One thing McHale deserves credit for

As I said in the game 6 thread, if Dan Tony had one ounce of coaching integrity, he would have pulled Harden and tell him to get dressed and go home.

And if Harden got him fired, he could go collect the rest of his contract at home with his coaching integrity intact.

 

Ehhh, I'm sure D'Antoni was pissed as well. I like to think he made all the starters play to the bitter end to make them fully feel the weight of their failure. Harden looked like he didn't want to be there the entire game; I think D'Antoni picked up on that and made sure he WAS out there. Harden finally fouled out to get out of there.

I don't give McHale any credit. I always thought the WCF season was a fluke, even during it, and that he was always a pretty terrible coach. Good man, HOF player, bad coach.

 

... is clapping harder than any other Houston coach.

 

And he's still doing whatever he wants. ****ing 22.7 seconds or more offense

 

Mchale is an idiot.

 

Lmao... you probably blame him for how fat Morey and Keith Jones are.

 

In D'Antoni's defense, I've been watching Harden since his Rockets debut(as well as before when he was with the Thunder) and I've never seen him just not show up for a game like that. Especially one of such importance. He's quit during games when he didn't get calls. But to just go through the motions from the opening tip like that was shocking. And I imagine D'Antoni was equally stunned.

If you saw that clip of him twirling the clipboard, you can tell he's at a complete loss what to do. Sure he could've benched Harden in the 2nd half. But when you're down almost 20 going into the 3rd quarter in an elimination game, you're basically conceding the series if you try to come back without your best player. Plus I would think he didn't wanna start any sort of rift with Harden heading into next season. Coaches tend to not win those battles.

 

To his credit MDA believed in Harden as he believed in Steve Nash. The latter never quit.

 

McHale is a good guy. Would be a heck of an Assistant Coach but not Head Coach material.

 

If McHale didn't bench Harden in game 6, we would've lost that series 100% and ppl opinion of Harden would be vastly diff (since he didn't take us to WCF).

So basically McHale did Harden a solid, in response Harden got him fired. What a guy.

Funny thing about D'antoni is, he doesn't care if you fire him, he'd quit first (he said this in a recent article). So Harden and D'antoni have something in common, both are quitters when the lights shine too bright.