Awesome, feel happy for Kevin. Funny how ABC crew mentioned he looked nervous as hell on the sidelines haha One thing though: how did he not put Prigioni back in over Terry during that horrible slow stretch? Prigs was playing like Cassell, just crazy energy and steals, deep three. Come on Kev, play the 38 year old more haha
From Spurs reddit thread. "The Clippers embarrassed themselves against Houston - the loss does not say anything about the players. Pop was the reason we lost. Mchale was able to adjust to the Clippers while stayed with ineffective players out of god knows what. Even hobbled and injured as we were, we could have won against both teams with a different gameplan." Just goes to show that there's blame even if you have the best coach in the league.
He was awesome leaving the floor tonight, huge smiles, high fiving and pointing to fans. Now get our guys ready to guard the perimeter like never before, coach!
The sad thing is that McHale has always performed anywhere from okay to beyond expectations. First year he came in, people were expressing gloom and doom after Adelman, and we performed just as well. Second year, we were suppose to be certain lottery team, and we got to the playoffs. Last season was generally on par and we lost in a 4-5 matchup so it kind of slight under-performing. This year, we overcame injuries to get the 2 seed and now in WCFs. Objectively, McHale has never been a bad coach. You can all him average or not special before this playoff run, but never a bad coach. Unfortunately fans are generally not objective.
When the Clippers sent in a bench scrub to hack Dwight, McHale immediately subbed Terry in and went small to thwart the hack strategy. I was impressed.
No huge screwups the last few games for him, gotta give him credit. We are where we should be, the WCF.
I wonder how much coach had to do with Harden's adjustments. Splitting those high screens and zig zagging to the hoop was huge.
ABOUT DAMN TIME! McHale is an OLD SCHOOL guy who was drafted, and taught by the great Red Auerbach! Still, some of us think they know more about how to play basketball than McHale. Lot of RedNation think that X's & O's are not McHale's forte. People think that mainly because of what he says in front of a mic. McHALE IS SMARTER THAN YOU HATERS THINK! He is very CAUTIOUS of what he says in front of the mic, possibly the BEST IN THE LEAGUE INFRONT OF THE MIC. He does exactly what a coach should do; he never gives media any substance, only fluff. But, people make judgments of his Bsketball IQ based on what he says to the media, and have the audacity to think that they know more about basketball than one of the 50-GOAT! Please, slap yo'self!
He made the necessary adjustments (starting Asik) in last year's playoffs too. But one lucky shot went in and the story was he waited too long to make the change. Now this year he does something similar (starting Smith), and the Clippers choke away Game 6 (arguably), but now he's a perfect. Did he get unlucky the last year, lucky this year, or is he just somewhere in between?
This is really how simple minded the haters look at his coaching based on that other thread. Take one timeout, play, game, series and use it as argument to judge his ability to coach. Forget that DH just joined the team, Harden and the rest of the team are young, weak bench, inexperienced players, complete change of roster, etc.
Interesting thing Look at McHale's relationship with his GM versus Thibideaux's relationship with his Synergy is propeling the Rockets ahead The Antagonism became a story in and of itself Rocket River
^ The thing about synergy is that you have to be careful with it. Before you know it, it becomes symbiosis and you end up as Doc Rivers HC/GM and people are calling you out about spending so much much money on Spencer Hawes, mocking the doubters and then proceeding to never really play him.
