Kevin McHale says he was stunned Rockets fired him
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Kevin McHale, a guest analyst on TNT before the Houston Rockets game against the Golden State Warriors on 2/9/2016 says he was stunned to be let go by the Rockets after 11 games of the 2015-16 season. McHale talks about the challenges they faced going into the season with Dwight Howard unable to go in back-to-backs and James Harden coming into camp overweight after suffering an ankle sprain in the offseason.
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He didn't deserve to get fired. The fact that the Rockets went from a WCF team to a first-round pushover with practically the same roster shows how important he was.
Now without Dwight (despite his issues in the last season physically and with James Harden) i'd be surprised if they make 8th seed.
look at em now
+Italian Supreme L
itheroman Yeah look at em...at the titty bar with the rest of the bums
@@BETOisOP lol
“James came in overweight” 😂😂😂 2020- 2021 = same problems
U didnt kno harden was a shapeshifter?
@@dicedum1989 I think he’s a transformer 😂😂
They keep paying him, they don’t care
But how much of that weight was beard?
I wouldn't mind having McHale, he knew our team best. He knew we would struggle and knew the reasons why. We regretfully let him go.
Y’all play no defense 🤣
@@yogo3457 you replied to a 4 year old comment bro
We?
This LEGEND deserves better
Joey Hernandez no he doesn't.
Jacy I can tell you never watched any 80s basketball
@@masonwoodhouse6589 fosho. Even Chuck and Shaq themselves still call his post moves the "McHale" up to this day.
One of the classy men of the NBA! Love Coach McHale!
I'll rather have prime McHale than prime Harden or prime Howard
prime mchale was a beast. one of the toughest guys on that team. he deadass out here playing with a broken foot and still gave 21 a night. if harden played n the 80s, he would be sitting on the floor crying his ass out cuz refs wouldn't give him 20 fouls💀
@@worrystone4109 If Giannis stops playing he-can-do-it-all unicorn and plays like McHale, his Bucks might be probably the favorite to win the title. But alas
@@jamirimaj6880 lol
U crazy as hell give me prime harden
@@JACQUEZJOHNSON23 😂😂 heck ill give you 3 hardens and a hard one for mchale.
How was it Kevin McHale's fault that players were getting injured and Harden coming back overweight? Daryl Morey is a sorry excuse for a GM and needs to be sacked.
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Rob Kimbell Bitch go toss a salad.
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He was probably telling half of the truth
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Here after knowing it as harden who had him ousted.
Yeah fuck harden fatty can’t even come in shape 4 years later either
Where can I find that video
@@brayden11111111 harden still one of the best players in the league 4 years later and McHale hasn’t coached since
Josh Smith said that he thinks part of the reason McHale got fired was because he benched Harden in game 6 vs the clippers in the 2015 playoffs
@@545047 but that helped them though. Harden was struggling in that game. If he doesn’t I don’t think Houston comes back & wins
Wow we got some hypocrits over here. Back in November everyone was begging for McHale to be fired and now that we ain't much better everyone wants him back. The fans messed this one up for sure.
Fans are fans for a reason. They don't know shit about the business and the sport. They just watch games and pretend to be gurus.
+DoubleEdud Who was begging him to be fired after 11 games?
McHale was not a really good coach because he couldn't get the most out of his players. At least Marc Antoni was able to get the Rockets a competitive season and almost an NBA championship.
Let's not forget how McHale through Jeremy Lin under the bus because he didn't know how to coach or play to Jeremy Lin strength.
that is why fan voting should be remove from NBA! fans dont know the real story in a team. SOME stupid fans just open there mouths with no sense at all.!
Fuck up loser
Damn only Greg, Erik and Rick still coaching on the same teams. The only 3 franchises who won’t freak out because of a bad record because they understand it’s not always the coaches fault.
rn only Gregg and Erik. Carlisle returned to Indiana
@@RafsanS15 true
Harden dont deserve mchale as a coach anyway such a great i can see him getting a job in Sota or Boston
Still stand by that statement??
They should let Kenny go and replace him with McHale.
LLLLL Kenny a W
Its 2020 and the only survivors on that list so far is Gregg, Spo and Rick.. which are the top 3 coaches in the NBA..
He had just been to the WCF the season prior. They’ve only had one more appearance since.
Isn’t terry stotts still in Portland?
crazy how you go to wcf and get fired next season wtf
This guy has taken them to the WCF what were they thinking.
Damn, he called harden fat. REVENGE!
Wow!! No wonder the league is struggling!! Poor Kevin!! It is a disgrace!!
