Sources: McHale using Sampson's absence as an excuse for poor defense

He getting fired yall.

 

Morey better show some balls once this series is over. Win or lose, we're not going anywhere big with McHale.

 

Frustrated as in "I'm going to fire you if you don't pick it up" or frustrated as in "I want to win and I'm mad".

 

I still don't understand why there wasn't anything in the contract that prevents a coach (head or otherwise) from leaving the team in the middle of the damn season.

 

Here we go, I'm going to start researching coaching candidates.

 

Not the least bit surprising. McHale is 2 losses away from being fired.

 

He better fire McHale or Les should fire both of them.

 

Excuses/Assholes thing.

 

Guys - Keep McHale on, he can drive staff and players to and from their cars in a golf cart.

 

He's not a championship caliber coach. We shouldn't waste Howard's prime with a coach that can't draw up plays and ****ing teach defense. Period.

 

Finch too would be a mistake, these players need someone established that they can respect and who will hold them accountable.... Doc Rivers like

 

I would have to say probably both. I bet the way this series is going he is furious. McHale needs to man up and hold his players accountable as well as himself. If the players are quitting on him (they very well may be) then he needs to go. There is no excuse for the poor (or lack thereof) play calling, no defensive adjustments, not holding Harden accountable for his **** play.

 

If that's the case, then: WHY IN THE HELL IS SAMPSON NOT THE COACH OF THIS TEAM?! What do they even need McHale for? His amazing and unstoppable nonexistent offensive system?

Lol, I need a break...

 

IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE IT'S CALLED A DOUBLE TEAM.

Just for that, fire him.

 

LOL wow. He must want to be fired...

 

Does anyone think that perhaps Howard and Harden are not getting along? I got a vibe last night that Harden was just dicking around because Howard wanted the ball all the time. As if Harden wants to be ball dominate and so does Howard but they can't agree to take turns or work together.

I could be reaching though but I just got that impression with the way they were acting towards each other last night. I saw one point where Parsons had to step in when Harden and Howard were talking.

 

there is only one solution. Maury has experience coaching little league, that is good enough for me. Maury get your best suit and tie out and pull a Popovich. we need you!

 

I am truly puzzled by the lack of adjustments to the mismatches. We wasted a dominant start by Howard last night. Portland (and Aldridge) got everything they wanted back on the other end and by the time we took Howard out for a blow after totally trashing Lopez we were actually down a deuce. It's been obvious from the start of this series that Jones cannot handle either of LaMarcus or Lopez. Lopez just takes him right into the basket on the offensive glass and dominates him. And LaMarcus totally torches the poor guy.

And then the lack of matching up properly at the other positions also. When Mo Williams is in the game that should automatically mean Lin is in the game.

I don't know why you've got to have an assistant coach do that for you. All you got to do is look at video and you can see it. It's not like they don't have video of multiple games against Portland this season already. If I can piece together enough video from my home office to tell what matchups work and what matchups are killing us and have killed us throughout the whole season then surely the coach can sit down in the video room with all the defense and offense spliced together and do even better.

I don't understand why you need an assistant to make those adjustments when some of it is simply a matter of not playing certain guys on certain other guys.