While I agree we need to slow down, since we saw how we couldn't run against the Blazers as much as we liked and already knew this style does not suit the playoffs, McHale is not the coach it's going to happen under. Simply put: he can't do it, because it will expose him and his coaching staff even more since more plays will have to be called and they have to work harder since Dwight has to get open in certain areas / get to certain spots. I just hope if McHale goes, it's during the season and not at the end because we might make it out of the first round because of talent and yet it will give Morey and Leslie an excuse to keep him on.
Yeah I bumped this thread.... McHale may suck tomorrow, but for the first 4 games he's actually being doing ok... So for all those who want to beat the man down and call him McFail when he messes up, have the guts to give the man his props when he's doing well... T_Man
this team is always in a conundrum...take your pick you can have a great squad with a good coach, but the caveat is you lose your players to injury (07-09) or you can have a good coach and healthy players, but a mediocre squad (09-11) or you can have a good squad, healthy players, but a ****ty coach (12-present)
i don't think the coaches fired were justified...we were plagued by injury for so long... now that we have a good squad...why do we find ourselves playing down to the level of competition?
We are 4-0, and have won each game easily. We weren't very sharp last night, but it was a pretty easy win. Our record has improved every year since McHale has become coach. I tend to focus on the players more than the coaches. We have two superstar players. We will go as far as those two players take us.
I've actually seen us run plays after timeouts and make ingame adjustments. In the 4th, we went away from feeding Howard in the post to having him set screens in the high post. Probably since this is the last year of his contract, McHale is coaching harder or he has actually improved. Contracts of Finch and Bickerstaff may also be up, that's why they're on their toes.
Coaches calling timeouts to draw up an offensive play are much less successful than coaches who just let their team play on. Timeouts benefit the defense much more than the offense.
Not every posession of course but there still needs to be a philosophy. Move the ball and set screens. We don't even do that! Give to Harden and stand around **** is stagnant.
Oh how things have changed. James Harden is on pace to win the MVP. Kevin McHale is on pace to win COY.
Pretty much. Even when the Rockets are playing near flawless basketball fans here cannot see how well the players and organization and the coaching staff fit together. It is a very good thing that fans have no say in the Rockets philosophy and decisions.
We were even apparently wrong about the importance of bringing in a big name assistant coach like Hollins. That Lillard shot last season was probably the best thing that could've happened to this team. No better teaching moment than that. No coach could've motivated the team to focus on the "little things" more than that shot and that moment.
The Rockets are playing basketball as envisioned by Morey and McHale. And it is a beautiful thing. Getting rid of Parsons and Lin was addition by subtraction. They continually pounded the rock, when the only person on the Rockets team who should ever have that privilege is Harden. Harden surrounded by four spot up shooters is beautiful basketball. I thought that was obvious a long time ago, and if I saw it you can be assured that McHale and Morey saw it. Yet somehow they were unable to get player buy in. And now those players are gone.
