Rockets and McHale agree to a 3year deal, 4th year TO

[Kal El]

the "keeping part of adelmans offense" is only thing that interest me throughout this whole coaching find. hopefully mchale can surprise as a coach, though im not expecting it.

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Barnes is a overhyped Marvin Williams IMO. Not very athletic, slow first step, body movement isn't fluid. I don't like him.
I've only watched highlights of Adonis Thomas, but he's got a likeable face and I like his name. That's good enough for me.

I'm quite confident though that this team won't suck next season and we most definitely won't tank. Depending on who'll we sign and bring back in free agency I'd expect us to be somewhere in the 40-50 win range again.

besides playing the same position and going to unc they are different players. He has more of a smooth game while marvin was more of an athlete. I think marvin had a higher ceiling and harrison is a better shooter. Most of the draft comparisons liken him to luol deng, I would generally agree with that except he's better at creating his own shot and probably will be a better 3 point shooter. Like marvin they both have strength issues and neither can play with their back to the basket depsite their size....

Both are about 6-8. Both are SF's. Both have skinny frames. Both have a relatively slow first step. Neither is very athletic. Neither has fluid body movement.
Williams played 7 minutes less at UNC, but if you adjust the numbers he had a much more impressive year than Barnes.

I'd agree that Barnes will likely be better than Williams in the NBA, perhaps even slightly better than Deng, but that's his ceiling. A slightly better Luol Deng.
Not sure if that gets me excited.

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Small lead assistant/staff updates:

The Rockets have not hired assistant coaches and don’t expect to make those hires this month. The contracts of the previous staff expire June. 30.

I don’t think there will anyone back from the coaching staff. Player development guys Brett Gunning and Shawn Respert, have a chance, but that has not bee decided.

http://blog.chron.com/nba/2011/06/mavs- ... -temerity/

New Houston coach Kevin McHale is looking for a No. 1 assistant and the Rockets are ready to offer $1.2 million over three years. But at least one candidate was scared off when he correctly deduced that a member of McHale's staff, Chris Finch, is GM Daryl Morey's golden boy. They're already talking about Finch, promoted recently from coaching in the D-League, as McHale's eventual successor.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baske ... dwane.html

[rdehonney]

Barnes is a overhyped Marvin Williams IMO. Not very athletic, slow first step, body movement isn't fluid. I don't like him.
I've only watched highlights of Adonis Thomas, but he's got a likeable face and I like his name. That's good enough for me.

I'm quite confident though that this team won't suck next season and we most definitely won't tank. Depending on who'll we sign and bring back in free agency I'd expect us to be somewhere in the 40-50 win range again.

besides playing the same position and going to unc they are different players. He has more of a smooth game while marvin was more of an athlete. I think marvin had a higher ceiling and harrison is a better shooter. Most of the draft comparisons liken him to luol deng, I would generally agree with that except he's better at creating his own shot and probably will be a better 3 point shooter. Like marvin they both have strength issues and neither can play with their back to the basket depsite their size....

Both are about 6-8. Both are SF's. Both have skinny frames. Both have a relatively slow first step. Neither is very athletic. Neither has fluid body movement.
Williams played 7 minutes less at UNC, but if you adjust the numbers he had a much more impressive year than Barnes.

I'd agree that Barnes will likely be better than Williams in the NBA, perhaps even slightly better than Deng, but that's his ceiling. A slightly better Luol Deng.
Not sure if that gets me excited.

I would agree with most of that. He's definitely not a player you can center your franchise around but I think he'd be a very solid 2nd or 3rd option that can come up big in certain situations.

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Chris Finch is now officially part of the Rockets coaching staff.

Chris Finch, who coached the team’s NBA Development League affiliate, as expected has been elevated to a Rockets assistant coach, Rockets general manager Daryl Morey said on Friday.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/spo ... 25967.html

[texasholdem]

LOL at Wolves thinking Mike K. would leave Duke to coach them.
Maybe Rick Adelman would do it?

[rdehonney]

LOL at Wolves thinking Mike K. would leave Duke to coach them.
Maybe Rick Adelman would do it?

Mike is one of the few smart ones. He has it made @ duke, even if he has a bad year(which is a rarity in itself) he knows he has good players coming in the next year and even if he can't get that top class he can find players that work well in his system. Why leave college for the nba "challenge", stay in college, continue to develop players and watch them mature, and make that money. I can't stand duke but mike is that dude.