Why is the media making McHale such a big sympathetic figure in all this?

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

No i'm not. Are you just for Mchale because you're some uptight fakkit from Boston?.

Slap yourself.

I watched Houston for the last few years stink it up in the playoffs.

Right, yet you're blaming the coach for this and not Morey's system and the players.....

I watched Mchale basically sit there and either not make adequate adjustments or let Harden hog the ball too much.

What adjustments should he have made?

He let Harden hog the ball too much? You can't be serious with that dumbass comment.

Not only does McHale have to keep Harden happy with the amount of touches he gets, but if you haven't realized already, Harden was practically the only one who could create for himself and the rest of the team last season. Why should the ball be out of his hands when he gave them the best shot at winning? Who would you give more touches to last season to help the Rockets generate offense? Ariza? Brewer? Terry? A broken-down Howard? Josh Smith?

 

[who_better_than_me]

How can you be with an organization going on 5 years and be a scapegoat the team underachieved majority of your tenured there.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

I expect us to perform a lot better than thr 4-7 team we were under mchale this season because i did not forecast us getting out of that funk if mchale remained.

Now let me ask you this - if Beverley and DMo were healthy and playing, and Harden showed more effort on defense would yall have a better record? And if you believe so, how could you possibly blame McHale when all of those things are out of his control?

 

[Th3G3ntleman]

To be fair to rockets fans they've been calling for this niccas head for years. This ain't a new thing. I know most fans want there coaches gone but Rocket fans really wanted this nicca gone.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

How can you be with an organization going on 5 years and be a scapegoat the team underachieved majority of your tenured there.

You don't think there could be the possibility that the system and players are the problem?

And again, let's not act like yall didn't win 56 games with a WCF appearance last season. That's not underachieving with the makeup of your roster - no reasonable person expected that from yall last season.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

@who_better_than_me

I'm guessing since you believe this team underachieved with McHale, you must think the Rockets will have a better win rate and make the Finals this season?

 

[who_better_than_me]

@Gil Scott-Heroin did younatch the game last night. Id you see strategy implemented. Bickerstaff instructed harden to operate outta the high post and punish the portland guards and that was the turning point of the game. He saw that that strategy was an advatage becaue harden has the size and craftiness to get a psoitive posession outta the hugh post against the portland perimiter defender especially since they neglected to put aminu on harden unti the end of the game.

Thats the fukk what a coach is suppose to do. Find mismatches and fukking exploit them. Find matchups that play heavily in his teams favor. Thats something mchale never did here. He never made adjustment. Yes the straegy is to shoot 3's but that also mean run plays that will get you high quality shots.


If you dont comprehend you dont comprehend x's and o's.

 

[who_better_than_me]

@who_better_than_me

I'm guessing since you believe this team underachieved with McHale, you must think the Rockets will have a better win rate and make the Finals this season?

I wouldnt be surpised to see us in the finals. We have the talent, just have to make it mesh and i dont think mchale could do that. I dont know if bickerstaff can do that but inwouldnt be overly shocked to see the rockets win 3 more postseason game than last year to get in the finals.

 

[JackM]

Firing McHale ain't gone give Dwight post moves or make Harden play defense. Who they gone blame if they don't win a ring this time?

 

[who_better_than_me]

Now let me ask you this - if Beverley and DMo were healthy and playing, and Harden showed more effort on defense would yall have a better record? And if you believe so, how could you possibly blame McHale when all of those things are out of his control?

No. Becaue these were glaring issues in the preseason. Specifically towards the end of the preseason you could see defense and effort were glaring issue. The orlando game, memph8s game, and the spurs games is on youtube from the preseason. I implore you to watch them and you will see the same type of play and effort. mchale never used the preseason to get ready for the season. Our conditioning looks horrid after the spurs game.


What the fukk is mchales job to you since you absolve him of all coaching responsibilitys

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

@Gil Scott-Heroin did younatch the game last night. Id you see strategy implemented. Bickerstaff instructed harden to operate outta the high post and punish the portland guards and that was the turning point of the game.

Harden did the same shyt through periods of the playoffs last season, hell he did the same in the regular season - under McHale. Why are you acting as if he only did this in ONE game under Bickerstaff? So am I to expect Harden to operate from the high post in every game where the Rockets are failing to generate offense?

He saw that that strategy was an advatage becaue harden has the size and craftiness to get a psoitive posession outta the hugh post against the portland perimiter defender especially since they neglected to put aminu on harden unti the end of the game.

Harden did this against the Warriors in the playoffs. What was stopping Harden doing this in the first 10 games, other than him not showing effort?

Thats the fukk what a coach is suppose to do. Find mismatches and fukking exploit them. Find matchups that play heavily in his teams favor. Thats something mchale never did here. He never made adjustment. Yes the straegy is to shoot 3's but that also mean run plays that will get you high quality shots.

Bullshyt.

You either have a terrible memory or you're just being ignorant. Are you forgetting this -



One of the greatest comebacks in postseason history, yet McHale never exploited mismatches or made adjustments.

Yes the straegy is to shoot 3's but that also mean run plays that will get you high quality shots.

Yall had a top 10 offense for two seasons with Parsons (a legit secondary ballhandler). That seems to mean yall were running plays that had you hitting shots at a high rate.

If you dont comprehend you dont comprehend x's and o's.

Save this shyt for the next man.

What plays do you think your team is capable of running with the personnel yall currently have?

 

[Michael's Black Son]

fukk Kevin McHale
fukk Kevin Durant

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

No. Becaue these were glaring issues in the preseason. Specifically towards the end of the preseason you could see defense and effort were glaring issue. The orlando game, memph8s game, and the spurs games is on youtube from the preseason. I implore you to watch them and you will see the same type of play and effort. mchale never used the preseason to get ready for the season. Our conditioning looks horrid after the spurs game.

So now we're using how a team performs in the preseason as a scale?

The majority of starters on every team played around 20 minutes or less during the preseason. How could you possibly use this against McHale as if every team wasn't playing their starting lineups the same minutes?

I implore you to look at what type of play and effort other teams had throughout the preseason.

ARE YOU REALLY fukkING BLAMING MCHALE FOR THE PLAYERS' CONDITIONING? Like seriously?

What the fukk is mchales job to you since you absolve him of all coaching responsibilitys

I'm not absolving him of all coaching responsibilities. What I'm trying to tell you is that, he isn't the problem with the team. He's a scapegoat.

You're in for a rude awakening if you think this team is going to perform better than last season and make the Finals. I'm going to enjoy upping this shyt and saying I told you so at the end of the season.

 

[Brozay]

Who should everyone be sympathetic to?

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

I wouldnt be surpised to see us in the finals. We have the talent, just have to make it mesh and i dont think mchale could do that. I dont know if bickerstaff can do that but inwouldnt be overly shocked to see the rockets win 3 more postseason game than last year to get in the finals.

And that's fine if you have those delusions.

You'll see by the the end of the postseason that it wasn't McHale's fault this group of players couldn't perform any better than they previously have.