Will the Rockets hire a "Daryl Morey" to succeed Adelman?

I'd rather have my UT Longhorns hire one of those two guys...to be honest.

 

Those are nice out of the box coaches to consider. I wouldnt mind Adelman staying if Morey got some more talent here. I also wouldnt mind these guys.

 

You have to consider experience...they lack A TON compared to other candidates. Even someone like Mario Elie will have a lot more. This is a young team as it is, so i'm not sure Les wants to go that young. There's also something odd about being coached by someone your age. I dont know how that would play out. Might have certain situations in the future where the players know more than the coach.

I think they'd both need to become assistants before being considered for NBA head coaching jobs. Or at least coach for another 5 yrs or so.

 

Yeah thats true. I like Mario Elie to come back here to coach also. I also dont relish the thought of him ever getting backlash from the fans if it doesnt work out.

 

Assuming this isn't one of CH's joke topic, which it doesn't look like....

If the Rockets hire either one, they're basically going into full tank mode. NBA coaching is as much about stroking players' egos as it is actually "coaching". No young college can keep a roster of NBA veterans in check and actually listening to his stuff. And quite frankly, no superstar would even consider coming to Houston until we actually accomplish something.

On the bright side, the Rockets roster is about as ideal as you can get for a young college coach to come in. Scola, Hayes, and Martin, our veterans, are professional players. The rest of the roster is filled with younger guys that really haven't accomplished anything. So they're not likely to go Detroit and quit on a new guy.

Regardless, if Adelman leaves after the season for whatever reason, the Rockets will be going into full tank mode next year.

 

OLAJUWON for Coach!
Mario Ellie, Sam Cassell & Kenny Smith as his assistants.

 

nice theory but I college coaches never pan as it is, then bring a very young coach on top of that.. thats asking for epic fail there

 

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I believe the only college coach to successfully make the transistion was Larry Brown

 

No. Morey will hire a young talented coach with "upside"

A Nate McMillan/Scottie Brooks type coach. A coach that understands analytics and does take that in mind. A Coach that advance scouting like Coach Nate....

 

It's hard to say. I think that a coach's soft skills, his ability to keep the players motivated, focused, and bought into his vision of what the team should do on both sides of the ball is more important than his hard skills in terms of making the statistically correct tactical decision (and I say this as a huge Moneyball believer) because very few coaches call every play from the sidelines. There's not a lot of micromanaging that goes on in basketball, and even the best tactical mind can only do so much.

Put another way, I believe the Rockets will have more success with a coach in the 95th percentile of soft skills and the 50th percentile of tactical decision-making rather than vice versa. I'd be interested to see how a quantitative analysis coach works out, but I'd like to see another team take the plunge first. We'd be very hard-pressed to find a better coach than RA.

 

LB coached in college, but he wasn't a 'college coach'.

Next coach of Rox, if RA leaves that is, is ... Elston Turner.

 

I would probably agree..

 

LB was an NBA/ABA coach who took a job in college, won a championship and ended up going back to the NBA.

 

I really think if any college coach has the potential, it is Stevens. The guy is a winner. I still think that he is too young at this point. But if he can continue putting up results for the next decade, he might get a shot.

 

Did some reading. Dick Motta and Bill Fitch were both college coaches. As was Cotton Fitzsimmons.

Guys like Pitino/Cal never really made it. But to be fair, they both had crap teams.

If you are a great coach, you are a great coach. I am not buying the whole "college coaches can't coach in the NBA" notion.

 

Pretty sure he is a lifer at Butler. Isn't he from Indiana?

 

This. And even though I think all of our vets would be fine with a young coach, I could see us trading Martin and Scola while there value is high for more young pieces anyways, since going with an up and comer we are pretty much showing we are full rebuilding.

 

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