Keeping Mchale just for the sake of attracting Kevin Love is definitely not a championship move. It's a move made by a grossly stubborn GM who thinks coaching is overrated. The first problem is even with Love we have zero chance at winning any playoff series with Mchale coaching. The 2nd problem is we have zero chance of winning in the postseason playing Moreyball. What we're essentially doing is sacrificing whole seasons at the expense of Daryl Morey's ego. Let's say we don't get Love. That'll mean we've wasted a season with a incompetent coach, pissed off the fanbase for not making the team better, and possibly pissed Dwight off for sellin him on championship but settling for 1st round exits each year. Are you serious? You just admitted Mchale was a terrible coach without knowing it. Hold players ego in check? That's basically hiring a assistant coach to do the head coach's job for him. Maybe they can run a few practices too It's a shame because the Rockets are so close to being a contender. If Morey just played his role and relied on a solid veteran coach to run the team we'd be there. But we took a step backwards by retaining a incompetent, brain dead coach with no clue how to make adjustments. Don't worry we'll all be even more angry when we lose in the 1st round again next year
790 is terrible at giving interviews! They ask the most r****ded questions and you can tell Morey gets annoyed some times.. Anyways I searched through the thread and can't find the interview anywhere, Know where I can find it?
A whole lot of assuming going on here. How exactly do you know all this without a shred of doubt again?
If we get Kevin Love and lose in the first round I would be incredibly shocked/ This year, the loss in the first round hurt but let's be honest, we never were true championship contenders. Terrence Jones was inconsistent all season and we had only DMO to back him up, who McHale had no faith in (trust me I don't love McHale but getting Love is more than any available coach could do for us in terms of W/L, Pop or Phil Jackson aren't walking through that door). Our only perimeter defender was playing on one leg and our bench was atrocious.
Um, did you watch the playoffs this year? Mchale was thoroughly outcoached by a younger, less experienced coach in a series WE had homecourt advantage. Not only that, we actually lost the series on a inbounds play in which Mchale had absolutely no clue how to defend. You've obviously put blind faith in Morey. I'm not really convinced he knows how to build a contender
Morey seems to catch so much more crap here now than when we were on the mediocrity treadmill. It's weird.
- The real problem is James Harden being outplayed by the younger less experienced Lillard. Lillard played like a star and Harden did not. - Terry Stotts is older than McHale. - Terry Stotts has more coaching experience than McHale both as a head coach and as an assistant coach. - Kevin McHale's upside is higher than Stotts' upside. He also has a longer wingspan and higher motor.
Stop it. This whole "well, it's not like we were gonna win the championship anyway" is just hogwash. Losing in the 1st round was a huge disappointment, period. You guys wanna keep lowering the ball for a disappointing season. I wonder what your excuse will be next year
Kevin Love here will NOT get as anywhere close to the championship as long as we have the clueless incompetent McHale who is definitely one of the 5 worst coaches in the league. I think Morey's grand plan is to use McHale to lure Love and then dump his sorry ass which I will be fine with. McHale has already embarassed the Rockets in the Portland series and a championship caliber team doesn't deserve such a piss poor coach.
McHale's grand plan is to lure Love and use Love and Dwight to dump Morey's sorry ass and oust Leslie Alexander.
Keep McHale just to get Love? If that is true (and a big if at that) - then this organization is heading down the wrong path.
Everyone knows why we have bad execution on BOTH offense and defense, Morey. But you're too stubborn to address it. Hire a competent head coach who will then get good assistants. Make McHale into a coaching consultant like Hakeem is now. You think the players are not trying their best to figure it out. They look so confused and disorganized out there. "As if there is no coach out there" -CoachNick
Of course they won't keep two. Minny will DOUBTLESSLY prefer to send KLove East (Boston?) but they will send him where KLove dictates. Because that is how it works.* *Unless hubrisful Gilbert takes a flyer, that is.
It would be more disappointing if the team felt complete and ready to make a deep run. But that wasn't the case. We all knew the team had some big holes and the team wasn't even close to a finished product. The Rockets SHOULD make some good moves this offseason with a more complete team.
I agree. McHale was so bad, you just can't waste another season. Anybody who follows the Rox, knows McHale is just a motivator and was brought in to be an extension of Morey's coaching. Morey is the real head coach of the Rox, and even he's not qualified to be a head coach. Fire McHale. Morey needs to get over it. Bring in a competent coach who can actually make the right adjustments. Otherwise, as you said, it will be another quick out in the playoffs. Morey's too good of a GM to stand his own way. Needs to meet reality quick.
I think the radio announcers simply stumbled into a good question with the Parsons and #7 thing. With Morey you can be sure that he has done the statistical analysis to see what the average performance is at each draft pick. With that data he can then turn around and discuss trades with other teams on draft day, having a rudimentary value in his mind of each draft pick in terms of both performance and salary. The radio announcers didn't know it, but what they were essentially asking was, "is the average performance level of a #7 pick commensurate to the performance that Parsons is giving the Rockets HERE and NOW?" And so Morey's answer was, it's close, but no.
Morey is an idiot, everything he preached fall apart in playoff, no real basketball knowledge, just a nerd.
