Was giving Kevin McHale that 3 year extension a mistake?

Kidd has done a great job with the young bucks.

 

if we suffer another first round exit McHale should get the axe. There's just to much talent not to advance to the second round. I don't care about this " west is so deep" crap. When you have the MVP on your team you better have some success in the post season.
McHales job should be on the line this post season.

 

Disagree. This team as constructed is good enough to compete with anyone. Not saying we'll win but they're good enough to go 7 games against any team in the NBA. Coach McFail is the biggest problem.

 

Yeah, probably right. Rockets owner probably won't fire McHale, and I hope if Howard doesn't step it up they don't sign him to some stupid contract. Then again if the TV deal is that lucrative it might not matter...

 

Very true.

 

Don't give me that. There's no excuse for a team with this much talent to get destroyed twice in less than a week the way they were done by the Warriors. Especially in the exact same manner. There were no adjustments made between Saturday and last night. That's entirely on the coaching staff.

And there's also no excuse to give up 120 points to an Orlando team that averages 95 or to no show against the Pelicans and lose by 28. The Rockets look like they're not prepared to play half the time. It's the head coach's job to make sure they are.

 

I see a team that just doesn't have the talent to make an offense work. You have one player who can create his own shot in Harden.

Take him away and the team really has no one who can make a shot consistently or playmake.

We have a TON of guys who play 1 on 1. The coaching staff isn't telling them to play one on one man. Of course they want them to pass and cut and all that. They just are not doing it because it's not in their DNA.

When Bev and Howard were injured - guys like Black, Cannaan, and Papa played more like a unit BECAUSE THE FOLLOWED THE COACHING PLAN.

Sure enough we won a lot of games.

Howard comes back and he stinks it up and lowers the motivation of everyone around. Everyone reverts to playing boring basketball.

I think the fact that Howard wants to be a post up player and clog the middle is what is killing us. If he would learn to just be a PnR guy we'd be a much much better team.

 

Guys look, the Rockets signed McHale long term to give the team stability and some kind of chemistry, at least that's what one of the articles claimed "the players are very comfortable with McHale", or something stupid like that.

I mean it's not like Morey gives a **** about his players, they're all expendable and assets (unless you're h&h). I'm pretty sure the real reason is because Morey pretends to coach and McHale has to take a backseat, so he's a lock for the next 3 years. After all Les is more interested in the regular season and big names, he won early as an owner and it pretty much spoiled him. I wonder sometimes if as long as he's making money (thanks Forbes list), he's okay with mediocre playoff performance because this team is an investment that is paying big returns regardless of the playoffs.

 

It was given too early, Rockets were rolling this season hell with all the bench players we had taking in minutes and starters missing games. Should have just went on with it and played it out until after the season so......yes in a way it was. Just like Matt Schaub in 2012 after week 1 omfg, that still irks me.

 

are you saying............................. Les Alexander is...................
Jerruh Jones? *dramatic piano sound*

 

You're making excuses. How is passing and cutting not in any of the players' DNA? That's basic basketball. If they won't do as instructed by the coaches(and BTW, I don't believe for a second McHale is preaching this on the sidelines or in practice), why aren't they pulled from the lineup?

Howard wants to be a postup guy instead of running PnR? Sit him down then. The team has shown it can win without him. If he pouts over it, that's his problem. He can either get with the program or he can request a trade elsewhere. Believe me, there are other big men in the NBA who can replicate Howard's production, especially post-knee injury.

The players other than Harden can't create their own shot? Then implement a system that creates shots for them. The 2008-09 Rockets, the one and only team we've had since 1997 to achieve anything in the postseason, wasn't loaded with playmakers. They had Brooks, a very raw Lowry, Artest, and an old Brent Barry(T-Mac doesn't count since he was out with the microfracture). That ain't that much better than Harden, Bev, Canaan(who they refuse to play), and Papa. Yet that team had incredible ball movement. That's all about the coaching.

 

Haha, man great post!

Now I'm really starting to worry though, I wasn't thinking Jones level but damn... Haha, next if a player gets hurt we'll see Les run out and help the player to the locker room, and then run out to clear him to play.

 

If the Rockets flame out again in the playoffs, the decision to hire McHale along with his "coaching doesn't matter" rhetoric might be Morey's biggest blunder of his career.

 

Inevitable? INEVITABLE?!? i.e you think if we don't have home court advantage we are guaranteed, 100 not capable of advancing past the first round? By the way. The 8th seed still has a chance; especially in this stacked conference. Can you rightfully say you can cheer on a team when you're this negative?

 

No.

It doesn't affect the salary cap.

 

We'll definitely regret it when names like Thibideou become availabe and we sit on our hands. Or when guys like Karl go to ****holes like Sacramento and make them relevant again. I feel like I'm over reacting, but I know that McHale just isnt that good a coach, I've seen good coaching here, and this aint it.

 

I woke up this morning thought about it a bit, and uh.

Yes!
DD

 

Where's Rudy T?

 

Flexibility for the win

 

McHale cant fix the spacing and ball movement problem.

morey has not brought any big in that can shoot.

DMO
JONES
HOWARD
DORSEY
BLACK

then goes out his way to get SMITH LMAO!!!!

kerr has green, barnes, spates, lee all shooters... so their offense will look 2 times better