Kevin McHale Coach of the Year?
by LV on Jan 23, 2009 11:01 PM CST
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The question has to be asked if the T-Wolves can go .500-.600 the rest of the season. It also makes one think about Kevin McHale as a GM and maybe he wasn't that bad. Maybe he just couldn't pick the correct coach.
Even Filp Saunders couldn't make a championship Pistons team repeat. Maybe with the right coach KG could have won in Minny. Maybe Kevin isn't the scapegoat we thought.
This is all a big IF. First the Wolves would need to go .500-.600 the rest of the season.
Just something to think about...
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SnP has made the point before that McHale was the one bringing Wittman aboard, any way you shake it that move totally did not pan out. It’s easy to talk with hindsight but let’s keep it to the fact that nobody really was excited with the appointment of Witt. Not like we predicted that he would be the worst coach in the NBA, which he is, but at least no one was excited either.
The truth is that lately some good things have happend. The problem is that it’s only a fixing of past faults.
So Kevin the GM > yes he did clean up the mess with several deals going from Blount/Davis/Hassell/Jaric to Walker/Buckner/Jaric to Miller/Cardinal/Booth, positioning us for this years draft and free agency, not overpaying our free agents and whatnot.
The problem is that Blount/Davis/Hassell and Jaric all were players that he himself acquiered. So the most he gets is “he was a bad GM but at least he cleaned up his mess after him”.
McHale the coach > If you have to take over from Witt, you’d have a hard time doing worse, no offence to the guy but he just ain’t a head coach. From the experts to the fans, we all had an average expection of somewhere in the 32-36 range. We’re playing that right now (well maybe a little better, right) so yes, he’s doing a decent to good job, but everybody knew we had talent all along, we just undervalued how much the coaching style crashed with the players, imo.
Also, I hear from people seeing the games he’s making rookie mistakes, so no way he gets coach of the year just for the “pratice is my time, the game is your time” thing. That’s too easy.
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In complete off topic again. In dutch it’s not “any way you shake it” but “any way you rotate it”: gelijk hoe je het draait…
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by Wim (Belgium) on Jan 24, 2009 2:34 AM CST up reply actions
He's definitely proven...
…to be a motivator, but I think the rookie coaching mistakes will catch up to him and none of these games are being played under anything remotely approaching pressure.
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Ahahahaha. Admit it, you are just hoping that he wins it and gets fired a year later a la Eddie Jordan and Sam Mitchell
On the other hand, who is the front runner for COY? Mike Brown?
Definitely Mike Brown...
….he retooled the offense and they’re playing like gangbusters.
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If they play like this for the rest of the season
McHale definitely get some votes for 2nd and 3rd place, though Mike Brown is probably going to a near unanimous winner. But he’s definitely going to get the George Karl “the team just exploded when he came aboard” votes.
Honorable Mention
He’ll get the looks of an honorable mention by the media and such. Nothing too extravagant. But yes, if all would go well. Thats all he would really get though, an honorable mention. At least thats what I think
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