If you do not understand that I explicitly answered both of your questions, I don't see how I can help you.
Math is not your strong suit. That is OK. But analysis is what Morey and his million dollar a year staff do. The MIT-Sloan paper is deep statistical analysis, so I guess you can take my word for it or remain in the dark.
Umm ok dude, I'm just going to back away. I forgot how crazy you were. Just pretend I didn't say anything to you and I promise to check a persons name before I reply to them, ok? good.
The difference between a good coach and a bad coach may only be about 5 wins in the regular season but the difference between a good coach and a bad caoch can be 2nd round of the playoffs and more vs first round embarassment with HCA (McHale).
If we had had five extra wins last season, we still would have ranked 4th in the west. So having JVG/Sloan/George Karl would not have got us a better seed. Let's just continue war-gaming the Portland series then. Basically, we take all of the coaches who have been past the first round and say they would have beat Portland. For good measure, let's just say that everyone who only made it to the first round--except McHale--also would have beat Portland. And some of the coaches who never have been to the playoffs also would have beat Portland. In sum, only a few living coaches who have coached in the NBA might not have beat Portland. The only one who definitely did not beat Portland is McHale. Therefore McHale is one of the worst playoff coaches the NBA has ever known. OK. That issue is resolved. Anyone have anything to add?
You would think this thread would at least hold off until the Rockets start performing poorly... We're 8-1. Enjoy it, my friends.
I tracked down regular articles about Berri's research for you. http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2008/11/change_you_cant_believe_in.html And there is the broader discussion about All coaching. http://freakonomics.com/2012/12/21/is-changing-the-coach-really-the-answer/
McHale's doing a much better job of rotating minutes. I wish he'd pull a Pop and sit Harden against OKC tonight, or at least play him only in the 4th Q if the game is still in doubt. Harden's been looking a bit nicked and gimpy, and we're going to need everything he's got against Memphis tomorrow.
I'm going to be back on the fire McHale bandwagon if he decides to leave Canaan out of the rotation now that Beverley's back. Absolutely the dumbest thing he could do right now. Canaan is part of our future and he needs the exposure. We love to shoot threes and we're not playing Troy Daniels. WTF!?
nobody can score.... we have Canaan and Troy on the bench, both who can score and hit 3s ****ING USE THEM
Honestly guys, do you really think we run no plays? I know that's the narrative, but we definitely run plays.
I can't criticize him until we legitimately start losing games. W's are W's...I'll take the narrow wins with the blowouts.
I have always defended MacHale, but do not understand how in today's ugliness he did not at least try Viper-ball for a few minutes to see how it will play out. Obviously, OKC were packing it in inside; they did admirably on closeouts, but still gave up a lot of open looks from the 3pt line. Why not put Troy and Canaan for a few minutes and shoot a three every possession, early in the clock?
McHale lost me in the opening game against Portland in the playoffs when he pulled Dwight after they started hacking him, we had a 10 pt lead in hand and the stupid clown pulled him. It was the ultimate sign of weakness that even Premier League soccer coaches will seldom result to. As soon as McHale pulled Dwight, the entire Portland team grew 12 inch dicks and everything they did scored points on us because we had no rim protection and our team went from having 8 inch dicks to having 2 inch dicks. That first game set the tone for the entire series. I knew that once Aldridge hit that impossible 3 over Dwight in overtime when Portland were down 6 pts, I knew that Portland had the mental edge on us and we wouldn't get it back. McHale proved that as a coach he didn't trust his 20 million dollar players to come through for him. It sunk our teams confidence. We were the lesser team after that first game. At the end of the day, you have to keep your best players in the game and you cannot let other coaches **** with you. Hack a Dwight proved fatal for us in that series.
