Some of the posters here are stupid, childish, or trollish. These types of posters would be saying something else annoying and disrespectful if McHale wasn't here. Best to just ignore them. I mean, fail and Mchale rhymes...comedy genius...insert sarcastic eyeroll.
Exactly! We should all wish for McHale and Lin to both succeed as a Rocket, for McHale to find a way to better utilize Lin's talents, for McHale to improve his in-game decision making, and for Lin to improve as a 3pt shooter or be more determined to leave his stamp on the game. But for someone to imply McFail was created and only used by LOFs, and to say he'll bump the Jeremy Lin is a Joke Thread if people keep calling McFail, he must've failed to understand the real coaching issues with McHale and where it was derived. The end of season collapse, McHale's poor substitution pattern, use of small-ball line-up continually during the collapse when he had Camby/Dalembert at his disposal to try and get a rebound down the stretch, was what led to McFail. Perhaps even earlier, and perhaps as a result of having to take on a job following a future hall-of-fame coach in Rick Adelman, but it wasn't LOFs. I personally don't like the term 'McFail' either, because he seems to have done well in other ways outside of in game decision-making. But the OP blaming LOFs for him getting up on the wrong side of the bed is ludicrous.
Lol. The truth is that McHale will be rightly judged by where we finish out the season. If we make the playoffs and put on a good showing against a top western conference team, I think most rational people would say he did an excellent job coaching this year. If we miss the playoffs (for the 2nd straight year) I think the McFail tag will be rightfully earned.
Its a good thing he hasn't had any run ins with the cops here, otherwise we'd be overrun with McJail jokes.
We are where we are because of james harden. I absolutely believe that if it were adelman we would be at least 10 games above .500 right now. He would not be as lazy as mcidiot and just simply run iso plays at crucial times during the game. And delfino would be getting 10 minutes a gane at most until his behind learns to stop chucking.
Nah. As young and inexperienced as we are, our success is partly due to coaching. The new run and gun offense is a smart call on McHale's part, taking advantage of our youth, and has been a major factor in our success. I'm not denying that Harden isn't also a huge factor, but we were a 35 win team to start the season and we're hopefully gonna way outperform that. I've seen positive development in many of the players and when we're clicking we're tough to beat. McHale deserves some credit for that. Now if we collapse towards the end like last season, I'll be the first to point a finger squarely at the coach.
Could also to be seen as that poster who takes an affront in something trivial like "McFail", have absolutely no sense of humor or waste to much thinking about it. so to misquote someone,
do you even watch the games? did you watch the games in the first half of the season? the defense was disgusting.. I couldn't even finish several of them.
Before the OP and his fellow LOF baiters go around seeing LOFs everywhere like Senator McCarthy they should perhaps consider the fact that the term McFail was coined by pre-2012 veterans, you know, the "real" Rockets fans. And for good reason, as McHale's in-game coaching, like now, sucked and he failed to lead the Rockets into the offseason in epic manner. So, Epic Fail + McHale = McFail If OP feels like bumping the Joke thread, he should just go and do it and make an @ss of himself, LOFs aren't stopping you.
Wasn't there a bunch of Lin fans getting their panties in a wad because ONE poster started a thread that called Lin a joke? Does this mean Lin fans in general have absolutely no sense of humor and shouldn't waste time thinking about derogatory terms describing Lin?
cannot agree with you anymore. He's one of worst coaches I've seen since I watch bastket ball in 1996.
I won't deny that McHale has a good gameplan that plays to our strengths. His philosophy of focusing on spacing and not clogging the lane for Harden is also sound. I just have zero respect for him an in in-game coach. Dude's gotta be one of the worst I've ever seen. He looks completely lost out there during games and it shows up in the way he substitutes people and the fact that we apparently never run any plays.
The problem is that you and others like you can't tell the difference between failing and succeeding. Basically, you are failing.
A little tale I wrote in another thread, brought up to date after the trade deadline. Sums up the season from McHale's viewpoint. Life as a head coach on a Morey team may be a little trying at times. It all began one dark and stormy night when the Diablo himself, Morey, acquired some dark knight by the name of Harden. And what was the good coach, Kevin McHale, supposed to do at that point? Diablo had ripped asunder all of the off season offensive preparations in one fatal fell swoop! Complicating matters further, the entire coaching staff were actually emissaries of the devil himself, having signed in their own blood contracts to become Diablo's loyal servants. So McHale, after burning his entire offensive playbook in the center of a carefully constructed pentagram proclaimed "There is no time to install an offensive system, so therefore we shall have none at all"! At first the road to offensive cohesion was littered with the corpses of discontinuity, confusion, and havoc. But, little by little, the roster lead by Dark Knight Harden started to awaken. It began to go into offensive frenzies, ripping opponents into bloodied shreds during frenzies of offensive blood lust. The massacres of Utah and Golden State became the basis of legends. And then one day the shining knight Donatas appeared. And McHale, full of pomposity announced "As this sun has risen, so shall the rule of order and the law of the low post yet again grace my roster". And thus with McHale's proclamation barely uttered a new edict was delivered by the scheming and devious Diablo. Not satisfied with the success of his army, Diablo banished two stout knights, Sir Morris and Sir Pat, to the Land of the Failed Phoenix and the frigid hell of the Land of the Forgotten Kings. Without a defense for the armored charges by the opponents heavy cavalry, McHale's armies defense was hobbled. Good coach McHale was yet again put into an untenable position. Battles that would have been won, were now tactical loses. It looked like the evil Diablo had finally accomplished his goal!
Have you not seen HMMMHMM's thread? Adelman was not immune to criticism regarding his in-game coaching and substitution patterns. I hear the same complaints season after season. The fact is, its hard for a coach to look really good when he's working with inexperienced players who haven't been playing very long with eachother. And expecting this team to be 10 games over .500 is ridiculous. Virtually everyone before the season thought we'd be lucky to win even 40 games and that the playoffs were a long shot. The coaches deserve a good deal of credit if they're able to steer this ship into the playoffs.
