Kevin McHale will be TNT guest analyst for Rockets-Warriors game

To be completely honest, McHale did not deserve to be fired.

The players got him fired by continually putting out crappy effort on the floor.

McHale wasn't the best at his job but I thought he was good enough for us to win. He didn't know his X's and O's as well as fans would like but he brought a certain confidence and experience as a player to the fold that was very underrated. Before this season, I thought that unless we had Pop or any of the 3-5 best coaches in the league, McHale was the best coach for the Rockets.

Like he said in his interview, I think the Rockets would be in a much better place had they kept him or at least waited a month. If there is anyone that could have meshed this group together, McHale was probably the best available person for the job.

Firing your coach during a season, basically signals a white flag around the rest of the league that you give up on the season.

 

There are plenty of Pros that don't know how to eat to stay in shape.

Lowry just started adjusted his eating last off season.

 

Did you not actually read what I said? Did I make any excuses for him being overweight? No. Of course there are no excuses for that. But having a bad sprain does explain a lot of things about his play this season (lack of dunks, career low attempts in the paint, career high three attempts a game, lacking his first step, handles slower) He's only just starting to look like himself from last season.

 

Man its so sad that he is better then JB...

Morey needs to get fired, they threw away the season the minute they fired him.

 

Charles said McHale & his wife moved out to Phoenix

re: Hassan Whiteside fans

All three agreed he's too inconsistent. Once-a-week player.

 

Pretty sure Morey didn't want to fire Mchale.

 

I miss mchale..... such a nice guy. Honestly believe we'd be in the same spot or better with him. J.B is just mchale v2 beta version. Not as good.

 

Phoenix is horrible. Now Tucson, that's a good place..

 

Shaking my head at Shaq thinking he's legitimately an all time great in the post. He's a bull dozing bully that got away with so much.

 

The average joe has a good idea, so how can a pro not? They have a kitchen in the lockrr room..personal chef and nutritionist..if Harden didnt know exactly what to eat, there were tools available to him. No excuse.

 

Most likely all Les... Morey recounted once how he had to talk Les out of firing Adelman at the beginning of one season.

There's another story where Rick thought Les was a psycho. He was passing him by one day at the TC when Les suddenly just unloaded on him. He started shouting at him because of how the team was performing at the time.

 

you only need 1-2 post moves to be great. Hakeem was an anomaly.

 

Phoenix sucks. Move to Scottsdale.

Hassan Whiteside is such a clown on Snapchat.

 

I think McHale also fell in line with Morey's gameplan. I think that's also what made JB attractive to the Rockets. I don't see a coach like Thibs dealing with the roster turnover that we have. Most coaches want a bit of the GM duties, I think McHale legitimately just wants/ed to coach.

Still, he let this team get away with far too much. We need an analytics friendly coach who isn't afraid to ruffle feathers. To me, that screams young coach with balls. Can JB grow a pair?

 

That was oct 8...he needed 4 months to be be himself? And he came into camp able to run..so you can even push it to needing 5+months to come back from an ankle sprain. Thats ridiculous, unless he completely tore up his ankle, which wasn't the case.

 

If Dwight could play like Shaq in today's game. Who knows.. Shaq is an offensive foul each and every post play. So which move are you talking about? The hip check knocking the opponent back, the shoulder ram, or the elbow hook? Those were Shaq's moves.

 

You've never rolled your ankle badly before have you?

 

Shaq is both. He was a brute for sure, that shoulder would knock a defender back three feet if he got them (Likely can't get away with that today as often).

But he was extremely quick for his size, nimble and had above average footwork.

Hakeem wouldn't be able to 'stop' 2000 Shaq, but Shaq wouldn't be able to stop 93-95 Hakeem either. It would be an even battle until it came down to free throw time...and we know who'd win that one.