McHale alluded to it after an earlier game. He said that Kyle is an emotional player, and sometimes he needs to learn how to channel it in a positive direction instead of letting it drag him down.
Holy Crap. Have you people never played a game of pickup at the YMCA, played for a Church League team, or just been to the park and played a game of basketball there. Talking, whining, griping, and fighting(at least verbally) is all part of the game. This notion that they are this one big happy family is ridiculous. Basketball teams are always disfunctional families at times and the Rockets are nothing out of the norm. You just hope that it doesn't get to the point where it actually starts to be a true problem and people stop playing for the team and start playing for themselves. If Kyle Lowry is part of the issue here then it should not be a concern for the organization or the fans. He's always been a facilitator in nature and has always been great at being a team guy. He's still a young leader and has alot of growing to do, but this kind of nonsense is part of every basketball team in the world. Its just the nature of the game.
"Holy Crap" ... Did you listen to the interviews? Scola and McHale flat out said (in your words) "it got to the point where it actually starts to be a true problem."
While this is something that needs to be fixed, let's not act like the problem is unprecedented or cannot be solved. For example, the 2008-2009 Rockets team was reported to have locker room issues early in the season among McGrady, Artest and Rafer and brought back Mutombo partly as a "good chemistry guy" to address it. That was also the season during which Von Wafer was on the team.
I'm not sold on him being a master on-court strategist yet, but i love the way he communicates with his players and the hard-nosed attitude he projects. All we can say at this early stage is that he's gotten a lot out of his team so far and hasn't embarrased himself through the first 17 games.
