Yeah this last part is what really worries me but, I'm just going to learn to live with him as a coach and hope for the best. Maybe this year he takes a giant leap this year in the playoffs. I guess some coaches just take awhile and learn as they grow.
What I want to know is that if Stotts and Portland know the blueprint to stopping Harden, which many here seem to believe, what is up with Harden dominating them in the regular season? If last years playoff series is proof of a coach being so damn smart, why in gods name can't they stop him in the regular season? I mean did the game plan change? Did Stotts say, yeah we shut him done with this gameplan in the playoffs but we should do something different because this is the regular season? No F'n way. Could it be that Harden just had some off games? Nah, has to be McHale being inept.
That was a mediocrity team at best. You are reaching with this comment. Lol hey he has a great chance of making past the 1st and 2nd round this year.
You can say that for 80%of the teams out there. Look at Indiana, Paul George went down this summer and that team is horrible. Look at OKC without Durant, they lost a lot of games without now they are on the outside looking in fighting for that 8th seed. Look at the Heat , they lost Lebron, paid Bosh that fat ash contract and all of sudden they are one of the worse teams in the NBA. Let either Klay or Curry go down and watch how fast the Warriors fall off their high horse. The Spurs were dealing with a lot of injuries early on with Parker and Leonard, look how they struggled. We can go on all day about this dmoney. Superstar and great players sometimes can make their coaches look good.
I'm not reaching, you already demonstrated that you don't remember Rockets history, you didn't even know that Rick Adelman made it out of the second round in his second year with us. The team I just mentioned had a solid footing set to go to the playoffs and had a Mchale patented late season collapse. Just like 2013's team who had the 6th seed guess what another late season collapse. At this point though I no longer care if Mchale is fired. I put my confidence in James Harden to lead the team.
I made a simple mistake and you want to hang your hat on that. Come on dude get freaking real. My history goes back to the latter part of Calvin Murphy and Moses Malone. Rick had a lot of early season collapse as well so what is your point. Rick still haven't won jack turkey skit in Houston. Yes he is a better coach than Mchale . We all know this but to continue to blame Mchale for this and that is ridiculous. Especially when Morey shuffle , the lineup twice a season and aga during the off season.
Rick had a 22 game winning streak half of which without Yao Ming. He then got us to the second round without Tracy Mcgrady and we almost beat the Lakers without Ming or Mcgrady. We took the Lakers to a 7 game series without Mcgrady and Yao something that this team couldn't even do last year in the first round of the playoffs. Right now without a better system we are relying on Harden to do everything. At this point though like I said it is what it is, I don't care if Mchale is fired or not but I think we definitely need more talent if we are going to stick with him to try to win a championship. A lot more talent.
That was good on his part but unfortunately we didn't win anything. Last year was Howard and Harden 1st year together. He had to deal with an disgruntled Asik and Lin. He had to change up his lineup numerous times that season. Tha a lot to deal with when trying to win a championship. Another thing Portland was more hungrier , especially LaMarcus Aldridge. Dude played out hi mind because he didn't want that Tracy Mcgrady labeled of not getting out the 1st round. Again give the man some time. He has a really good team and should advance past the first round.
The point is that RA performed above the talent level he had. The year we made it to the second round with him was without Tmac and it was Artest's first year with us and we still got to the second round and took the Lakers to 7 without Yao.
That 08-09 Rockets team that took the Lakers to 7 games was pretty damn good. We probably would have won the series if Yao hadn't gone down as we matched up very well against the Lakers and most teams.
You're right. Actually I think we would've won the ring that year. The only thing in our way was Dwight and Yao had Dwight's number. That team was a well oiled machine, I was pretty young then but I don't remember ever being mad at anything but the fact that Tmac disappeared during that era, I remember defending him and being let down with all his talk in the media. I barely posted on here, just to express how excited I was with the team even with the injuries.
I've always thought this was a complete fantasy. Watching that series it always felt like the Lakers didn't take the Rockets seriously. If Yao had stayed healthy, the series probably only goes 6 games.
There is nothing the Lakers could do, Yao Ming was playing out of his mind. The talk about the Lakers waking up was all Hyperbole from Magic Johnson who tried to create a narrative that the Lakers weren't playing hard enough and later was bailed out by the Yao Ming injury prompting everyone to believe or wonder if he was correct when they destroyed us in that 7th game even without Yao.
Oh no doubt but you can also that team had the mindset of, "what do we have to lose". Not only that the Lakers took them lightly. So after winning a few games our confidence was sky high. They started feeling like they actually can steal this series. Big timer we have seen plenty of big time upsets before. Here is one example : the Seattle Supersonics losing to the 8th seeded Denver Nuggets. Seattle was the best team in the NBA at that time.
Tracy never disappeared, injuries derailed his career here in Houston. The previous year that man was playing with two different injuries. Put everything on the line and still came up short thanks to his role players not stepping up their games.
Didnt we have a chance at Budenholzer at one point, awhile ago? I could imagine how good this team would be and how this entire thread wouldnt even exist.
It would be nice. Was there a huge fire Adelman thread? I remember we had a lot of little ones, but I don't think there was a 500-page thread for it.
It would exist no matter what coach we have. Just swap the names. We wouldn't be undefeated with a +20 point differential so there would still be lots of complaining.
Complaining? Of course, its the interwebs, but far less since the team's lapses would be fewer and far in between unlike the clown "running" the show now.
