McHale Interview: If you are doing a horse**** job...

Easy is a good poster, but it wasn't just meant for Easy. Too many try to dissect several minutes of Q&A.... and draw sweeping conclusions about a person's thinking.

 

He should. If the Rockets do not perform to the management, aka Morey and Les, expectations, then McHale should be fired. Therefore, McHale must find a way to perform up to their expectations. And he's using his own method. If he succeeds, then he remains the coach and perhaps get extended in the future. If he fails, then he's fired.

But I don't see what any of this has to do with his interviews. His job towards fans isn't to talk about his successes or failings. His job to the fans is to deliver winning basketball. As much as it's allowed given the talent he's given.

If he can succeed by never publically admitting his own failings, then he's a successful coach. On the flip side, even if he gives the "it's on me and I failed" speech over and over while the Rockets pile on losses, he's still going to be fired.

In the end, McHale will be judged by the team's performance, not by his interviews. His interviews are interesting to get into his psyche, but it's not what ultimately decides his fate.

 

McHale both overachieved and underachieved this season.

He overachieved with this young lottery-bound team and Rockets are having better record than Lakers, Jazz, Mavs, and Blazers at this time of the season. He utilized the strength of young players in run and gun offense. If we were to play a half court set and low post offense, we are definitely a lottery team.

Yet McHale underachieved with win/loss percentage. With a point differential of 3.2, we should be 10+ wins at this time of the season. Rockets should be 37-27 instead of 34-30. You can go back to NBA season standings, and we are way underachieved with 3.2 point differnetial. At least 3 losses are on the coaching staff.

Inexperienced? OKC 2009-10 had 3.5 point differential, yet they were 50-32 with 18+ wins.

If McHale wants consistency, it should begin with him and his rotations.

 

How does that make sense? Our team has a very high turnover since last season, coupled with the trades this deadline and you expect the coaching staff to have our rotations figured out with this young roster?

People seem to think because we are playoff bound our team should have it all figured it out?

 

At this time of the season, you have enough with eye test and stats to know what works and what not. By sitting out Asik and playing newest rookie PF for almost the whole 4th in a close game is NOT consistency and down right idiotic.

How do you expect Asik to be consistent and confident after a game like that?

Do you need the 11:54 in the 4th Q during a close game to figure out how TRob fits at Center?? LMAO!

 

It's funny that McHale was worried about Asik's conditioning. All the fans are screaming to play Asik more and he's trying to get him more rest.

 

We lost two pfs in the rotation several weeks ago.

Asik played 38 minutes in the game against Phoenix.

Asik is pretty consistent and confident at 10 pts and 11.8 rbds.

huh?

 

You must be the only one here defending McHale's rotations.

Mavs game...TRob, in 28 min w/ 4 rebounds, played Center for the whole 4th Q and subbed out for only 2 sec. Asik, 23 min in 3Qs and grabbed 15 boards, entered the game w/ 4 sec left.

You have a top Center in the league and McHale decided to play a rookie PF, who was acquired just a few games ago, to take over at Center during the a close game for 4th. Does that make sense to you??

 

lol McHale fed up with these types of questions...there was some anger shot towards Jason in that answer.

Jason does a great job and seemed like he handled that pretty well.

 

You want to point out the games where we lost as being poor quality rotations. Well who did the rotations during the GSW game that some could argue won us that game? How about the defensive scheme and substitutions on Dirk in the first Mavs game?

Seems like you are butt hurt when we lose and can only vent by blaming someone for rotations because that's all you can see... I put this in another thread, but do you put a premium on Garcia teaching Dmo things in practice? Probably not. The coaching staff does, and they rewarded his leadership with minutes and praised him in interviews for it. There's a ton of stuff you don't see and don't understand, so WTFROTATIONS right?

 

Even I raged at that question. If I had to think of a dumb question about basketball, I don't think I could think of one dumber than that one. He got the player wrong, it has absolutely zero relevance to ANYTHING, and is asking a coach for a comment on a highlight dunk... the stupidity is hard to fathom.

 

Go back and read my original post. And please point out I mention anything about the loss. The debate was about rotations. Did I not give credit for McHale's overachieving on my earlier post??

I stated, as a young team, if you want consistency, begin with consistent rotations. What's so difficult to understand about that?

Now I see why McHale homers sometimes are worse than some of the LOF's or LOH's, as mentioned before by one of the veteran posters.

 

I don't see why anyone would be a Mchale homer or LOH (being a rockets fan just to hate Lin?). Me and almost every other person here has expressed the fact the organization made a BIG mistake in firing Adelman. Mchale is not a great coach, but he is what the team needs right now in terms of player dev. That being said it gets annoying when people bring up stupid points (half the time being "WHY LIN BENCHED?") or "Mcfail lose us game!"; "Why he never blame loss on himself." Nobody here is a hater, the people you view as being haters are actually just being objective. As fans we don't see the picture in its entirety...a lot of stuff goes on behind the scenes, on the bench during the game, and in the lockerroom we can't comment on. Its better to leave conspiracy theories at the door.

 

Thanks for your input. I tried to be objective and analyize the situation. Like I said earlier, McHale utiliized the strength of the team and not many expected we are almost locked for a playoff berth.

On the other hand, he vastly underachieved with win/loss percentage. We should've won more games than what we had accomplished. This was the point I was driving at. Here is an interesting stats for everyone to chew on.

There were 81 teams with a win/loss point differential of +3.2 or greater in last decade. Do you know how many teams had a win/loss % worse than us(53.1%)??

One! Sixers last season had a point differential of +4.2 and win/loss of 53%

 

I love how McHale gets all the credit for our team's development when Sampson took over for two months. He's barely been a coach for as long as Sampson.

 

How many of those teams were the youngest in the league? How many played Moreyball? Let's not make these kinds of comparisons.

 

And the stretch had the toughest schedule and with a team that has no chemistry.

 

yea well, wasn't his choice to be out.

 

Looks like whatever he said worked.

 

good call, I saw that thread earlier.