4+7=11. 82-11=71. We have the entire season ahead of us, this is the perfect time for a change to be made. And enough of the Dwight is leaving crap, do you think any other team in yhe league will let Dwight be as spoiled and as pampered as he is here? Let him go
Yeah that's what doesn't make much sense. Usually when players quit on a coach, it doesn't happen after they make the WCF and have one of their best seasons.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">, McHale said he felt he would have gotten it turned around. Didn't blame rockets for the move, having made tough calls like that himself.</p>— Jonathan Feigen (@Jonathan_Feigen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen/status/667009071632015360">November 18, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I didn't expect it this soon. Either Les really doesn't want to let this window of potential championship run slip by or somebody important on the team talked to him or Morey. *dances a jig* Bring in a hardass. Hardest of asses.
Defn wish Mchale well, but it wasn't ALL his fault. Lawson's quote is most telling when coach would call plays and the players would run something different. Whose to blame... coach or player?
+I don't think he's that bad of a coach. He wasn't the one blowing layups, missing wide open threes and not getting back on defense. Better have a good replacement coming in or this is going to be a long season.
Uh huh. Not after what we saw the last 4 games. A 60-19 run in an 18 minute span? At home? Against a team in their 5th game in 7 nights when you're well rested? I don't think so. Look, I don't expect McHale to throw himself under the bus now after passing the buck for 4 years. But he was never turning this around. Morey and Les clearly realized this, hence his firing.
Thibs. Thibs. Thibs. Thibs. Thibs. Thibs. I want a coach that's constantly fuming. I want the rockets to win the WCF's and then get chairs thrown at them in the locker room immediately after. This is what these guys need. They've proven it over and over again. A players' coach isn't going to cut it with these guys. We need someone who will effing demand respect.
Is it common for former players on other teams to comment about head coaching changes? I have a hard time taking anything Parson's says at this point genuinely. I don't want D'antoni. While we would actually have an offensive scheme for once, we would still have no defense. Defense wins championships.
Agreeed with everything you just said here. If anything, this validates what we've hear about Harden and Howard as "leaders" of a team.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">McHale said he has not decided what he would do next. He could return to coaching. Does not sound as if he wants to retire.</p>— Jonathan Feigen (@Jonathan_Feigen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen/status/667009583093780480">November 18, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">McHale said he has had more meetings with players in the past 4 to 6 weeks then in the previous four years combined.</p>— Jonathan Feigen (@Jonathan_Feigen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen/status/667009765772500992">November 18, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Hard to believe it was Ty Lawson that got McHale fired by saying "we ran plays opposite of what coach told us to do"
Remember how in the offseason and preseason everyone in the org was using "continuity" as a huge theme for why/how they would improve this year?
Lakers also fired Paul Westhead early in the season in 1981 and went on to win a title with Riley replacing him. No Riley isn't walking through that door. But Thibs is a great coach. He could have a similar effect IF we had the right mix of players. But we don't. We'll have to make some personnel changes in addition to this coaching change to win a championship. We're not good enough to win a ring no matter who coaches us.
