Hi McHale, Did you watch how spurs defeated the blazers?

Blazers could chill on defense becasue they know our players aren't moving, makes it easy to guard. so lopez is right. our offense sucks hard, esp in crunch time.

 

and I guarentee it will be the same iso offense next year. McHale offense is so predictable that even a non coach in Lopez can figure it out.

 

...it was the regular season.

 

It's because Lillard was tired and stressed out from having to chase Tony Parker around all game.

 

Exactly. And it's not like the rockets were always that way, that's the team they turned into under Rick. If coaching hasn't become evident to them at this point I highly doubt we will be winning a ring in the Dwight era.

 

Coach Pop is a HOF Coach while Coach McHale is a HOF player, big difference. Pop system has been working for decades while McHale is still trying to find a system. Pop has no problem benching or getting up in any players face while McHale allows his Star players to do what they want to do.

 

The Spurs did the exact same thing the Rockets did all season long, they jumped out to an early lead. However unlike Houston, the Spurs put the Blazers away by extending a 10 point lead to 20 and so forth. The Rockets had double digit leads in 5 of the 6 games, they don't have the killer instinct or the maturity to do what the Spurs did to the Blazers.

 

Well, then we will never ever got fair treatment, might as well quit NBA to protest against this discrimination!!

 

Following your logic here...

So better players got swept in regular seasons. Then why did we get swept by clippers?

 

Pop is the best coach in the league. Plain & simple.

 

I'd go so far as he is the best coach in NBA history.

 

I don't think that's his logic. The point is that success in the regular season is not a fail-safe predictor of success in the postseason, where the game is totally different. See current Nets/Heat series.

 

Ouch.

 

Our offense is a "Read and React" offense. I see everyone reading but no one reacts! ISO Harden! and our team defense sucks...

 

You cant give all the credit to coaching with that team. While it did make an impact to the team, you also have to look at how many vets that team had.

This Rockets team is the youngest in the league this year, whereas the 08-09 squade was loaded with vets AND leaders (Yao, Artest, Battier, Scola, Deke, and Hayes) who also played defense, other than Scola. IMO, the 08-09 roster would have demolished our current roster.

The only veteran AND leader on the current team is Dwight, and he's also the only one that plays any defense.

I'll disagree with you on the bolded statement (only to agree ) - Pop's earlier system was very JVG like in which the pace was very defensive, slow, and methodical. What actually has made Pop such a great coach is HIS ability to adapt to his players' strengths and today's game's pace, while still maintaining the defensive intensity.

McHale/McFail/Milk Hair...whatever you wanna call him needs to step his game up and start holding his players accountable for not bringing it 100% on both ends of the court. He needs to stop being their friend and be their coach.

How many times have we seen Pop chew out their superstars Parker or Ginobili on the bench? Even then, i dont see either of them 1) wanting to leave to play for another coach or 2) wanting their coach to get fired. Rockets need a coach, not a friend/baby sitter to coddle their egos.

 

The second best player on that team, Brooks, was only in his 2nd year, played one full year, and started just during the second half of the season. The team ran a system and was far more disciplined, because Portland had more talent overall.

 

Oh look Batum and Wesley didn't go off. I wonder why....

 

Agreed... Brooks was such a stud during the playoffs!

 

It's all about match-ups...

 

It's a fair point. The 2009 Blazers were an extremely young team. Batum was only 20, Aldridge was 23, Roy was 24, Outlaw was 24, Oden was 21, and Fernandez was 24. Compared to them, the current Rockets players look like grizzled old vets.

But keep in mind that one of the stars of that 2009 series for the Rockets was Aaron Brooks who was only 24. Scola, Brooks, and Landry were only in their 2nd seasons in the NBA. Chuck Hayes was only 25 at the time. Lowry was 23. Shoot, even Von Wafer contributed a little and he was also only 23.

It helped to have vets like Yao, Deke(although he got hurt early in the series), Battier, and Artest, but I don't think you can chalk the series win all up to that. That team had a much more efficient offensive and defensive system which I'm certain had a little something to do with Adelman being on the sidelines. It's a big reason BTW that they were able to thrive even after losing T-Mac for the year.