I do, he is making tons of stupid mistakes, like asking Kevin Martin to play defense tonight when the team is up with .09 left and the lead. Not to mention having a foul to give and not using it. McHale has made tons of strategic mistakes, and is getting away with most of them, but they will eventually hurt if he doesn't tighten up his situational awareness. DD
Mistake is not the right word. Were there better coaches out there? I think so. McHale hasn't proven anything yet.
Not sure if this is a thread seeking crow-eaters or not, but man... WAY too early. Rockets haven't done anything they weren't supposed to and they haven't looked all that great in the last two against terrible teams either (San Antonio without Manu and Duncan is not a top squad).
Premature Threadcreation. The Rockets have lost the games they were expected to lose, and won the games they were expected to win. Its kind of difficult to judge McHale's job at this stage. He hasn't had much of an opportunity to really coach these players yet. Its just too early.
They are barely winning games against teams that aren't very good. Pulling out this game isn't like pulling out a close win against a healthy Miami, chicago, LA, etc. I think morey's quote is what explains it best: "good teams don't play close games, they avoid them" (or something like that)
Not sure about Mchale. But if there was any chance that Adelman would stay, we should have found a way to keep him. We already had a great coach and we lost him.
Early impression is that McHale's offense is far, far worse than Adelman's. Granted he didn't have a proper offseason and preseason to get that all figured out, so hopefully it will improve with time. I like that the defense seems to have improved but don't know how much to credit that (if any) to McHale, and how much to credit it to the additions of Dalembert and Parsons. Too early to decide if McHale will be a good coach overall.
Like I said the other day, I remember Adelman doing this as well. I just did a quick check to confirm. Here are some close games we won last year where Martin played defense on the final possession with the outcome of the game on the line: http://espn.go.com/nba/playbyplay?gameId=310202026&period=4 http://espn.go.com/nba/playbyplay?gameId=310205010&period=5 http://espn.go.com/nba/playbyplay?gameId=310227003&period=4 http://espn.go.com/nba/playbyplay?gameId=310314010&period=4 I could probably go on. Those are just the first 4 games I looked at which we won that was 1 possession. Martin was on the floor for the last defensive stand each time. So I don't think that in itself makes McHale a bad coach. We just shouldn't put Martin on a player that can abuse him in a 1-on-1 situation.
Even Adelman has said that he's simplified his offense greatly and has gone to a more PG-dominant offense in Minnesota. I think this is natural for a new coach without enough practice time to put in place a full offensive system. It was a real struggle offensively for us as well when Adelman first joined our team.
Durv, Doesn't mean that it was not a stupid move...... And what about the fact that we didn't use the foul we had to give? I am far from impressed with McHale's situtional awareness, and have not seen a good play design that gets a good shot late in the game yet. Look at the Dragic floater tonight....Lowry at the top, dribbles in, dribbles out, bad pass saved by Dragic..back to Lowry who fumbles it towards Dragic for a floater 2.... Unbelievably HORRIBLE play.... DD
At first thought it was a mistake, then after seeing the staff assembled around him and Morey's comments, I changed my mind. He is pushing all the right buttons and Rox are winning all the games they should win. Very intelligent and gutsy move to give CPar the starting job.
The offense is too Kyle Lowry dependent now. In the 4th quarter, Lowry waits till 10 seconds on the shot clock and tries to initiate something that often ends in a shot clock violation or a fluke 3 pointer. The offense looks too simple and predictable IMO
That is why we are losing to all the good teams and beating up on the sisters of the weak and injured ones. DD
Credit McHale though for recognizing Dal and CP25 needed to be on the starting line-up for better defense. And tonight I saw Scola making the effort to show on the PNR, something he was loath to do in the past. KM too has been staying in front of his man more. In the 2nd qtr though, they were trying to run a defensive scheme to bring their men to Dal and Dal was not on the same page yet. So some confusion still as offensive-minded players learn to be accountable on defense. Remember we used to have long scoring droughts also under Adelman and were notorious for not knowing how to close. Early in this season, we may have lost our motion offense but the PG-dominant offense is good for training KL and Goran to create on their own and make the clutch shots. Just like what the great PGs Parker and Paul and Williams do on their teams.
Happens often. Kyle dribbles till there is 10 seconds left in the shot clock and then we often fail to get a shot off. Also, Mchale using Scola in those first 5 - 6 games at C was one of the worst things to do
