McHale is really becoming another Rick Adelman, a player's coach who does not feel he's accountable for how the team is playing and most of all, is stubborn! McHale refuses to have a bigger rotation, like playing 9-10 guys (something he said himself he would do). There's already plenty of situations where a guy like Brewer, or a Smith / D-Mo / TJ would've been very useful. The only reason Smith received playing time was because McHale's hand was forced, which was the sole reason some 'gems' got playing time during Adelman's days. Mchale going down the same path and I want to see him learn or just give up.
I tried to give Mchale a chance after last season, but he still cannot come up with a proper play at crunch time. Seriously, did he not learn anything from last season?
Etch and Sketch.http://sportsbybrooks.com/kevin-mchale-needs-his-coaching-etch-a-sketch-21294 If you felt a twinge of deja vu when Kevin McHale stepped down as Vice President-GM of the Timberwolves yesterday to concentrate on the job of coaching the mismatch of talent he’s acquired, there’s a good reason for it. After all, we’ve been down this road before, with McHale coaching Minnesota to a 19-12 record after taking over from deposed Flip Saunders and leading the Wolves down the stretch in 2005. etch-a-sketch mchale (McHale’s new play for Rashad McCants.) That’s a decent record, but according to at least one of the players on that team, the improvement may not have had much to do with McHale’s coaching acumen. According to an interview with Nuggets guard Anthony Carter in the ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS, McHale was more like a lost puppy than a bloodhound on the scent of a win in his first stint at Minnesota’s helm. Here’s what Carter had to say: “He didn’t really know all the X’s and O’s, but he had a good assistant coaching staff that was helping him out with a lot of plays. He kind of let us run whatever we wanted. “He was trying to draw plays, and it was like a little Etch and Sketch. Like a kid just messing around. . . . He just gave the clipboard to the assistant coaches sometimes.” An Etch-a-Sketch? Really? He’s that bad, Anthony? And, while we’re at it, wouldn’t it be incredibly difficult to sketch out plays on an Etch-a-Sketch? Then again, maybe McHale should be praised for knowing his limitations. He surrounded himself with assistant coaches Randy Whitman, Sidney Lowe, Jerry Sichting and Don Zierden the first time, a group that bred an NBA head coach (at least until Whitman was fired), a DI NCAA head coach in the ACC (Lowe is at North Carolina State), a WNBA head coach (Zierden leads the Minnesota Lynx) and, well, a Timberwolves assistant. That’s right folks, Jerry Sichting is still on staff in the Twin Cities. Anyone want to take a guess as to who’s running practice and drawing plays this time around? If things progress the way they did during McHale’s first stint coaching the club, Sichting may be doing a lot more than that, too. According to the Nuggets guard, McHale spent practices watching from the sideline as if he was scouting talent. “Practice, it was kind of funny,” Carter said. “(McHale) didn’t warm us up and just let us get to playing five-on-five. He’d just sit on the sideline . . . and the other coaches would be coaching.” Hey, if you can’t have the job you want, make the job you have be one you want, right? Wait, he was the GM before he became the coach? Really? You’re sure? Oh. Well, then forget I mentioned it. kevin mchale kevin love (OK, Kevin, you go play. I’m going on a popcorn run.) For what it’s worth, Carter says he thinks McHale will be a much better coach in his second go-round, though little leads us to believe that will be the case. Minnesota is bound to get the new-coach bounce for a few games while players try to impress McHale (which is really the guy they should have been trying to impress anyway, right?), but when things calm down there’s a lot more left to this season than there was to 2005 when Larry Bird’s post man took over. And even if McHale is a bit rough diagramming plays, there’s always this: He can’t be any worse as a coach than he is as a GM.
Adelman is on another level. I think he's always had the respect of his team and if he was here he wouldn't allow our closing plays to be ISO. He just simply wouldn't allow it. It'd be that simple.
We demolished the Pacers with Jones and Montiejunas alternating the power forward spot. The Pacers are an elite team right now with the addition of Scola. They are stacked on every position and yet we blew them out in what many observed was a preseason game that both teams took seriously. And yet Mcfail lets Jones and Montiejunas languish on the bench. As I said, Recognizing talent and deciding who gets playing time is similar to the General Manager's job of scouting talent and allocating the team's resources to acquire such talent. If Mcfail was an atrocious general manager, you can't expect him to be excellent at spotting talent that already exists on the team.
McHale needs to take responsibility for both of the last 2 losses, it was his wack rotations, stubborn use of the Twin Towers and inability to keep his players in check that will guarantee this team is not a championship caliber team, possibly not even a 4th seed or above team.
I am sure everybody shocked by now why the hell McFail continue to experience w/ the Twin Towers. The media and fans have been talking that it ain't working. They came out in the 1st quarter and couldn't get anything going and were behind. And when they put Lin and Casspi back in the game with a single CENTER...the team came back and took the lead. You would think he learn something...this coach is r****ded.
McHale was looking like a dejected, ****ing idiot on the bench toward the end of the game. This team has no direction, no one to light a fire of accountability under their butts.
Not sure if you're being serious or sarcastic but part of the problem is. Rockets need a real coach with some balls, not James and dwight homie off the side lines jerking them off.
McHale has no strategy on his line ups at all, Twin Towers is just not working, Also when your player is injured like Harden is tonight, only give him around 20 mins. And for god sakes play DMo or TJones next to Howard or Asik. We got so much talent on this team, but Coach is not using our players the smart way... so frustrating to watch. -Jin
