This is just laughable. Be mad at McHale for one loss against the hottest team in the NBA, the Clippers when the Rockets were majorly hampered with injuries if you want to but saying out defense sucks, and Harden regressing is pretty lazy criticism. Go look up where the Rockets defense ranks: http://espn.go.com/nba/hollinger/teamstats/_/sort/defensiveEff/order/true and umm... have you been paying attention to Harden's play at all the past 3 months? Did you miss the part where he won player of the week in consecutive weeks? How about the multiple games in the past couple weeks where he completely closed out games on his own essentially? Parsons????... Look, I get it, he's slumped quite a bit since the new year. But how in the world is that McHale's fault exactly? Players go through shooting slumps, it happens. Parsons will probably be somewhere between this season and last season throughout the remainder of his career which is pretty damn good for your 3rd or 4th best player, and potentially the 4th or 5th best player when Morey makes more moves, or other players improve to their potential.
These substitutions and matchups in the Nets game tonight are really questionable calls. Even the TNT commentators are wondering the same thing.
I know we have 3 starters out. -Lack of playing time for Hamilton with Casspi/Garcia playing over him -Lin on Livingston but Canaan on D. Williams -Parsons on D. williams
1.) Hamilton 2-8, Garcia 3-6 - Right call 2.) Lin is an awful defender, he needs to be hidden - Right call 3.) Parsons is sadly our best wing defender and should be DWill - Right call This is the sort of post that belong in the game thread, not this one.
Rockets only shot 450 mid ranges shots this year Next team has 850 That makes the offense predictable, imagine how many more plays mchale could run, if morey allowed him to shoot midrange shots ?
How is putting Lin on Livingston a much taller player the right call? Sorry but placing Parsons on D. Will did not work out in the first half. McHale failed to make any defensive reassignments after the first half.
Can't blame McHale on this one. Starting PF and superstar C out and is forced to play backups. Backup PF gets in foul trouble and McHale is then forced to put his SF's to play the front line. All this against a team that has won 14 straight at home.
1.) Because Livingston is the least dangerous of their perimeter players? Height really has nothing to do with it. 2.) Untrue, they moved Lin onto Dwill in the fourth. Watch more games please.
Because Joe Johnson is a big guard that loves to post up, Harden had to guard someone, and Harden typically guards guys better down low than on the perimeter. He can either get blown by on the perimeter by DWill or chase Livingston, or he can take his chances with Joe Johnson who often takes himself out of the game. I have no idea why McHale gets the blame for having 2 minus defenders on the perimeter. There are only so many players he can hide on that end.
McHale actually helped keep this game competitive when they put in Garcia and went super small to try and shoot their way back in the game. They stopped hitting in the 3rd quarter and that was that. Anyone blaming McHale for tonights game needs to just go away. You don't know what you are talking about.
Obviously the lack of midrange hurts the rockets but thats more of Morey's philosophy and has little to do with Mchale. Loss not on him, too many players injured. Also credit to him for yelling at the guys about defense, they aren't immune even when they are short handed.
Which was actually a bad move because that was when Williams lit up the Rockets. His first move was the right move, hide Lin on defense.
I'm not solely calling out coach since he had very few players to work with but putting CP on CP3 and now Dwill was head scratcher, it did not work well, why not just go with traditional match ups, parsons guarding livingston and lin on williams, lin handled williams fine in the 4th qt
