Kevin McHale Fired by Rockets (merged threads)

[LarBrd33]

Dear Mr. McHale,

I'm a big fan.   Sorry our team got you fired.  Would love to have you come tutor our bigs if you got nothing better to do.  Thanks. 

[LarBrd33]

Bring him home.

The Wolves do need a permanent head coach, so not a completely terrible idea.

Lol this was actually my first thought.   I think McHale is a decent coach and Minny could threaten for a playoff spot this year.  There's too much baggage there for McHale to go back to Minny though, right?

Just out of curiosity, what kind of relationship do McHale and Garnett have?  McHale drafted him, presumably helped develop him... With Flip passing away (who McHale hired after playing with him in College), would McHale be a welcome presence on the feel-good Wolves?

[Lucky17]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2012/12/15/kevin-garnett-kevin-mchale-hug-timberwolves-celtics/1770973/

[Redz]

He sure looked like he was done the other night.  Totally bewildered look on his face.

[LarBrd33]

Bring him home.

The Wolves do need a permanent head coach, so not a completely terrible idea.

Lol this was actually my first thought.   I think McHale is a decent coach and Minny could threaten for a playoff spot this year.  There's too much baggage there for McHale to go back to Minny though, right?

Just out of curiosity, what kind of relationship do McHale and Garnett have?  McHale drafted him, presumably helped develop him... With Flip passing away (who McHale hired after playing with him in College), would McHale be a welcome presence on the feel-good Wolves?

I was just about to post this video, but I think Lucky17 just beat me to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYQs4C5TCI

[GreenFaith1819]

Bring him home.

The Wolves do need a permanent head coach, so not a completely terrible idea.

Lol this was actually my first thought.   I think McHale is a decent coach and Minny could threaten for a playoff spot this year.  There's too much baggage there for McHale to go back to Minny though, right?

Just out of curiosity, what kind of relationship do McHale and Garnett have?  McHale drafted him, presumably helped develop him... With Flip passing away (who McHale hired after playing with him in College), would McHale be a welcome presence on the feel-good Wolves?

I was just about to post this video, but I think Lucky17 just beat me to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYQs4C5TCI

Great idea.

I'd love to see him Minny.

Sad to see he took the fall in HOU....IMO way too soon to jump the gun like that. Don't agree with that move at all.

[TheFlex]

All we have to do is bring back Thibs as an equally genius defensive assistant to our current defensive (and offensive) genius, and then hire McHale as our bigs specialist!

[BudweiserCeltic]

I've would've preferred if the Rockets waited until after the next game, you know, to at last see if the players-only meeting they had after the Celtics beatdown would've rendered any fruits.

So in all, this was premature regardless of how I feel about Kevin as a coach. The problems occurring this season I put strictly on the players.

[LooseCannon]

Dear Mr. McHale,

I'm a big fan.   Sorry our team got you fired.  Would love to have you come tutor our bigs if you got nothing better to do.  Thanks.

His first lesson will be to show Kelly Olynyk how to act when the ref says you committed a foul.

[Green_Giant]

Kevin McHale was fired today as head coach of the Houston Rockets. On the surface this may seem like a bad thing, but I am hoping in the long run this will be to Kevin's benefit.

Anyone who saw Kevin McHale's pre-game interview before the Celtics / Rockets game a couple of nights ago could see McHale, previously a, (generally), happy go lucky guy, looking for all the world like a man beat down and exhausted. His appearance was unkempt, unshaven and his hair a mess. When one of the reporters wanted him to comment on his thoughts of the 1986 Celtics team as the greatest of all time, McHale, usually always gracious and talkative with the media, blew off the question and hurried from the room. It is possible that the media caught McHale at a bad time to be giving an interview, but it was unlike any interview I've ever seen Kevin give.

And while the interview was hard to watch, Kevin's attempts at coaching were even tougher to see. Multiple times the camera panned over to McHale. His eyes had deep bags under them, and you could see the frustration clearly etched on is face. During one time out when he tried to summon his team to him, they meandered, clearly disinterested in what he was going to tell them. That disrespect was hard to watch.

There are obvious issues within the Rockets clubhouse - at one point when James Harden was on the ground Dwight Howard walked away from Harden, rather than helping him up. Not knowing Howard, I hesitate to bring up his coach killing status, but I feel it may be relevant in this case.

Regardless of whether the team quit on McHale or not it was no longer a good situation for the greatest power forward to ever play the game. I don't think he was happy, and when that happens I would hope that, (if money is not an issue), one would move on.

I've had the privilege of meeting and talking with Kevin multiple times. He's always been a gentlemen, always given his time freely and with a smile. He's suffered personal tragedy not long ago, (with the loss of his daughter). He deserves to go to a place where he is respected for his abundant talent.

Although these things seldom work out as well as you'd like them to, I would love to see Kevin return to the Celtics franchise in some degree - maybe as a big man coach. We all know Ainge and McHale are friends, and I'd love to see one of our own back where he belongs. We owe him for 2008 anyway.

I wish Kevin McHale all the best.

[LarBrd33]

There's another thread about him being fired.  I'd welcome him back in some role.  I wonder if he'd be welcome back in Minny.  At first I thought "nah, no way", but given that Flip passed way (McHale hired him, because they were college teammates), he drafted KG, KG is a big mentor on the team right now, might buy the team when he retires, and presumably has a good relationship with McHale, I wouldn't be too surprised to see McHale return to Minny in some capacity.  They need a competent head coach and McHale seemed like he was a decent one.

[Green_Giant]

Yeah I didn't see the other thread until after I posted, sorry.

I could see him returning to Minnesota too. Personally I'd love him to come back to Boston, but as long as he's happy where he ends up, that's what's important.

[2short]

I understand the move because it's the easiest thing to do.
That said its not coach Mchales fault.  Those great  :-\players have given up on their coach, team, city and each other.  I'd be embarrassed to be on team.  Harden should have been called out by a teammate coach or gm for not trying on defense.  Morley has put together a mostly dysfunctional team. Lawson stinks.
Ugh

[SparzWizard]

Always hated Dwight and Harden, they're both a bunch of clowns and misfits in the league. I wouldn't even mind seeing Metta World Peace throw an elbow at that disgusting hairy face one more time.

Now I can fully hate the Houston Rockets without holding back (now that McHale is gone). So please, come to Boston...Kevin McHale!

[Ogaju]

Harden proved himself to be a joke when he started to date Khloe Kardashian. What an idiot.