McHale post-game interview for Game 4: Reasons for the Loss

Unless they consistently don't follow the game plan and are not benched.

Which as we all know would not happen with Pop.....now with McHale...well.....

DD

 

I would say McHale lost the team.....but it seems like he never really had it.

 

Blame the players, not the coach? What is the coach roles? If the players do not follow your instruction, then you should either get rid of the players or remove yourself from the coach position. This would be very logic for me.

 

the most remarkable thing is that 3 consecutive seasons in a row now we've suffered McCollapse endings to each season with 3 starkly different player rosters…..and yet it's always the players' fault!

 

if he takes up for the loss, he's a chump like kubiak.
if he doesn't take up for the loss, he is a coward. COach can't win.

But and a huge but, harden stripper type of but, Coach should have not chosen faves all the way to beginning of last season. It's more apparent now that these dorks who disguise themselves as Rockets players treat coach like the substitute teacher.

 

McHale and Lin will be the scapegoat for sure.

But why did Morey trade away Brooks?

Given that Rox's perimeter defense is poor, why didn't Morey trade for a capable defensive SF?

Through Morey's tenure, one consistent theme is that Morey always wanted to pay fair or underpay market value for any deals. Rox has been ending up with good players with shortcomings (undersized, weak defender etc). But given limited supply of talented players, sometimes you might have to overpay slightly to get what you want.

 

I would like to see DMO and Hamilton get some minutes for defensive purpose also because guys are really looking winded with all the extended minutes.

 

I feel like this series was a wake up call. I never believed Mchale could coach this team to a championship. I really believe we will be a playoff contender once Mchale is let go. It sort of reminds me of Shaq and Kobe lakers before phil Jackson was the coach.

We just need a coach that will put harden in check.

 

You and Rockets2k can't be serious.... His comparison is based on the assumption that Pop and McHale are equal... He completely overlooks the reason behind the Spurs' mistakes and the Rockets'.... also the patterns behind the mistakes...

The Spurs' mistakes have no pattern... McHale's Rockets mistakes have a season long pattern... That those perceptive enough could see would lead to problems in the long term... particularly in the playoffs when talent alone (the only thing responsible for our winning record) isn't sufficient to mask deficiencies with personnel, starting with the head coach... On the contrary, the playoffs, with high stakes pressure and tighter game play every single game are designed to expose them...

Harden isn't going to magically "get it"... Didn't everyone see those awful defensive attempts in the 4th...? When his shot isn't falling... Harden continues to look for foul first, shot second... People will notice an improvement from one game to the next... but ignore his lack of consistent and substantial improvement from one season to another, on both ends of the court... His in-game attitude, reflects his off-court attitude... Why work so hard on my game when I can get away with blaming someone else (passing off the ball with less than 4secs remaining on the shot clock, shouting at teammates for their failures, or calling the team out for it's bad defense, while shrugging his own, unless the media makes a big deal out of it of course), or have the refs bail me out (when he goes hero ball, looking to bait for a foul over making a play)... You can tell this by just looking at his game, his body language combined with his quotes to the media which evidently come from the heart...

These are all bad habits of the wrong mentality.... which a good coach can help address... Everyone points out to how young is... There you go, that's your first clue that a coach can have an impact... He's not a set in his ways vet yet, but he soon will be, the longer we excuse the piss poor environment for a player of Harden's mentality...

McHale's, "get an open shot" strategy in clutch situatinos (as quoted by Harden after game 2), and "they know what to do, I don't know why they didn't do it", "the ball got sticky", stuttering, stammering hands-off cluelessness isn't going to help... And it IS going to hurt... This does not need to be incessantly excused by the fans, it needs to be addressed.. These losses are DEMANDING our attention to this problem, not convincing us to ignore it...

 

Then why McHale did not call a timeout himself after Lin got the rebound. Normal sense is for coach to call time immediately and secure the position first. I believe the team has no discipline and no idea what to do when game became close at the end. For this, it is the coach staff at fault.

 

the turnovers, brain farts, lack of defense, failed defensive rebounding etc etc

ON THE PLAYERS

 

Oh come on now...

Spoiler

it's at least worth 2 squares.

 

If we're knocked out in the 1st round I think its best McHale and Lin parts way with the Rockets. Need a new coach for Harden to up his game in the Playoffs.

 

I think we need a great coach, or a good coach with a great leader on the team. And, I don't think at this point, either Dwight or Harden are great leaders. But, I also don't think Portland has what it takes to close out a series at this moment.. So, if the Rockets can stop sabotaging themselves, they still have a shot here.

 

This team seems to have an awful lot of trouble converting relatively open layups, and there doesn't seem to be any of them that are exempt to it. It's like, if they just hit their ****ing layups (like the ones the spurs always make) they'd have been a 60 win team.

 

From what I saw in this video is that this team doesn't have much respect towards Mchale, or Mchale simply just cant get his players to stick with the plan. Even Lin, appeared to be a humble and obedient kid would ignore what he was instructed to do. I remmeber last year vs Spurs without Harden in the regular season Lin waived off a screen that was instructed by Mchale that caused us to lose in OT.

 

So who is y'all coach that will lead us to the promise land?

 

Well to be honest if a coach says "Players aren't sticking to the plan" then it's hard to blame the coach, that's like blaming the GM when the owner keeps overriding him with decisions. It's different if a coach is just clueless (like Mike Brown), or the coach doesn't do anything and watches the team implode (like RA), but if the coach is drawing up plays and telling you what the game plan is and the players aren't listening to him then it's the players' fault for not following the game plan. As a coach you can only do so much, it's up to the players on the court if they decide to stick to the plan or freelance.

Don't get me wrong I think the horrible offense in game 1 and 2 losses are all on Mchale and his staff, but in this third game you can't really blame Mchale when Lin made the boneheaded decision of not calling a time out and then getting stripped, esp. after he just made the same mistake the previous game.

 

Probably a repost, but good article on McHale completely throwing Lin under the bus... instead of taking any kind of head coach accountability

http://houston.culturemap.com/news/sports/04-28-14-jeremy-lin-unfairly-crucified-as-mchale-throws-him-under-the-bus-while-patrick-beverley-given-free-pass-for-turnover/