first off the rockets were one of the youngest teams EVER to make the playoffs last year and to add to that they didn't even have a training camp together. How can people not understand how impressive that is they had to learn on the go how to work together with a team that had a starting point guard who hadn't even played a whole season, a shooting guard who never ran a team and started, and a center who was a career backup and getting his first crack at starting. Thats a huge accomplishment to the coaching staff. Secondly McHales staff was not assigned to him the only one put on it was Chris finch. McHale interviewed Sampson himself and J.B and him go way back to his Minnesota days he was an assistant when McHale was the coach of the team and Greg Buckner another assistant played for McHale....So enough with the lies that morey hired all the assistants the only one was finch. http://www.chron.com/sports/rockets...-Kelvin-Sampson-as-lead-assistant-2081849.php
Availability is of course a primary concern. But Pop will never be available. He and Duncan are riding off into the sunset together. Well deserved on both their parts.
And who would you consider an exceptional coach? We had Rudy, JVG, and Adelman, and with every coach we had constant whining from Clutchfans about their job performance. Clutchfans always want to fire the coach. Don't you think it's a little early to be passing judgment on McHale? Can't we just give him one season to work with this group of players? If we fire McHale what exceptional coach do you want to hire? Maybe you can give me a list of exceptional coaches that are currently available that will be eager to take the job.
It's the boards biggest problem. They always HATE the coach. Van gundy - hated Rick A - hated K McHale - hated There is a trend going on here & I don't think its the coach every time.
Board started defending him when some LOFs called him a racist and stuff. He is hardly untouchable though.
Until that time comes, I hope Lin, and every other player buys in, even if that means individuals may not rack up the stats they could with a more selfish approach. Did you see that great article by Ben DuBose that was posted on Tuesday? "Role reversal: As Howard sacrifices minutes for wins, Bryant cripples Lakers’ future". http://rockets.clutchfans.net/5493/dwight-howard-sacrifices-kobe-bryant-cripples-lakers-future/
Only reason why I like McHale is cause he is straight up tell you how it is type coach at least that's what I get from his interviews
Good post,especially the point that the OP is clearly talking about Lin more than McHale. His dislike for McHale stems more from his love for Lin. Which makes any legit criticism of Mchale tainted with LOF love. Every coach has favorites and every coach comes into the game with his opinion. You can't judge McHales coaching on whether he gives Lin enough minutes. I personally believe Lin should start and Bev should come off the bench. But I also believe the separation in what is a better decision is debatable. It appears the OP's primary opinion of McHale's coaching ability is based on how he handles Lin. Which is a crappy limb to hang out on. There are many flaws in McHale's coaching that are legitimate. If the OP left out the Lin argument or included it as one of many he would have a foot to stand on. McHale IMO is not the best coach for this team not even close. But how he handles Lin's minutes is far down on the pecking order of his failures.
The Rockets have one of the most open organizations in the NBA. Morey tells it like it is (when allowed by the NBA). McHale is a straight shooter.
so your gonna go with the its completely random that Morey hired so many people who McHale has had past experiences with and McHale didn't choose these people....i also forgot to mention dean cooper who was an assistant when McHale coached also..but once again random hire by Morey
So true. I have reservations about the decision to make Lin come off the bench. But then I look at the number of shots available in the starting lineup and I cannot be sure that my opinion is correct.
Isiah Thomas was a HOF PG. He was a terrible GM and Coach and fans attacks him correctly. MJ is arguably the greatest player of all him. He was terrible as the GM and made a big mistake taking Kwame Brown. He was rightly attacked. His track record as the owner of the Bobcats has been meh and he hears the critic as he should. McHale is a HOF player but as a GM and Coach he's been subpar and he was never immune to attack till Lin joined the team. He was often called Mcfail by the same fans now who think he should be treated as Phil Jackson or Popovich today. When McHale does something then he should be hero worshipped.
it's hardly early. his teams collapsed to end each of the prior 2 seasons. they collapsed horribly in the final stretches of games. and they collapsed with completely different rosters. 2 years ago it knocked us out of the playoffs, and last season it knocked us all the way down to the last playoff spot. his teams simply cannot execute when defenses tighten up, and we have his X&O acumen and in-game management to blame. as far as who can relieve him…..obviously SVG and george karl are the top candidates. mchale apologists may contend that neither is exceptional or much of an upgrade over mchale. however, both have taken teams to the finals -- something mchale will never ever do as head coach of an nba team. a long shot would be phil jackson, who probably would be eager to coach dwight + harden, but may have to big a conflict of interest with his fakers wifey.
You don't have to hate the coach to think he is no good. Although I disliked Van Gundy as a coach but I like Adelman and didn't want him fired. And I do not dislike McHale but want him gone. Personally the coach in the NBA has little bearing on games one way or the other. The exception being with some teams stop playing for a coach. e.g. The knicks stopped playing for D'antoni. Most NBA coaches are smart enough to know how to run a pro team or have someone smart enough on staff to help. The problem is in evaluating talent and know how to distribute minutes to the right that give you the best chance to win. The problem is even with Moreyball there is no exact science to achieve this so it is hard to evaluate every coaches decisions but over the course you can get an idea of poor patterns.
Yep. Pretty much. Or perhaps McHale must submit prospective assistant coaches names to Morey for approval? One of the two. Perhaps you are mostly correct and it is the latter. But I do believe that Morey has use of a stamp of approval.
