Haha. Your love for Dmo is just ridiculous. I do watch rockets games. I watch the nba. And I know, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Dmo does not stack up well at all against the other power forwards we may face in a playoff series.
And how did you come to that conclusion? Your almighty eye test? The eye test of a fan and not a professional analyst in the NBA? Your eye test is worth ****. I have the stats to back up my point of view. You have ****. You are nothing but a casual fan, who is still attempting to not follow the ball while watching the game. Get real. LOL.
I don't care about McHale's success (or lack of) in the regular season. Playoffs, 7 games series, McHale will get out coached again.
Can you refrain from complaining here for the next 68 games? What about writing letters to Morey or something?
Wow you're angry. You also said Dmo is going to get a contract that pays more than 10 million a year. You're a lot of things.
I apologize if I sounded angry. I was not. Perhaps frustrated at the lack of understanding here and posters inability to back up anything they say with actual data or proof.
I don't know when you turned into such a condescending prick, but you can probably guess how Clutch deals with such people.
If so, then wouldn’t there be no point to criticize McHale for the entire regular season? If the argument is that he doesn’t have the post-season cred, then there is no point in judging his regular season in any way, right? All his mistakes in the regular season, assuming it affects our post-season odds, will be reflected in the postseason. Until then, just enjoy basketball!
LOL. How? I support posters who are making sense. I torch people who are professing their ignorance. I am very rarely rude, and never to the degree that you displayed in your comment. So I ask again. How?
Dude. You claim that dmo is going to make over 10 million a year. Stop. You have no right to attack others knowledge
The fact that you think I was being rude, when I reiterated what so many before me have said (not everybody can be wrong), and that you can't see that you have been a complete dick... means that this will go nowhere. I don't want to incite you into an argument, as I have no time for such things, but I would highly encourage you to take the route filled with more objective analysis and less of "you people are just too stupid to understand!".
Let me summarize my reasoning. 1) D-Mo has quietly developed into one to the top 20 defensive bigs in the league. 2) D-Mo still has 1.8 seasons left on his contract to develop. 3) D-Mo becomes a FA in the summer of 2016. 4) The salary cap in the summer of 2016 is going to go up ~$14M per team. 5) NBA cap increases in 2016 will far outstrip the value of the free agants on the market.
Can we please let a Rockets fan enjoy a Rockets player for once around here? Let the guy be excited a little. At least he's not going on Jones bashing parades like some folks love to do. Yes DMo isn't the ideal player for the Rox to be relying on so heavily but he's all we got right now. Look around the league at bigs like DMo and their trajectory over time in the NBA. Rarely do they ever "get it" until their 2nd or 3rd team. If the Rockets can keep him and Jones the next few years I think it will pay dividends. However I'm realistic that they should upgrade if they truly can upgrade. And no Jopatmc Derrick Williams is not an upgrade.
I'm no McHale apologist, but thought that this excerpt in Lowe's piece on the Mavs today was interesting: ----- The best way to sow such doubt is to act early, before a defense is set. That’s easier coming off a stop, when the Mavs can rebound and push the ball amid the chaos of transition. There is no time for Carlisle to call plays after a Dallas stop, and the coach likes it that way. “We try not to call any plays if we can,” Carlisle says. “We want to be difficult to defend, and the more random we can make it, the more difficult it will be for defenses.” ----- One of McHale's biggest criticisms is that he doesn't run plays. Carlisle is consistently referred to as one of the game's best coaches and yet he says his goal is to not run any plays.
NBA defenses have evolved to the point that the good ones almost always stop the first option on offense. That is why good NBA offenses rarely call plays. They may call sets (DDMO, horns etc.) and may have a game plan as to which points to attack, but depending on called plays is a rarity except out of timeouts.
