It's funny you say that because in all but 2 seasons Carlisle has been bounced in the first round (or missed the playoffs altogether) in his time in Dallas and for almost all of that time they had 2 future HOFers.
Cubes is just salty that his team's window is damn near closed. Would rather have a great team and a mediocre coach than a good (not great) coach and a waining team.
Still need to wait and see who the Associate Head Coach the Rockets will get. This person will able to help McHale. I just hope it is Hollins. IF Kidd does leave the Nets for the Bucks I hope Mark Jackson gets the gig and Hollins ends up in H-Town.
More power to Houston if they're able to lure a top FA to a team with the 3rd best head coach in the state. Besides, I'd rather have the combo of McHale & Morey than Donnie Nelson & Rick Carlisle.
Stupid pop bull ****. Okay, McHale turned Harden into an all star and Parson into a near all star, "nuff" said.
McHale haters are so dramatic. Nah, we just needed our role players to play better and we would have been out of the first round. If T.Jones was able to defend LMA a little better in games one and two. If Lin didn't make the decision to dribble the ball rather than call a time out. Etc...
So by that standard nobody in the NBA will want to play for all but 4 active coaches? Having won a chip might be your only barometer for coaching, but thankfully for the rest of the NBA, stars & other free agent players think about more than just whether or not the coach has won a championship. Plus.... how many times has Carlisle been bounced in the first round? Go look that one up.
Not defending McHale. Arguing against the ridiculous notion that he needs 5 all stars to get out of the first round.
Exactly. But more than that, what you get here is a view into Cuban's probable approach to free agents. Much like last season with Dwight, Cuban will likely spend as much time dissing the other teams as he will promoting his own. He hasn't seemed to figure out that doesn't go over well with players. He needs to realize that while he's promoting the superiority of his coach, players will also look at the performance of the organizations. Comparing Houston and Dallas, both had clear reloading plans centered around acquiring premier talent. Dallas' approach was to scuttle their championship team to create cap space for a top free agent. Houston's approach was to acquire assets to parlay into a star that would attract other star talent. One has been highly successful. The other, not so much. Nowadays star players are concerned about the talent a team is going to be able to surround them with. They understand that when it comes to putting talent on the floor, ownership and management matters a helluva lot more than anything else.
If funny how the OP spun the article into "Cuban says McHale is a bad coach". That is just 100% pure spin on the article. He made a mild statement that he thought Carlisle is a better coach than some teams with cap space. How you turn that into such a bold over the top statement is beyond me. Shame on you OP.
No, man,there is no spin. Hes basically saying what everybody knows is true. McHale is not a playoff/championship style coach. Cuban is an as****e but he was dead on the money with this. If the Rockets are serious about winning a championship. McHales buffoonry in the playoffs alone should have cost him his job
We have two of the top players at their position in the NBA with Harden and Howard and a good starter in Parsons and a starting caliber center in Asik coming off the bench and you blame TJ and Lin...??? Lol... McHale got out coached in the Portland series and the team was unprepared. We had the better talented team.
To be fair, McHale should have known that Jones could never hope to defend LMA, he's a tweener forward and LMA is a legit sized PF.....Jones isn't capable of guarding any legit sized PF. McHale gave the Blazers easy mismatches to exploit and they did so, the most embarrassing of which was when they put Harden on Lopez. If the Rockets had a more competent head coach, they probably win that playoff series, that said, if Harden wasn't in such a shooting slump, we probably win it anyway.
honestly, as i read the article (before i saw it on this forum) my first thought was that's a clear shot at Kevin McHale. i don't think OP really spun anything. there is no one else Cubes could be talking about here. and unfortunately, he's probably right.
