Mchale will be here at least till the end of the season, unless we have a big losing streak. The worst result of this whole thing is we go home every year at 1st or 2nd round playoffs, and no coaching change
Yeah, I doubt Dwight would be heartbroken over McFail being fired considering the team is playing like crap right now. The only reason I could see Dwight not wanting him fired(for now at least) is that after what happened to Mike Brown in L.A. last season and Stan Van Gundy before that, he might be afraid of getting a reputation as a coach killer. Regardless, this team will never compete for a title with McFail calling the shots.
McHale's a qualitative guy. You need to give him time to develop his guys. He had success with Garnett and Love so he knows what he's doing. He couldn't draft well.
It is not, big reasons are DW cant get along with Kobe and Lakers lacks of assets and cap space in the coming years.
I still say Mcfail should be consistent , have some balls and ask Lin to stop being a homerun hitter.
You know what.. maybe McHale doesn't need to be replaced but rather needs an intervention. I like him as a person and I believe that he just needs to open his mind to adjust to what is happening on the floor rather than what he wants to happen. As an example, Harden's iso tendencies got to go. To his credit, he seems to be working on that. Second, maybe he should consider fouling when up by 3... I think that's two games in a row in which it bit us hard. Third, perhaps Harden, Lin, everyone should play more limited minutes as in given sufficient rest so we don't all get injured by the All Star break. 33 minutes or so sounds good to me. More TJones, D-Mo, Omer, AB sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Fourth, maybe he should have Lin be the pg and Harden be the sg... Fifth, perhaps he should be more irate after each and every missed perimeter assignment until the ten gets the message! Sixth, maybe he should sit down Howard once hack-a-Dwight results in 2 consecutive missed free throws. Omer is perfectly good enough to contribute during that time. Seventh, on a personal level just for my sanity, I wish he'd stop saying that all the stars lined up for Lin and it won't happen again and that he's not Linsanity every single time he's asked about Linsanity. He did it again today after the game to a reporter for the Knicks! I still believe that once our 3s start dropping that we will be a juggernaut that's gonna run rampant throughout the league. Hopefully, that will be this year not next. And guys, cut the criticism on Parsons game. Shots come and go but he's been playing it right (except for the cringe worthy passing on open 3s). And Bev is playing well and dude contributes in so many ways it's not even funny.
Don't look now but Rick Adelman has the Minnesota Timberwolves on a roll. A hall of fame coach we could've easily re-hired but no, we have to accommodate a friend of Daryl Morey's former boss Danny Ainge. Mchale after all lost his job for devastating the timberwolves franchise and lost his popularity after sending KG to Boston. We will be receiving all the bad karma that comes with Kevin Mcfail for all the bad things he did to screw the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Look if it doesn't look like it's possible to fire McHale I would like management to hire an assistant coach with more responsibilities. One that can draw up the plays and manage the player minutes, sorta like what the warriors did Mark Jackson where he is the players coach and motivation while the assistant does the X's/O's.
I used to think this was a an over-reaction thread and I avoided it of a long time but the more games I watch the more I feel the coaching has played big part in the way the rockets have been performing, especially in key moments. Certainly, there is enough talent in the team to perform better than this. The coaches need to step up and do their job. While the coaches can only do so much --the players still need to perform --the mistakes made by the coaches are undeniable.
I feel the same way. It's our nature as diehard fans to overreact after losses(especially bad ones), but there are fundamental things that McFail simply isn't doing. Or worse, doesn't realize he needs to do. We're 9 games into the season and I still can't tell what kind of offense we're running. Our defense has gotten worse, not better. We can't do simple things like foul intentionally late in games when up 3 points. Or make strategic substitutions in close games(like taking out Dwight in that Laker game so Parsons couldn't inbound to him). Or draw up an offensive play out of a timeout. I'm just some schlub sitting at home watching these games and even I'm screaming at my TV about all of this. Yes, it's still relatively early in the season, but the schedule is about to get a lot tougher. And the Rockets are already in a situation where they'd be out of the playoffs if they started today. I'm fine with giving McFail a little longer to sort things out, but this organization is at a critical juncture right now considering they've frankly achieved nothing in over 16 years aside from a single playoff series victory. It would be devastating to waste an entire season with this coaching staff only to wind up flaming out in the first round or God forbid being in the lottery for the 4th time in 5 years.
Ask ourselves two questions: is McHale a chaimpainship caliper coach? And is the team's goal to win chaimpainship? If the answers are no and yes. Coaching change will occur soon or later. So let it happen sooner rather than later. I like McHale as a person, but I have seen enough Rockets game to say he is an average NBA coach.
I agree. Ordinarily I would say give a guy a full season unless his team gets off to something like a 2-10 start. But given McFail has no history of success as a head coach, has performed ok at best with this franchise(remember, they blew a playoff spot in 2012 and damn near choked away another one back in April), and is underachieving thus far with a championship-caliber roster, the Rockets organization can't afford to wait too long. Especially when there are so many superior coaches out there who are available and likely won't be for very long.
