Sources: Les Alexander has brought up a coaching change to Morey if things dont go as planned

This thread revealed some fake fans. Some have forgotten that we still want that championship this year. with or without Mchale.

 

In all seriousness I know I keep throwing names around but I am rooting for the rockets to get to the finals I don't care who is the coach and tbh I like Kevin mchale and I think we can win a ring with him.

 

what about the report that Les said that the Rox are his hobby and that winning in the playoffs is just gravy but not substantial

 

#1 Steve Kerr had Ron Adams and Alvin Gentry, not to mention unbelievable luck staying healthy and having the teams they played decimated by injuries. Do you want to count on that? Also, who designed most of the Warriors offense? Who designed most of the Warriors defensive plays? It wasn't Kerr.

He hasn't say next to Popovich for years, and he isn't being groomed as Pop's successor. He has been a member of the Spurs organization for 1 year.

No one said that they do not know how to play basketball in Europe. However it is a different game, and the roles and relationships are vastly different. It is the same reason I wouldn't want an elite college coach to be a n NBA coach expected to reach the Finals in year one.

 

Why can't we look into hiring a assistant coach that can help us with our offensive scheme? Firing a Head Coach midseason means the season is over.

 

I'm not a Mchale fan at all but if he's the coach this year, I'd still want to win a championship with him or inspite of him, lol.

 

It was a joke dorks.

 

exactly. doesn't surprise me that there's so called "fans" that secretly root for the rox to fail just to get a new coach

 

We'd have to do really bad (during the season) is my guess. I don't think we will do that badly. However I'm not sure how far we will get in the playoffs. It sounds like if we don't get far enough for Les's liking then he will fire him.

 

Read the original post. Nobody is saying that he will get fired midseason. This is about failing to live up to postseason expectations.

 

Nothing says that a head coach can't have good assistants and defensive coordinators too. In fact good head coaches hand pick and choose their defensive coordinators. Does that mean that Steve Kerr is a bad coach to you? Really?
A good head coach is also seen by the discipline of his team and by the in game adjustments. Let's not talk about how good Mchale is on that front.

Messina always had disciplined teams and the pressure to win was IMMENSE and that with european stars Prima Donnas a lot of the time. The local championship was taken for granted his teams goals was the Euroleague or at least the Final 4. We are talking about pressure from the Russian mafia and government- Putin himself. So funny if you think that he won't be able to handle the pressure for an NBA team.

 

Close. You're the joke here.

(I'm joking!!!)

 

AWW Hell sensor police out in full force today, can't even make a joke, lol

 

There have been a number of elite assistants that have been available over the last 3 seasons and the Rockets have passed on most of them. The only real "hot" or highly coveted assistant the Rockets have targeted is Kelvin Sampson.
T.R. Dunn is a solid NBA assistant but not really elite.

We have missed out on Ron Adams (best defensive assistant in NBA), Alvin Gentry (probably the best offensive assistant in past), Brendan Malone, Steve Clifford, PJ Carlisimo...... all have been available and passed on at different points the last few years.... I still cannot believe they let Adams and Malone get away in the last 15 months.

 

Lol??

You got me! Totally want the Rockets too loose

guess I have to throw a jk and a drum setup on every joke I make.

 

Who said Steve Kerr is a good or bad coach? I didn't say he was bad. I said that the offense was ran by Gentry and the defense by Adams. Also, the "discipline" was already there before Kerr. The Warriors by the end of 2014 were an elite team, coming very close to knocking off the Clippers in LA. They were on the cusp.

The NBA is different, it isn't all about pressure, it is about the power dynamics and power structure in the NBA. It is very different that in Europe. The power structure CSKA is NOT like the NBA. Even David Blatt after denying it all damn season admitted it is a vastly different game.

I never said that Messina wouldn't be a good NBA coach. However I do not want a first time NBA head coach with a majority of his experience being in a different league, not when the expectation is to win a championship right away. That isn't fair expectations.

Sorry you are so sensitive about it, but it is a valid concern.

 

You hire Darren Erman.

Morey knows to do it. He's got a 1mil contract to be associate head coach of the Pelicans. This guy is the real deal, get him.

 

Putin doesn't give a **** about CSKA, it's up to Sergey Ivanov, former KGB general and now the second most powerful person in Russia and Putin's successor. Ivanov created a VTB League for himself

 

Ask the majority of european fans and they would tell you Blatt is 10 times worse coach than Messina. Not every european coach is like Blatt with his stupid blunders.
Imo Messina is the second best European coach. Blatt is maybe top 10.
The best is Obradovic ofc.

Messina will be a good coach and as I said the rumour says that he's been groomed to take up for Pop if he's sick or when he decides to retire for good. The Spurs organisation has picked him and is training him.

 

I don't know if there is a good upgrade to McHale out there that is available, but yeah, if there are some ASSISTANTS that can upgrade the team, by all means!

McHale = in charge of getting the team to "play harder"
Assistants = devise the system to best integrate Lawson/Harden/Howard and the role players.