Was giving Kevin McHale that 3 year extension a mistake?

We could fire him tomorrow and not lost any flexibility

 

But is Les willing to spend?

 

Do you have evidence that he doesn't

 

he's fine
problem is howard
we played differently after he return

 

Les never fires a coach when he had a contract, he just let the coach go without resigning a new deal.

 

The funny thing is I'm almost stubborn enough to vote no, because after dogging on McHale for years I had finally been brought around to grudging tolerance. His coaching drives me insane, but at the same time he's still got a better record than any coach in Rockets history.

F*** it, I'm voting no as long as we understand that he can be fired as soon as Les is willing to eat the money. But that doesn't mean I'm not upset with how much talent is being wasted right now.

 

Hahaha is this even a question? His ass should be on the hot seat, and now there is no pressure to perform. He's got the $$$ already, notice how the rockets play dropped right after the extension.

 

please no

 

We've never really had a terrible coach. Jvg's offense was garbage but look at the rosters.

 

Counterpoint: Kevin McHale has a better Rockets record than JVG.

I'm not going to claim he's a better coach than JVG, but it provides a pretty convenient excuse to ignore his faults when Harden's dragging the franchise to higher heights than anytime since Hakeem.

 

No one could get Howard to play team basketball. Not in Orlando, not in L.A.

In his current form he is a net negative.

You look at how well this team was playing offensively when Howard was out and compare it to now? C'mon. People rag on McHale but not one predicted we'd start the season this well. Give the guy credit.

Howard is uncoachable.

 

That's not really evidence when the coaches were Rudy T, JVG and Adelman. All very good coaches

 

There's no way he's a net negative. His advanced stats dont point to that at all

 

If we didn't then another team could swoop in and offer him more money.

Insert Michael Jordan laughing gif here.

 

i believe you should never give extensions during a season, it should always be in the off seasons because it can be a distraction.

also JB Bickerstaff has to step up, he is incharge of the defensive side of things, he got high praise when it was working out, time for him to fix it

 

people over react on here something stupid and attack our players like crazy

 

I know it's probably not universally true, but, at least when it comes to Houston sports teams, as soon I hear the words "The players feel very comfortable with <insert coach>," my gut tells me nothing great is coming down the pipe for that team. I place the general averageness to mediocrity of the Astros post-Larry-Dierker and the Texans, well, always, squarely at the feet of the milquetoast head coaches they've had.

I don't want players to feel very comfortable with their coaches all the time. I want to them to feel very comfortable when they're out there giving 100% and being smart and feel very UNcomfortable with their coaches when they're slagging off and being dumbasses. I want them to feel like that comfort level (and their starting position) is something that has to be earned and maintained, not something that's guaranteed. Any coach that's always liked by all his players is going to produce a bunch of soft players that don't actually respect him. If McHale's one of those, then on those grounds alone, we made a mistake giving him that extension.

 

Les has already laid out the groundwork for keeping McHale on board for the foreseeable future, minus a 2013 Texans-esque collapse. He used soft reasoning to explain the need to extend McHale now instead of facing the pressure of a contract year. Les also has the recent quote of being fine with another first round exit. Would Les really fire a guy who's gonna get 50+ wins and coached an mvp candidate to boot?

 

Yes it was without a doubt. That's what happens when you judge results on the court not what the team is actually doing and if the coach is getting the best out of the players he has

 

No, Les would never do that unfortunately. His predecessor, Charlie Thomas, was willing to fire Don Chaney midseason coming off a 50+ win season where he won Coach of the Year. As I recall, that worked out pretty well for the franchise(and Les ironically).