This One's for Daryl

To cap off Saturday’s playoff matchups, the playoff God’s gave us exactly what we wanted. Mark Cuban’s Dallas maverick’s against Daryl Morey’s Houston Rockets. Daryl Who??? Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey might not get much media attention but the feud between Morey and Cuban has been well documented. Morey is a man of analytics, his Rockets don’t shoot any 2 pointers. Houston leads the league in 3 point attempts, makes, and turnovers. They shoot a lot, they run a lot, and they dunk a lot. They have a high offensive efficiency, yet get very little credit for their efforts because nobody believes they can do it when it matters.

Cuban who has never had a good relationship with Morey, put gasoline on fire last off-season when he offered then Rockets Small Forward Chandler Parsons a 3yr/$46 million contract. So outrageous Morey decided to not match the offer. Before the start of the series Cuban said “There’s no more predictable team than the Rockets. You know exactly what they’re gonna do, Because that’s not a very good team over there.” The Rockets promptly responded by beating the Mavericks 118-108. Whether or not Cubans Mavs can come back and win the series is another story but maybe their billionaire owner should limit his talking. If anything is for certain is that Morey, the Billy Bean of NBA knows exactly what he’s doing and if it wasn’t for Patrick Beverly and Donatas Motiejunas out for the season, this blog post wouldn’t even be written since the Rockets would’ve easily handled Cuban’s Mavericks.