Official McHale Coach of the Year Thread

I think this thread is best discussed when the season ends.

 

Hey guys, yall needs to McChill and stop McFighting each other.

McDD

 

I am sure Morey signed Lin and Asik to be bench warmers in the 4th quarter. And he signed Harden to a Max so he could be a 16ppg 6th man as well.

McHale made Morey's dumbass moves look like genius.

 

Thank you for reminding all of Clutchfans of the genesis of McSuccess with the Wolves...Wolves fans to this day still hate that guy....

 

At this point in time, we don't even know if Morey actually wanted Lin or if it was at the "convincing" of Les.

 

True.

 

This. Plus ppl don't realize how these players are so bought into winning for the team and as a team already before they are on board. Nothing more needs to be said about Lin, and both Harden and Asik were making personal sacrifice for the teams' good. How much does their mentality make it easier for their coach?

 

Completely wrong. They LOST the game where Asik and Lin say in the 4th. But, Lin, Asik, and all the other moves Morey did this year are the reason why this team is good. He built a good team that should be the #4 seed instead of clawing for #7.

The coaching has been horrendous all year. Sampson is the defensive coordinator and is terrible at his job. McFail presided over last year's collapse and this year has cost the team 5-10 wins.

Based on the stats, the Rockets have underperformed the most of any team in the league based on actual wins vs expected wins

 

Yeah, and he totally got Asik for the Turkish community and Harden for the beard. Interesting you ignored both so conveniently.

 

Read again dude. It's called sarcasm.

 

Lin and Harden fit just fine. We have already seen how both Lin and Harden thriving when Lin initiates the offense. The problem is going full Harden. When we go full Harden, neither player thrives. When we go full Harden, everything sucks.

As far as McHale as COY goes. Hell no. He is the third worst coach I have ever had the displeasure of watching a substantial numbers of games in. He doesn't just make mistakes, he makes basic mistakes. I mean, yeah, every coach makes mistakes, but McHale neither admits nor learns from his mistakes. That last part is a dealbreaker.

Of course, the alternative theory is that McHale's hands are tied, and he is simply doing what management tells him to do in an exaggerated sarcastic manner. Okay, the management tells him to play T-Rob, he doesn't want to play T-Rob, so he plays T-Rob...in place of Asik. Okay, the management tells him fewer PnRs more iso, he doesn't want to iso, so he isos...really really isos, five misses/TOs in a row.

Either way, McHale has no snowball's chance in hell at COY, and deservedly so.

 

Uh-huh... I don't remember Morey ever mentioning Les's name and being angry when discussing Harden or Asik. I do clearly recall Les being mad at DM for letting go of Lin during his brief stint in "Linsanity." Now what do we have? A decent PG that is playing far under his overpaid contact.

 

I just feel that there will always be some uncertainty over ball handling duties. I agree that Lin is by far superior at running an offense than Harden, but this will mean that Harden will have to play off the ball more when his current offensive skillset is limited and will not be able to facilitate at all. Ball dominant SGs just don't fit with real PGs.

 

As I remember it, the vegas line on the Rockets season was somewhere like 30 to 35 wins for the season. We're at 33 wins now, so the Rockets are clearly going to be winning some money for the people who took the over.

 

I'm of the same opinion.

Current Record: 33-29
Pythag Record: 38-24 (9th best record in league)
Win Share Summary: 37.2 wins

Under-performing Pythag by 5 wins.
Under-performing Win Share by 4.2 wins

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Completely untrue. Harden was still getting his without having to initiate the offense against set defense when Lin was initiating the offense. The only obvious difference was that Harden got his at a substantially higher efficiency.

 

Actually, the rumored conflicts started even before the injury/benching. Judging from the then rumors and some of the things said including bits and pieces from Lowry and Budinger, it all started with Lowry (and probably other teammates) feeling that McHale didn't give Adelman's "corner series" offense they loved and McHale said he was going to keep a real chance when McHale decided to scrap it very shortly into the season. The whole injury/benching thing turned out to be the oil on the fire later.

Lowry's problem is that he has serious problems controlling his ulta-competitive nature, so he is always going to butt heads with incompetent coaches who are doing stupid things to hurt the team. Note that Lowry gets along swimmingly well with competent coaches. Lin is obviously very different. Lin knows that coaching is not his problem, so he will just let the GM/owner take care of their problem, and Lin will simply worry about his own problems (and he's got a few, not to put too fine a point on it).

 

So the players hated their coach for not running their offense? That seems a little bit high strung and high-maintenance doesn't it? Is there any reasonable expectation that you should have the same little offense in this league every year? Let alone when you get a new coach... If that is their "rumored conflict" before the injury, then they are some b**** ass premadonna children who need to grow up and live in their industry.

When you get a new boss, do you expect things to change? And when they do, do you pout and whine like a child until you change jobs? If so, welcome to unemployment, hope you enjoy my money.

 

You're welcome. I wrote before I would call Mchale McSuccess when he won us a championship. However, someone told me it would only happen in my dream.So if he is not mcfired before his contract expires, we will have to wait at least til 2015/2016 to be a title contender.

 

Different desires.. success of the team vs. success/stats of Lin.

Or maybe they know something the rest of the basketball world doesn't.
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