You guys are overrated our 9-7 record way to much. Look at the teams we beat...nothing special about them.
if we beat heats, lakers, and clippers like a blow out! Then he would consider to be a good coach. Look at the nuggets, they have nobody and check out there standing and record. Now, that is a good coach.
A) I am not sure I would take K-Mart out in that situation. His D may not be good, but his awareness and coolness in those situations is of value. B) I would definitely not foul with .9 seconds left. You know that as soon as the ball comes in the guy is going to catch and shoot. If you foul in that situation, you are taking a huge risk of putting the guy on the line.
DaDakota has a habit of typing seconds as tenths of a second... he mixes up :09 second with .09 and .9. There was 9 seconds left on the inbounds. I agree with your take. But with 9 seconds you definitely can foul...although I would tend to foul when you are actually in the penalty in that situation, versus not. 2 FTs wins the game. And, McHale was ready to foul. He told the players that. But Neal got the ball outside the arc and faced the basket. Parsons at that point should not foul. Overall, I agree. That was definitely the right call on everything McHale did...player selection for guarding the 3 pt line...ie. take Dalembert and Patterson out and replacing with Lee and Parsons. And reminding them they had a foul to give. Everything was text book. And we won.
They thought we would tank with mchale. Now we are over 500 and fighting for playoff contention (again). I think we really can make the playoffs and it would be agood learning experience for the young guys. Face it, with this group there is no way we get a top 5 or even a top 10 pick unless we trade up.
To be honest I think the whole fouling thing is taken way way out of proportion. I encourage everyone to look up the replay in NBA.com. The foul is to be used when players drive in the basket, not when the players are way out in the perimeter ready to take a jump shot. If you attempt to foul the player when they are around the perimeter not only does that achieve absolutely nothing, but there is a chance that the player is quick enough to attempt to shoot, leading to 3 free throws. McHale did absolutely nothing wrong with not fouling (even though I'm sure he told his players to prepare to foul). Gary Neal spent 2 seconds in the perimeter before throwing up a tough 3 pointer. That does not warrant an intentional foul.
This! I loved Adelman's offensive system, but he was stubborn with his rotation. It took him forever to play the best players. McHale is giving the best guys more minutes as soon as he realizes they deserve it, doesnt matter if they are rooks or old guys. Weve all seen Scola struggle recently. Well guess what, PatPat got more minutes yesterday! I just have the feeling Bud and Hill would still be getting big minutes under Rick.
I don't know why people are debating this still. You don't intentionally foul when it's a 2 possession game, you all are acting like we were up by 3...
Oh that makes more sense. This is a more complex situation. With 9 seconds left - there is no point in fouling right off the bat because the difference in giving them 9 seconds or 8 seconds really doesn't pay off. In fact, you don't want to burn that foul until there are under 4 seconds on the clock left. You are hoping they go for two or take a bad 3 pointer....which even if they hit with 7 or 6 seconds left, gives you the chance to play for the final shot to win the game. But if it gets down to 4 seconds, then you want to use that foul since you won't get the ball back with much time if they hit, and it will force them to inbounds and take a much more difficult shot.
He is obviously not the coach Adelman was, technically, but I like his persona better. Adelman had the personality of a commode float and you think McHale's substitution patterns stink, Adelman never made sense to me in that regard and his last play calling was HORRIBLE!
Ditto, it will be interesting to compare our season stats to the two, are we better offensively, are we better defensively, how have individual players played under each, what is our overall PPG for and against look like? Right now, it looks like almost everything would be skewed in Adelman's favor. Let's see how McHale finishes. I am not a fan, but I don't have strong feelings one way or the other. DD
The "season average" so far is fairly meaningless. The Rockets were terribly early, but have won 5 out of 7 games as soon as McHale benched your boys Budinger and Hill. Hopefully the team continues on a positive trend as your boys sit on the bench some more.
Right now, the biggest problem with this team is the talent on the floor, not the head coach. Let's worry about that, because that's what is holding us back right now.
