National Basketball Association power rankings: What happened to the Houston Rockets?

He was 193-130 in four-plus seasons with the Rockets, and he guided Houston to three consecutive postseason appearances.

It didn’t take long for the job offers to start rolling in for Kevin McHale, who was sacked as the Houston Rockets’ coach less than 24 hours ago. There is not time in the tough Western Conference to wait for a turnaround.” Three of Houstons losses were by 20 points and two others were by more 12 or more points. The Mavericks have employed McHale as a consultant before, bringing him to training camp in 2009 before McHale’s hiring in Houston. That’s up to us. This has got to be a wake-up call. “We’ve got to get better”.

“We started playing the right way, the way we’ve been playing the past year or so”, Brewer said. From the tone of the article that Wojnarowski wrote opening night, it seems that every team in the league has respect and admiration for Coach Clifford. “I think you just watch our team play and it’s not that hard (to see)”, Morey explained. The Rockets were one of six western conference teams with goals to go to the Finals. And while McHale getting fired might have resulted from that meeting, telling us a lot about how the National Basketball Association works these days, at least in a few organizations, Harden got his share of criticism from the players on his team.

Considering how the Rockets are reliant on the three point shot, we can see why they’re losing.

Replacing McHale and is acting as the interim head coach was former assistant J. B. Bickerstaff.

“Extremely surprised that McHale was let go”, Carlisle said. “I’m so thankful to him”.

I did hear Bill Worrell say the Rockets’ win may have “saved the season.” OK. It’s the way we’re losing, by how much, by how the team is responding. “We believe in the players we have”. “Obviously he’s won championships so he knows what he’s talking about”. Corey Brewer made an off-balance 3-pointer to force overtime with 0.9 seconds left, and Harden took over from there, finishing with 11 assists, eight rebounds and five steals as the Rockets capped off an emotional day at the Toyota Center. McHale himself admitted it, as weird as it is for a head coach that just wins more games in each season with the team. It was still so early in the season, less than a month in and yet, McHale is already out of the job. “We hadn’t had an opportunity to communicate like that since the season had been going”.