[Blinebury] McHale takes the fall for team lacking cohesion and trust

you made this point in two separate postings on this thread. But it's an ad hominem against Blinebury. You have to demonstrate how Blinebury is mistaken or wrong in some way. Otherwise his analysis is just that: his analysis. And it's either persuasive and rings true, or it doesn't. His history with Harden is not the point. So why don't you try again?

 

From the piece: Hee highlights McHale's winning % and suggests the firing implies Rockets brass passing verdict that McHale, ".. forgot how to do his job."

That interpretation is almost as weak as Fran for a first name. The firing is an indictment on McHale not doing his job as well. Not executing as well as he had previously. Not hyperbole suggesting ineptitude.

And if you're going to call him the winning coach in franchise history - citing regular season win % - then why shouldn't he own the 4-7 start?

He's citing a multi yearlong rift between two guys which existed as we won 1) a division title, 2) 56 games, and 3) reached the WCF. Yeah, it boiled over? Citing what? Citing whom? Quoted when?

I hope McHale enema's Fran out of his rear so he doesn't have to walk w/ that limp anymore.

 

Last of issues of this team is that Harden and Howie are not friends. They have a good relationship anyway.

Everytime a coach gets fired some people want to create the drama between the stars.... the team was just terribly coached, basketball wise, and players liked McHale personality but didn't trust him as the team general. Blinebury in his usual sensationalist trend.

 

Blinebury is a Rockets hater who is trolling us. How does he even have sources to this organization?

 

You need to think up some new material now. . . .

 

Blinebury is a respected journalist - he is just old school and not afraid of calling athletes out.

DD

 

1. McHale is a good man. 2. McHale is bad at strategy and can't control the Rocket's player.

If you are trying to win, then 2>1. All the Blinebury, Magic, and Carlisle compliments are just about McHale being a good guy, but they're irrelevant.

 

Everyone always blames the players, I don't know why people on Clutchfans keep thinking that it's different.

 

anyone who thinks getting rid of mchale will cure most of our ills will be proven wrong. for a game or 2, it may or may not look like that. over the long haul, i say nay.

time will tell. i hope i will be proven wrong, but i doubt it.

 

exactly.

 

This.

Just read in one of the other threads Lowe or Thorpe said Harden is a diva and Durant wouldn't be in OKC if he stayed. LOL

And we have threads talking about trading Harden;

and CBS mentioned letting Dwight walk; and ESPN/LA media talking about Dwight being the reason for McHale's firing.

Hilarious how everyone has a "source" today specifically, 11/18/2015, on the Rockets. :grin:

 

Dwight and Harden went into the offseason after the Portland series looking to dispatch the other? Where the hell did that come from?

 

We were all saying the team lacked leadship and without a Battier, or Hayes around it is the cooks leading the asylum.

DD

 

You can go join your lover McHale at the next coaching job where he inevitably fails

I care about winning a ring not about some incompetent head coach

 

in bball, character and the mental side do matter. it's proven.

it's always 2 sides of the ball. always.

 

Well there you go, we found the problem! We got cooks leading the asylum we need more lunatics. DD you're a ****ing visionary.

 

We don't have a new coach. Simply getting rid of Mchale wasn't the plan. Getting someone like Thibs was.

 

There is no way that anyone can get around the fact that McFail was hand-picked by Maury. The same Maury extended his contract as well. Getting rid of McFail was a good start, but unless Maury severely reforms the way he conducts himself as GM, nothing is going to change. In the end, this is all on Maury. The coaching staff...all the players...the so-called offensive "system"...it's all on him. He is the architect of this disaster.