McHale: Some young guys are getting minutes they don't deserve for developmental purposes

I'd say Thomas Robinson. Donuts has been up on down but he fits Mchale's stretch 4 philosophy. I still don't get why Mchale doesn't play TJ, he can't be worse than TRob right?

 

Ha.
But you forgot #BeWell at the end.

 

Morey intended Delfino to play a lot. Morey likes the Asik, Parsons, Delfino, Harden, and Lin lineup. McHale has probably played the "veterans" too much. McHale has not marginalized Lin.

For the hand McHale was dealt, 41 wins in a season is a sign of great coaching.

 

IDK. This sounds a lot like the start of the Adelman drama.

 

I don't know if it is that bad.
Adelman wanted to shop for the groceries. McHale just wants Morey to get him another yellow banana instead of waiting for the green ones to ripen.

 

The green bananas Adelman got was Thabeet and TWill. At least McHale got some semi-riped bananas.

 

I'm beginning to wonder if McHale will adopt this strategy of playing bench players for the entire 4th quarter for the rest of the regular season. It seems that he's trying to either rest his starters more, which can jeopardize wins, or he's trying to make a statement to the starters that they will sit more if they can't produce, which also jeopardizes wins. Or is this a statement to Morey about having too many raw, young players on a team and expecting to make still make the playoffs?

 

For the hand he was dealt, this team should be a #4 or #5 seed. Every pythagorean expected win formula or multiple power rankings using advanced stats put the Rockets as a top10 team in the league.

This team has underperformed more than any other team in the league.

Just because they made the playoffs doesn't mean anything. It shows that Morey is exec of the year. McHale is as bad a coach as Del Negro is, another bad coach on a very talented playoff team

 

Any stat you use off what this team has done this season is....guess what...has been done with McHale. Do you possess any logic. What you need to look at is expectations before the season started, before McHale's team did what they did.

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If all these advanced stats rank the team so highly, why did so many rankings predict Houston to miss the playoffs even after trading for Harden last year?

It's just too easy to pick out what went wrong after so many things went right.

 

The team was different before the season started.
The Rockets were still winning during the month McFail wasn't even coaching.

Using your odd "logic", pythagorean expected wins don't mean a thing (when they do), and also using your "logic" you automatically think any playoff team has a good coach even though there are bad coaches like McFail and Del Negro underperforming their very talented teams

 

Morey is too classy to ever point to himself, but Morey is clearly GM/Exec of the Year.

He put together a playoff team that had the lowest payroll and the youngest age. That is the GM doing a great job collecting talent.

McHale is so bad a coach he's never been to the playoffs ever in his entire career, and also had an epic collapse last year to miss the playoffs

 

The Rockets have underperformed in close games. Blaming McHale on that is justified somewhat. Even Morey didn't expect the Rockets to blowout so many teams this year. McHale has to get a lot of credit for the number of easy victories the Rockets have had.

Morey should get a lot of credit to the long term success of the Rockets. McHale and his staff should get a lot of credit for these guys
(not including Harden) producing this year. McHale has done a better job developing guys than I would have expected.

 

Who was added after Harden? Beverley? You think people would change their predictions because of Beverley? lol

Using a Pythagorean expectation formula means you are looking at the point differential WITH McHale as a coach. Meaning McHale and the team are the ones responsible for the point differential.

Second, the point of using that formula is to project wins. Then you use context to understand them. It's not hard to understand why we are overachieving when we're a three point shooting team who nearly set the all time ****ing record this year and blew teams out by 30.

 

JoeJoe, the team was blowing out opponents during the month McHale was not even coaching.

What other proof do you need that this was already a good team that was going to win games? The "experts" were wrong in pre-season because they use name recognition and subjective bias. Morey, exec of the year, built this team on the stats and Moneyball. This was a good team, McHale is like Del Negro - bad coaches on very talented teams

 

They blew out two opponents and were blown out four times during his absence.

Within a month of his return, Rockets were 8-1 in blowouts. Advantage, McHale.

Granted McHale's overplaying veterans wore the Rockets down and probably is responsible for mid January losing streak.

 

*still laughing*

This guy BayMind... He thinks we are a 4th or 5th seed without our coach...

This is ****ing precious. What a dolt.

Have fun with your huge ego and unhappy life buddy. Keep arguing unknowable non-sense...

 

I believe McHale was gone from Nov. 10th to Dec. 9th. The Rockets were 7-7 (.500) in those games which McHale didn't coach. McHales' record as the Rockets coach is 34-26 (.567).

 

McHale's clearly done a good job. we've exceeded all reasonable expectations, including Vegas'. Obviously that's not ALL due to McHale, but he deserves some credit. Not ready to anoint him as the greatest coaching mind in the NBA or anything. I have issues with his rotational decisions, and there are still plenty of other coaches i'd rather have at the helm. But he deserves praise, and has proven that he knows how to coach.

 

OKC
San Antonio
Memphis
Golden State
Denver

Lol. Which one of those teams do we have more overrall talent than??? D