Dick Justice: Alexander looking to replace Adelman

This will get some hate, but I wouldn't mind having Sloan if Adelman calling it quits.

 

I think P-pat might be pretty nice in his system. Not sure about chuck though.

 

Battier for head coach!

 

I thought Morey was the GM... isn't HE the guy who would be looking to replace the coach and hire a new one?

 

LOL i would like to see T-Will Iso 1 on every play in the 4th quarter :-D

 

I'm almost 75% sure Morey does not see Adelman in our rebuilding plans. I actually think Morey would like to fire him.

 

I think people are overrating the "go young" argument.

Last time I checked DM ultimate goal is not to go young (necessarily), but to land that superstar, whether is going up on the draft or trading for an established player.

But since this topic is about what Les might be thinking I will speculate like I always like to do. I think Les, as an owner, wants a BAMMM kind of coach, meaning, he wants a coach that established players would like to play for. I think we are preparing something BIG, now that the big markets in the East got what they wanted, sooner or later, superstars in the East will gradually move to the west, There are too many "superfriends" and "lonely friend" in the East, and there is only one ring.

I think we will make a big move to move up in the draft, so that we can have THAT PIECE not to build around, but to trade for THE MAN.

If you were D.Howard, D.Will or even CP3 (or whatever), wound´t you like to play for someone like Sloan or even JVG???? Or would they prefer Rick??? Or they pull a surprise and go after old Rockets glories as assistants???

Regardless of the answers to these questions, I think Les is not worried about T.Will or Thabeet not getting mins (right now) with Adelman, all he wants to know is, is Adelman a coach that would incentive players to come here, that is the question.

For me there is no doubt, Adelman is a GREAT coach, and I disagree that he doesn´t know how to handle young guys. He only know how to handle young guys willing to get better every day, me makes rookies, fight for every minute on the court, he makes them want to practice just to show coach they are working hard.

There is a reason Landry was a workaholic, there is a reason why AB fought hard for playing time (before he got cocky and thought he was a star), these guys worked hard, and they demonstrated in limited minutes, that they could be players in this league.

People question why was Battier a starter when Bud was on the bench, what people don´t say is that Bud looked like a d-leaguer after the ankle injury, but of course, now that Bud is playing good basketball, yes, Battier is crap and Bud should have been a starter .

People question why Adelman kept playing AB after he returned from injury, I guess it is easy to understand. DM wanted to trade AB for a great player, that was his goal, he knew AB was going to demand big money in FA, so he needed AB to step up, in fact not only DM needed him, the team needed him, he felt like quitting. Remember what Adelman did when Bud was sucking after the injury??? He played him, even with him sucking bad. I guess people love Adelman for playing Bud until he recovered his game, and hate Adelman for playing AB because he didn´t have the heart to get himself out of it (in fact he is still sucking bad), I guess some of you are the best at predicting the future, but only after it actually happens.

People blamed Adelman for not playing T.Will, but when he plays, people just hate on him. If he closes his eyes wile on the bench, he is asleep, if he doesn´t get up after a Bud dunk, he doesn´t care, if he is not running all the time, he is pulling a t-mac. "He sucks", "he thinks he is a star", etc etc, all of these are affirmations from fans, but they still say that Adelman is the one to blame for the limited playing time, when you can clearly see that T.will is lost in our system.

People even bash Adelman for not playing Thabeet. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Blaming Adelman for not playing a big man, in our offense, I mean.......

But then you blame him for playing Miller, when you can clearly see that he KNOWS the system, our offense with him or Hayes in the hight post is just delicious to see. There is a reason why Hill and Pat look great when playing with Brad, and not so great (Pat better then Hill) when he isn´t in there (not saying Miller is a stud, but he just know what to do, because he is not lost).

Players need time, and believe me, when you are lost playing b-ball, it doesn´t matter if you play 5 or 30mins, you will not develop anything.

