Another year of incompetence. Unbelievable. This is exactly like Gary Kubiak situation. Why is Houston cursed with ****ty coaches
Repeating the same thing over and over.... And expecting a different result. If you think the empty seats at Toyota Center were bad this past season, just wait 'til next season.
Wow, it just keeps getting better and better, first that shot last night and then this, and you wonder why the Rockets have been mediocre for a long time. Gotta feel bad for Dwight
What makes you think McHale is a good coach? I'd honestly like to know what you think he does that makes the rockets a better team.
Uhh so he needed Sampson to figure out how to defend the 3pt line with .9 sec on the clock? Are you serious?
we're going to need a superstar at every position and two more coming off the bench to win with Mcduck
Who's reacting emotionally? I'm viewing this logically. The Rockets lost 4 games to the Blazers, all of which were the result of lousy coaching: Game 1 we lost because our porous defense and ISO offense that plagued us all year long and were never addressed by McHale allowed the Blazers to hang around and eventually come back and win. Game 2 we lost because McHale made zero adjustments from Game 1. He continued to single-cover Aldridge even though he was lighting us up. He continued to ISO for Harden and Dwight instead of even running a pick-and-roll. And he continued to play a 7-man rotation(unless you count Cisco getting a couple of meaningless minutes) instead of giving his bench guys a shot on a night where no one could make a 3-pointer. Game 4 we lost because we resorted to ISO ball in the 4th quarter and allowed the Blazers to come back from 8 points down. And McHale didn't call a timeout when Lin got the rebound even though any idiot watching at home knows the coach has the ability to do that and not just the player holding the ball. Game 6 we lost because McHale allowed Robin Lopez to continually post up the much shorter Harden in the 4th quarter and never switched defenders or ran a double team, because he kept a small lineup in their too long which led to numerous offensive boards for the Blazers which prevented the Rockets from ever building their lead back up, and because even with two timeouts at his disposal and everyone in the building knowing Lillard was taking the 3-pointer, McHale couldn't run a simple defensive set to at least contest his shot. I'm not being emotional. Just observant. Anyone can see that coaching cost us dearly in this series. Just win one of those 4 games and we're likely looking at the 2nd round. And yet Morey and Les are going to give this guy an additional year? For what? What evidence is there in the 4+ years McHale has coached that he's suddenly going to turn into a competent leader and teacher for this team?
But McHale doesn't do that at all. We saw the Harden-Howard PnR only a collection of times all series when it was our most effective play. The Lin-Harden PnR was working Game 1 and I don't recall ever seeing it again all series. And the play with Harden in the post with Howard coming to set a screen that worked wonders in the regular season hardly saw the light of day in the playoffs. Harden was struggling against Wes and Batum and even then McHale refused or didn't know how to scheme ways to put Harden in a better position to succeed.
Not a shocker. Morey has been consistent that McHale isn't the problem. For what it is worth the Rockets failings had more to do with the lack of depth and having a young team. Realistically the Rockets didn't have a starting caliber PF all season. The Rockets also didn't have a starting caliber PG either. For all the hell Harden got defensively, Chandler Parsons was every bit as bad. The bench was bad too. I heard people upset that the McHale didn't punish Harden, Parsons or Lin. However he couldn't because his teams depth was unacceptable. I don't blame Morey for the lack of depth because he had to free up cap space and use assets for Harden and Howard. It is now going to be year two and we will be getting a player like Carmelo, Rondo or will add a couple of solid players like Milsapp or Lowry.
I look at it this way. If a head coach loses control of his team when his top assistant leaves with just a couple weeks left in the season, he sucks at his job.
This has go to be Morey's decision. Horrible. Next year will be another first round loss. The horror and confusion from that last possession is all on him.
