Houston is now weakest at the 4 and yet McHale is a HOF and one of the greatest power forwards. He had fantastic moves and it will be nice some of our 4s can learn some moves like Dream is helping Howard. Does anybody know if McHale is training our 4s himself? None of our 4s in the last two years have moves any where like or near to what McHale had. Starting from the athletic Robinson, physically strong TJ, to agile & more skilled DMo or even stretch 4s like Pat Pat, Morrison etc. There are enough various talents in the 4s and yet you see none with the kind of moves McHale did. What has McHale done to train/coach these guys? Can't he coach any of them to be like him? If so, which among the 4s is the best candidate? If Houston have a 4 with even 50% of McHale's moves, we will have another threat in the post to complement our long range balls and the team will be super hard to defend against.
If people could just hand over talent and skill, I think the Bobcats would be in a better position right now.
There is only one Kevin Mchale and sometimes they do Mchale's moves... just not as good as Mchale did.
None of the power forwards we have are back to basket type players. Dmo can post but he is still going to fast! McHale's game is finesse but has a patience that waits for the right moment.
It is really strange. I cannot understand it. Post moves are not very difficult to learn. You can make a whole bunch of different moves out of a single move. Sometimes you fake one way. Sometimes you actually go that way. Sometimes you go up. Sometimes you pump fake. There are lots of combinations you can do on the fly from a single post move. McHale and Hakeem can help refine their post moves to make them more effective. But the moves themselves are not very difficult to learn. Which is why I'm surprised that very few big men on the Rockets have a decent post game.
How do you figure it's not hard? You aren't just practicing this by yourself, alone. You are being defended by an NBA talent, 7 foot 250 lb man.
McHale actually stated that the defenders today do not go for the fakes he used to employ. And D-Mo could actually get into the same neighborhood as McHale in the low post, but will probably never stand on the same street.
I understand that. I've played DII ball. I'm saying even if the players perfected a single combination of moves, they'd have a nice little post game. The Rockets' players are also 7 foot NBA men. They can handle others the same size in the NBA. I'm saying it isn't overly difficult to work from the low block. It takes good technique, and with McHale teaching, there is no reason why they shouldn't have vastly improved their post game.
I should clarify and say it isn't overly difficult to learn how to play from the low block. Not that posting up there isn't difficult.
Probably not. I was a guard and didn't post up on the low block in games. But I learned over the years and I became good at it playing 1 on 1 or 2 on 2.