PeAcE

 

Someone needs to explain to me what is this "rebuilding coach" that everyone seems to fantasize about, yet never bothers to explain. Is it a coach more interested in "developing talent" as opposed to winning games? That isn't a coach, that's a scrub who sits out on the court and does nothing, and just plays young guys. That's a Rambis, a Del Negro, the coaches of teams that could be considered rebuilding. Who here would honestly want them over Adelman? Are we honestly mad at Adelman for trying to do the most with this squad and win as much as we can? This is just part of the obsession with tanking that is annoying here.

What's more development? Letting a player like Terrence Williams out there to iso, jack up bad shots and throw crazy passes in the hope that he magically gets it? Or letting him understand that he is to know his place, to work within a TEAM concept? The latter is more beneficial than the former, from my perspective.

If Adelman wants to leave, that's understandable. I'll wish him good luck wherever he goes, even if joins the Superfriends. But to suggest that we should get rid of him, a top 5 coach in this league, in the name of rebuilding, is idiotic. How have the Kings been doing ever since they let go of him and have been rebuilding? They've had scrub coach after scrub coach, and they just let the players have total control of the team and chaos. That is not what I want here at all. I have no desire to have this team like Sacramento.

 

I hope DM does a good job of recruiting a new coach. RA is good at getting the best offense out of his players but his late game management just leaves me shaking his head. He showed it again last night.

For a young team which needs a lot of guidance, just letting them play in a close endgame will not work. He doesn't have any good endgame strategies--not even calling a screen for Lowry. Yeah, HOU deserves a better coach.

 

Van Gundy traded a cohesive offensive game for easy defense. Adelman trades a consistent defensive game for easy offense.

Adelman's best teams figure out how to run his offense and still play with energy and consistency on D. Van Gundy's best teams never figured out how to do that on offense.

 

Name this coach. This is what I am getting at. There are two coaches in this league I would rather have than Adelman, Pop and Rivers. Neither is coming here.

 

And recruiting Brad Miller to play for us and probably twisting DM's arm to sign Brad ... ugh!!! Who says RA is a top-flight coach?? tsk tsk tsk

He won't do well in MIA, maybe POR would accept him. You think Lebron and Wade would be patient enough to learn his offense. Plus Pat Riley's there.

I just say let RA go, but leave Jack Sikma behind so he can continue to be our big man coach.

 

If Adleman is canned or quites. I think we do need some new blood, I wouldn't mind giving Brian Shaw a look...

 

I hope that we keep Adleman, our offense is definately clicking, we just need a break as in getting a star player/big effective center. If he were to leave, I would jump back on the JVG wagon, but the thing thats scares me is that he has a history of doing the same as Adleman, playing the vets too many minutes. THis would hinder the developement of our younger players. Let's see how this off season goes before we get serious about switching coaches!

 

Because we had Ryan Bowen and David Wesley starting under JVGs best teams. Watch the highlight reel from last night. Do you think JVG ever let Hakim Warrick do that? Would hardly call it consistent.

 

Agreed..if somehow Adleman and Van Gundy could be on the same caoching staff...JVG = Assistant coach ??

 

i don't know what all of you are thinking about. these big name coaches are getting old. eventually they will go into the history. our life has to go on. letting ra go is not a big deal as long as we can find a young gun to go with. some young coaches will blossom. we just need to find a such coach.

i was, am, and will be extremely disappointed we let tom thibodeau go. he will be a great coach. this is the biggest mistake RA, DM, or Les made or combination of them.

 

You probably shouldn't waste your time responding to high-volume low-content posters.

 

I disagree with this. We want to build a team which can win and we want to do it as quickly as possible. We have alot of good role players, the key is trying to acquire a star (be it through draft especially since we could have a couple of 1sts that can be packaged and a coach who is good at scouting talent, FAcy, or development which is unlikely).

Letting go of a HOF coach for somebody unproven can potentially be (scratch that, more than likely be) asking to suck for the next decade plus. Quite frankly, I don't want to watch a team that will suck for a decade.

Maybe it is best for him, but it definitely isn't best for us.

 

nice thought, Les.

Yao is going to our next coach.