In defense of Morey. If he did not make the midseason moves he made the rockets would have likely been a 7th seed and gotten their butts kicked by the Clippers in the first round. Winning the division was a step in the right direction but next year I expect more.
Morey is the real coach here. His idea of 3's layups and ft's doesn't work when you can't hit three's and can't make ft's. Also we play no defense. This is 100% on Morey and this **** won't change unless we hold him accountable for it. Mchale is just a yes man at this point. This is why he was given an extension.
Finally on board. Coach has got to go. I'm sitting at home just wondering what kind of read and react offense we are running. Seems like our guys are mostly just reacting and not actually reading - hence the low IQ style of play. Also this is on Morey as well. I know he didn't imagine Bev going out with injuries but not only has Bev been injury prone YOU TRADE AWAY an okay back up for Prigioni and expect him to keep up with elite point guards. You mean to tell me you saw positive in that? I know this has been said but we are terrible in what your system is based upon?! It's akin to people swimming in running shoes. The shoes don't fit the system.
Morey on the record has said Brewer agreed to trade and waive his option because of McHale. Also Smith is on the record saying he was leaning toward Clippers but chose Houston in part because of McHale. Your post proves my point. Bosh, Melo, Parson all chose the money. So in reality McHale provides NO value at all. What I'm saying is get a master coach to coach and let money and players do the recruiting. That's a combo that would actually work.
Let's start a petition to fire him. Seriously. Mchale maybe would work for a Lebron team since Lebron would just call the plays.
is there some way to get our message across to the management team? i mean we can b**** about this here all day long but it's not gonna bring about any meaningful change so should we start the petition or something? seriously, we can not let this incompetent fool come back for the next season. no way in hell.
No. Fans have been b****ing about uniforms for who knows how long now and nothing has changed. Good luck.
When this thread was started in April 2012 there were so many posts calling people reactionary and overly sensitive. When it continued over there years, the posts started accusing people of being LOFs. Now, 3 years after this thread has started, people are finally seeing the light? Hilarious.
I think some of us just got used to it. Fans hate to hear negative things about the team, even if they might be true. And sometimes especially because they are true. I pointed out the lack of screening last year. Folks said that screens don't really matter as that's not our offensive system. Tonight Harden complained in the post game that the Rockets don't set enough screens to get him free. Funny how that works.
Difference between mcfail and a better coach (adelman for example) adelman gets the most out of his role players (brooks, Landry,scola,wafer,....) while Mchale can't get anything out of both superstars and role players)
Harden is a whiner. Do you honestly think that if Harden made the suggestion to Mchale, he would get completely ignored and shut out. Of course the best player would have some input on offensive schemes so for him to blame the coach is dumb.
Mchale needs to go. Like today. We don't deserve this. 1. There is no way Jason Terry can stay with JJ Reddick who is one of the more deceptively athletic spot up 2 guards in the entire league. He is constantly moving off the ball. There is just no way a 6'2 37 year old Jason Terry, who has a hamstring injury mind you, can stick with Reddick. The amount of burn Terry has gotten this series is somewhat alarming. It seems like he is always on the floor. When you factor in how often he is burned by his man, it makes very little sense. McHale has yet to make an adjustment here. Am I missing something? Doesn't it seem a little obvious that Reddick is burning Terry? He's having trouble keeping up with him and getting through picks. There needs to be an adjustment here since game 1. 4 games later and its the same thing. If it isn't working, why continue doing the same thing repeatedly hoping for a different result. If I'm not mistaken, thats the very definition of insanity. 2. Why forfeit a rotation player in Capella so early in the game? The Clippers are a very big team. If your plan is to foul Jordan every trip down, you don't exactly need to play defense, do you? We have two big men. When Dwight is in early foul trouble, why would you tell his backup, and a ROTATION PLAYER to amass 4 fouls? You are essentially marginalizing that player. As a result, both Howard and Capella sat against one of the best frontlines in the NBA. Mchale, with no other choice but to use two power forwards and a 6'9 Jones to man the center against Jordan. I'm sure everyone else noticed the vacancy left because of this. The move baffled me, it baffled feigen and I'm sure countless other people in Houston and around the world. There is just no logical explanation. 3. After getting absolutely embarrassed for the SECOND time in game 3, why did Mchale leave his starters in until 3 minutes to go in the game? Rivers had pulled his starters much earlier, while Mchale continued to run Dwight and Terry into the ground? What is the reason for this? To establish continuity? Absolutely baffling. 4. There are no inbound plays. Every inbound play is a failure. No one even sets a screen. I played a more complex offense in high school. Easily. Anyone who has played basketball at ANY level can see that. No plays drawn up out of timeouts. Am I missing something? 5. There is no ball movement, but more importantly, there is no off ball movement. Harden cannot continue to play iso ball while everyone little stands around in their same spot. Game after game. It doesn't take a genius to understand how to defend the pick and roll and as far as I can tell, we haven't really made the necessary adjustments on offense. It is a failure on Kevin Mchales part. 6. The team looks lost and disheveled. You can argue that the rockets just aren't very smart but I don't think the Clippers are exactly in Mensa. Barnes, Jordan, Griffin, Baby, Hawes, Crawford. Are you kidding me? The difference is coaching. One team looks well coached. The other looks like they have no support. The defensive breakdowns time and time again and the stagnant offense isn't working and it falls on the coach. There is no heart which is apparent to all of us, and it starts at the top. No one is there to lead, I highly doubt the players have any faith in the coaching scheme at this juncture and its back to hero ball. 7. Dwight and Harden have only a finite amount of years. Harden hasn't proven to be a superstar in my book. It's just my opinion. He has to dominate like one, just as Dwight carried us through many aspects of the series in Dallas. He has for years now, disappeared when the team needed him the most. I love James Harden, but please don't call him a superstar until he proves it in the postseason. I'm a big proponent of analytics and he isn't doing terrible, but he should really be taking this hard on himself. He needs to come out aggressive with a chip on his shoulder. Not laying down with the rest of the team. However, Mchale has made no adjustments to better utilize him on offense. It is just a joke. I believe the quit in the team may have just as much with their faith in the scheme as their insecurities toward the clippers. I love Daryl Morey. I think he is an outstanding GM. I believe in this team. They won the hardest division in basketball. Morey's worst move BY FAR is Mchale and it will be an even bigger mistake if he isn't booted Tuesday night after again watching our team run around with no plan. He may be a great recruiter and even teacher. However, it is obvious he is no coach. It is PARAMOUNT we get a new coach.
Les Alexander gave a big contract to McHale, so to him it will be unacceptable to fire a guy that just helped us win a playoff series for only the 2nd time since 1997 and led us to a 2 seed and SW division title. Sorry, but firing a coach under that circumstance just doesn't happen in sports. This offseason will be McHale's last chance to prove how well he can recruit or not. It obviously didn't work with Chris Bosh, but his former pupil Kevin Love is once again out there as a free agent. If it's true he's not happy in Cleveland, this is our best chance to land him. If McHale can get him, then I'll be okay with keeping him as coach.
Chris Paul said he was glad McHale slowed the game down by hacking DJ because it helped ease the pain of a hamstring by running up and down the court.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">LAC coach Doc Rivers also said the "Hack-A-Shaq" aided injured guard Chris Paul since he wasn't running up the floor due to time stoppage.</p>— Marc J. Spears (@SpearsNBAYahoo) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpearsNBAYahoo/status/597607772859969536">May 11, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Haha, hacking Jordan so early seems to have been a major fail huh... He's right though, CP3 had a lot of rest in that game.
