If Love decides he wants out of Minny and tells Flip he's gonna leave then Flip will trade him. The short list of teams willing to give substantial assets will include Houston if McHale is here. Personally, I think it is highly likely that Love actually does love and forces Minny to trade him this summer.
If Minnesota trades Love before the deadline in February, then yes, McHale would be the coach at that time and potentially part of the appeal for Love coming here(why I still have no idea). But if Love is held onto by the T'Wolves for the entire 2014-15 season, then the Rockets would have to give McHale an extension in order to have him under contract and part of the recruiting process for Love in the 2015 offseason. Whether Love comes here on his own or is part of a sign-and-trade, he can't become a Rocket until July 2015. McHale would have to be given a new contract before then.
To your first point, as much as I've salivated at the thought of a Howard-Love-Harden(that sounds like a bad porno title, BTW) Big Three, I still think McHale is such a bad coach that he'd still find a way to screw that up. As to your second point, I'm fine with that. Let McHale work with Morey in the front office and maybe as a big man coach along with Dream(is CD still around doing that too?). Anything to keep him off the sidelines.
At least 1,000 of you don't want McHale to return, can anybody tell Rockets officials we want to fire McHale?
The only message they'll get is if fans don't show up for games next season, but honestly the only way they'll realize how bad of a coach McHale is would be another first round exit. Which BTW could easily happen next year. We'll still have San Antonio, OKC, and the Clippers to deal with. Memphis could he healthier. And Portland has already taken that next step. God help us if Phoenix uses those picks to land another star.
I totally support Morey's decision to keep Mchale as head coach next season. Cuz in Morey we trust.LOL
I wish I am a Rockets owner so I can fire McHale right away and hire veteran coach. I don't know what Les likes about McHale. Les must not have watched Rockets playoff much.
I give McFail a passing grade as far as offensive strategy. But it TOOK him two freaking losses to wake up and by that time it's too late (you have loss your home court advantage TWICE). When Harden is not attacking the basket and playing out of character in game #1 and #2, who do you blame? I blame the freaking coaching!! It shouldn't take 2 freaking losses for you to wake up. Hell, it shouldn't take the entire game 1 to realize your superstar Harden hardly attack the basket. Hell, it shouldn't take being down by 1pt with 40secs left in the clock in game #1 the realize that your superstar need to attack the basket instead of jacking up 3. This is bad for a couple reasons: Harden hadn't been shooting well, he's the KING when attacking the basket; the other team was in foul trouble, you only need 2pts to take the lead and yet all of these failed to wake McFail up. That must be a joke in coaching. After 2 games, I do think the idea of starting Asik is great and that team especially Harden go back being Harden again. So i do give McFail credit for that. But as far as defense, I tend to give him a passing great as well. The team do have an excellent strategy against Aldridge as far as rotation to help to defend him. The only problem I have with him is probably disciplinary and understand match up problem. For example, you should minimize damages by having Beverley on Lilliard all the time. When the team is playing great with certain lineup, don't sub and start changing lineup too early. If it's Jeff Van Gundy, he wouldn't pull players that were playing well on the court. So when Portland change to the bench players with 5 or 4 minutes remain in the 1st quarter (due to their starters not playing well), why did you pull your starters as well? Why not stick with them a little while for playing well and blow up the scores?? So that is what i mean by strategy. Actually, it's not even strategy..it's being smart and aggressive and i see McFail can hurt the Rockets by being stupid. It's the same shyt that he failed to realize that with .9 secs left, there is no need for Terrence Jones to defend the man inbounding the ball. It doesn't fcking make sense. They could have used his body to defense another Blazers. So hiring McFail back to me....it's a risk and a gamble. It's probably because the management internally, they respect him like a friend. So they probably don't want to fire a friend and basically say i'll give you another shot. But as a fan, I rather see someone like Jeff Van Gundy who understand strategy and defense. I don't want to take another wait and see approach with McFail. He had demonstrated that he failed to adjust things dynamically on the court. That's why it took him TWO FReAKING losses to wake up.
I agree to sign himn for another year, it's his first year with Howard on our team and that changed whole team inside - need another year for McHale. Also there is not much on coach market right now, McHale probably the best option for our team.
Agreed. Keep him for his strength-- recruiting, player connection. But we can combine all the talent we want...we'll struggle. Can you imagine a coach like Steve Clifford here if he were to work with Morey on the offensive side? We almost beat the Blazers with 0 emphasis on gameplan defensively or offensively, just pure talent. I can't imagine what a little structure would do. I would hope for a little offensively, and a lot defensively, and then this team is dangerous.
All I can say is Wow are you serious? McHale cost us this series with his piss pour coaching. We continuously had blown coverage after last possession timeouts. We only had to good plays coming out of timeouts on the offensive end of the floor. There were too many times we started games very sluggish and uninspired. And when your best player doesn't show up until game 4 in the playoff's, something is clearly wrong. IMO Once we lost our defensive coach the team looked lost on defense. Here we go with this loyalty bullcrap again. Les stuck with Tracy and Yao until the wheels rolled off knowing both players were damaged goods. There are plenty of great coaches out there so why are we sticking with McHale is very puzzling to me.
Whoever hasn't realized that the reason for McHales winning record is SOLELY because of the talented team we have, has not watched Rockets games.
A few days ago everyone was saying we should have been up 3-1 in the series, except for the refs. Now no one wants to talk about the refs or the end of game 4 (for obvious reasons). We had 54 wins and I don't think we could have really expected to crush Portland in the playoffs even if Popovich were the coach. It still would have been a close series. For that matter, we swept Popovich's team 4-0. If you want to fire a guy based on a few crap plays, Lin, Harden and Howard will be the next to go.
I agree with the first part but the coaching pool could get pretty large. Hollins, Sloan(don't want), both Van Gundys, possibly Vogel, possibly Tibs, Adelman could come out of retirement, D'Antoni(jk) There's a lot more than there have been in the past few years
McHale is Morey's best chance of bringing in a third superstar. The players like him because he doesn't bring any discipline.
