Are you confusing Larry drew with Dwayne Casey? Cuz it was between Mchale and Casey. I think Casey is the better coach overall but doubt hes the better coach for Harden and Howard.
Yeah, my bad. It's easy to get them mixed up because well they're all pretty uninspiring as coaches. McHale I give the edge to over those guys just because players respect his career more.
With the Rockets win over the Spurs, McHale (0.589)has now passed Rick Adelman(0.588) for the highest winning percentage in team history. Cheer up, though, haters. If the Rockets lose to Golden State, then Adelman will be number one again. So it's win win
It is remarkable that a man so despised by CF haters could possibly have the highest ranking winning percentage of any coach in Rockets history. You would think the guy was sitting at 0.250%.
IMO a huge part of McHale's suitability as Houston's coach is due to the fact that he has the respect and trust of Dwight Howard. This team goes nowhere without having the big man completely on board, and McHale has succeeded doing that. For example, I loved how a recent highlight video of Howard showed the two of them working on some post moves while Carol Dawson watched, and you could tell Howard was completely into it. That's Rockets history. Also, comparing this team with last year's team shows the type of flaws of last year's model. There's definitely more of a sense of hierarchy with this year's team, with Harden and Howard being the central focus and the rest of the players playing complementary roles. I still think last year's team had more talent overall, but maybe because the talent level was higher, it was harder to mesh as a team. There was more confusion of roles, which in retrospect may have led to statements like "This team is killing Linsanity," "Asik is unhappy playing behind Howard," and perhaps even "Parsons is the most underpaid player in the league." Would that team have figured out how to come together and work toward a common goal? We'll never know, but now, at least, there is none of those internal conflicts. It's all about the team.
One of McHale's strongest points as a coach is that he will always have the respect of his players. And trust. Every player in the NBA understands that McHale was their equal, and suffered every indignity and slight they will ever see. That is one of the benefits of a HOF career.
McHale lost a daughter then came back to coaching... It's amazing he can do that. I'm paralyzed and can't even get up off my chair just thinking about the feeling.......
I understand. I lost my wife of 26 years one Easter Sunday morning. She essentially died while my daughter and I waited for the ambulance. Tragedy unfortunately is a mainstay of human life. We all just try to live through it and do the best we can.
Are you kidding? Every Rockets lost this season will cause a rumble in here. If this thread is close every CF will look like chickens with its head cutoff. It's practically a natural reflex now to blame McHale for every lost. Let's keep this engine warm and running so the uproar of hate don't stumble and trip over each other coming in through the doorway. Hell, it doesn't even have to happen after a lost. It could be after a win. Someone here will complain why McFail team didn't win by double digits against that sorry ass team.
They b**** and moan eternally. The fact that McFail is the winningest coach in Rocket history does not matter to them. I have no idea what their threshold for success is, because all they spew is emotional hatred. No analysis there. No facts. No stats. Just raw emotion.
I am just happy that even in the midst of a 6-game win streak, we can bump this thread. McHale proves to us the same thing Rudy T did, which is that the players play the game. There might only be a couple of Popovich's in the league; everyone else is in the same boat. Just keep morale high and everyone trying hard and you can keep your job.
Lin > Lin first year Kobe > Beard's first year Wesley > 2nd year parsons Boozer > Patterson Davis < Asik The same newly assembled, lesser experienced players had a 45-37 record. The other team has a coach who took his team to 2 nba finals and was COY and might go 0-10. Not claiming Mchale better than Scott but just want to put some perspective on what Mchale did in the past.
My analysis (for what it is worth) of McHale's Rockets coaching career. Season one. Lowry and Martin, two starters, were basically lost for the year by the end of February. Yet still their record was the same as Adelman's last year coaching here. Certainly a win for McHale. Season two. A decrepit team a week before the season started, but then the blockbuster trade that brought Harden to the Rockets 55 hours before the first game of the season. That must have been an epic call from Morey. "Coach I have completely shuffled your roster and now you have no offensive playbook. Deal with it in the next 48 hours". Then the dreaded trade deadline call where Morey must have said something like " Kevin, I just traded away every veteran power forward on your team. Deal with it". Another good season for McHale. Season three. A great season for the team, followed by a disappointing first round loss in the playoffs. A slight negative for McHale as a coach. Season four. A Rockets team that has been hardened by the unexpected first round loss the year before. Basketball is a beautiful game when played like the Rockets are playing now. The offense is unstoppable, the defense absolutely shutdown quality. How many NBA teams to goad their opponent into three shot clock violations in four minutes? This is looking like a very good year for the Rockets.
lol Haters gonna hate. Last year was one of the best records in team history. And he did it with no bench and scrubs at the 4. Right now Mchale is trying to win with the same scrubs at the 4 and no bench . The man can only try to win with what players he has.
I like McHale too, so here's an honest question: Who's shortcomings were on display in the Portland series? Is it really true that the players were just not good enough? We had all of them healthy... I'd say the truth is somewhere in the middle: a combination of McHale mistakes as well as players not listening to him/able to practice what they're told. And if it is McHale mistakes, we're seeing improvement in the regular season game control but we can't forecast anything to a playoff series against a single opponent.
Did someone on the BBS say that McHale is the all time Rockets winningest coach?? Higher percentage on Adelman? Adelman's % is .588, but McHale's is .578
Patrick wasn't healthy. I agree that players didn't listen and we didn't focus on defense. You can tell the defense congress first this year. Players rotating, helping weak side, taking charges,etc. There was a period against the spurs we couldn't make a basket but kept the lead because our defense stopped them like 5 times from sorting as well. I credit McHale and the coaching staff for finally implementing the importance of defense.
