He'll put them in the doghouse if they play like crap. But he'll play young players. Otherwise, he won't be hired.
Is everybody on crazy pills? You want someone to work with the big men? We have CD, with a proven track record in developing bigs. You want mchale to recruit talent? then that tells me someone holding a certain position is not doing his job. The only thing intriguing about hiring Mchale is...well I can't think of one, except the lotto picks at the end of the rainbow. It will be two very long seasons ahead of us =/ Hopefully, the texans can finally do well so it can ease the pain.
I don't think Kevin McHale is the long term answer, but what choice do we have but to give him a chance. This seems to be Morey and his Celtic pipeline swaying things. Who knows, maybe he will get it right and McHale will be great, but we already HAD a great coach, what we need are players, and the only one to look at for that is the man in the mirror. DD
Phil was a two-year assistant coach when he was hired to coach the Bulls. Nobody would have predicted his string of success. He had no defined basketball philosophy, knocked around the CBA and foreign leagues until he was hired as an assistant coach by the Bulls. He was with the Bulls two years under Collins before they made him head coach. And that was when he met Tex Winter and learned the triple post. My point is Phil didn't have some great coaching pedigree and basketball philosophy when he was hired as the head coach. He was a basketball vagabond. I'm not saying McHale will have a Phil Jackson coaching career. But I can see the similiarities in what Morey and the Rockets are doing in making this kind of decision. Phil's greatest strength, his greatest tact, was in getting his players to buy in, and be coached, and play ..... to the wall to get rings. The triple post, he picked it up from a fellow assistant, and let that assistant teach it. If McHale is hired as head coach, look for an offensive assistant (Finch) and a defensive assistant (????) to be hired.
An intriguing choice. I can see some of the choices behind this decision. The league has changed with the formation of the LRMR marketing firm. Like it or not but they are the ones getting people jobs. They've got Calipari recruiting in the college system, Lebron and his friends backing the validity, and even have success stories like Thibs. Building teams is tied to networking, who you know, and teams with players on the inner circle. Mchale puts us in that inner circle. Players respect and really like him. Former players can help recruit other prominent players. Mchale is respected league wide. Don't you think having him in the negotiating table will help win over star players like Isaih did with the Knicks? This will also help with negotiations for the #2 pick seeing as how the groundwork is laid between Minny's franchise and Mchale. Ultimately I can see this as helping with getting Howard here with Mchale's appeal.
Ofcourse, we all know Justice is in pocket with the organization. Whens the last time he wrote criticizing Morey? Hiring Mchale only justifies how bad letting Adelman go was. If the rockets wanted a "young coach" they could grow with then that eliminates Mchale. If they really wanted a "championship caliber" coach then Kevin Mchale has absolutely no credentials. Let's be honest, Morey & Les had the perfect coach for the team but let him walk because they couldn't control him and who he played. Sounds like somebody let ego get in the way of winning, which will set the franchise back 10 years. Until we get rid of Morey the Rockets will never be a contender, just a mediocre team with young "assets" and a inability to bring in a superstar.
Funny Adelman was guilty of that ego as well. Let's not forget how subpar the team performed until the trades were made at the all-star break. Adelman insisted on playing Brooks even when it hurt our team. Lowry getting a majority of the PG minutes really pushed the team over the edge. Morey got rid of Battier who's only values to the team were leadership and team defense. Well when Battier can't funnel his man into a shotblocker he's not as amazing as he used to be. Also, he did nothing on offense. His post entry passes were solid but that was about it. In the beginning of the season Adelman would not play Hill even when he was giving good games against LA. Adelman's focus was on winning Morey's on player development. They had a differing opinon on how good our team was. Do you agree with Adelman and thinking the team would win? Or do you agree with Morey and thinking the team needs additional pieces? Most people on here would agree with Morey thinking. To get additional pieces, either our in house young talent has to develop or new pieces needed to be added. Adelman showed he had clear favorites and didn't give due time to the prospects. The breakup was because of differing viewpoints. Because of that the two parties could not coexist.
LOL @ the Morey hate. These are the same people that were gushing about him a year ago. They'll flip-flop again soon enough, I guess that's the norm. Also, people realize that it was Les Alexander who effectively fired Rudy T, JVG, and Adelman right?
Exactly this. Morey is innovative an not afraid to do things differently. This model is commonly used in pro football. Remember the thread talking about Thibodux being the 'real coach'. What's wrong with having several specialist rather than one know it all. Somebody mentioned Jackson, I'm sure you all know that he didn't invent the triangle. One of his assistants did! It's not about having the best coach, it's about having the best staff and ultimately getting the most out of the players. And if you have a staff of specialists each good at their position, what do you want your head to do? You want him to lead. Morey is doing all the things we want. He is thinking outside the box. He is doing something new. He is taking a risk rather than going down the same road. All things we love here at ClutchFans. I don't know if McHale is the right guy, but I appreciate that we are trying something different, being innovative. The decision to take ownership of the D-League tam could in the end be the most important decision Morey ever makes. Having a true farm system where we can train players to fit into our system, the ability to call up players who know the plays, the continuity in coaching could have a dramatic and long term effect,
An early effervescent moment: <iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pOQ5BkTjh0Y" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
That is ridiculous. The only coach Williams will respect is a coach that lets him do exactly what he wants. Works okay in college if you're a better athlete than everyone around you. If K-Mac lets T-Will do what he wants, I hope we pay him a rock bottom coach's salary ... we can ... save up money for... rockets dancers? Something will have to be entertaining next year.
Bingo! We are digressing at head coach. But if McHale is the coach the Rockets want then I will support their decision. Morey's job should be on the line now. This is his team. It's time to put up or shut up.
Once again the so called experts here will be proven wrong. I hope it all works out for the team no matter who they hire as the next coach. This team deserves to be in the playoffs every season and I hope it does start by what decisons are made during the off season.
Since opinions, even in this short thread, are all over the map, I don't understand that statement. But okay. I too hope things work out for the best. I do think one opinion can be proven wrong already though: calling McHale "effervescent."
The so called experts are the ones that are buying the merchandise and paying for the tickets, and a lot of us so called experts are tired of the mediocre product that the Rockets have been putting on the floor for more than a decade. Maybe, just maybe, us so called experts would like to see the Rockets contend again and are getting tired of the marketing spin that is coming from the front office and would prefer results on the floor. DD
