D. Devine Yahoo: McHale remembers who he works for

I've never buy this argument. If it was true, then all good players would be good coaches, which is clearly false. In fact, most if not all successful coaches have NOT been great players in their playing days.

 

Easy makes an excellent point, I read an article once about great players making pretty bad coaches because they expect the players they coach to be able to do what they did while playing, and most players are not able to do that, while average players make better coaches because they had to learn how to get the most out of their abilities and can relate to other players having that same issue.

 

People are making too much out of this. McHale tends to respond to reporter's questions with snark, so that explains the tone. Beyond that, he's saying that most of it is reinforcing things he already knew (which is a good things and different from saying that its a load of crap). He then says there are a few things he learned from it that were valuable. Also, good.

 

Reading his body language the article was spot on, McHale was poking fun at it, then realized he was dissing Morey indirectly.

DD

 

I'd like to see how Morey would have built around Garnett. I imagine they would have made the playoffs more than once.

 

Right..... so this man, that has been in the spotlight for over 30 years, has had the media attention of playing in Boston, with Bird... been in multiple NBA Finals, that has been a GM and involved in basketball virtually non stop for decades... lacks the self awareness that he is poking fun at his GM, until in the middle of his conversation with reporters, on tape and then changes direction...... and keep in mind that in the past he has not really provided bulletin board material...... Riiiiiiight, that clearly is the most likely answer...... It makes perfect sense right DD? About as probable as an alien crawling in McHale's skull and controlling all his thoughts and actions.....