I’m not really sure what the Houston Rockets hoped to accomplish by firing Kevin McHale. Daryl Morey and Les Alexander pretty much admitted that themselves after the firing, as they said that it was done as a warning sign for this team to get up off their butts and do something.
Well, it hasn’t happened. Yes, the Rockets won their first game under Bickerstaff as Harden dropped 40+ points. But that already happened twice under McHale. And tonight was just another one of those losses that happened under his tenure, as the Rockets couldn’t hit anything and forgot what defense is for large stretches of this game.