Sources: Les Alexander has brought up a coaching change to Morey if things dont go as planned

I wonder what McHale thought about Morey letting Chuck go? I kept thinking of Hayes last night. He would have made the difference, assuming he's healthy, in my opinion. We can criticize McHale, and we certainly do (I do when I think he deserves it), but Morey gives him the players to work with. Chuck is essentially a coach on the bench and on the court. Bring him back, Daryl.

 

Good. McHale needs to go. Nothing short of a championship trophy is accepted at this point, and he isn't really the guy for the job. It's not even about this season, it's been about every season since he was hired.

 

I will forever love the Batman but I would have reservations on him being HC bc I would think he'd be too much of a players coach/nice guy and wouldn't be able to be a D when needed...

 

Whether or not a particular coach is the right or best to get the best out of any group of players is always a valid question

The comments I just posted in the thread, "Quit making excuses," I think are relevant to the discussion in this thread, but no reason to repeat them here.

It is arguable as to whether McHale has truly had a healthy roster since Howard came on board. He certainly didn't have a full complement of starters during preseason. And D-Mo was showing last season, before his injury, that he gave a post scoring presence that no other player had demonstrated. He seemed to have incorporated Hakeem-like moves into his game, more successfully than any other player on the team that was trying to learn them. So not having him is a significant loss, to me. As a fan, it would be nice to be given some reason as to why he still can't participate in practices. Not giving one allows fans to imagine the worst.

The team struggles, at this point, are just as much on the players, if not more, than on the coaching staff, IMO. But then it's like the fork in the road. You never know what lies down the fork you didn't take. And finding out if a change can take the Rockets past the WC finals, or even get them back there probably won't happen during this season.

 

Good question, but with a coach whose working with Morey over the past four years, I think at the end of the day, you have to step back and say do I want to focus on just what can help me win this one game, or what is going to help us over the long haul of the season.... especially when it really matters in 2016?

I'm sure McHale would rather have Hayes, than not have Hayes. But if Morey and him had a meeting beforehand with the options of what they think they can bring the team later on in a month or so with the additional capspace vs. having Hayes for a couple games as a option off the bench, its actually realistic that McHale would say... you know.... being patient to trade Lin for the exception that eventually got Brewer mid-season was great for me. Being patient and getting Josh Smith with the bi-exception worked better than using that on another player earlier, and etc. etc.

If McHale is truly objective and looks at the season long term, I would have to think that he's willing to trust Morey on that one.

But yeah I'm sure he wasn't happy about it at the time. I don't think Morey is even happy about it. He and all of us love Chuck. Sometimes you gotta make tough decisions to sacrifice for the future. Let's just see what Morey has up his sleeve.

But that being said, Morey shouldn't need to have to pull out a mid-season trade this year. This team is too talented and deep to have so many issues.

 

It's time to fire McHale, and bring Thibodeau

 

I said it in the Hayes thread. Morey said he was not satisfied with our defense. And he cut the best defensive player on our roster.

Everybody saw the problem with us was not so much Harden's shots not falling as our matador defense.

I am not blaming Morey. Something has to give.

 

Hayes the best defender on the team?! When was the last time he ever made an All Defensive team?!

 

Guys,

Hayes was never staying here due to the hard cap.

This has nothing to do with our defense. He was just a body we could throw out there while other folks were out.

 

Boss man Leslie has spoken. About time, should of been said after lilliard drilled the shot in game 6.

 

Yeah, going to the the Western Conference Finals with 2 key players out last year totally sucked. I hate that McHale, all he did was get us to the WCF!

 

The only credible thing he did during last year's run was to not put Harden back in during the run in Game 6 against the Clippers. The players got us to the WCF.

 

He also made the TJones / Smith swap.

You act like the players aren't the ones that control 90% of the destiny on every team.

McHale used all the guns in his barrel last year coaching wise. There was not much else to be done.

I'm not a huge fan of McHale. But the fact of the matter is that you can replace him with Greg Popovich, and the current team isn't doing any better than WCF. For one, the Warriors team is that good. For two, this team has holes, principally at the PF. It's nice and all to think about how Montrezl could come right in and fill it, but that's not reality. He is an ok rookie at best at the moment. It's nice to think what if we had Josh Smith, or didn't let go of Chuck Hayes. Those guys don't solve any problems.

I'm not saying above average PFs grow on trees, but until a healthy DMo returns, or DM finds a way to fix it, there's going to be a PF problem.

 

Who else has made All Defensive team besides Howard? To bad, Dwight is not healthy enough to play every game.

Hayes has been top 10 in defensive rating 2 times and top 10 in defensive +/- 2 times.

The only other guy on the team that could be brought up in the conversation is Ariza. He has never come close to the defensive rating of Hayes and Howard.

 

bev made the all-def 2nd team in 2014......though his D today is nowhere near what it was back then

 

Exactly.

Besides not putting Harden back in which I think most people would do (riding the hot hand), there was very little strategic advantage gained by having mchale as head coach.

 

You guys remember how the Warriors all of a sudden became a great team when they made the coaching change. Hopefully the rockets can get mark Jackson. The rockets coaching staff also needs better assistant coaches also. Head coach is important but it's the other guys that is part of the coaching staff that needs to step up also.

 

Wait... you do realize that the Warriors took off and improved when they FIRED Mark Jackson right.... not when they HIRED Mark Jackson.... Steve Kerr is now their coach.

 

Hand down
Man down

 

I'm down with this. Get Mark Jackson and have him mishandle decision making for a couple of years. Fire his ass. Hire Steve Kerr. Win chip. It makes perfect sense.