That is more about having confidence in your coach than respecting him. This team clearly respects McHale and would listen to him but he does not have much to offer.
I agree about the respect issue. McHale is not an X's & O's coach with no real system in place. He talks a good game, but players see through that real quick. We remember Lowry ignoring McHale and also Harden as well. You can see the way players react to other coaches versus McHale. He's taking this team nowhere.
This. He's not a top 10 coach in this league. Think about how many games you feel the Rockets have been out prepared or coached. Then try to think about how many times you felt the Rockets had a coaching edge. Pretty much never.
McHale is woefully overmatched. I bet he thought he was clever by attempting the Hack-a-Jordan. Coach Rivers seems to rub his nose in it by subbing Jordan out and hacking Dwight. It really made me LOL. It is frustrating to see our team being slowed by opponent's tactics/lineups and the inflexible McHale is always baffled and slow to react. McHale was hired to coach a young, completely revamped roster post tmac/yao. But this is different now and it's time to step it up. I really hope his time is up soon. McHale has never demonstrated he can coach a championship type team. I really don't think he has it in him. Rockets need a new coach.
Mchale can't put a team with MJ + Pippen in the playoffs. he'll prolly get busy obsessing with Luc Longley and Rodman and then create PG controversy with Kerr and Paxson.
McHale IS a bad coach. If he doesn't have control of the players, he needs to go. Howard + Asik certainly isn't a perfect fit but they're not attached to each other. Only a coach who has no idea what's going on still insist starting these 2 together. History repeats every ****ing game. 1st qtr down big (TT), 2nd qtr come back and more (no TT), 3qtr lose lead (TT), 4th qtr (TT half the time) lose the game. insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Yes. If the interest is to seriously usher in a new age and contend for the championship, we need a a new coach.
Forget it. It's not going to happen. Just like last season, the Rockets started off well, then McHale started coaching .
Harden... too much ISO... and/or he passes off at the wrong times when he knows he can't do **** when he's having a bad night, or bad quarter. I'm sick and tired of McHale letting Harden stay in the game when he's offensively not clicking at all. Because when his offense isn't clicking, we all notice how bad Harden's D is; turrrible. I get it... Harden is our all star, our leader... yada yada yada... McHale needs to be a real coach tho and man up.
The Twin Towers experiment maybe an agreement between McHale and Morey to keep Asik happy or showcase him for a trade if it doesn't work. It started off well 4-0 but how long will they give it before making a decision one way or the other. I blame McHale for the PG controversy. I think it was McHale's decision to start Bev and thus exacerbating the offensive weaknesses of the TT set-up. He thinks Harden is a better playmaker than he is and he thinks Parsons is actually a playmaker when he's not. Lin needs to start for balance. McHale has also insisted on feeding Dwight inside and gone away from the PnR. Maybe this was the agreement with Dwight when he signed although I thought he declared a different approach and one that I would support more: a tiered approach, feed Dwight the ball inside a little and once he proves he can score or facilitate efficiently out of the post, feed him some more. Dwight hasn't proved jack in the post! Similar rule should be made when deciding if Dwight should play down the stretch... as soon as he falls below 50% on FTs during hack-a-howard, I'd pull him in favour of Asik. This is pro-ball after all, if a $23million dollar a year veteran can't make 50% of his FTs down the stretch than f*** him, he doesn't deserve to be on the court. McHale needs the guts to put Harden on a tighter leash much like how POP treats Duncan, Parker and Ginobilli even after a decade and with several chips. Harden should never be allowed to be a chucker and throw up 7/27 like he's been doing since the end of last season. Bench him and he'll quickly learn to play within the system and trust his teammates more. And constantly drill it in his head "YOU AINT NO MICHAEL JORDAN" only then he has a chance to become a superstar. Most of all... DISCIPLINE! If players don't follow the system or the play that's called. BENCH THEM!
At first I was willing to overlook McHale's lack of X and O stuffs since I thought he was more of a players' coach, someone that the players look up to and follow. But this total breakdown in team chemistry seems to suggest that he doesn't have the respect of his stars or role players either. He needs to be willing to bench Harden/Howard if they are not giving their all or not playing within the team, and treats all the players equally.
