McHale "(Lin) rather have 29pts and 9 TOs, I tell him 'we wanna win'""

I agree with this that McHale is either calling him selfish or stupid. Neither of which seems fitting or called for really.

 

Oh ok, then it's all good.

MOVE ALONG PEOPLE THERE'S NOTHING TO SEE HERE.

 

Ok you speak a lot of about this interview, could you post the link? I want to see for myself so I can see what you're saying

 

Allow me to reiterate,

Popovich did the same thing with Tony Parker. There is nothing wrong with Coach telling a very coachable player to stop jumping in the air with nowhere to go.

Lin has the mental fortitude and confidence in himself to accept constructive criticism. Why can't his fans be the same as him. smh

 

go to the rockets website and look it up. its there.

 

When I think "his team" I think of the rockets. But ok you've made your point

 

lol I hope the coaching staff had twitter accounts too!

 

Wait what? The link reeko posted said woodson called out Carmelo Anthony.

 

Coach should call out the entire team "Team would rather score 110 pts ... while turning the ball over 20 times, and give up 115 pts on defense."

 

That's not what he said.

 

Thanks for the great help!

 

There really is no DEFENSE to a coach making this statement about his player, let alone a player who really hasn't demonstrated this type of behavior to any of the fans watching the game.

I have been critical of McHale for his rotations, substitution patterns and late in game decisions, but have never gotten on board with those that claim he hates Lin.

But honestly, after this comment, I am now scratching my head and starting to look at things differently. I have not heard anything so detrimental about a young starting pg in my basketball life of over 30 years.

I really disgusted by this statement. Just yesterday as I was starting to route for McHale and hope that he grows with the team, especially after DM just helped him out a bit with his rotation mistakes.

But now, I think I would just rather see him gone as a coach. I don't want to see Lin gone because I think he will grow into the perfect compliment pg to Harden over time.

 

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Because almost all of them are hyper sensitive and reek of social instability.

 

I see the hive mind is out in force today.

 

“Sometimes he’d rather have 29 points and nine turnovers and I tell him, ‘Jeremy, we’re trying to win,"

Seriously, how can the takeaway from that not be that Lin is looking for his points at the expense of higher TO and as a result team win??

 

Whenever I've heard or read it that a player prefers scoring over winning, the implication would seem to be that the player is selfish. Selfish in that, he's more focused on individual accolades(scoring) rather than team success(winning). Also selfish would seem to be a more politically correct term or adjective to use to describe a player on your team rather than calling them stupid - even if it's not explicit but implicit.

 

If you thnk about it, guys been td his whole life that he's not good enough and look how that motivated him to where he is now. Sometimes I think mchale goes overboard on it but in reality he's actually dooing the very thing to jeremy that has kept him going all these years. Until jeremy stops the jump passes and questionable decisions that pop up once or twic a game, mchales gonna keep on him because jeremy gas shown he takes instruction that way

 

I think what is confusing and upsetting is the statement regarding the 29 points. It looks like Lin would rather have 29 points, but Mchale doesn't believe him scoring 29 points would be beneficial to the team. Perhaps Lin scoring 29 points would turn him into a Westbrook type of player?

 

“Sometimes he’d rather have 29 points and nine turnovers and I tell him, ‘James, we’re trying to win,’ ” McHale said.

I wonder if Mchale will say this line to Harden. Harden had 3 careless turnovers in the last quarter of the Nets game. He showed up at the tail end of the game but almost lost us that game.