I like him and McHale. McHale was here more for molding Harden's foundation as a franchise player D'Antoni is here for strategy and top down from Les to ball boy everyone is on the same page
Never liked McHale. Hated the signing since the beginning. Hated even more when Morey extended his contract.
Someone bring up the hire thread with the poll going 9-1 against MDA. I was one of them, just scared he would run the team with no real agenda. I was wrong, MDA is underrated. Sets Harden as PG Calls most time outs right Calls obvious plays, like Hack a Roberson, this would have missed by Milkhair Has a pretty good rotation calendar keeping players fresh Lets players play, doesnt ask them to do something out of their comfort zone (obviously Harden is a another story) Surrounded himself with good assistants We def got more than we hoped.
You must admit though that MDA is FAAAAAAAR more than just better than bottom tier. He is clearly an elite offensive coach the way JVG was an elite defensive coach. And our defensive problems are more personnel related than coaching related. I doubt there are more than 2 active coaches who would achieve better than 3rd highest net rating in the NBA with this roster.
Mike AntoniO is a current top 5 NBA coach Kevin McFail was a bottom 5 NBA coach of all time if not worse. That's how much Milk Hair sucked.
Kevin McHale and the Rockets maximized the roster in 2015 That team went as far as it could That being said the 2014 team could have competed for a championship Their failure was team wide
I'm not buying into the "Houston, we have a coach" until Mike D'Antoni has the balls to bench Ryan Anderson, and send him a message that he's playing like trash, and needs to get his act together. Good coaches do that.
MikeD destroyed College Coach BillyD. I can't believe he didn't take out Roberson. MIkeD was smart and listened to Harden and never played Clint after sucking so badly in the 3rd quarter
Paging Jeff Bzdelik ... When the Thunder have 0.8 seconds to shoot, and there's a jump ball at the free-throw circle, and Westbrook is standing alone outside the 3-point line waiting for the ball to be tipped to him, you might want to put a defender between him and the ball.
Coach made an interesting comment a few days ago where he said COTYs usually get fired the next season, since they don't match the previous season's success ... I wonder how common that's actually been in the past.
Bev was the nearest to Westbrook. Considering that he likely heard what Adams told Westbrook (that he was going to miss the 2nd ft on purpose), I am surprised Bev was not there to defend that play.
