If Jermaine O'neil didn't interfere on the Harden's missed 3 at the end of last suns-rockets game, we're looking at possible #14 pick again this year under this coaching staff.
If the coach let his top paid player decide when he plays, he not trying to be a good coach, he just wants to survive.
This team we have is great, but it really does look like the coaching is holding them back. People keep saying new team, no summer training and we're the youngest team trying to gel, but it really looks like their under performing with a coaching staff that doesn't utilize everyone properly. We should be happy the rockets are in the playoffs for such a young, new team, but after seeing this team play all season it really looks like this team should have a better record then we have now. Tonight against the suns isn't the only time a lot of people have questioned wtf was mchale thinking. Imagine popovich or adelman coaching tonights game. Or the other close games throughout this season for that matter. I don't think McHale will be around by the third year. I have nothing against the guy at all, just questioning what he's thinking.
I was just thinking about this. If it wasn't for O'neil bone-head play the Rox would be free falling out of the playoffs yet again, Wow!
Rockets are in the POs because Harden, Lin, Parsons and Asik are better than expected! Does anybody really thinks that McHale has make them better? I like McHale's philosophy to move the ball, but his coaching is just bad. How many games did we lose because of his weird decisions. And don't forget: timout - Harden's iso, timeout - Harden's iso .... , timeout - Harden's iso ... Are you serious, McHale
You guys are delusional. They're not going to fire a head coach that took the youngest team in the NBA to the playoffs. Even if there are better coaches out there.
I am not interested in bashing McHale. Honestly I think he has improved over the year. I just think he is learning on the fly. You don't become a good coach over night. This year has helped him improve. But just because he was a great player under the most pressure filled situations doesn't mean he is a great coach under those same circumstances. McHale has to learn how to coach under pressure just like Harden has to learn how to play under pressure. Some people it comes naturally. Rudy was a clutch coach and Sam Cassell and his teams were clutch players because of it. Not saying Hakeem wasn't great and naturally clutch just his coach also was. McHale and Harden are not. I am not sure they will learn but certainly the more experiences you have in these situations the better opportunity you have to improve. Harden and McHale we learn and improve. Hopefully McHale learns fast because if this is the way he coaches this playoffs we will get destroyed by OKC.
I believe McHale is closer of being fired than you think. The biggest reason that will contribute to his termination? To prolong Harden's career.
ymca ball is apparently good enough to to make it to the NBA playoffs. take heed young ballers. train at your local ycma. here are the results after every time out charged to the houston rockets tonight: Spoiler Team Timeout : Short 04:44 Lin 3pt Shot: Missed 04:36 Team Timeout : Regular 02:49 Parsons Turnover : Bad Pass (2 TO) Steal:Morris (1 ST) 02:35 Team Timeout : Regular 02:45 Lin 3pt Shot: Missed 02:27 Team Timeout : Regular 04:35 Lin Layup Shot: Missed Block: Marshall (1 BLK) 04:33 Team Timeout : Regular 09:50 Beverley 3pt Shot: Made (3 PTS) Assist: Parsons (4 AST) 09:36 Team Timeout : Regular 04:53 Parsons 3pt Shot: Made (23 PTS) Assist: Delfino (2 AST) 04:40 Team Timeout : Regular 00:41.9 Harden 3pt Shot: Missed 00:33.9 Team Timeout : Short 00:29.5 Delfino Driving Reverse Layup Shot: Made (22 PTS) 00:24.7 feel free to pull up video and check every play. come on guys, even you have to realize that your "lol timeout harden iso EVERY TIME" sounds ridiculous without needing to fact check anything. 16-10 since all-star break doesn't sound like choking at the end of the season. sure we could've done better, but it's still not a choke job. it's also not a free fall. that would probably look more like 0-26.. or at least 6-20 or something. I guess we can both agree your post is based on opinion, confirmation bias, and your personal "eye test" rather than results. also funny that you should mention adelman since a decent number of CF.net-ers (cool! a vague phrase like "a lot of people"!) disliked him toward the end of his tenure here for his in-game decisions and substitution. in conclusion:
I wanted to give them some benefit of doubt after contemplating over the so-called 'read and react' offense the coaching staff supposedly used. But this loss to Suns just pointed out the limit of such "system". Defenders are not stupid either and they can also R&R. When the opponents put effort into the D, the offensive R&R often gets neutralized into more like random outcome ball. Not confident the Rox win a game in the PO with this.
In McSuccess' coaching staff's minds, Delfino is better than LeBron James. Because he has played position 1-5 in games this year, LeBron can only do 1-4 LOL.
for the record, I like our players, and I'm lukewarm about our coaching staff. I think mchale is an average nba coach at the moment, but some of y'all are just straight trippin'.
More like 'read and don't react'. Mchale says that "adjustments are overrated". Well, as many flaws as the coaching stuff have over the sub patterns and strategy, I have to admit that I'm impressed by their ability to cultivate such a strong and positive team culture and camaraderie. Considering Morey's notorious replacement of players, being able to foster such a team spirit is mighty challenging, and the coaching stuff, especially McHale, have been exceptional in that area.
I'm not knee-jerking to what a lot of CF.net-ers (a lot of people) have been saying for awhile now. McHale isn't particularly hated, just questioned about his substitutions a lot. And my eye-test is no different then yours. This why clutchfans exists, so fans can voice their opinions derived from the "eye-test." I never brought up facts just to cater to my view, i simply stated my view. We can agree on the eye-test, but I know im not the only one saying McHale has questionable substitutions. Funny you should mention knee-jerk when im simply stating my opinion that I think this team, despite it's youth and inexperience on their first year together, could have won more games this year. Knee jerk with one game left in the season because I'm questioning McHales substitutions like everyone else on this board? Funny you mention confirmation bias when you state every play coming out of timeout, but dont mention Harden's 5/18 shooting, 0-7 for 3 pt attempts, and team high 4 turnovers. (tied with greg smith) I agree not every play out of timeout was Harden ISO, but his ISO's definitely hurt the team when his shots aren't falling. Oh, and about adelman, he was a lot better then McHale with his choices for the MAJORITY of his tenure. Can't say the same for McHale. Not even close to knee-jerk, but nice try.
reaction after one season of a new team without a training camp that has had success in the short run seems like a knee jerk to me. in the long run, using this successful season to say mchale is negative for this team is a knee-jerk.
