Serious Question - Do we ever call a real play on offense?

Not trolling here.

as someone who has watched most of the games under Mchale era, and almost all this season. I've noticed several times it seems different when Rockets have the ball in an urgent situation late. Whether it be out of a timeout or bringing the ball up. I've bit my tongue with the success of this regular season and to not pile on the anti-McHale campaign with a team that won 50+ games and played entertaining ball. But I have to, for my own sanity, ask other Rox fans if they feel the same way. Not asking is Mchale holding us back, or anything like that.


Maybe my days from playing organized basketball has my mind screwed up and there aren't even that many plays/sets being run anymore, but I can't recall off top of my head a play that is NOT a Harden ISO in these crunch situations. And then we simply hope for good results. And don't get me wrong, many good results have come off that (ex: Harden kick to Beverly 3pt @ PHX) but we don't have any alternative that involves people and the ball moving? Aren't we redundant and simply making ourselves easier to defend for the opposition?

Irony is in one crunch possession tonight, Harden actually moved the ball when he had a wide open look, only to have to force a much worse shot just moments later.


I do think (and hope) McHale will be let go. But lets say if he were to be the teams coach for several seasons down the road...are you telling me I can already guess what we will do every crunch possession down the stretch. Maybe this is where not having a real PG hurts us. It's also draining of Harden regardless of what he or anyone else says.

hope it doesn't just seem as a frustrated rant after an agonizing loss. But I'm thinking maybe the answer is truly no, which would be mind boggling for me. esp when you consider how much of the nba postseason is in the halfcourt.

 

aside from the 20 PnRs obviously. are there ANY other plays we run? End game coaching is so key in this league hard to defend McHale imo.

I also know the hate being spewed at Lin for that late turnover (yes, was terrible) but did anyone else feel like Mchale had the whole play in front of him and could've easily signaled timeout. Got the stop, got the rebound, and should've seen Mo behind Lin. and then he didn't even react to him being out of bounds right in front of him. That sequence probably is the difference from him keeping/losing job the more i think about it.

 

man I'd think that even if you don't have official plays, shouldn't you have just a handful to run for end of game scenarios? just 3-4.


does anyone see the correlation with McHale, the offense, and impressive list of double digit leads lost during his time here.