The Houston Rockets have fired coach Kevin McHale, just 11 games into the current season, the team announced Wednesday.
The firing, first reported by Yahoo! Sports, comes as the Rockets are off to a 4-7 start so far in the 2015-16 season.
Houston went 56-26 last season, advancing all the way to the conference finals, where it fell to eventual champion Golden State in five games.
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That success, so far, hasn’t translated into the current season.
“We’re not in a good place,” Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey told reporters Wednesday. “We are losing to teams we should beat by double digits.”
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Five of the team’s seven losses have been my double digits. Houston lost Monday 111-95 to the Boston Celtics.
Assistant coach J.B. Bickerstaff will take over as interim head coach.
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