Following game4 losses; Doc Rivers: "I did a bad job". McHale: "guys didn't follow instructions"

Mchale is gone, why does it matter?

 

The instruction he is referring to is this one...

"When we have a plan you just have to stick with it, we said when we get the rebound, we said unless we have a clear break, we're going to take a timeout" -McHale

This was discussed in the timeout preceding the Lin turnover.

Clearly Lin as not paying attention.

I do not like McHale but I am going to defend him on this. No coach is going to be happy after that Lin turnover when he clearly did not follow the instructions coming out of the timeout.

 

Lin has the uncanny ability to piss Mchale off to levels that he didn't even think existed. Seriously he is going to have a heart attack watching the kid make some of these high school level mistakes. Lmao

 

Ok , he's spot on in this instance. You would have though Lin learned a thing or two the last time he tried to go for a homerun play and Batum hit that 3 to send it to OT. I just don't understand how someone can keep repeating the same mistakes over and over...

 

Would love to have Doc as the coach. McHale seems defensive and scared because he might lose his job.

Why didn't McHale call time out immediate after rebound if he didn't see a fastbreak opportunity? The ref was right next to him? I think Pop or Thibs would have called timeout.

 

This. The head coach's most important job is setting the tone.

 

The key is he said, "we're going to take a timeout"... Lin was just turning the corner and someone was charging behind him. There was absoutely no chance to call a timeout at that moment without risking a turnover.

Maybe a far superior athlete could have but not jeremy. So the we're he referred to included him. He was best situated to see if there was a fastbreak and call the timeout. He absolutely should have been jumping up and down if he felt it was time to call a timeout. he did no such thing. What he should have said is I should have called a timeout. They were instructed accordingly but when they didn't I should have called timeout.

So while I'm pissed we lost the game and Lin made the boneheaded mistake that lost us the game so I'm pissed at him too. It's not all his fault. And if Lin doesn't get the rebound we would have been screaming too. Either way McHale deserves some of the blame.

 

who cares. hes gone next year. can a player call timeout when he is dribbling? or he must stop and hold the ball first? if the latter then it's his fault not calling it.

 

mchale can barely walk.. what makes you think he can "jump up & down" to call an urgent timeout?

 

Execellent statement to bad ppl are to fired up at Lin to realize it.

 

Mchale jump up and down? you know the guy is basically a cripple right? It'd be nice if he could run out onto the court like a crazy man, but he can't actually do that.

 

Coaches can call time-outs too you know...

 

Show some class man.

 

It's time some rip off his falsey and throw it for a touch down....:grin:

 

Well, prepare to be disappointed because it is far more likely that Lin is playing somewhere else than it is that McHale is fired.

 

that's possible, but "far more likely" i don't think so…….lin's contract can't be traded (until perhaps next year's trade deadline) and les has yet to pick up mchale's team option

 

Lin's definitely at huge fault, but McHale has been very, very atrocious throughout the series.

He was clearly brought in as a name in a down time. Similar to Lin.