[Chron] Justice: Alexander willing to roll dice on coach

Kurt Rambis will probably be available after tonight.

 

A coach that develop young players to become tradable assets? Yes.

There's only one way to win a Ring and that's having at least one Superstar player. Time to find one in our system (by playing them young) or trading for one (with our developed assets).

 

ELSTON TURNER

 

Why's everyone blaming Adelman & Miller? Adelman did the best possible job with the talent he had. After Yao went down, Adelman played a 9-10 man rotation to try to find out what would work the best. After shipping out Battier (they weren't going to resign him for next season anyway) & Brooks (his lingering injury cost him his 1st step) at the trade deadline, we played a 7-8 man rotation and played great considering that Morey & Alexander still hadn't obtained what we really need - a defensive BIG. Adelman did the best possible with what he had. He's not the problem, he's the scapegoat!

As far as Miller goes, he was brought in here to teach Adelman's system & run it with the 2nd unit, not to be the defensive BIG we needed. He did that! Just look at the passes that Scola, Hayes & Paterson are making now. I know I didn't mention Hill. He's just a slower learner, he'll get there.Those 3 are also getting wide open shots at the elbow now & making them.

Get Adelman someone 6-11 or better with length, mobility & corrdination (without gutting the team) and see what happens then.

 

/agreed. Hm. I do recall that the last time Les made a similar move for a younger, hungrier front office guy, we netted Daryl Morey. Not bad for a owner who is short-sighted (?).

 

We should easily be a 50 win team next year. We should let Adelman finish what he's started.

 

Adelman is a good coach but what he brings in intelligence he also confounds with his ARROGANCE! Game after game with ridiculous playing time for players that even fans know shouldn't be out there.

He chooses "experience" over the young hot hand 80% of the time during crunch time. His plays out of time outs are mediocre at best and he has zero patience with young players that don't suit a system of his (even though motion offense is has been in the NBA for Decades) .

Miller? I have no bone to pick with him really. He's semi retired and Rick forced Morey's hand with signing him and when it came tome for Rick to do Morey a favor and play T-Will Rick refused.

Funny how as soon as Morey traded away Rick's crutch players (AB and Battier) the team began to play better by forcing Rick into a tighter rotation with more PT for Lee, Patterson and even Hill at times.

 

We said this last year as well.

 

I find this to be overboard. Only 5 owners out there are outspending Les Alexander, and that's been the norm ever since the luxury tax came about. He's smart not spending foolishly and painting the team into a corner with a boatload of bad contracts.

This isn't baseball or football - championship building in this league is tough as nails. There are two handfuls (at most) of championship-caliber stars to be had, and teams that have them hold onto them with white knuckles.

The Detroit Pistons are the only champions in modern history to have won it all without one of those stars.

And I'm 100% fine with the notion of keeping Yao to subsidize the team spending. Why is that bad?

If you want to see teams run on the cheap, check out the Shinn-era Hornets (Cha and NO), the MJ Bobcats, the Kohl Bucks, the Sterling Clippers, the Ratner-era Nets, the Starver Suns, etc.

 

He was absolutely asked/pushed to resign.

That he joined the Lakers so quickly should help clue you in on that. Shades of SVG "resigning" so he could spend time with his family.

His short tenure in LA had nothing at all to do with his health - he butted heads with Kobe, went to management, and was informed that Kobe had far more pull then he did.

 

Let me clarify a little.

I have no problem with Les watching the bottom line and wanting to be profitable, that is what good businesses do.

My issue comes in the spin that contradicts the reality.

That Les is willing to spend whatever it takes to get a winner etc, when his history suggests that he will spend up to the Tax line...

There were players available at the trade deadline this year that might have pushed us to the playoffs, like Gerald Wallace etc, but we went the low risk way, yet again.

I am not saying Les is a bad owner, just that the spin does not add up to the reality, at least for me.

And to get rid of Adelman when you have a roster built for his type of offensive game plan would be silly, there are a lot of players that thrive because of this system that would be lost in another system, and that would be a massive step backwards.

As for Rudy T, he was forced out, fired, whatever you want to call it......again......it was spun another way........

The Rockets do a lot of that, IMO.......

DD

 

i don't think the justice's paper is fully understood by fans here. the most interesting point and the key part of justice's article are that les is willing to gamble on finding a NEXT greg popovich or bill bilichick. i completely agree on that. ra is what he is. everyone knows what he can do and what he can't do. if you have a veteran team and you want to win now, it's ok to look for a big fish. with all young players, finding a next great coach might be a better route to go with. look at bulls, they may finally find a next great coach although it's too ealier to say that. but you can't move your eye away them. bulls was searching for a young coach for a while. eventually they got one. i am willing to suffer for a few years if rox can get a next grep poppvich.

 

Welcome back DD and What make you think it was Les' idea not to go after Wallace and not Morey's?

I aint buying that. The system is about movement and chemistry and to say that the team will lose that just because a coach isn't here is a stretch.

Remember our when our defense disappeared the years after JVG left?

That's because it didn't. The players aren't just going to forget how to move without the ball and find an easy basket.

 

What is Richard Justice basis for writing this other than pulling this out of his backside? What does he know about this more than anyone else?

Both Morey and Adelman's contracts are apparently up at the end of this season and Les Alexander has stated that he wants to evaluate both of them in an orderly manner after the season is done. Why is that regarded as controversial? Sounds pretty reasonable to me.

It might be worthwhile to consider an alternative here: that Richard Justice is just pulling stuff out of his 'exhaust pipe' and that this article is not really based on any substantial truth or source of information.

Odd as it may sound, perhaps Les Alexander wants to do what he said and then consider his options for both jobs. That is not a crazy or irresponsible thing to do by any means. And considering the options for replacing these two, it should not surprise anyone if both of them are signed to new contracts and return with the Rockets next year.

 

The reason Dallas hasn't been lottery bound like us the last 2 years is because their star player hasn't been hurt like ours.

 

Well, you were right. My apologies to you DennisCD. I'm the idiot.


Anyhow, ehh if he(Rick) goes he goes, if he stays he stays. We'll see what happens.

 

^^This.

I'm not sure this guy knows how owning something works.

 

17 Wins, 47 losses, last in the NBA in defense - Popovich at his youngest and hungriest, before Duncan showed up.

 

I just want to say Freak, that you have been nailing it lately in regards to Adelman.

Great to read your posts good sir.

DD

 

I still don't get how denniscd seems to have read this article before everyone else did. Someone even said he had the paper copy of the Chronicle from yesterday and didn't see it.


Either denniscd is from the future or he is Dick Justice himself.