It's McHale who speaks in NOTHING "Ball got sticky" " Guys guys needed to play harder" "There was no juice" LOL Btw bad coaches have even taken teams to the home court but then failed short. Case in point Scott Brooks. Are you going to tell me Brooks is a good coach? Rockets record is testimony of the talent and depth of this roster. Absolutely one of the most talented and deep teams in the league. Coaching or lack thereof is what will hold this team back from the championship ring.
I completely agree. We went on a run and got hot AFTER the Pablo trade...AFTER we started to play Pablo our bench unit looked like something special. At times GROWING the lead while Harden was on the bench. Now we are back to this idea that Terry is a PG (He's not) and our bench unit has gone back to "Oh...I hope they aren't blown out by the time Harden comes back in"
We can't win every game and there's only so much coaching can do when the only player displaying confidence last night was Brewer. Portland kept coming at Houston and the Rockets never really responded until late in the game. Coaching has a part in this but this roster is by no means stacked. There is no answer at the PG position to keep Lilliard out of the paint. If Prigioni isn't going to get minutes, I wish they would have kept Shved whose length might have been good in disrupting Lilliard in short stretches. Without Howard, the Blazers are just a bad matchup if the whole team isn't on their game. If you are going to blame McHale for the loss, at least give him credit for seeing a team that looked like it was ready to accept a double digit loss and told Brewer to take over. Even he knew Brewer was the only guy who seemed to at least show that he wanted to win that game last night. The Kubiak like quotes from McHale can be frustrating to hear, but it's not all coaching. Pop isn't winning those titles by himself, the Spurs have a group of players that constantly adapt and sustain a fire to be the best. Hopefully Howard comes back for the stretch run and the Rockets start clicking and believing something special can be done this season other than just being another good team in the West.
Yeah but the Coach has some say on who stays and goes, or at least should. Pop certainly does. Mchale in a odd way does as well, as when a guy can't see the court Morey trades him. I wonder if McHale plays Canaan if Morey ever trades him. It felt like Morey traded him because he realized he wasn't going to get minutes here.
Someone has to wake McHale up during the game. It's like he falls asleep at the wheel. He doesn't know what to do and he doesn't trust his bench. Bad combination
Pop certainly does have a say in roster decisions and the fact his big three have been able to maintain that edge for all these years has also been a big help. As much power as Morey is supposed to have, he should be able to force McHale's hand on players. Adelman was shown the door largely because he didn't want to go along with coaching staff changes that Morey wanted. There's so much that goes on behind the scenes it is difficult to pin players not getting into the game all on McHale and Morey doesn't strike me as a GM who just trades players for the sake of trading them.
He plays Pablo, He plays Pablo not. I thought he sat Harden too long in the 4th and that last play of the game was terrible. Thats killer time. Thats Harden time. Not Corey Brewer no matter how hot his hand was.
You're right there, won't argue with that. I'm just legit confused as to why Canaan didn't get PT and why Pablo is getting no run now. Just legit confused. I thought maybe it was because "Canaan is too young." but you certainly can't say that about Pablo. I thought because "Canaan isn't mentally ready, he'll fold when you need him." but Pablo has won a gold medal for Argentina and championships... So I'm just confused. The only thing I can think of is that McHale thinks it's better to run Terry at point. Canaan had some good games here, enough to get more looks...but I go back to what's going on with Pablo now and it seems clear IMO that this is on McHale. Of course I can't say that with 100% certainty but when you have a guy that comes in like Pablo and gets the offense running and can even run PNR with our bigs and then just suddenly sits on the bench... It smells of a situation where Morey is trying to acquire a PG that he knows McHale will play (A veteran) and suggesting McHale plays him...McHale plays him to say that he's given him his chance and is now set back into his rotation.
Bumping this thread to point out that every year under McHale, during the home stretch of the regular season, the Rox usually falter. The last couple of years since Harden got here, it hasn't kept them from making the playoffs but they seem to limp into the playoffs the last couple of years. Another strike I think against leadership/coaching on this team. Rox have so much to play for and they look like they just don't care out there. McHale is nothing but a glorified cheerleader that the team doesn't respect I believe. McHale is just one of the guys. UGH!!!
McHale has zero clue how to manage the roster during back to back situations. Bench players should be getting more minutes. Yet McHale is burning out the starters in a back to back situation @ Utah. Not surprisingly, we're getting our asses kicked.
McHale is too stubborn to extend the rotation. He runs players into the ground and they wear out to close out the year and into the playoffs. Same pattern each year he's been here. Just a dumb, stubborn coach.
He's run the team in the ground every year he's been here. And the ****ing front office gave this idiot an extension. It's pathetic.
We all know that this is a Mchale patented slip but let stop blaming Mchale. I've moved on from that, we know what Mchale brings us so at this point it's the owner's fault for keeping him. He is who he is and I'm tired of blaming him maybe Les should share some blame here. Dwight comes back in 2 weeks hopefully he gives us the boost we need. Maybe our guys are just tired.
Oh I blame the front office the most no doubt. Les doesn't care about winning and Morey loves having his puppet McHale. I have next to zero respect for the front office at this point. It's just so frustrating seeing incompetence on display on your favorite teams.
Is kevin Mcfail a r****d? Serious question. How the **** does he manage to play harden 35 mins on the second night of a b2b during a blowout game!?!? How the **** is that possible?
