22, 2007

• This Just In: Astros’ GM Still Searching for Balls

  June 19, 2007

• It's Official

  June 28, 2007

• Speculation Time

  June 29, 2007

• Rashard Lewis Won’t Be Singing That Ozzy Tune Anytime Soon

  July 2, 2007

• Cover Story: Daryl Morey, Statistical Analysis and the Houston Rockets

  October 31, 2007

• Outtakes: Daryl Morey Could’ve Been a Contender…in Baseball

  November 1, 2007

• Q&A with Daryl Morey: Sounding Off on Rockets Hot Start

  November 7, 2007

• Q&A with Daryl Morey: Surprise! Rockets Need Better Point Guard Play

  November 26, 2007

• Q&A with Daryl Morey: Riding the Rocket Roller Coaster

  December 13, 2007

• Burning the Midnight Oil with Daryl Morey

  February 22, 2008

• Q&A with Daryl Morey: The Day After

  February 27, 2008

• Q&A with Daryl Morey: Down the Stretch They Come…

  April 1, 2008

• Q&A with Daryl Morey: Playoff Preview Edition

  April 17, 2008

• NBA Playoff Preview: Your Guess Is As Good As Mine

  April 18, 2008

• Jason Friedman Wins Big

  June 9, 2008

• Whole Offense, Hole Defense: The Houston Rockets Preview

  October 29, 2008

• The Rockets Get Some Times Love, The Only Love They Apparently Can

  The Houston Rockets are quickly becoming an afterthought in town as Spring Training opens and their tedious soap-opera mediocrity gets pushed to the sidelines. (All of which will change in a blink, of course, if they put together a streak.)But they're getting noticed elsewhere.The New York Times' Sunday magazine's cover boy this weekend was Shane Battier, the "No-Stats All-Star."Michael Lewis, the author of Moneyball -- the book showing how a revolution in stat-keeping changed how baseball GMs s

  February 16, 2009

• The Rockets Get Some Times Love, The Only Love They Apparently Can

  The Houston Rockets are quickly becoming an afterthought in town as Spring Training opens and their tedious soap-opera mediocrity gets pushed to the sidelines. (All of which will change in a blink, of course, if they put together a streak.)But they're getting noticed elsewhere.The New York Times' Sunday magazine's cover boy this weekend was Shane Battier, the "No-Stats All-Star."Michael Lewis, the author of Moneyball -- the book showing how a revolution in stat-keeping changed how baseball GMs s

  February 16, 2009

• Rockets-Mavs: Brooks Delivers Opening Statement

  Aaron Brooks knows what many of you think. You fear the Rockets' new starting point guard is too small to defend big guards, like Dallas' 6-foot-4, future Hall of Famer Jason Kidd on Friday night. You expect him to be worked over in the post. You wonder if he's too young to lead a veteran playoff team, and doubt if his aggressive style can fit with a first unit full of other scorers. At least for one night, none of those fears was realized. Not even a little bit. In his debut as Houston's re

  February 21, 2009

• Carl Landry Shot in Leg, Not by Own Gun

  Photo by dubswede Carl Landry, the second year Rockets forward, was shot in the leg while driving home early this morning. And, no, he did not Plaxico Burress himself in the leg, somebody else shot him. The shooting happened at about 2:30 this morning. Landry was heading home after getting back into town from the team's win in New Orleans. According to Houston Police Department spokesman Kese Smith, Landry was driving his SUV southbound when a northbound vehicle swerved into him. He got out to

  March 18, 2009

• Carl Landry Shot in Leg, Not by Own Gun

  Photo by dubswede Carl Landry, the second year Rockets forward, was shot in the leg while driving home early this morning. And, no, he did not Plaxico Burress himself in the leg, somebody else shot him. The shooting happened at about 2:30 this morning. Landry was heading home after getting back into town from the team's win in New Orleans. According to Houston Police Department spokesman Kese Smith, Landry was driving his SUV southbound when a northbound vehicle swerved into him. He got out to

  March 18, 2009

• The Rockets Get Some Times Love, The Only Love They Apparently Can

  The Houston Rockets are quickly becoming an afterthought in town as Spring Training opens and their tedious soap-opera mediocrity gets pushed to the sidelines. (All of which will change in a blink, of course, if they put together a streak.)But they're getting noticed elsewhere.The New York Times' Sunday magazine's cover boy this weekend was Shane Battier, the "No-Stats All-Star."Michael Lewis, the author of Moneyball -- the book showing how a revolution in stat-keeping changed how baseball GMs s

  February 16, 2009

• Outside the Box

  Turns out a player's scoring average isn't the big key to a win

  November 1, 2007

• Rocket Science: Daryl Morey Brings Hard-Core Statistical Analysis to the NBA

  Houston's pro basketball team pins (at least a part of ) its hopes on a brainiac GM

  November 1, 2007

• Bring On '07!

