And we got the ball to him when we had to. Give McHale leeway to assuage the egos on this team (cough cough Dwight Howard). That's where the offense problem starts, not with McHale. Coach's decision making is a secondary problem. edit: if last year, parsons, asik & lin weren't on the same page as the rest of the team, this year it feels like Howard is, probably due to his time off. Give him some time to jell back in with this year's group and we'll be fine.
Mchale, cd, morey, and dream should nicely explain to Dwight that in order to win easily, have dmo post up more. The Dwight concentrate on PnR, putbacks, alley oops, defense, blocking, and post up depending on match ups..
Harden saved Mchale's bacon this game, inexcusable to not foul with 4 seconds left in the game like that
Inexcusable for Harden to lose track of Afflalo with 4 seconds in the game like that. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Harden on ESPN: His defensive lapse on Afflalo buzzer beater was b/c he was trying to tell Beverley to foul Lawson. No excuse, but funny.</p>— David Weiner (@BimaThug) <a href="https://twitter.com/BimaThug/status/545468084514193408">December 18, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Seems like "not fouling" was a Beverley issue. Harden was yelling at him to foul, and who know if the coaches were, too. He just wasn't listening. Guys get crossed up in these situations all the time. It's not just this team.
24 sec left in OT, Afflalo about to shoot his 2nd FT. McHale had been going defense-offense between Johnson and DMo. I was in disbelief that he didn't bring in DMo for rebounding. Thankfully Harden rebounded Afflalo's miss, so no harm done. But who in their right mind would take a chance like that? I guess technically Afflalo's 2nd FT still counts as defense for us and thus McHale left Johnson in... What an idiot!
Any body know why all the comments got deleted after the warriors game in here, just realized that.. Any who I really like how Mchale is staggering the minutes and give Dmo short breathers here and there and keeping either him or Dwight on the floor. Plus I think he realizes Dmo gets tired pretty quick so it helps keep him some what fresh, great adjustment. What I dislike is our end game execution when the game is on the line. Last night for the last 6 min it was all harden or nothing. Yes harden is our best player, but when it becomes a one on one show we become predictable and stagnant. The great teams do not just play one on one and the end of the games especially for 6 min they make sure everybody is still involved. Just my 2 cents
It seems to me, that when a team is lucky enough to have an MVP candidate that is a great one on one player, that they should allow him to take over in the final minutes. The Rockets are a team full of terrible free throw shooters. I think that limits what we can and should do in the final minutes of the game.
Like I said great teams do not play that way. I hope Harden wins MVP, but I much rather have team success by the end of the year. I watch Warriors execute there plays at the end of the games without using curry exclusively for 6 straight minutes. It worked last night, but its a bad habit that I hope we got of because playoff time that will kill us.
Just want to point out the Spurs really messed up last night's game by not fouling Memphis. It happens, it doesn't mean the coach should be fired.
Foul or not, we were up by 3 with just 4 seconds. Everyone needed to defend the 3. Not sure why harden was around the FT line. It's on everyone. Mchale, harden, asst coaches, and teammates on the floor and on the bench. They all need to do a better job next time.
And to the guy who replied me, I'm fully happy we won. I'm just saying next time in the same situations everyone needs to be on the same page on what needs to be done to avoid overtime and losing eventually.
These "fans" should go root for the Kings. Then they can be happy because their team fired a coach when it makes no sense.
