That's the important thing...and look at the very first post lol. Those 3 things pretty much sum up McHale. Clyde said something earlier that rung with me. He said when things are not going well that's when you are supposed to really start playing. The streak was because everyone played well at once pretty much. Everyone was hitting their shots, every one was just hot and playing well. Now that everyone's gone a bit cold (which is bound to happen to every team) there is NOTHING to fall back on. There is no bread and butter play or anything. The only thing we can hope for is for guys to get hot again. That's not coaching. Hoping a guy can hit a few 3s is not good coaching and not a way you want to build a team.
Yeah it's year four as an NBA coach and he hasn't done a thing. Even those "terrible"coaches Mike Brown and Mike D'Antoni took teams to the playoffs. I just don't see anything about McHale's coaching that makes him good or even decent. Great players make terrible coaches.
The contract wasn't 'extended'. If by this defeinition, Adelman, JVG, and Rudy T were all 'fired.' I just don't see any 'early termination' happening with McHale.
This was a game in the pre-Season against Memphis. http://www.nba.com/games/20121017/MEMHOU/gameinfo.html Lin playing PG with 12 assists and 4 steals in 30 minutes. K-Mat with 22 points. Asik with 11 rebounds, Patterson with 17 points and 6 rebounds, Parsons with 10 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 steals. The bench players were Delfino (14 points), T-Jones (9), Douglas (13), D-Mo (4) and Lamb (2). When K-Mat was traded for Harden I was really happy. Because the team played well in the pre-season and Harden is an upgrade. But the only problem is the coach. He changed the whole system for Harden. He didnt play T-Jones and D-Mo anymore. He rather played Aldrich, Cook, Morris, ....
It's working fine, I manage to not bring the LOF/LOH nonsense in all my comments, you should give it a shot, that way we can have real conversations.
I'm not sure I see it happening either. I think Les wasn't the owner when Chaney was fired, so the Rockets HAVE fired a coach mid-season during their history. It's never happened since Les took over ownership.
Glad it's going well. Now show me what I said in my previous post that upset you so. I assume it was that I said that I believed that some of Lin's fans wouldn't be happy until Jeremy was the star of the team. I see nothing in the GARM today to change that opinion. Do you dispute that?
I doubt Les Alexander will blame Morey for what happened to TMac and Yao. You build around two top 10 players and they both get hurt for years is just bad luck.
I have been saying Mchale been a bad coach since the beginning, but all the idiots LOH only knows how to blame Lin for every loss. Hopefully now they know who's the problem.
When a properly coached team loses, you can see where they need to improve. When a poorly coached team loses, you can't find anything that works.
Why not? I'm not an agent or sports attorney but I would think every contract has an "out" clause. It would be silly if you're an owner, hire a coach for three years, but the coach has a losing record for two consecutive years and there is no "out" for the owner. It has been mentioned that Morey or Les doesn't terminate during the season but may think long and hard when the season is over, that is if the season is a dud.
it's not that i'm saying you're blaming lin, but if you read majority of the posts here...it's either lin sucks or mchale sucks.....are there alot of blame on harden? don't think so.......i've been a rockets fan since the twin tower days so don't give me this **** about being LOF, just don't want to hear about how lin is the only one brings this team down!
The fact that this team still believes bounce passing to Asik is a fundamentally good decision may be the most evident sign that our coaching staff is not capable of developing these players. 44 games in. 44. It isn't rocket science.
Why would you prefer a coach that has never made the playoffs over coaches that consistently make the playoffs? McHale is not an X's and O's coach and he's not known to be a great motivator either. What exactly is he good at? Jerry Sloan is a great X's and O's guy. JVG is a defensive mastermind. Coach McHale was a great player but nothing about his coaching stands out.
Sad to say, but i have to agree..time to have a new Head Coach McHale can save us some trouble by letting go Give him a front office job Rockets..respect him but he has to go
I just saw the first post the other day and I was like The man just wasn't meant to be a coach, he hasn't improved one bit since his stint in Minnesota. Literally NOTHING to fall back on, now we got guys out there forcing ISOs because they're scared of bricking their 3's. Great for their development moving forward And how sad is this, how many timeouts have seen where he draws a play for important possessions to end a quarter? how many? Not a single one, it has always been James and Jeremy at the top of the key going ISO and FAILING.every.time. You're telling me you still haven't drawn a play to end a quarter half way into the freaking season? God all mighty! I already disputed your comment about it being mostly Lin fans that want him gone and you got defensive with the sig comment, do you not see how this thread was created before Lin even got here and how all the veteran posters want him gone as well? I understand some fans can be too much but just try IGNORING forsythtroy, is it so difficult? you're not doing the GARM any favors by battling the LOFs with equally defensive comments like when someone tries debating your comments.
