Can't remember - did McHale's small ball tactic at the end of the game ever went out well? Don't think so. So many coaching mistakes tonight, that's just unacceptable.
Completely on this bandwagon now. Nothing he's done has shown me that he can lead this team far. The winning streak was really a result of players getting hot and playing with a lot more energy. Every time his team needs point late he goes small...the more desperate he gets he just gets smaller thinking that they just need more 3s when 3s aren't going to save this team. The more they lose like this the more the players are going to just not believe in him. The schedule has been rough, but there is no excuse to lose to this team.
Teams have figured us out. Zone up in the middle and you neutralize Harden/Lin. They will let us try to shoot threes all day as long as they protect the paint. No answers McFail?
As Harden said yesterday, it was due to the details. Coaches should exploit more often those spontaneous good plays into their playbook such as the Greg Smith's finishing in a PNR, PFs boxing out the driving lane, Asik's second chance finishing following a PNR midrange shot. I suspect they are only interested in those plays within their system. When the system is no longer working, it is all ISO.
Till now I haven't been for or against firing McHale, but after witnessing this stretch, I think I'm on the firing bandwagon. He seemingly forgets to make workable rotations. How is it that you know you have a tough stretch of basketball in January but then play your best player ridiculous amount of minutes? He seemingly has no plan for if the other team decides to shut off the interior. Our most commonly used offensive play is to set a pick and then that's it. Drop this fool.
I'm aboard. Please fire this guy, he is D'antoni 2.0 McFail's strategy every game. "GIVE THE BALL TO JAMES, JEREMY YOU SIT HERE IN THE CORNER AND DO NOTHING."
Watching McHale coach this season, he seems to be a coach that will do a lot better with team full of veterans. He can not coach a young team. I wish him well if he is let go but I doubt it.
"We're down? Better go small. We're down by more? Better go smaller." What was the line-up at the end of the Wolves game, I turned it off in disgrace. Lin, Beverley, Harden, Delfino and Parsons? Lol.
Look McHale can't play for the young kids. They have to be the ones to their thumbs out of their A$% to grab rebounds, and make shots. The one thing we can knock McHale on is the game plan, and how he actually coaches game situations. IMO, McHale has done an OK job up to this point, but its getting to the point to where a good coach will install some new sets, or correct old sets in order to get this team going on offense. Since they have played 4 games in 5 nights, I do realize that McHale can't coach this team right now properly. However, in the coming week or two, I expect his to make some major changes to both ends of the court. If he doesn't, then yes I think its time for the front office to have a heart to heart with McHale. -The only other complaint that alot of people will have here is not playing Jones & D-Mo. I think the trade deadline will tell us alot about why or why not they have been benching both young guys. D-Mo can help on offense to add some versatility to their sets, and Jones is a guy who seems to be effective even when plays aren't run for him by his overall feel for the game. However, these first couple months of the season are EXTREMELY important to evaluating the investment the org. has made in Morris & 2Pat. The team deserves the ability to give them 110% before they ship them out. Plus, benching them both now would destroy any trade value they have, and Im sure the front office has communicated to the coaches that its do or die time for Morris & 2Pat. If they continue to play poorly, and they DONT have any trade deadline activity to move them, I will be shocked.
Had enough of these questionable coaching decisions. Can't stand a coach who doesn't preach defense. All these bogus rotations have baffled me all year. McHale has misused Jeremy Lin all season and is slowly burning out James Harden as well. The first 6 losses were bearable but this 7th loss to a massively depleted Twolves team is just inexcusable. Yes, Fire McHale! Sure, we're the youngest team in the league so we gotta expect ups and downs but the main problem is the system.
Rockets couldn't get a rebound over Johnson and all the wide-open dunks and alley-oops and McHale keeps Smith and Asik on the bench.
After last season's collapse, and now this, I just don't get how he still has this job. He's shown nothing as a coach.
The Rockets don't have the time to install any new sets. How much practice time does this steam realistically get? Also with a young team I doubt they pick things up quickly in practice seems like they will need constant repetition. Also how do we know that it isn't the players that aren't executing properly?
