Blame McHale all you want...but Moreyball is our biggest problem

This thread was made by a poster who has demonstrated over and over again of lacking basketball and management knowledge.

Your expectation is on point.

 

I started having doubts about Morey mainly because of the McHale hiring. McHale is not a championship caliber coach. This team looks embarrassingly unprepared to start off this season. Morey also hasn't still built a roster that matches what his philosophy is because there's not enough quality shooter or finishers at the rim so both share a big role in this team not quit hitting the mark. The last couple of 50 plus win seasons have happened because we had the best sg in the league and one of the top C in the league. Now that both are really struggling, you see the results so far, they are not only losing but getting bent over. At HOME!

 

It does matter what coach you have. Sentiments like these are what allow bad coaches to keep their jobs. Its all on the players, thats basically what Mchale tells us every press conference and I'm sick of it. A coaches job is to have a well prepared team but since he's a players coach I'm willing to bet no one really cares what he says anyway. Popps teams, no matter the talent always seem ready. I doubt you will ever understand what that means.

 

Moreyball is horrible, TEAM ball trumps Morey ball 3 and FTs every day of the week.

DD

 

another rude poster here is.

i, for one, have always had doubts on morey-ball. i am not sold, but i am not ready to dismiss it either becoz i dont think we have all the right players even for morey's own philosophy.

gsw didnt destroy us only with their 3's. how about them playing team ball and esp. on defense? you seem to have failed to recognize this.

 

Morey's goal is simple: get as much talent as he can.

How the talent mesh is not his concern. It's supposed to be the coach's job. But what kind of talent has something to do with it. The whole is not the same as the sum of the parts.

You can have two beautiful shoes. But if both of them are made for the left foot, then you really only have one shoe.

 

blame mchale
blame khloe
blame morey
how about blaming adidas

 

This could probably go in any number of threads, but the biggest problem for this first month of the season is going to be the inflated expectations of the fans. The ones that ignored the fact that the Rockets were a close SA loss in the final minutes on the last day of the season away from being the 6 seed instead of the 2 seed, and thus avoiding a likely first round exit. The ones that wouldn't shut up about Harden needing another 'playmaker' next to him, while assuming that throwing another ball-dominant guy in the mix would be a seamless transition. The ones who overrated Capela based off a handful of games where the other team had no time to prepare for him and anything he did wrong would be excused/forgiven. The ones who laughed off Josh Smith leaving like it was nothing, Harden with a Kardashian like it was nothing, and the Warriors winning a title like it was nothing. And you will all blame McHale when the season doesn't unfold exactly like you predicted.

 

If resigning KJ costed us Josh Smith, he made a big mistake

 

+1.

yes, indeed. it's all about expectations. knowing where the reasonable level is, and how to adjust it...

and expectations incl. those towards the team as a whole as well as towards its star player(s).

 

Nothing you said relieved Mchale of any blame yet you threw it in there at the end as if because some people didn't realize that we weren't as good as they thought we were last year that somehow that has nothing to do with how bad a coach Mchale is. There are other things wrong with this team definitely but when other teams with similar level of talent outplay you at every turn what else should we blame? Houston lacks clear discipline, defensive intensity, focus, mission, strategy, unity etc. etc. etc. What else do you blame? Because if you are tying this together with our faults last year, then it can't only be because the players had a bad preseason which is the current excuse for why Mchale couldn't pull the team together.

 

This is something I was screaming all summer. Smith was key, he played damn good defense and he seemed to be the only person who could get the ball to Dwight exactly where he needed it.

 

we have good ball movement, but we have lousy player movement, dmo increases that a lot, but meh, doesn't matter how much you move the ball if you're standing still.

 

I'm not blaming or asking you to blame anything. It's game 2 of 82.

 

I don't wanna wait until we're 0-20 to start addressing problems

 

If the Rockets are not as good a team as other teams with similar talent, then whats the reason? We have the best sg in the league and one of the best centers and yet we still are not as good as the elite teams. We still can't figure out how to get Dwight the ball. We still have him posting up when he is clearly not good at it. etc. etc. etc. So who is in charge of making sure these things get changed? Exactly, that's why we "blame" Mchale. Generally speaking its not about blame it's simply holding someone accountable for what they are supposed to be doing, their job.

 

If your players are injured during pre-season Mchale can't wish them into tip top basketball condition. These guys are not even in basketball shape. Pops and/or Phil Jackson would've dealt with 3 starters and rookies this pre-season. Rox went to the finals last season and Morey/McHale should get kudos for that versus getting bashed in my opinion. Steve Kerr would not have done a better job with the Rockets team last year over Mchale in my opinion nor Pops so let's see where this year ends up. I got this thread bookmarked for the appropriate time come next June =)

 

I'm sorry you're wrong about this but I respect your opinion, but nope.

 

Sorry your wrong. All the Rox did was have rookies play in the pre-season besides 2 or 3 starters. The rest were sidelined with injuries. Steve Kerr, Pops and Phil Jackson woulda done jack squat. They can't manifest starters to be injury free and in basket ball condition with team chemistry overnight. That's just common sense.

We'll see come next June who is right and who is wrong...to be determined altho we already made the finals last season overachieving with injuries.

 

lol, You have no idea what they would have done just stop. What a horrendous post.