It's a new age, and the Rockets are ahead of the curve. McHale is really only needed for his motivational skills. Morey can select the statistically favorable plays in real time and beam them down from his iPad.
McHale's been pretty freaking good when you consider that he's never been an assistant and has fewer than 300 games as a head coach under his belt. Coaches get better with experience. None of McHale's issues are uncorrectable, and most of said issues are magnified and overblown on this board to begin with. Hah, but since we've brought up Popovich, can you imagine how LOFs would react if McHale was as tough on Lin as Pop has been on Parker?
Kevin McHale sure coached a hell of a game last night. He out coached Pops thats for sure. I'm not saying he is better than Pops but he got the best of him last night in every way.
I would just look at the roster we had two years ago and ask "What are all of those players doing right now?" (except for Parsons). I think the fact that we nearly made the playoffs that season says a lot about our coaching, considering the injuries we dealt with and the fact that we had no legitimate superstar.
Yeah and people like to conveniently forget that Kyle Lowry was widely considered our best player that year and he got sick and missed a very large chunk of the end of the season and when he came back clearly was not the same after losing so much weight.
Exactly. McHale gets a lot more out of players than what they can normally do elsewhere, and he's great about being fair to players. He will leave the players playing well on the court, and will even keep starters benched for a large portion of a game if they are playing poorly. Plus, he seems to keep his players very happy in general. It's hard to ask for much more than what McHale has given us so far.
I actually though Pop got did a hell of a job getting the most out of his team when they were sort of lackadaisical to start the game. Cant knock his passion. But the Rockets were as or more impressive nonetheless. See what happens next time.
Actually, the LOFs would probably have to shut up in that case. Popovich brings instant respect as a coach. McHale doesn't (as a coach). And Popovich is harder on his superstars to set a tone of accountability, and it all starts with Tim Duncan. McHale has done ok. We have a talented team. Once you get into the playoffs, it's a chess game and a game of adjustments. And scores are usually tight. Will McHale be able to make these adjustments in tight situations, when new circumstances come up? Let's just say he's not proven himself on this front. It shouldn't take a quality coach 3 games to learn to foul when up 3 with the game clock down to single digits. Two games in a playoff series that are preventable from basic coaching decisions, and that's the series gone.
This is a little unfair on McHale, but it is what it is. Morey only received (mostly) league-wide and fan-wide respect after he landed Harden and Dwight in successive off-seasons, despite years of shedding bad contracts, drafting gems in the 2nd round, and almost winning all of his small and medium trades and player negotiations to offer good contracts to good players. If we didn't acquire Harden and Howard, the expectations would be lower, and McHale should have a fairly loose leash to improve and get better together with the team, which is what Philadelphia and Boston are doing with Brett Brown and Brad Stevens. Unfortunately for McHale, Howard can opt out in 3 years so this is our window right now. In my personal opinion, McHale doesn't need to go, and it wouldn't be a popular decision for the players. He's done an ok job, even if it is to embrace Moreyball and giving up on his instincts of post play/twin towers (who doesn't remember the first 15 games or so of last season when 2Pat was instructed to post up instead of float out for mid-range jumpers and corner 3s). But I think it would be better if Les and Morey made the tough decision as soon as the season is over. The window is too short. Personally, I like either George Karl, or the combination of SVG and JVG. JVG got the most out of both Yao and TMac, especially the latter. JVG had TMac playing hard most of the time, and he made him accountable even on defense. It was only after Rick Adelman came that TMac started to slack. SVG is also an analytics guy that can mesh with Morey, instead of McHale's first instincts to not go with statistics but then falling back on it when his style of play doesn't work. And SVG got the most out of Dwight offensively. So basically JVG and SVG combo to get the most out of Dwight and Harden, who realistically are the two guys we need at their best on both ends of the floor.
a good coach is a consistent coach not afraid to get into players faces and yell does mchale even care?
People gave McHale credit for the SA win. Time to give him slack for this pathetic loss. Poor coaching adjustments all game long.
You can be sure that the good coaches in the league wouldn't be sitting idly by as their team loses to a 3-15 team. You can be sure that the good coaches in the league would try to do something different at some stage in the game to stop one of the worst teams in the league at scoring in the paint... have their way against us in the paint. Ahh but I digress. There's more Ws then Ls on our board. That must mean he's a good coach. EDIT: This teams talent alone is going to win enough games for us to represent in the Playoffs. The coaching standards as of right now - will ensure we are thoroughly embarrassed at some stage of the Playoffs.
this team is too talented for this stuff. I'm not a believer at all. Mchale is just a pushover coach which I don't blame. The guy running this team is Morey
