isn't reddit known for their dorks doing better detective work than field agents? I can see that it could be true or that it could be bogus. Players yell all the time so I wouldn't put much emphasis on that. You can yell at each other when you're tight tight tight with each other like our players are. The Mchale part I can buy. last season against the same clippers, Lin had scored 11 point first quarter but the coaching staff was giving him an earful for not moving the ball. It was Keith jones that took him aside and talked to him. Lin scored 2 more points the rest of the game after that. Coaches can say the right things to the media but when a player isn't their guy their preferences will show. it's nothing new. happens all the time in sports and management. Lin will be fine. 30 minutes it's more than enough time to do what you do best. attack the rim and find open shooters.
I don't have a history as a poster on Reddit, which is a serious drawback. But I'm positive I could float a LOF-type story there if I had a posting history. Those are the keys: posting history and LOF-type.
Too bad this place doesn't have a downvote option like on Reddit because your comment was so stupid it would downvoting into oblivion.
hey I got some proven magical beans here also have corroborating accounts on them how much you want to pay for them?
I remember reading similar scene last year, someone wrote on game thread Parsons was yelling at Lin during the game. Hopefully it's just lover's quarrel not domestic abuse.
Forget the Lin thing for a sec..If true this **** is very disturbing. It shows a rift in the team which may end up splitting wide open if not addressed. Harden ignoring plays and the coach?? Players yelling at one another?? Blaming a teammate instead of holding yourself accountable? WTF!? is all I can say assuming this is true.
Let's try this thing called "nuance". There are various indicia of credibility in the OP (all of which are lacking in your magical beans pitch). - Knowledge of offensive sets - Details regarding McHale's playcalling - Factual assertions that are verifiable "Jeremy checks in at 8 minute mark on his own" and verified in the case of the AB comment
This happens on every single team ever constructed, as long as there are players who want to win. To suggest that the chemistry of the team is going to be affected, or that the team will implode is simply a Clippers fan hoping for the worst. Hell, I'd say Clippers fans should be MORE worried about their OWN team imploding since by all accounts, Griffin and Jordan hate CP3's incessant prodding and whining. I guarantee you if we were to listen in on any random NBA bench, the same kind of stuff is happening. NBA players are all competitive, and egotistical.....this type of small bickering within the team comes with the territory. You can see just how much they enjoy playing with each other.
I'm a Laker fan who was at that game and people here hate Dwight. This is a basketball city, there are plenty of bandwagoners as well as die hard fans for both teams, he's one of the only stars to have slighted LA and this is the first time he's been back. The guys wearing Laker jerseys were doing what Orlando fans did - wearing #12 jerseys backwards with a C taped over the H. There were also plenty of Rockets fans there as well. Lin got more cheers than boos. Dwight got more boos than everyone else combined. No clue if that Reddit post is true but it's posted by a Rox fan, corroborated by a Clippers fan. I was way up in the nosebleeds and after that Lin spin move that resulted in him hitting a midrange I saw McHale yell at him and Lin turning around yelling back at him with his arms out like, what? what I do? Even if that post is true, not sure if it even matters because some teams just operate like that. Chalmers gets yelled at all the time, Wade and Spoelstra have gone at it on camera, but the Heat are the prime example of a team where egos are kept in check and everyone has bought in. If McHale is keeping those egos in check, this is a non-issue but if not, I agree w/ that Clippers fan. The best coaches - Phil Jackson, Pop, Spoelstra, Thibs - were able to get their guys to buy in and keep player egos deferred to the system being run. Then you got coaches that can't get their guys to buy in and get run out of town like McMillan and D'Antoni. Then you got kiss ass panderers like Mike Brown and Del Negro. From what I've seen of McHale he doesn't seem like a panderer but he's really got his work cut out for him with Harden and Dwight Howard especially. I hope he succeeds - the team is stacked with talent and good things will happen if everyone learns to coexist.
I don't think its made up. I've seen this season already when J-Lin or Asik make a mistake. Parsons/Harden/McHale get really upset but whenever Harden turns the ball over or takes a 3 near the end of the half when he's supposed to run the clock down.. its ok... it seems. McHale throws his hands up alot at Lin. I may not be the biggest Lin fan, but the guy has been playing good, he's smart right? (went to Harvard, should have a high basketball IQ but idk). All in all I think it was just the heat of battle. Bad game, move on.
Ok this is so off-based. As somebody mentioned earlier, it is also a random post on reddit. Take what I say with a grain of salt, but I have been in this situation before. 1. Hecklers gonna heckle. 2. I hope Jeremy shoots well in warmups: nobody is guarding him. If he is allowed to shoot threes in the game, he should be shooting 70+% in practice from the three. This is what I had to do, and this is what many other players I know had to do. That is a minimum requirement that many coaches in D1 and NBA hold their standards to. So, yes, he should "look good". 3. I wonder why the handshake changed, maybe because Lin is not the normal starter anymore (insert being a 6th man is not an insult here)? What else is Harden and Parsons supposed to do? 4. First half was hard to watch because they were getting their ass kicked. Harden was probably frustrated with his performance and was trying to get him going. Also, this person fails to mention when they ran horns earlier. Maybe it failed miserably, so Harden took things into his own hands. That happens quite often. Mchale "yelling" at Jeremy to run the play is to just make sure that he is heard, nothing more. 5. When Mchale calls timeout, was he yelling at Jeremy for only the play? Also, Jeremy said "trying", so that is basketball speak translate to "I had intention to run the play, it failed, so I improvised." In this case, it failed because Harden did something differently, and Jeremy probably explained so. This happens in timeouts more than one thinks. Harden walking away is most likely because the timeout was over. Also, Harden was probably pissed at Mchale for benching him: normal reaction from an NBA superstar to a coach. Nothing new to see here guys. 6. I sure hope that Jeremy did not like getting his ass kicked by CP3, and the Rockets getting their asses kicked by the Clippers. Nobody better look happy that game. Basketball is not fun when yall are getting routed. I hope everybody was yelling at everybody. Also, Dwight and Parsons yelling at Lin illustrates that they hold Lin to a high standard, a higher standard than letting CP3 get 23 and 17. Did they yell at AB? No, they know he can't really play D, so why even try? This means they think Lin can play better than what he did that game, and they are right. Lin did some pretty terrible things in the game that deserved to get yelled at. Everybody did. 7. Everybody is not involved in every play. Nothing new to see here. 8. Many coaches have pre-set rotations to check in, unless otherwise indicated. This is because they are so heavily invested in the game they might forget to sub in a key player for a minute, and that could make a big difference. That is what Lin was doing. 9. Nice gesture by AB: this is because Lin was starting to get going against Collison, and AB's ankle was probaly more hurt that advertised. AB knows it's garbage time, so it doesn't mean too much for him at this point in his career (older, no "potential" so to say). tl;dr: things look bad during a blowout, things get emotional, and this is one of those situations. The Rockets don't have a feared locker-room problem. Sorry to disappoint you folks clamoring for change/drama. Edit: If you think they don't yell at people, you are sadly mistaken.
Sounds like a woe-is-me account seen through the eyes of a LOF. I don't doubt that the poster was at the Clippers game. I do doubt whether his interpretations are based in reality or some already preconceived biases. 'McFail can't coach' and 'Everyone hates Lin' are calling cards for your standard LOF trash.
I saw Lin scream at Melo and Amare when he was on the Knicks Players screaming at each other isn't that big a deal Coaches pandering to players is though
i dont understand how you dont yell at someone when you are on a court with thousands of ppl talking and noise going and music blasting. Let a lone how someone on the side lines yells to someone on the court... I think you have to yell in order to get heard on the court....
