We need George Karl. Mchale has no clue what the hell he's doing out there. He has no set plays, almost all possesions have been isolations. He has no plays when Howard is in the post. Mchale is not the coach for this team
I would gladly give up McHale and a second-round pick (first-round in any other draft year) for Adelman.
He is obviously receiving some pressure from upper management about the TT lineup. It's clear and obvious that it's the worst lineup we can put out there.
McHale actually tried to use his brain today with hack a DeAndre. Too bad Doc adjusted immediately and owned him again.
Of course i'm serious. There are two factors that will hold this team back from any real success. The absent-minded coaching and Omer Asik. McHale is so ridiculously slow to react to anything going on in the game. He is always two or three plays late. It sickens me to my stomach watching him destroy this teams confidence by continuosly setting them up with his ass-backward coaching. Now about Twin Towers. The only reason the Rockets are trying this is to appease Asik. We knew this Twin Tower version was not going to work. Yet, they are still trying to cram it down our throats every game. Meanwhile, the answers to their problems are sitting over on the bench. They should give up this Twin Tower dream and bring him off the bench until it is time for him to go. Stop throwing games away on an experiment!!!!!
These Rockets will NEVER win a championship with McHale as head coach. He is simply not a coach like Pop, Spo, etc. Should have never gotten rid of Adelman, but George Karl is available as are the VG brothers and other good coaches
Can't agree any more. George Karl and Jerry Sloan will be good options. We need a coach that at least can design plays.
I seriously hope when the Rockets were down 4 that Mchale didn't tell them "Just keep playing and make open shots." as he said in the post-game. Surely he gave them a play to spark the offense right? You know, something that they are so used to running in practice that they could do it with their eyes closed...
I stand by statement from earlier this year but most of us knew this. http://bbs.clutchcity.net/showthread.php?t=236116
To be fair, McHale isn't a bad coach. He's just not Pops, Doc, (insert playoff contender coach here). My concern at this point is that he isn't strong enough as a coach to command sufficient respect from the players and to implement systems that maximize our current roster. Our roster isn't a bunch of perfect fits (like Dwight + Asik), so it really needs a strategically strong coaching staff to make it work.
I don't think respect has anything to do with it. He has the respect but lacks the ability to create a system. He is just not a good coach.
I think respect is an issue. It's possible to respect your coach but not carry his water, while it's also possible to respect your coach so much that you do pretty much everything he asks, exactly the way he asks (see Pops and Doc). I think the players like and respect McHale, but do they respect him enough that they run the game the way he wants them to run it? That's the difference in my mind. I remember when I've been on teams where sometimes we'd listen to the coach, other times we'd wing it. And then there were teams where we said, "This coach knows WAY more than us" and we'd do everything he wanted, exactly the way he wanted, and if we didn't we knew he'd come down on us like a ton of bricks. I may be wrong, but at this point I don't see McHale as the type of coach that says "Jump!" and everyone on the team says, "How high?".
