Da-Glyde, My take was not that there was pressure to retire, but the pressure came from the fact that they wanted to micromanage Rudy's coaching.
Barkley can be a dolt. 'Lakers are a young, energetic team. They need a young, energetic coach' How did Hubie Brown do in Memphis? Charles is one of those guys who ignores evidence and argues what he thinks make sense to him.
^ I dont even know anymore... I was posting that as DA was talking and now everyone is saying diff stuff, but it did sound like Magic wants Pat to come back and coach them...
On 610, Jeff Van Gundy just expressed his hope that Rudy would return to the Rockets and end his career as a Rocket, "where he belongs."
It was disturbing to hear that he needed to take antibiotics for infections after two years. I hope and pray that the malignancy is not active again.
micromanaging a guy for playing the style you knew he played before he got there would seem to be stupid. on the one hand, a force out almost seems like what is has to be but it doesn't make that much sense for 3 reasons: 1. even if buss doesn't like the halfcourt style, he only gives it 1/2 a season out of 5 years? 2. even if he only gives it half a season, wouldn't you have to substantially underperform to bring up style? i mean i have to think 23-19 was somewhere on the upper end of projected records for the lakers at this point and when you consider that was with kobe missing 8 of those games (and they even went .500 w/o kobe) i can't imagine you can bring up too much about style when the team is doing fairly well. 3. and why would rudy do buss the favor of quitting? rudy had a contract for 5 years and 30 million that he was one tenth of the way through. if buss really wants to b**** about the way you're doing things while being fairly successful, make him fire you and pay you the $30M, you don't let him out of that responsibility. maybe the stress of coaching and health was just enough to tip the scale when combined with annoyance by ownership and he really just decided to get out of it of his own accord. still sucks to see him go.
I just read this and was speculating as to what Shaq was talking about? I wonder if Rudy was just drinking again or something like that? No big deal if he is, but best of luck quitting again if that's the problem. Rudy's a good guy.
This, along withthe fact (Riverside Press reporting) that Rudy is going to be paid for another two years by the Lakers (as a consultant - sound familiar?) casts a lot of doubt in mind as to whether this was really Rudy's decision. There was also press about Rudy not feeling like he had 'support' from managment, Kobe not respecting him as a coach (minor arguments, "Kobe loves Rudy as a person", etc). Has Jerry Buss issued a statement? Reading Kupchak's statement, it could be that Rudy was given a list of options to consider, with resignation being an idea that the Lakers brought up. I don't know. It also seems very plausable to me that Rudy started drinking again and he knew he had to do something drastic and quick. Really tough to tell. Still, all kinds of love for Rudy T. Evan
More to Rudy T's retirement? Lock if it's a repost. From Yahoo Sports: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-shaq-lakers&prov=ap&type=lgns O'Neal also hinted that there was more to Tomjanovich's decision than what was publicly revealed. ``I know the real deal. Officer O'Neal knows it all, baby. ... But I won't be the first to talk about it.'' What does that mean?
The Lakers didn't deserve Rudy and Rudy certainly is not deserving of that uncoachable team. F the Laker's entire organization.
Why was this thread moved, if in this forum we can talk about ex-Rocket Tracy Murray, why cna't we talk of Rudy?...
@JW86 @Air Yordan @kjayp @xiki @J.R. @Reeko @rockets13champs @Ziggy So Jeff Van Gundy WASN'T THE ONE WHO WANTED RUDY NOT TO COME BACK. The great thing about Clutchfans is the truth is always here
