What was Pop's backup plan when he had 3 of his starters out? You know, that guy that folks mostly uses as a comparison when they want justify our coaches inability.
As we all know from bitter experience in the financial markets black swan events are impossible to plan for. Even the mighty Spurs, down thre starters is not even an average NBA team on that night. Despite having the best organization in professional sports by far. No, god almighty is not coming to earth to coach the Rockets. Get over it.
lol Mchale had his bench in. He even tried some deep benchers. We almost beat one of the best teams in the NBA with 3 starters out. I am happy we played well.
I haven't been the biggest fan of McHale, but the complaints you guys are giving about him is just a stretch. He's done very well thus far, and no one has the right to complain about last night when they were down 3 starters playing against an undefeated team. That's just pushing it
Please let me clarify. I am very happy with that Mchale has done so far. My only grip with him is how he utilized Harden. That is all, nothing more, nothing less.
why bring up the spurs game its completely irrelevant. Now if Tony Parker went out there and started playing extremely bad, turning it over, walking, no cutting, standing, looking tired, Pop would of done something about it. Mchale didnt. Thats the very very very very very simple point we are making
The only way the Rockets were going to win that game is if Harden had been playing like a MVP for 40 plus minutes. That didn't happen, Harden and D-Mo ran out of gas in the fourth quarter, and the Rockets did not have the talent to hang with GS. They played a wonderful first half though.
No it's not a simple point and is completely relevant. You have 2 test cases where you place 2 individuals under the same exact stimuli which produced identical results. To come up with 2 different conclusions is not logical. Pops would have had more reason to do something different as it was a blowout. You need to let the science community know about this marvelous ability of yours to read people's minds. That is ground breaking.
Obviously, I am no match for a mind reader like you. Before the blowout happened, Pop could have done something about it yet he chose not to. After the first quarter, it was 18-13 then ballooned to a 10 pt lead and he called a timeout. That timeout suggested that there was still hope yet he didn't do anything. If it's the greatest coach, there is an excuse but for Mchale, he can't have one. I get it now. Thanks for educating me.
ill repeat this for you, but I doubt your infant mind will be able to understand. Something was wrong with harden, either exhaustion, laziness, or some unknown factor. It doesnt take science, to figure this out. A change needed to happen, nothing did, we lost. I believe we would have won if Mchale would have done something different with Harden. Process this please, I hope you may comprehend but I feel all hope is lost for you
What was wrong was Harden couldn't drive/feed inside because of Bogut/no Howard. Warriors zeroed in on him on defense because other players couldn't hit their shots. Even then the Rockets were able to make runs. Harden was their only chance at stealing that game and there was a chance.
I am so disappointed. For all the mind reading abilities that you have, this is all you can muster for your ad hominem? I would have thought you would have came back with something that had a little more meat than that. Love it when all somebody can do is try and insult you. LOL.
The whole team was gassed because it took so much effort on both sides of the ball to hang with GS and their obviously superior talent. If you cannot understand this then there is little about basketball you will ever understand. Bad talent will almost always lose to superior talent. And no, god almighty is not coming down to coach the Rockets. Get over it.
Are you seriously suggesting that ANYONE on the Rockets would perform better than a tired James Harden? Seriously? Who? Who would you put in for Harden, if you were coach? Tell us. You obviously know what McHale should have done; otherwise, how could you blame him? I know what you'll do now: compare Harden's game numbers to some random guard's season numbers. That's not how it works. You can compare Harden's season numbers to others' season numbers, or you can tell us who you would have put in to that specific game to replace Harden, not counting the four other players who were already on the floor. I'm looking forward to your instruction on what would have been better coaching. . . .
What I would have done is sat Harden out late 3rd and brought him back in with 6-7 min left in the 4th.
This explains what everybody needs to know about the logic behind the Mchale bashes. Basically, if coach doesn't do what they wanted him to do, he is stupid.
Don't you know that if we took our best player, James Harden out, our reserves would have beat Steph Curry, Klay, and the rest of the undefeated GSW?
