McHale: Some young guys are getting minutes they don't deserve for developmental purposes

very diplomatic from Coach, i think the bench must really adore to death :grin:

 

You think Morey agrees about the honesty?

 

Didn't McHale give those said players undeserving minutes? Was it forced by Morey? I can't imagine that Morey would tell the coach who and how many minutes should play. It's even harder to imagine and McHale would listen to such orders.

What's this I-am-no-sense-old-school-fair-coach pose? Or it's another way of saying - I never make mistakes, even those decisions looked like mistakes weren't my fault either?

 

Well it's good you didn't take the time to watch the video because you wouldn't want the truth to get in your way...

 

I don't think he was referring to the Clippers game. I think he was referring to the whole season. Specifically D-Mo and Robinson.

 

Not a surprise, and I think we all know which players he is talking about. The motivations of the front office and the coaching staff will not always be the same. McHale wants to win NOW like any coach worth his salt would want. Morey on the other hand has stated numerous times we are not in the top tier of the Western Conference and are still trying to get there.

This natural tension is why Morey had to deal Patterson and Morris, and is why McHale was not thrilled about losing three veterans down the stretch.

The question is whether it will destroy the relationship between McHale and the front office like it did with Adelman and the Rockets. For what it is worth, McHale has been a GM and understands, also McHale and Morey have had a friendly relationship for some time.

 

I am sure that Morey would prefer that McHale said nothing at all, but McHale is not the first or last coach to say that he is somewhat limited by moves made by the front office.

 

The new crew of posters (you know who I mean) must love whenever a McHale quote comes out so they can circle up and gossip about what is said/not said like the ****ing chicks on "The View".

 

Billy Beane A's comes to mind here. I think McHale knew coming in that he would have to succumb to a lot of DM strategies (corner 3's and taking a lot them, no mid range shots, lots of FT's) basically a lot of "moneyball" strategies and I use that term extremely loosely here because Morey knows the formula to win a title, amass superstars regardless of "moneyball".

That being said, I think McHale is in a tough situation because he has to look out for himself as well as please Morey at the same time. Sometimes their philosophies don't meet. This is probably one of them.

 

Except that most of the people commenting in this thread are pre-July 2012...

 

DMo is the only one I can think of. He came from the D-League and played starter instead of bench. He's the only one forced into that position because of trades.

 

Can't be DMo - McHale has specifically said that DMo was doing so well in practice that he (McHale) was trying his hardest to find minutes for him.

I think he's referring to T-Rob - but honestly what older player's minutes is T-Rob taking?

 

I think at this point Morey has come to expect such words from McHale. So I don't think it gets to him.

 

Parsons?

 

Funny, 7 of the last 10 posters are 2012+. And considering over 90% of the board is pre-2012, to even have those numbers this high says something. And then if you look at the content of most of the 2012+ people, you just might see what I'm talking about.

 

Except there is no evidence that Morey tells his coaching staff whom the play. In fact Morey has stated that he does not interfere and Adelman never claimed that Morey told him whom to play.

Adelman left over a power play. The owner was not happy that Adelman would not return his calls and Adelman was not happy that he did not have greater control over the player trades and movement. Adelman was very upset with the Battier trade among others. Adelman wanted control over whom would replace him and did not want to add Finch to the staff. It was doomed to happen.

I seriously doubt Morey told McHale whom to play, but by trading the mediocre twins (Patterson and Morris) McHale only had Delfino, Motiejunas, Robinson and Jones to pick from. Someone has to get those minutes..... and McHale doesnt like any of his options.

 

well i often have a hard time listen to these videos, coz the sound is so bad in my eara i hardly seem to understand what they are saying, so then the threadstarter depict themeaning the words of the coach, i have to assume he recalls the interview correctly or not?

 

I just think you are reading a bit too much in to what I actually heard in the interview, nothing more or less. The recap doesn't do the original justice in any situation - like a book vs a movie.

 

Thank you to whoever rep'd me for this just so they could say "go to hell you sack of ****" in the feedback. It made my day.

 

Garcia deserves more time according to what he would contribute on the floor. But he has zero need of development.