It is thinkable...were a team on the rise and improving chemistry and we started from zero in a few months time we will be much much better... On the other hand last 2 games we simply had bad shooting nights... At the end of the day there is always possibility of key play injuries say Parker or Durant...
Does the loss to OKC mean the guys were simply tired and thus McHale's rotation and minutes' allocation to blame?
Agreed. Some stupid threads without a point just trying to insult others like the trolls, LOH, LOF did. Reason? To make himself like a freaking wise man and superior, lmao
No, methinks this is the fault of the strength-and-conditioning coach. An improper training regimen has no doubt resulted in our players becoming overly fatigued on back-to-back games. FIRE DARRYL ETO!
Ok you seriously need to stop spamming this thread. He took out Lin to give Lin a breather to get him back on the court when Harden is out. Then he can have more oppportunity to score better. So "benching" him is actually BETTER for him, giving him more freedom in the 2nd quarter/end of 3rd quarter.
One question, I said that the coach McHale was the worst of the last two games of Houston With a better coach, Houston would have won the last two games for me So what is more important to the Houston now, hire a coach best or 1 experienced player to be the team leader?
Simply put... SA and OKC are top tier teams in the league and in order for Houston to beat them they would have to play the perfect game. McHale has made his share of mistakes, but to blame those loses on him is just ridicules. Houston is a young team that's still learning and these losses are part of the growing pains. T_Man
I wouldn't attribute most of those things to McHale. I think we should be above .500. I'd say as far as talent goes we're in the top 10 in the league. Asik is a great rebounder and we have some guys that are good rebounders at their position. I think our ball movement has looked good at times but abysmal at others. Our guys play hard every night. I might give McHale credit for that but I get the feeling our guys would play hard for just about any coach. As far as criticisms go, what's with giving Cole Aldrich significant minutes last night? Why does Lin have such a short leash and find himself benched so often? He played 24 minutes last night and this is fairly common occurrence. Not sure how benching Lin regularly is developing him and in most cases the benching seems unwarranted. Look at what Matt Barnes had to say about being on a short leash with the Lakers vs. actually being trusted by his coach: For whatever reason McHale doesn't trust Lin and I think that's detrimental to the team now and going forward.
Please explain why most of us who are not fans of Lin don't care if he is benched by McHale? Is it because we hate Lin? Nope, because it isn't a big ****ing deal.
Hire who? Popovich? The coach who despite having 3 star players, playing at home, playing against an inferior team that was tired, against a team that was missing a rotation player and forced to use a scrub, made 50% of their 3s, and only won by 6? If Popovich was any decent coach, the Spurs would've blown the Rockets out the water like the Thunder did. Spoiler /sarcasm
Take a deep breath. Some minor details made a huge difference. If Aldrich isn't being sub in during 50 vs 52, i assure you the chance may still there. He got offensive foul which erase a possible layup basket by Jeremy. And then fouled in the paint, and Thunder got a 3. And it's rolling 2 more plays, thats the moment you know you are going to lose and get a blowout. Again, Aldrich isn't ready yet. And he didn't deserve all the blame here. It's the moment you wonder what an experienced coach would have decided. To play Smith who's having a good Pnr game with our guards or give it a try to an end of bench player. It's 50 vs 52, not crunch time, not foul trouble for both Asik and Smith in Spurs. Fairly speaking, I think McHale got more than a pass in his 1/3 1st ever 82 game season. He'll be fine if we are not pushing hard for a playoff spot. Our talents are just too good to be tanked. The players are building trust and chemistry with each other. Everybody did dirty work out there, everybody fighting for each other out there. Remember how hard the players played in Knicks and Bulls for Lin and Asik? Remember the twitter by Smith to Lin?:grin: Funny observation,mid 4Q, SPURS away game, trailing 19 points behind, , most of the young teams just surrendered, but not us! It's not even the coach's decision,cause when your starters saw 4 subs had walked out there ready for garbage time, they still ran for closing the gaps which forced the coach to play them till the last second. Bad for a back to back with Thunder, but isn't it the spirit that all walks of life treasure? Like "Left nothing for the swim back" from Gattaca. How can you not fall in love with a Rocket team like this? But as mentioned, growing pains needed for our players and undoubtedly our coaches are growing at the same time as well. Anyway, coaching contracts ended this season, won't make much difference with a 8th seed/14th pick i guess.
Bulls lose..Thibodeau: ''My job is to have them ready and obviously they weren’t ready. That part’s on me. Obviously I didn’t do a good enough job of delivering the message of what we had to do to be successful..'' Lakers lose.D'Antoni:"We hit a snag and we seem to whither and for whatever reason we haven't overcome any kind of obstacles","if the guys are going to fight that hard to bring it back,i'll give them the chance to finish off" we lose. McHale:"We're not laying brick in 110 degree heat. We're playing basketball"... Harden and Parsons played over 40 mins yesterday...today,Asik and Lin's palying times were taken away eventhough they had much better number Reb and Ast. they have a lot of back to back games. if the coaches can't figure out ways to limit the starters minutes and back to backs then we're going to see games like this. I don't want to see anyone get hurt... TRUST your starting pg and center more.Obviously, they are the best Houston pg and center now. they need time to improve their chemistry together..not be afraid to make mistakes. anyway, it's a good lesson for them. hope them get better and better.
Mcfail and sampstuid were constantly bailed out by the sheer talent of our players, especially harden. As for their coaching, well there is no coaching.
mid 4Q, SPURS away game, trailing 19 points behind, back to back Thunder in 24 hours, wfc? Lets fight! "I never save anything for the swim back!(Thunder)" Vincent: "This is how I did it Anton..." Thats the moment you love your team and believe in your players!
While I do understand McHale's rotation, BUT comeon, why do you pull out the players that were on fired. Acting like he is working for the other team. Seriously. The last two games was simply awful. How you took out Lin and Asik when both of them were play really well. Took out Lin early and replaced him with TD, lead gone. Took out Asik, now in negative Put back Lin and Asik, getting a close game Took out Lin again, and replaced him with TD, and go negative big. This is a repeating patterns. Douglas is useless. Yes, he score so point, that's because no one give a damn about him and allow him to do it. He doesn't make the team better.
without trying to sound like I'm only a fan of one player but.... I think when it's all said and done, lin will be a 15 points and 9 assists type pg, who rebounds(a traditional pg that our gm applauds) rather than the 24 points scoring guard, who calls himself a point guard, that plays off the ball, which our coaching staff envisions with this offense. The coaching staff freaks out when the new wave of "pgs" who are scorers, score their points. A westbrook is going to get his points no matter who is guarding him or how many shots he has to take. So what if westbrook has scored 15 points on lin while lin has only gotten 5? our pg was running the offense perfectly and forcing westbrook into making some terrible decisions. Now when nate robinson is dropping shot after shot without a pick, then you have to do the benching. As long as Mchale sticks to his philosophies of ball movement and defense, we will be fine. It's the players that are missing their defensive assignments(youth/inexperience)
Of course not. It's the player's fault. I have never really heard McHale take much responsibility for losses. First step to improvement is to acknowledge errors.
