FOUR YEARS OF D'ANTONI
McFail 2 'Antoni
Dwert pls
Les Alexander finally got the coach he's wanted for the past 10 years.
"This is why you don't hire the first coach you interviewed"
djohn2008- 05/09/2016
ends up with d'antoni
Todays nba
Two things..."This is why you don't hire the first coach you interviewed"
djohn2008- 05/09/2016
ends up with d'antoni
1. Who didn't see it coming?
2. Hiring a coach to run Dwight out of town is classic Leslie
4 years WOW
This should be good...
Man actually feel bad for Houston tbh
Great hire
seriously bro, what's the logic behind this one? Was les looking for an uptempo game etc
Les wants an uptempo offense to copy Golden State. He never wanted to rebuild either. I dont know his thinking but i do know he wanted a big name coach. Smh. He always wants a big name, no matter if its a player or a coach.
Houston media never slams anybody like they did today...Les Alexander was warned: Do the right thing, go young and bright.
The Rockets didn't listen to reason throughout their broken 2015-16 season.
They tuned the world out again Thursday, as news broke that Mike D'Antoni -- whose best NBA run came almost a decade ago -- will become the official coaching replacement to Kevin McHale.
Rising Charlotte assistant Stephen Silas was the smart choice. The Rockets interviewed about 52 other candidates, with many viewed as potential ahead-of-the-curve answers.
But Alexander did what he's always done since the last golden ball arrived in Houston more than 20 years ago. He went with the big, splashy name. He refused to build slow, overlooked the long-term play and simply bought the most expensive thing.
Which is fine if D'Antoni, 65, somehow magically resurrects his career and does in the fourth-largest city in the country what he failed to do in Los Angeles and New York. But that currently feels as reasonable as James Harden making the NBA All-Defensive team.
One of the greatest offensive players in the league was intentionally left off all three of the overall All-NBA teams on the same day D'Antoni was hired, which tells you just how much of a risk Alexander is taking at a critical point in Harden's career.
The Rockets must rebuild around Harden and redirect their star to have any shot at being a true contender in upcoming years. D'Antoni was dragged down by dysfunction at his last two head-coaching jobs and has never been known for full-court discipline. He's the man that can turn 41-41 into better than what McHale did?
It's impossible to say in May what the D'Antoni Rockets will look like next April. General manager Daryl Morey has more work to do than anyone in the franchise and he's pleasantly shocked us all before.
But remember this as you try to accept D'Antoni as the new guy: The Rockets will tell you that they intentionally took their sweet, deliberate time making a decision that will affect them for years. But you're smarter than that. You know there's a reason 29 other NBA teams had coaches Thursday morning and no one else wanted the man the Rockets decided to hand shoot-first Harden off to.
Mike (D)'Antoni, meet James Har(d)en. Have fun
Sorry to hear that bro lmao
Ehh it's nothing new. Houston sports are an eternal joke. One thing can make it worse though, is if Dwight opts in
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