RICK THE RULER..PERIOD http://www.nba.com/coachfile/rick_adelman/ Rick Adelman became the 11th head coach in Rockets history on May 23, 2007, returning to the bench after a season away from the NBA. Adelman owns a career record of 752-481 (.610) in 16 NBA seasons as a head coach with the Portland Trail Blazers (1988-1994), Golden State Warriors (1995-1997) and Sacramento Kings (1998-2006). He has recorded the sixth most wins among active NBA coaches behind Don Nelson (Golden State), Pat Riley (Miami), Jerry Sloan (Utah), Phil Jackson (L.A. Lakers) and George Karl (Denver). Adelman stands as one of only five head coaches in league history to win 60 or more games with two different teams. He also holds a career 70-68 (.507) mark in the postseason, as his teams have reached the playoffs 14 times in 16 seasons. Known around the league as a basketball teacher with an ability to mold a team’s style of play around the strengths of his players, Adelman’s coaching highlights include a pair of NBA Finals appearances (1990 and 1992 with Portland), four trips to the Western Conference Finals (1990-92 with Portland and 2002 with Sacramento) and four division titles (1990-91 and 1991-92 with Portland; 2001-02 and 2002-03 with Sacramento). Adelman has been runner-up for NBA Coach of the Year honors three times (1990-91 with Portland; 2000-01 and 2001-02 with Sacramento). He has also coached the West Team in the NBA All-Star Game on three separate occasions (1991 with Portland; 2001 and 2003 with Sacramento). Adelman has been named NBA Coach of the Month five times over his career. Adelman’s trademark offenses have finished among the top five in the NBA in scoring on 12 occasions over his head coaching career. He has had three additional teams rank in the top 10 in points per game. His teams have also shown a great balance on the defensive end of the floor. When matched with pace of play, Adelman has had five squads (four with Portland and one with Sacramento) finish in the top five in scoring defense.
LA DI DA DI Rick rules this party he can play Rafer or anybody he likes cause when he rocks the mike he rocks the mike right For all a y'all, Rick keeps the Rockets in good health if he wants to play Steve or put him on the shelf
Im down with this opinion. Tinman is freaking awesome. Do another picture storyline about the fans whining about francis.
Come on coach, you know he'll at least pass it to me! Come on coach, Steve got me a job in the NBA! Come on coach, he's my Lao Da! Wrong Rookie! he's my Lao Da!
Unfortunately, he has never won an NBA championship, hasn't coached in the NBA finals since Drexler was in his prime, never got his vaunted Sacramento teams in the finals, never actually won coach of the year honors. Yeah, the typical brides maid and never the bride, as we finally get past the second round in two years while still never winning a championship.
Have you seen the rosters of the teams he's had the privilege of coaching? He's probably right under Phil Jackson who lucked out with Jordan and got to move to a Shaq/Kobe combo
he's never coached a center as dominant as yao. as nick van exel said this morning on the radio, i still don't understanding moving him out to the high post, but whatever.
Yeah, so? If you can win 60% percent of your regular season games and never win the championship, what's the point, losing is still losing. Mavs had the best win-lose record last year and still got bumped in the first round. The point of hiring him was to have improvement over JVG, don't see it as we hang around .500. Get our team to the Finals, then I'll say he's the man, until then he's no better than JVG to me.
Steve came here to help Tmac and Yao. Rick came to Houston to rule. So all of you complaining and beat boxing, it doesn't matter cause.. RICK THE RULER!
they are definitely not going to say anything negative about RA. But just ask Phil Jackson, RA can't make right decisions approaching the end of the game. The old Kings' roster have almost as much talents as our team now, but they never win a ring. But the league now is getting much better than old days, too many good teams out there. Comparing Yao to Webber, Miller, and Vladic (whatever how his name spells) is a joke, all three of them are SOFT players, all time LOSERS, Shaq can bike them at anytime. When Yao is under JVG, he is becoming dominant, he can take Shaq in the low post one on one. Emphasizing on Yao's passing ability is also a joke. If a guy can score easily in the low post against someone like Shaq, what's the point to pass the ball?? If you can score, score it for god's sake. Only the losers like Webber or Vladic, who fear to battle with Shaq in the low post, will come up take the stupid shot or pass the ball out, because they suck.
some of you don't know that its November and the NBA playoffs don't start in December. oh, Yao is so dominant under JVG.
The old Kings roster didn't have the individual scorers that you need down the stretch of an NBA game. With 10 seconds left, dumping it into Yao or letting McGrady roam is much more effective than setting picks and screens and trying to get Chris Webber a good shot. And he's not emphasizing Yao's passing...it's more like he's implementing that element of his game into a grander scheme. There's still plenty of bread and butter for Yao (and Mac for that matter). One thing a lot of people aren't mentioning is the fact that Rick himself is still learning the offense for this team. He hasn't had this type of roster before, so he's exploring options and seeing what's best for the players - particularly, what works best for Yao and McGrady. Basically, he's still working on finding the Rockets' offense, and it's not going to be a mirror image of the Kings, who weren't a mirror image of the Trail Blazers.