I thought the Rockets had their coach in McHale, but he wanted to utilize Harden in with him playing off the ball in the open court, passing the ball to his teammates more, and playing defense. Harden wanted to play mostly isolation as a point guard, step back threes, etc....slow the tempo down at times. There is just no way this strategy works against teams that play the motion offense...and have good shooters. Spurs did it for a long time, Warriors picked up on it and became successful. Iso ball gives you 0.78 points per possession, compared to 1.18 for off the ball cuts, and 1.12 for transition. Doesn't seem like a lot but after 40 minutes you could see the iso team losing by 20-25 points against a motion offense team.
Rockets are stupid to fire him in the middle of the season...
It was even in the middle of the season, they were only 11 games in
Good because McHale was not a good coach. Pick-and-rolls all he knew and when they were other coaches opposing the rockets and have the ability to shut the pick-and-roll down McHale look like a fish out of water.
Plus McHale with throw other players under the bus to cover his errors Jeremy Lin comes to mind.
He was a greater player than Harden.
These youngsters lost the art of basketball & blame McHale for trying to teach them how to play ball. *Forget it Kevin. It's not worth it*
Now only 4 left..
goddamn, we fucked up when we fired him.
PowerfulDragon Still think that?
Blunder They got a great coach now
what about now? what about today?
Kevin Mccccccc was a nastyyyyyyy player tho
Kevin is good enough to get another job. So it's OK rockets let him go.
yea suprised he isnt back coaching yet
This is the reason why I fucking hated Stephen A's "white privilege" bullshit. The number one problem of the NBA coach is not race, it's the fact that they get replaced so easily with usually no real reason. And that's weird when you add the fact that a coach's main job is to implement a system that is designed to last years.
Lol now we got JB over here starting Brewers bum ass and putting Ariza at PF..
He's also giving Thortons trash ass too many minutes.
+Grindboy Zeya I thought he does a nice job at denying good PFs the ball and he takes them out of the paint on the other side since he can space the floor
brewer playing pf not ariza
+p-town hitta Ariza still guards the big man normally
+Michael Nguyen Thornton is ok
Hated McHale, but cannot deny his skills...these players today wouldn’t stand a chance in the 80s and 90s. The NBA with European rules has produced high scoring DEFENSELESS SOYshooters.
Bring back mchale it obviously didn't improve our team letting him go
What would have happened in the 2015-16 season had Rockets owner Les Alexander traded Harden and Howard for draft picks and cash instead of firing McHale 🤔
I did not watch interviews a lot, but it seems like Kevin McHale is a nice guy and was trying everything to make it work. Maybe we should have given more patience on him. JB is okay but not with much experience. He is making the team back together, but I don't see a championship team under JB. Rockets should get a championship level coach in the offseason, otherwise, it will be bad decision to let McHale go.
James came in overweight !!! So it is not a new thing !!
11 games showed tons
They did him dirty
Dang he looks 10 years older since taking the coaching job
Hey fellow Bob Jones. I agree with that. I would guess it is from dealing with Dwight Howard. The best post player in the world watching a guy not even give a shit about post moves or improving or anything. Had to have to been seriously frustrating as hell.
Thats the real torture chamber
Was ridiculous to fire McHale.
Harden is one-dimensional. If he couldn't shoot, no one would have heard of him.
Defense? Harden couldn't stop a statue.
Truth be told I hope the Celtics let Stevens go and hire Mchale!
Brad Stevens sucks.
Fisher has a massive head haha.
The owner and Gm should be hung slowly for firing McHale after his daughter died.
Pretty clear Harden wanted him gone.
kevin's a nice guy but, his goofy temperament isn't right for coaching
The Rockets played too freely. They didn't have any plays. They had a little success but I knew if they didn't start the season well they would fire this guy.
He was fired because he told James harden to play defense
Marc Antoni was able to get the Rockets to the Warriors it almost wanted against the Warriors unlike McHale kept choking in the playoffs every time they got there. McHale also didn't know how to get the most out of his players Jeremy Lin comes to mind who McHale quickly through under the bus.
I think the Rockets organization is still secretly salty about McHale & Bird smashing Olajuwon & Sampson in the ‘ 86 finals 😂
Revenge !! 30+ years later!!
Popovich looks like president Snow..
Now we can see why Mchale got fired, D'antoni's small ball really free up Harden, unless Harden is out of Houston, D'antoni is more suitable for the Rockets...
They’ll never win a championship tho
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Suns should hire him
nothing has changed with jb.
Exactly. Wondering when people will start looking at the roster and star players and not just pointing fingers at the coach.
McHale will never win a championship, so the mistake was resigning him, J.B is doing his best but is a rookie coach. Unfortunately it's a wasted season, with Dwight most likely leaving and Lawson lost.
Don't put full blame on McHale. Rockets never fully committed to his system. Harden and Howard aren't good enough to win a championship together. Howard is like a role player on the court getting paid the max. The Rockets is just a thrown together team. There is no formula nor blueprint for how they want to construct their team. That is why they won't win shit.
