Daryl Morey took a massive gamble, and the championship odds are still against his Rockets

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In a conversation with ESPN's Zach Lowe from the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference over the weekend, Morey conceded that trading Clint Capela and a first-round pick for Robert Covington was a massive gamble, one necessary to give his good Rockets team its only chance to be great. Morey landed James Harden in a 2012 swindle, and ever since he has cycled through various stars and supporting casts in an effort to maximize his championship chances. Harden's game makes for a fairly simple recipe: Maximize a generational offensive talent's skill set and minimize the resulting defensive limitations, all in hopes of getting the math to work in Houston's favor when it matters.

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