Why doesn't McHale stagger Lin and Harden's minutes anymore?

who knows

 

huh? has he started a thread before?

based on what he said, it can be inferred he hasnt made a thread yet.

 

This is exactly the point, our second team run by Beverley doesn't have much offensive potential when your trying to get Parsons and Delfino to run it, they are much better at finishing off the play.

Putting Lin with Dmo, Trob, Garcia and Delfino in at the same time will help a lot.

 

Ahh, that's right. That makes complete sense to bench your starter 6-8, sometimes 10 min straight.

 

Because it doesn't matter who starts the game, it matters who finishes it. Lin ain't shiet. He's a 3rd string PG at best, so does it really matter who he gets his minutes with?

 

Harden is playing close to 40 mpg lately. There are not many minutes to stagger.

 

I don't know if it's Mchale being clueless but he prefers to run his team with certain players. You are correct though, Morey has mentioned the Harden/Lin combo, along with Friedman.

 

McHale used to this back when he took over when he came back from league of absence. But he has gone away from it for some absurd reason. He leaves parsons out thre to run the offense by himself with Beverly & sits Lin & Harden at the same time.

 

I think it's pretty telling that he'd rather have Parsons running the offense than Lin when Harden sits.

 

easy bud, it takes time... for McHale to figure it out...

thanks god our players still young

feel sorry to our senior funs....

 

Mchale was a bad coach and GM in Minny and he is a bad coach here.

With this roster the Rockets should be doing a lot better.


The Rockets have a world class owner who spends money even for draft picks.

A top of the line stats GM who pulls rabbits out of a hat


But one of the worst head coach in the history of the NBA which negates a lot of what Morey does as the GM.

 

Lineups

Lineup 1. Starting Lineup. Balanced lineup. (32% of game)

Everyone goes 100% on defensive end, including Harden.

Heavier usage shared between Harden/Lin. Harden's usage limited to help conserve energy for defensive effort.

Avoid over-helping on defense. Don't let opponent adjust to constant & predictable help/rotations.

Sub out anyone who is abused repeatedly offensively, if significantly better option exists on the bench.

Harden's overall minutes limited to whatever it takes to for him to play solid defense with this lineup (35?)

Lin
Harden
Parsons
Montiejunas/Delfino
Asik​

Lineup 2. Efficiency Lineup. (33% of game)

Everyone besides center is a reliable, great shooter

Harden can coast on D in order to drive super efficient offense as much as possible.

Ideally, you can hide poor defenders on weak offensive players. If not, try out gimmicky defense, i.e test out a streaky shooter to see if he's on, or zone defense

Try to get good help defenders in this lineup to cover up for expected breakdowns and force other team to make good passes.

Hopefully worst case is that everybody scores, don't lose any ground.

Beverly
Harden
Garcia/Delfino
Delfino/Motiejunas
Robinson/Smith
​

Lineup 3. Defensive Lineup (25% of game)

Everyone is a good man defender for his matchup in this lineup, and goes hard both in covering his man, and helping in the right situations.

Defensive anchor (Asik) required.

Decent shooting/spacing as much as possible.

Lin should be more aggressive with this lineup - Linsanity level usage.

Lin can guard the 2 if the matchup is OK there.

Lin's minutes limited to whatever it takes for him to have high usage with this lineup, and 100% defensive effort for all minutes (30?)

Lin/Beverly
Delfino/Lin
Delfino/Parsons
Parsons/Motiejunas
Asik
​

Lineup 4. Crunch time lineup (10% of game)

Should be same as lineup 1, unless anyone's confidence has been obviously shot by having a really bad game.

Continue to push fast break offense.

Harden ISO only after exploring other options including transition. No walking the ball up for 12 seconds then going to Harden ISO at last second unless going for last shot of the game.​

 

The coach tried it before and I found it to work much better than the current rotation. I suspect that the coach just doesn't want give Lin too much freedom as the main ball handler on the floor, since Lin will then play his style which the coach doesn't like.

 

I think the 1 and 4 positions have been over-coached. Players at the two positions seemed to be tied up and can't play to their strength.

 

more complaints !....what else is new

 

why is his team in the playoff hunt if hes such a bad coach thats just stupid to me if he such a bad coach he should be like 10 games under 500

 

lets complaing about Lin not playing in the 4th or how about Lins minutes or how about we complaing about the rotations or how about we complain about why mchale likes Harden more then Lin ohhh no lets complaing about the coach not giving Lin compliants lets complain about mchale cause he such a terrible coach (even though his team is in 7th place) ...how about one day without b.itchin !

 

He gets out coached and runs into the small ball lineups to try to create positive mismatch issues.