  April 13, 2006

• Do You Believe In Miracles? Rockets Advance

  May 17, 1997.Aaron Brooks and Von Wafer were in sixth grade. The Oilers were only a year removed from their Houston existence. The Texans were still more than five years from their birth. The Astros had yet to make the playoffs in the Biggio-Bagwell era. Then-President Bill Clinton was still eight months from being outed for his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Oh, and that's also the last day the Rockets had won a postseason series.But it all changed Thursday night, as a long chapter of mediocrity

  May 1, 2009

• Despite Loss, These Aren't Same Old Rockets

  Photo by Katharine ShilcuttThe ending was all too familiar, but the ride was so, so different. Sure, history will show another Rockets season concluded without a title, this time on an 89-70 second-round, Game 7 loss to the Lakers on Sunday afternoon at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. And like so many seasons before, the 2008-09 campaign really ended when an X-ray displayed a fracture in a bone on Yao Ming's left foot.  "In games like this, it would have been nice to have a low

  May 18, 2009

• Is Yao Ming's Career Over? It's Possible, Insiders Say

  Adrian Wojnarowski, a longtime respected sportswriter currently working for Yahoo! (oh, these modern times) has an exclusive report out that the Rockets are quietly getting worried that Yao Ming's latest injury might just end his career.Take it away, Woj: "The realization has hit them that this is grave," one NBA general manager said.For now, the Rockets have privately told league peers it could be a full season before Yao might be able to return to basketball. Multiple league executives, offici

  June 29, 2009

• Being A Fan In Houston Basically Sucks, ESPN Reports

  Photo by Bukowsky18ESPN has put together another one of its Best Fan Experience lists, where they rank ballparks, arenas and stadiums for atmosphere, convenience, team success, and other highly arbitrary and pseudo-scientific categories.Houston doesn't come out too well.The top three are the LA Angels, the Carolina Panthers Hurricanes and the Pittsburgh Steelers; Space City doesn't make an appearance until the Rockets show up at Number 17.The Rocket analysis praises owner Les Alexander for

  July 2, 2009

• Which Houston Team Has The Dumbest Front Office?

  ​Richard Justice actually had a decent blog post the other day. In it, he attempted to evaluate which of Houston's big three sports franchises was the smartest -- sorry Dynamo fans, he didn't include them because he says the team hasn't been here long enough, and I won't include them because I consider MLS to be a minor league when it comes to soccer. And for the most part, I think he got it right, but I would switch the Astros and Texans around.Without a doubt, the best run and smartest franc

  August 26, 2009

• In Make-Or-Break Year, Rockets' Landry Looks To Fill Low-Post Void

  Photo by Jeff Balke​There's a popular belief in NBA circles that the third year is when a player makes the transition to stardom, if he's going to make it. Among point guards, that worked for Chris Paul and Deron Williams, and much has been said about Aaron Brooks making a similar - though smaller - leap. Through five games, Brooks seems on the right track, averaging 20 points and eight assists while directing the Rockets to a surprising 3-2 record. But slightly under the radar is Carl La

  November 5, 2009

• Game Time: The Dysfunctional Macs

  ​I'm sure if all of you have heard, but Tracy McGrady has set a target date to return from microfracture surgery, and that date is November 18. What he's going to do once he comes back or whether he's even ready to come back are secondary issues, because chances are if you heard this news when it broke, then you actually found out about this before the following people:-- Tracy's doctors-- Rockets GM Daryl Morey-- Rockets coach Rick Adelman-- Pretty much anyone employed by the RocketsProving

  November 11, 2009

• Game Time: The 10 Greatest Sopranos Episodes Of All Time

  ​The Sopranos is the greatest television show of all time. I know that sentence right there will be enough to start plenty of discussion, tweets, and emails, both in support of and in disagreement with that statement.It's funny, with sports expansion breeds mediocrity. The more teams that get added to the NFL, NBA, and Major League Baseball, the more watered-down the product becomes. Essentially, new homes are created to house the crappy quarterbacks, point guards, and soft tossing lefti

  November 19, 2009