this is sad. we did not deserve that game. how do you bench lin? run plays dammit. what coach has had success playing iso in critical situations. jeez.
hire GEORGE KARL or LIONEL HOLLINS...there's some great coaches out but we're stuck with a horrible coach..who doesn't know any plays. ive seen jason kidd's horrible nets run plays sometimes!..SMH
Eh, McHale made really good decisions in keeping Lin out of the 4th and riding Garcia and Brooks. I give some credit to McHale for today's W.
Calm down people. The only reason coach went with Brooks was because he was actually able to get the ball down to Dwight.
Not about Lin. Just that same old **** that I've been seeing. No adjustments, over taxing Harden/Parsons, etc.
He can't even draft well at Minnesota, and now he is a talent evaluator? He is useful when Rox is in transition, now Rox gets the cornerstone of the team in Dwight and Harden even though both of them are flawed, the team needs a structure now, he can't provide it. I believe McHale also realizes it now, so he wants to win. By the way, defensively, Asik is better than Dwight. In today's NBA, team defense at the center position is more important as there are not much offensive centers.
Mchale can't manage minutes, and he doesn't know how to manage the lineups. You wanna bring Lin off the bench? That's fine with me but what's the point in bringing him in with Harden still on the floor? Might as well just start him if you're gonna do that. Also Parsons has a not so healthy back so playing the dude 40+ minutes a game isn't the smartest thing to do. And the Rockets wanna run something similar to when Dwight was on Orlando, but they're terrible at it. You wanna know why that system was so successful? Because the ball always touched through Dwight at every possession. We have Dwight now, make the ball go through him in every possession and our so called "offense" might actually be a bit more consistent.
Is anyone surprised? Tonight was basically a repeat of the Kings game, only the Knicks couldn't make the necessary plays in the final minutes the way Sacramento did. The Rockets got off to another weak start. They had another terrible defensive quarter(in this case, the 3rd). They blew a 5-point lead late in the game(the other night it was 6 points). And Harden once again scored a ton of points while doing little on the defensive end. McFail doesn't make adjustments in-game. He doesn't make them between games. He doesn't correct mistakes. Hell, I don't even know if he's capable of identifying the mistakes(or the reasons behind them). It's pretty obvious at this point that his coaching philosophy is laissez-faire. Just sit back and wait for the players to hopefully at some point figure it all out for themselves. The problem is we're nearly halfway through the season and it's pretty obvious this group of guys needs a lot more than that from their head coach.
I thought McHale did a good job of keeping Brooks and Garcia on the floor as that lineup had momentum going. However, I still don't think McHale is a good coach. The team shouldn't even be in that position in the first place. No one's gonna post on this thread cause we won, but the fact of the matter is the team has been underachieving in way too many games relative to the amount of talent they have.
This team is solely run by the stars(Howard, Harden). McHale doesn't run PnR with Howard much because Dwight is out to prove himself as post-up player. Even though Howard is one of the top PnR player in the league he's made it clear he doesn't want to play in that system. Harden doesn't play defense, because McHale doesn't get on him about it. He will put up great offensive numbers, lead the league in turnovers. This team is so badly run only Isiah Thomas can funk it up worse.
Nobody was complaining when we blew out the knocks both games last year, now this year the games come down the last shot, is it the new players ?
Judging by tonight game, the Knicks ran better plays than us, which says a lot about Mchale's coaching. Only won because we don't have low bball IQ players.
We didn't expect much last year. However Mchale is now expected to coach and there's one problem with that, HE CAN'T COACH. This should be a tv show.
They have a real coach, However I haven't seen many knicks games anybody know why they were losing so much?
Woodson is not really any better than McHale. As for their record, I have heard injuries as an excuse from Knicks fans.
For all Morey's advanced analytics I'm convinced he does not use them to analyze coaches. No way is McHale better than Adelman or Van Gundy. At best McHale is an average coach.
