yellowboy90 wrote:

holfresh wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:

holfresh wrote:Blake Griffen has been tremendous this series..Great numbers..But when the game is on the line and he takes over is when he has arrived..

Isn't that what Chris Paul is for? He is the leader/floor general who was being guarded by Jason freakin Terry. Blake was being guarded by Howard in the 4th.

How many lay ups did Blake miss down the stretch..Think he miss like three point blank lay ups..All game he made it look easy...I think it easier to corral Paul than it is to corral Blake..Blake should be able to get a higher percentage shot off..

He did but when he is guarded by Howard and unable to lob to Jordan it is hard for him. Howard gives him problems with his size. I just though Paul had the easier match up. Nobody on Houston can really guard Paul and when you have Terry on you you have to take advantage.

Maybe they deserve a 50/50 split of the blame

mreinman wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:I have to give Mchale some major credit for keeping Harden out until late when he wanted a FT shooter. That took conviction.

Absolutely! I earned a lot of respect for him (and their organization)

who cares who you are, metrics say ride the hot hand and don't forced the cold one.

If a guy is 5-20, there is no reason to see it turn into 5-30.

I wish we had the balls to sit our star when he was bricking uncontrollably.

Metric say ride the hot hand..Bite me!!

mreinman wrote:

holfresh wrote:

mreinman wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:I have to give Mchale some major credit for keeping Harden out until late when he wanted a FT shooter. That took conviction.

Absolutely! I earned a lot of respect for him (and their organization)

who cares who you are, metrics say ride the hot hand and don't forced the cold one.

If a guy is 5-20, there is no reason to see it turn into 5-30.

I wish we had the balls to sit our star when he was bricking uncontrollably.

Metric say ride the hot hand..Bite me!!

yeah ... maybe we could yank our guy when he is chucking but no ... lets compliment him and post dumb articles of how great he played ....hahah

btw, your favorite coach should be ashamed with the way his team played down the stretch. That was downright embarrassing.

mreinman wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

mreinman wrote:

holfresh wrote:

mreinman wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:I have to give Mchale some major credit for keeping Harden out until late when he wanted a FT shooter. That took conviction.

Absolutely! I earned a lot of respect for him (and their organization)

who cares who you are, metrics say ride the hot hand and don't forced the cold one.

If a guy is 5-20, there is no reason to see it turn into 5-30.

I wish we had the balls to sit our star when he was bricking uncontrollably.

Metric say ride the hot hand..Bite me!!

yeah ... maybe we could yank our guy when he is chucking but no ... lets compliment him and post dumb articles of how great he played ....hahah

btw, your favorite coach should be ashamed with the way his team played down the stretch. That was downright embarrassing.

Did you edit out your metrics say ride the hot hand? Pretty sure you don't need metrics to figure that out.

it takes a modern approach to sit your star. Old school guys would not do that (I meant metric guys).

there is nothing worse than see a guy trying to volume shoot his way back into the game.

how many coaches would sit their star in a big spot like that? almost none! And I really gained Mchale's respect.

Morey does a lot of interesting things and is willing to be different. You are a D-league guys, look what he is doing. Will it work? Maybe ... but I love that he is trying and he is doing it in a very non traditional way.

just think about how nice it would have been if Riley had the stones to pull Starks

how many shots does a guy need to miss before you realize that he is killing the team?

mreinman wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

mreinman wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

mreinman wrote:

holfresh wrote:

mreinman wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:I have to give Mchale some major credit for keeping Harden out until late when he wanted a FT shooter. That took conviction.

Absolutely! I earned a lot of respect for him (and their organization)

who cares who you are, metrics say ride the hot hand and don't forced the cold one.

If a guy is 5-20, there is no reason to see it turn into 5-30.

I wish we had the balls to sit our star when he was bricking uncontrollably.

Metric say ride the hot hand..Bite me!!

yeah ... maybe we could yank our guy when he is chucking but no ... lets compliment him and post dumb articles of how great he played ....hahah

btw, your favorite coach should be ashamed with the way his team played down the stretch. That was downright embarrassing.

Did you edit out your metrics say ride the hot hand? Pretty sure you don't need metrics to figure that out.

it takes a modern approach to sit your star. Old school guys would not do that (I meant metric guys).

there is nothing worse than see a guy trying to volume shoot his way back into the game.

how many coaches would sit their star in a big spot like that? almost none! And I really gained Mchale's respect.

Morey does a lot of interesting things and is willing to be different. You are a D-league guys, look what he is doing. Will it work? Maybe ... but I love that he is trying and he is doing it in a very non traditional way.

I think old school guys would be much quicker to do that. A guy like Sloan, Pop, PJax, etc., are guys that I see as old school. Maybe Thibs because of his approach. I don't know where McHale fits on that but it seems like a pretty simple switch that a moderately competent coach could figure out.

don't think so.

maybe Pop because he can do whatever the hell he wants.

It was also interesting to see how well Cleveland did without Kyrie.

And Houston is gonna need Harden in a big way to go further ... they can't rely on Josh Smith and Corey Brewer to do this again.

Harden is only 25 and Mchale taught him a good lesson and also earned the respect of the rest of the team

Do you think that Woodson would have the guts to pull Melo out if he keeps shooting and bricking? NO WAY! He did not even have the stones to pull JR when he was having crack moments.

yellowboy90 wrote:i don't consider Mchale a new school coach at all. He might be surrounded by a new school gm but Mchale is very old school to me.

Anyway, I don't think Mchale's choice was a new or old school approach he just made a gut decision that any kind of coach could make and probably has made but it didn't workout like it did for Houston

Agree.

yellowboy90 wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:i don't consider Mchale a new school coach at all. He might be surrounded by a new school gm but Mchale is very old school to me.

Anyway, I don't think Mchale's choice was a new or old school approach he just made a gut decision that any kind of coach could make and probably has made but it didn't workout like it did for Houston

Agree.

i will say doing it in the playoffs is key and is what separated mchale from a lot of coaches