Ep. 34: Basketball Analytics and the Revamped Rockets With Daryl Morey

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🗓️ 18 October 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The Ringer's Chris Vernon is joined by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey to discuss the growth of analytics in sports (6:00), handling criticism of team chemistry (14:00), his beef with Charles Barkley (18:00), the additions of Eric Gordon and Ryan Anderson (26:00), and potential NBA rule changes to increase pace of play (30:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the NBA pod and today our guest is the general manager of the Houston Rockets.
0:15.3	He is Darryl More.
0:16.3	Hey Darryl.
0:17.3	Good morning.
0:18.3	Thanks for having me on Chris.
0:20.3	Thanks for coming on.
0:21.3	Alright, so before we get into everything about this season and your thoughts on the NBA,
0:25.3	I want to ask you how it all started for you because you have an interesting trek to
0:29.4	becoming a general manager of an NBA team.
0:33.0	I guess my knowledge of it starts where you get hired in Boston, but if you can just
0:38.1	explain to me how did Darryl More become an NBA general manager?
0:44.1	Short version worked at Stats Inc. when I was younger and worked with someone else to
0:54.1	start their basketball practice there and then tried to get a job for many years in
1:03.5	the NBA.
1:04.5	Basketball is when I played nice school and I couldn't.
1:08.6	I ended up working with a firm that worked with the Growspix to help buy the Celtics from
1:17.6	Marijay and the Celtics and the rest is history.
1:23.9	What was the firm?
1:24.9	It was a firm called Parthon.
1:28.8	They are sort of like a consulting slash investment bank.
1:33.0	So what were you doing?
1:34.0	What was your job?
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