I'm not blaming McHale, he got the best out of the team last season, they came back (Harden) too cocky and the chip on the shoulder mentality isn't there anymore. Howard is a star but he isn't used properly on offense. Harden's lack of D frustrates the hell out of everyone who does play D. I agree their blueprint of layups and threes suits their star player but not the rest of the team. Morey has added players since they traded for Harden to win a championship with no real formula in mind. The were a team trying to make the playoffs, first round team and then a western conference finalist (thanks to the Clippers).
+William Trieu McHale was a better coach than JB and it's more of the fact Harden will never win a championship even in this weak and watered down league!
McHale was a better coach than JB on experience alone but he will never coach a championship team. Harden can't win as the number one and as long as he doesn't give effort on D. Last year will be as close as he'll get.
+William Trieu more importantly the Rickets will never win a championship with the way the organization is run just as many Houston sports teams.
should've kept MCHALE. HE IS BETTER THAN JB. jb is trying hard but he doesn't know how to coach yet. IVE NEVER BEEN A FAN OF FIRING COACHES 11 games into the season
Give us Mark Jackson
+jermaine fields lol
Mchale needs to replace Ty Lue
fred vanvleet
lol @ these bring Mchale back comments. Mchale is a mediocre coach. Obviously a well spoken guy and great on tv but lets not forget how terrible he was at managing games and coming up with plays late in games. This season has been a huge disappointment but the Mchale firing was a good decision. He should have never been given that extension and should have been fired after the portland series.
Replacing him with Mike D'Antoni was not
Bob Jones Is that why he's most likely going to win coach of the year and his team are third seed in the NBA?
Multieman lmao
GLR thank you for making that clear because that's the truth. When other coaches took on the Rockets they would shut the pick-and-roll down which is something McHale light and he look like a fish out of water because he didn't know how to adjust or change up the scheme.
McHale is also famous for throwing other players under the bus real quick Jeremy Lin comes to mind.
Derek fisher may be one of the worst coaches ever
We made it to the conference finals DESPITE having him as our coach. Not because of him. He should have been let go after we lost to a Portland team we were better than.
exactly, he's a great guy, poor coach.
+WTFref2 harden sucks, that's the reason why your team sucked this year
As I can recall the Rockets are still a mediocre team. Coaches are always the first to blame, that is the nature of the business. But once one coach is fired and the team still suffers, then clearly it has more to do with the roster and their cohesiveness rather than the coach. Harden isn't a leader and cannot will his team to a championship and Dwight Howard is mentally fragile and emotionally vulnerable. A recipe for disaster...
+JReel17 as I can recall I never said JB was any better. Our offense was a mess schematically under Kevin and our defense was below average until Mchale gave up control of it in 2014. Plus I don't think Harden isn't a leader. They simply ran into a much better team with a better roster.
WTFref2 Yeah okay. We'll see how well James Harden performs during the playoffs. So far he hasn't done much with the Houston Rockets.
Its because u benched james harden in game 6 vs clippers
The Rockets came back and won that game though. Your comment is baseless
Soon there won't be coaches.
i guess it is also a blessing in disguise for firing him cause harden and howard really sucks! harden aint winning shit even until today
Mc Hale was a good coach...Howard and Harden were the ones who were spoil brats.
McHale wasn't really a good coach. He wasn't completely horrible like Silas was but as a Rockets fan, even when they made the WCF in 2015 I felt like they did it despite his coaching for the most part, lol! I 100% though respect his decision to bench Harden and keep him on the bench in that game 6 comeback against the Clippers! Only coaching decision he really made that I thought was the right call! It was ballsy as hell and probably was ultimately what got him fired but totally the right thing to do!
Much better coach than D’Antoni ever was!
LOL at these comments bruh
D’Antoni >>> McHale
rockets got pwned by pacers
If Kevin was black he wouldn't have been fired. don't even try to deny it
Jack J What? I'm a white nationalist and think white dudes are mistreated by the players and league, but not coaches.
McHale didn't deserve to be fired, but if he was black, he would've been fired for the same reasons just as easily.
As a rockets fan I'm glad they fired him lol
Yea what now? Lol
Bad move by the Rockets.
McHale was cheated.
On a side note, Harden is one of the best to ever play SG. Best Rocket SG ever.
How many Rings? Harden 0 rings in O Finals. McHale 3 Rings in 5 Finals.
Hee hee
He wasn’t a good coach I hated his treatment of Jeremy Lin dude was despicable.
Bullshit! Lin is a loser.
Why is this video being recommend to me in 2021? Lol! And BTW guys, Kevin was fired because he was an alcoholic. There's times the assistant coaches called all of the plays in the 1st quarter while Kevin threw back diet cokes trying to sober up for the 2nd quarter. Kevin was a great player, terrible coach.