[CSN] McHale after Rockets' tough loss to Mavericks

not just that. but the damage beverely did was is the beginning of the fourth. After that it was a couple of missed shots, a turnover, another bad pass. And like lin and harden, he too left his matchup wide open for the three ball. Not to mention all the great defense by beverely yet their pgs still scored more points on him than on Lin. But the Eye test is more an evaluator of what's going on. =/

As to Beverely being the reason we made the comeback. The comeback had already begun with lin on the floor. Down seven with the ball.

Mchale can say he likes lin all he wants to the media, but he never endorsed his arrival. This is also the same man who thought there was no issue with lowry and that they were good.

 

When you cause a member who had previously only posted 4 times in 3 years to say this, you know you have *****ED UP and SHEETY COACHING!

MCFAIL MACFAIL MCPHAIL

 

don't you think chris finch is being groomed for this job byt the front office? he's their man.

 

Losing sleep over McSuccess ? Wow!

 

Bad decision to bench the starter don't make Mchale a bad coach.
It's 1 game only.

But his attitude in postgame interview was horrible.
He didn't feel he was responsible.

How can we know he won't do it again?
Hope he resign the coaching job after this season.

 

How can we know that he won't do it again? Well, he has done it for more than 1 game...in fact he has been pulling this crap for the entire season. It worked sometimes and more often than not failed. What's disappointing about the whole thing is the lack of clear direction in which the franchise is heading. The concensus here seems to be that the Rockets has a bright future with a core of Harden, Lin , Parsons and Asik, but I don't see it. McSuccess entire coaching is based on winning the next match and getting the Rockets in the playoff whatever the means. He is not interested in developing the aforementioned young core because he rightly fear for his job and is desperate to get into the playoffs even if it means being swept. However, this will all but condemn the rockets to run of the mill mediocrity as playing vets and marginal players (do people really think that Beverly has a bigger upside than Lin? LOL) that eats into the younger, promising players minutes to secure a pyrrhic victory will only means being stuck with a roster that won't reach its full potential - more waste of time and money. In the end, the FO and Morey will have to take a real stand, compete for perenial first round exit by sticking with McSuccess or for the championship by going through a real rebuilding year with player development as the primary focus. Whenever the FO and the coach are not on the same page, there is problems brewing. The FO sets the plan, recruits the required players and hires the coah to carry out that plan - this plan is either not concerned with ultimately winning a chamionship or McSuccess has gone rogue. The present situation also highlight the fact that a respected coach has the leverage and goodwill to carry such an ambitious rebuild as people will trust him and his vision even if the team is sucking in the immediate future: his job will not hinge on immediate "success". In short, Fire McSuccess Now!

 

I don't get why you wouldnt play your starting point guard a single minute in the 4th quarter. He wasn't terrible, and he's your freakin starter - give the guy a chance to perform!

Was very bizarre.

 

"You dance with the one that brung you" -Jeff Van Gundy and countless other coaches, actors, etc.

So, who brought you? Was it Pat and TRob or was it somebody else?

McHale fumbled with the switches last night and couldn't find the right combo. His excuse was Dallas went small and matched up with us better. Sooooo, what's the counter? How about go smaller? Put Lin and Pat on the wings with Harden up top with Parsons and TRob in the paint if you like TRob matching up against Dirk. Or.....you bring in the best defender on the team, a big 7-footer with the quickest feet for a 7-footer in the NBA and you give a look on Dirk with him. You gotta dance with Asik. There is no doubt that he is part of the core that got us where we are. Down the stretch you gotta go with your main guys. Dirk is a big long guy that is getting older and slower by the minute. He's gimpy, got bad puppies. He don't want to drive the ball. He wants to step back and fade. Bring in the big fella, crowd Dirk and make him put the ball on the floor, then recover at the rim on him.

The single position on the floor where we should flex at is the PF position. In the standard lineup for now it has to be DMo or TRob. If neither of those guys match up, then you rotate Chandler to the 4 and build out the perimeter from there. But you don't anchor your anchor to the bench. That would be the same thing as Detroit taking out Ben Wallace during their hayday because San Antonio had DRob and Duncan in there and Ben couldn't match up size wise.

TRob played well. But you can't get stuck in a vacuum. He played well for a rookie that is playing in, what, his 3rd game with his new team. He made a couple plays, blocked a couple shots that wouldn't even have been attempted with Asik in the game. But did he really play that well overall??? In my humble opinion, not well enough to warrant parking Asik down the stretch.

Down the stretch, you can occasionally do the offense/defense split with Asik. Bring him out on a deadball offensive possession in a tight game where you have foul count low and you can foul to stop the clock and get him back in defensively. Same thing with Harden defensively. If you've got a timeout left and it's a deadball, you can bring him out for a defensive possession, then get him right back in there when we get the ball back. But the two men that we have to have on the floor in crunch time are Harden and Asik. The most likely 3rd guy we have to have on the floor is Chandler. The next guy we most likely have to have on the floor is Lin. After that....look at the matchups and figure out how small or how big you wanna go.

 

Was McHale more mad at himself?

 

McFail, will you ever take a responsibility instead of saying players should have done this and that.

 

McFail argument was they went small and we have to adjust it.
HEY, SINGLE OTHER THAT WE WILL GO BIG AND YOU MUST ADJUST TO OURS!!!

 

McHale had his head down a lot during the game. He's not seeing a lot of things.

 

Your entire post is very good but do you think McFail understand that. I don't think so. One thing baffling me was benching Asik/Lin entire (repeat entire) fourth quarter. That telling me that he has no strategy.

 

Because it is mostly player mistakes are you watching games???

 

Agreed.

 

"Keeps beverly out there to give the team a shot to win"?

Beverley didn't scored even a single point the whole 23 minutes he played. Do you really think the majority of Rockets fans will be happy with that?

 

Not saying fire McHale yet but Nate McMillan is still unemployed

 

This is a good one.

 

Right on.

 

Lin is a confidence player and McFail keeps hurting Lin's play. When Lin is in the zone, he is a clearly different player.

He is your starter FFS and has plenty of upside. Let him run this team.