On espn firsttake, kevin Mchale was quoted and said to get over losses quickly. After a loss about 5 mins later he would have moved on. And that got mchale livid. He would give his 100% on the floor and then after a tough loss he would be over it and move on. It was discussed on espn first take. They did say dwight was a great guy. But this was his one "flaw"
McHale said that yesterday on Mike & Mike Dwight called himself a champion after the Rockets lost to the Warriors. Dwight told the former Magic CEO that he compared himself to Jordan, Ali & Mandela.
McHale sees misery as a strength. Not everyone work in the same way. For McHale, that misery could be his downturn. People don't necessary feel good around a miserable person.
dwight sure seemed pissed off last season at the fan gathering following the loss to Golden State. I dont know, in the playoffs he does seem genuinely upset about losses.
Yeah he sounds like a real idiot I don't think that he is the perfect head coach by any stretch of the imagination but he is bright. Also what really needs to be realized, highlighted is the point on P&R defense by Howard. This is HUGE. In the past Howard was able to switch or even cheat and prevent easy baskets. He can no longer do that. He is still a good straight up defender. He is still a very good rebounder. However he is not the player that he was even a year ago.
Dwight's just too cheery and happy. He is not a guy to get angry whatsoever. He doesn't suffer enough.
dwight thinks he's a champ and on jordan's and ali's level harden thinks he's the best player in the world morey thinks 50 threes from average shooters are better than 50 twos yikes
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CoachKiller?src=hash">#CoachKiller</a> though <a href="https://t.co/pnGknNiaOd">pic.twitter.com/pnGknNiaOd</a></p>— Nate Jones (@JonesOnTheNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonesOnTheNBA/status/700694534523482112">February 19, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Seems Mchale Actually Liked Dwight
I totally get Dwight. I was the same way. I really loved playing the game of basketball. I was good (relatively speaking) and played through college. Because I liked the game so much, my attitude was more about having fun, as child-like as that might sound. After a loss, I was never that upset about it because I just had a lot of fun playing during the game and I personally did well so I'd get over it very quickly. Winning wasn't everything to me. I didn't play basketball to win. I played basketball because I loved to play basketball win or lose. I get more fired up about Rockets games than I did when I played. I bet it's similar for Dwight.
It's somewhat OK, but not for the leader of the team Team Leaders should stay in the moment longer, because several of their teammates will be. The role players who remain upset longer might not understand a leader who shrugs it off. Leaders should turn that bad feeling of teammates into positives for the next game there arent too many coaches who would shrug off losses, so why should team leaders btw: anecdotes from amateurs has no value in this. we could say that attitude is part of the reason you never made it.
I don't care what he feels like after the loss as long as he plays like he does in the playoffs. Frankly, that's the best a Rocket has played since Dream (in playoffs). He has been dominant. Regular season is a different story
When a coach answered the media more than often for the reasons of why we lost a game will be "I don't know, I don't have an answer for it". How the fork you can expect a player to remember the loss after 5 minutes later?
To be the best at anything, you have to have an abnormal psychological disposition. That is why they are the best. Dwight doesn't have it, but that is okay. The rockets just needs to have someone that does. I was hoping Harden had it, but he cares about the lifestyle too much to be the best.
You totally beat me to it. To me, that's the key line in the whole thing. Dwight is not the problem in Houston but also isn't the solution. Pretty sure we all have an idea who McHale might see as the problem though.
James Harden is the problem here and this management tried to bring in other players to be the solution for this problem. Dwight helps but ultimately proved he aint the solution either. Lawson tried, and proved he didn't even help at all and failed miserably. So there is no easy and simple solution on this problem, the coaches knew it, the management knew it. You don't expect to bring in anyone in this stage to solve this problem - James Harden. James Harden needs to solve this problem by himself and himself only. This is the only leap of faith left for this management and this franchise.
