Simple poll question to see how much CF agrees with and like the removal of the head coach. Sorry to clutter the GARM but I think it'd be nice to know what the percentages are.
I agree with it. McHale's strength was his player relations. He lost the players. He wasn't an x's and o's guy. That's what we need. You can't have a bunch of free spirited and talented guys and not reign them in. They need brought together. As good of a guy as McHale is, his time here was done. Props to the players, as I assume, there meeting was about McHale. In my opinion, they went to Morey and Led and asked for the change, and it was done. Shows maturity, to me.
When you lost a locker room especially in professional sports it has to be done. That's the main reason I would agree.
I do for this team. We don't need a players coach we need a guy who get in players ass(harden) and be more of an x's and o's guy
If you make this a public poll, OP, I might vote. I no longer vote in non-public polls unless they are started by Clutch. I'm on a mission. ;-)-
Yes. Three years too late. I wanted him gone for trotting out those scola-patterson line-ups over and over even when we were losing. When Lowry our beloved bulldog, the last guy to quit on the team, tuned him out. Telltale signs. I don't know why morey was so enamored with him because he could tell good stories.
It's complicated. We had to make a change, but the team wasn't playing that poorly because of McHale.
are you saying none of this is due to McHale at all? If a team checks out on their coach, I would say he's definitely at the very least a significant reason
McHale was a significant problem, but I'm not sure this was the right solution at this point in the season
I don't like it, he lead this team to a WCF and they still don't listen to him after all this success and beating the odds. I think this team is filled with bad characters and it disgusts me that a great guy like McHale gets sacked because of arrogant players like Harden trying to dictate the game themselves. And it won't get better now that the guys see they won't get punished for their pathetic lack of discipline and effort. Kinda hope JB or Thibs will verbally smack the **** out of the team.
Not at all. I hate how everything has to be completely one thing or another. Like most things, both parties (coaching & players) contributed to the poor start, but if your star player is moping around not giving a damn, while the rest of the team follows suit, then I'm going to be pissed at the players. The coach shouldn't have to preach playing with an ounce of effort, getting back on D, etc. Those are all things a player has complete control over. I don't know what the issue is. All I know is that most of the players are playing with zero effort, and I have a hard to putting that on the coach. I agree we had to make a change, because they tuned him out, but in my opinion most of the blame lies on the players for getting beat by 20 points every damn game.
Yes, 100%. Those ESPN and NBA TV guys who are piling on the Rockets management can go fornicate themselves. They clearly don't watch this team as much as we do and we've seen the same problems for years. They just snowballed out of control this season, but the defensive lapses, turnovers, ISO ball, missed free throws, and underestimating of opponents are not new developments. Injuries? Bosh resigning with the Heat? Parsons defecting to the Mavs? Those are things beyond McHale's control. The aforementioned issues however were his responsibility to fix and he never did. And he had this team completely unprepared for the season and it showed.
Even if it wasn't McHales fault, it was his responsiblity to fix it and he was having zero success. So yes, it was the correct move IMO.
I don't think much of McHale as a coach but this was the players. Congrats. You quit. You're quitters. You got a coach fired. Are you proud of that? I hope your proud of that.
