Finch

Mr. Clutch · Nov 22, 2015

I need more pictures do determine if he's a good coach

thedude077 · Nov 22, 2015

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Finch works on the offense, he was promoted when McHale was fired.

Obviously Bickerstaff is the HC but Finch is specifically there to work on the offense.
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Damn, not good. The team is shooting too many 3's and they're all bricks. They have to do something about that, they need to settle to make more 2 point shots and make 3's when in they are wide open only.

Easy · Nov 22, 2015

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Yeah... Morey never said he was grooming him the future head coach. He wanted Finch on the staff... And a number of GM's have added assistants or had say on the coaching staff.
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Not sure if Morey ever said it in public. But Feigan did say that.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ba...lan-to-pick-a-coach-in-waiting?urn=nba,wp2506

J.R. · Nov 22, 2015

Before we get to the possible long-term solutions, it's worth noting that the assistant McHale had been grooming to replace him, at the behest of management, got passed over for the interim job. Chris Finch, the former British national team coach, was elevated to associate head coach under Bickerstaff.

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/writer...vin-mchale-brings-more-questions-than-answers
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The Rockets placed the completion of Kevin McHale’s coaching staff on hold until next month but do have one assistant in place.

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

Finch helped with the workouts of draft prospects, and attended the news conference introducing the four new players and a workout of the players late Friday.

The Rockets had wanted Rick Adelman to add Finch to his staff during the talks that led to Adelman’s departure as coach.

In his two seasons with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, Finch led the Vipers to the D-League finals both seasons, winning the 2009-10 NBA Development League championship.

http://www.chron.com/sports/rockets...h-Finch-added-to-Rockets-coaching-2079491.php
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The Rockets had decided they would choose Rick Adelman's successor even before the team and the coach had agreed to part ways.

Adelman could have remained the Rockets' head coach, but was told that the Rockets had decided to hire his successor and put him on Adelman’s coaching staff if he remained, according to two individuals with knowledge of the talks.

Though Adelman and Rockets general manager Daryl Morey came together on several issues, Morey wanted Adelman to mentor a successor that Morey and Rockets owner Leslie Alexander would have chosen and put on Adelman’s staff. Adelman was unwilling to make the changes necessary to his staff, arguing in favor of assistants.

Adelman, 64, has long touted lead assistant Elston Turner as ready to lead a team, but the Rockets were not willing to designate Turner as Adelman’s successor, leading to Turner’s decision to turn down an offer to interview for the head coaching position.

There were discussions about adding Rio Grande Valley Vipers coach Chris Finch to the Rockets staff, according to both persons familiar with the talks, but it is unclear if Finch would have been designated as the head coach in waiting.

Morey has been unwilling to discuss the disagreements that led to Adelman’s departure.

“We agreed to keep those conversations to ourselves,” Morey said last month. “We feel like we need change. I think the differences in terms of the mutual fit revolve around that.”

Though there have been instances in which assistant coaches have been designated to succeed veteran coaches, in those cases the assistant was part of a staff, rather than placed on the staff by the front office.

It is even more unusual given Adelman’s track record. He moved to eighth in career coaching wins and had the best winning percentage as Rockets coach in franchise history.

Sikma, who interviewed for the Rockets head coaching position last week, was an assistant coach in Seattle for four seasons. R.J. Adelman had been an advance scout for the Kings and SuperSonics before joining his father in Houston.

The insistence on putting a successor on Adelman’s staff would not be a part of the current coaching search because the Rockets are not expected to choose a coach late in his career. They could, however, seek to place Finch or another coach with a player development background on a new coach’s staff.

Finch is not expected to be a candidate for the head coaching position with the Rockets apparently seeking a coach with experience as an NBA head or assistant coach.

The Rockets interviewed Mike Woodson, Mario Elie, Kelvin Sampson and Sikma last week and are expected to meet with Sam Cassell and Kevin McHale this week. They have also shown interest in Dallas’ Dwane Casey, New Orleans’ Michael Malone, Boston’s Lawrence Frank, Los Angeles’ Brian Shaw and San Antonio’s Mike Budenholzer, though Budenholzer said he was not looking to leave San Antonio.

http://www.chron.com/sports/rockets...disagreed-over-coaching-successor-1686558.php
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Chris Finch, the coach of the Rockets’ NBA Development League team, will be promoted from the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, in part because he spent the past two seasons running the offense that worked well for the Rockets under Adelman.

http://www.chron.com/sports/rockets...o-four-year-deal-to-coach-Rockets-1684946.php
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Another element of the Rockets’ job will be the prospective coach’s willingness to include the Rockets D-League affiliate’s coach as an assistant. Rockets management is enamored with Rio Grande’s Chris Finch, and some see him as a future head coach in the NBA. Finch left a European coaching career to join the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in 2009. He’s won a D-League title and advanced to the finals in 2011.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-wojnarowski_mchale_coach_warriors_rockets_finalists051911
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The key to the Houston Rockets' hiring of Kevin McHale? D-League coach Chris Finch. McHale will be charged with grooming Finch for the futue</p>— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) <a href="https://twitter.com/mcten/status/74172897622622208">May 27, 2011</a></blockquote>
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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. McHale's biggest task at the outset: Bringing law and order to a disharmonious locker room.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/b...defensive-minded-dwane-casey-article-1.129671
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McHale may very well be the Rockets’ bridge to the next era. The team hired former Rio Grande Valley Vipers coach Chris Finch as an assistant on McHale’s staff and there is speculation that Finch will be groomed as McHale’s successor and the eventual long-term coach. If Finch is, indeed, the coach-in-waiting, McHale is fine with it. “I like Chris from the time I’ve spent with him,” McHale said. “I’ve gotta do my job. I’m not worried about anybody else’s job. I better be worried about my job and doing the best job I can.”

http://www.foxsportshouston.com/06/...nding_rockets.html?blockID=535680&feedID=3714
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Finch guided the Vipers to the D-League finals in each of his two seasons -- winning the championship in 2010 -- and so impressed Rockets general manager Daryl Morey that he wanted to add him to Rick Adelman's staff at the end of last season. When Adelman and the Rockets parted ways, he eventually became a candidate for McHale's staff.

"I liked a lot of the ideas Chris brought to the table and felt comfortable with him right away," McHale said. "I definitely have my ideas about what I think makes a team success in the NBA. But you want guys with a fresh outlook, guys who can adapt. And I'll tell you, nobody has to adapt more than those coaches in the D-League."

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While the Rockets weren't micromanaging or telling Finch what plays to run out of a timeout, they were in constant touch and generally wanted the Vipers to institute a loose structure of running in transition and moving the ball on offense.

"That was our backbone," Finch said. "You're always going to have your two- or three-game losing streak. But we were doing things -- the way we ran practice to working on individual skills -- with a purpose. You're trying to get some guys up to the next level and get guys from the NBA club who are rehabbing or just need time working on their game to feel comfortable in a system that you want to be at least similar.

"One of our goals was the corner offense that coach Adelman was running with the Rockets, but we also tried other things. We used a lot of the same terminology to make going back and forth between the clubs smoother. But they always encouraged me to experiment, use things I saw in Europe, try different things of my own. The more experiences you get, the more you learn."

http://www.nba.com/2011/news/features/fran_blinebury/08/17/chris-finch/?ls=iref:nbahpt1
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Easy · Nov 22, 2015

What would CF be without J.R. the media search bot. :grin:

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