Kevin McHale is but one in the line of those questioned in Clutch City these days.
The Houston Rockets seem to have decided, for now, that coach McHale is still their guy. Thrown into the fire of championship expectations the moment Dwight Howard signed on to join James Harden last summer, Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle reports that Rockets management believes the coach deserves more time with this squad.
This despite a recent, painful first-round exit versus the Portland Trail Blazers.
That’s probably the right decision. Emotional and disappointed as the Rockets and their fans must be, a rational eye tells us that the season was not a failure.
General manager Daryl Morey said as much in a recent Q&A with the Houston Chronicle:
We continued growing as a team, getting more experience I felt the West this year, really anybody could win it. That makes it sting a little more. That said, we took a big leap forward. I think we can take a big step forward again next year and put ourselves in even better position and with a better team. Obviously, there is a lot of work fo ...
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Should Next Season Be Make-or-Break Year for Houston Rockets’ Kevin McHale?
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