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Official Fire McHale Thread

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by FTW Rockets FTW, Apr 19, 2012.

  1. JeffB

    JeffB Contributing Member
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    League Pass Broadband. Got it because I knew I couldn't sit out a rebuilding year without at least witnessing each game so I could see where the team was going.
     
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    The coach has invested more than one season into this "novel" offensive system now he is forced to get the novelties out one by one. That certainly hurts the ego and the players.
     
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    Are you referring to this one or something else?

    Just curious....

    http://www.ysr1560.com/houston/bill-walton-on-a-mobile-8080/
     
  4. HMMMHMM

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    Three year deal. McHale will still be under contract next season.

    http://www.chron.com/sports/rockets...o-four-year-deal-to-coach-Rockets-1684946.php
     
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    The offense is not working and looks chaotic, our team has good players and we don´t use them. The D is also slow, disorganized and soft. As Finch is our offensive specialist and Sampson responsible for D, I say sack them and get better assistants to help McHale.
     
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    He's like a very poor man's Ryan Andersen. Honestly, I think guys like him are a dime a dozen.
    Everything he's been getting this year has either been open looks for 3s or drives set up by hard closeouts because his man is helping on Harden/Lin.
     
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    He better not be here next year, that would be disastrous! Look at how he handles minutes and players now, just terrible management..Douglas was doing just fine and a good coach would know how to use him together with Lin / Harden. DNP is undeserved and the whole splitting Lin & Harden's minutes is also not rocket science yet McHale refuses to.
     
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    Totally agree.
     
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    It is possible considering that McHale is really just a second-year NBA head coach that has never coached any team in postseason.
     
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    I have long been suspecting that this is the case but just have no evidence to prove it.

    But as McHale seems to be a coach with little creativity to me, I would think that he would just take whatever Morey prescribes without thinking it through before implementation.

    I wonder how Morey is going to bail him out.
     
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    One of my biggest puzzle about McHale has been why our power forwards are still so weak in post plays, despite the fact that he has been a HOF player making his living on that.
     
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    This seems to be a sign for me that he has been throwing pieces into his "system," but has quite got them lined up yet.
     
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    Or maybe he just hasn't got a system with it parts all in place yet, hence the constant changes and experimentation at the cost of our games.
     
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    This can be a good system if we have four .400 3P shooters like the Knicks. However their 4-out offense has not been working well with Feldon out.
     
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    Under normal situation, I guess most coaches would hesitate to play rookies if winning games is more important. But when your team is behind and the players are playing far below normal level, you should play rookies in hope of a change of wind.

    The Timberwolves played two rookies they just called back from D League with 10-day contracts to score a combined 26 points in the last quarter to take the game from us just two days ago.
     
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    Has McHale always coached by hanging his head and not looking at the team/floor for long stretches? I just started noticing this recently. Has this always been the case and I just never noticed?
     
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    Never noticed that happen in a game this season
     
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    Haha no I know that is a joke. It was a serious comment he mentioned around 4 o'clock. I know he is on clutch fans so if you see this Adam maybe you could shine some light on your comment?
     
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    Someone should start a thread just so that would be the first thing Adam would see when he logs on here to clutchfans. Someone w/ thread posting credentials, please post a title something like:

    "Adam, is it really true that Mchale lost the locker room?"

    Then we'll see if he responds.
     

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