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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/5815234.html http://sports.sina.com.cn/k/2008-06-03/14283698656.shtml June 2, 2008, 11:52PM COMMENTARY Morey eyes new strategy By. STEVE CAMPBELL Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle THE Rockets are the only team Daryl Morey really wants to see play basketball this time of year. They've been out of sight — though most assuredly, not out of mind — for a month. Like any self-respecting basketball junkie, though, Morey can't take his eyes off the last two teams still standing. The Boston Celtics have won 16 NBA championships. They're the only team in the way of the Los Angeles Lakers closing to within one title of the empire that Red Auerbach built. The Celtics also have a chance to at least delay Phil Jackson's dream of winning his 10th NBA title as a head coach. "I always had Boston winning it all, so I'm hoping I can still be right about that," Morey said. "You might accuse me of a little homerism. "We'll get to see whether you can guard your way to the championship. Boston has done about as good as you can try at that. They're about as good defensively as any team in a long time." Heart is with Celtics Morey spent three years as Celtics vice president of operations and information , which helps account for his NBA Finals loyalties. The Rockets won 55 games, including 22 in a row, in their first season on Morey's watch as general manager. They did it with guard Tracy McGrady moving from one nagging injury to the next. They did it with center Yao Ming missing 27 games and the playoffs. Yao didn't miss much in the playoffs. Despite having the home-court advantage in the first round against the Utah Jazz, the Rockets disappeared from the playoff landscape after six games. The Rockets have been there, done that kind of thing enough for Morey to conclude it's time for the organization to shift its thinking a bit. "As you can tell, the NBA regular season doesn't matter a whole lot," Morey said. "We've shown that with Yao, without McGrady, we can win. We've shown with McGrady, without Yao, we can win at a high rate — 50 to 60 wins. We've shown with both of them, we're even better. We are focused pretty much only on what are weaknesses that will keep us from winning in the first round." At this time a year ago, the Celtics were licking their wounds from a 24-58 season. The Lakers were 42-40 and hadn't won a playoff series since the breakup of Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal. Bryant tried mightily to talk his way out of town before this season began, which just goes to show what he knows about building a championship team. Now the Lakers look like a team poised to stay on top for a while. The Lakers, after all, have gotten this far with promising center Andrew Bynum on the mend from a knee injury. The Lakers rolled over defending champion San Antonio in the Western Conference finals, and Jackson should have even more of an abundance of talent at his beck and call next season. "We feel like we're a good player short of being where we want to be," Morey said. "We haven't really earned the right to start worrying about specific teams in the Western Conference and how we stack up against them. Until we've gone a little farther in the playoffs, we're just focusing on us getting better." Trades are best bet That one player isn't going to fall to the Rockets when they pick 25th in the upcoming draft. Morey is confident, though, that the Rockets can land a rotation player in that spot. It just might not be next season's rotation. Don't look for much help from the free-agent market, because re-signing Carl Landry won't leave them much below the luxury tax level. "We're probably going to have to upgrade through trade," Morey said, "as opposed to free agency." The Celtics got well in a hurry when Danny Ainge swung a seven-for-one deal to pry Kevin Garnett from Minnesota and packaged the No. 5 overall pick to Seattle for Ray Allen. Just like that, the Celtics had two All-Stars to complement long-suffering Paul Pierce. The Lakers, for their part, became instant contenders shortly before the trade deadline when the Memphis Grizzlies gave the gift of Pau Gasol. Bryant can't win a championship alone, but Gasol and Lamar Odom give him plenty of playmaking company. "We're really focused on being able to upgrade for next year's playoffs," Morey said. "Don't judge the team on Oct. 1. We think we've got a lot of assets that a lot of teams want — a lot of ways to upgrade. Often the best opportunities to use those come at trade deadlines." Don't be quick to judge The labor of this summer, in other words, might not bear fruit until next spring. To Morey's Clutch City constituency, a humdrum summer should be a small price to pay for a playoff run that doesn't plow into a dead end. "If you look at me, it might look like I've been eating bon-bons all day," Morey said. "I haven't been able to get as much of a workout as I'd like, but hey, I'll get to that after all this craziness." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 新浪體育訊　北京時間6月3日《休斯頓紀事報》消息，身為火箭經理，多耶爾-莫雷是多麼希望到了賽季這個時候，仍然有比賽可打的是自己的球隊。但今年的總決賽，莫雷卻也有自己明確的傾向，凱爾特人可算是莫雷的第二主隊，在來火箭之前，莫雷曾經做過三年凱爾特人運作和信息部副總。　　「我總是預測波士頓會拿冠軍，」莫雷說道，「所以我希望這次我還能預測正確，你可以指責我的主隊情懷。凱爾特人今年的表現接近完美，他們的防守可以和過去很長一段時間內的任何防守強隊相提並論。」　　今年是莫雷擔任火箭經理的第一個賽季，球隊常規賽55勝、並且取得了創紀錄的22連勝，而且這還是在特雷西-麥克格雷迪傷病不斷，姚明因為腳踝骨裂錯過27場常規賽的逆境下獲得。　　但是季後賽首輪火箭在擁有主場優勢的情況下2-4被猶他爵士淘汰，對此莫雷說道，「你也知道，真正的賽季從季後賽開始。我們已經證明了即使沒有姚明或麥蒂，我們一樣能夠取勝。我們也已經證明，當姚明和麥蒂健康時，我們是一支更好的球隊。現在我們將專注於尋找球隊的弱點，是什麼讓我們始終無法突破首輪。」　　「我們覺得我們還差一個好球員就能達到我們想要的高度，」莫雷說，「我們還沒有權利去擔心西區某支特別的球隊(比如已經流露出王者之相的洛杉磯湖人)，以及我們要擺出怎樣的陣容才能擊敗他們，在我們在季後賽中走得更遠之前，我們只能專注於如何變得更強。」　　火箭今年手握首輪第25號選秀權，球隊有信心能挑選到一名可以進入常規輪換陣容的球員(只是進入輪換陣容的時間不一定就是下賽季)。自由球員市場要想找到太多幫助也不現實，因為續約卡爾-蘭德裡就將消耗掉球隊不少薪金空間。「我們可能得通過轉會來升級陣容，而不是通過自由市場簽約。我們有不少球員其它球隊都想要，所以我們並不急於交易，最好的機會往往出現在轉會截止日前。」莫雷說。 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 218.166.103.125