If the reason for Adelman's departure boiled down to Morey vs Adelman...

If its one or the other, looking forward I'd keep the "new school" GM / front office rather than the "old school" coaching staff. Ideally, they would have worked out their differences (and had better luck with avoiding injuries to key players).

 

ya...the poster predicted this would happen given the inside info he had. read the post.

 

i dont see the point in sticking with adelman when he's a coach for a contender, which the rockets are not.

 

Agreed, moreys ways have yet to prove successful. While I like to know what's going on, he needs to stop talking about trading players non stop. Get some continuity and builds from there.

 

Did injuries draft scrubs like Joey Dorsey

 

A complete statistical analysis is way more crucial to basketball than experience, proven methods, credentials, and an understanding for the game .


And despite what most people say, I do believe morey played a considerable part. Mostly due to adelman's comment about not being informed about integral decisions about his own team. When you're the one that has to command the troops every other day, some other person shuffling up squads and the gameplan would irritate anybody.

 

Honestly, it baffles me how this Morey guy keeps selling you guys on collecting "assets" who almost never pan out. The Rockets will continue interchanging draft picks while San Antonio & Dallas stay getting to the playoffs.

Adelmans winning percentage destroys any +/- stat Morey conjured up.

 

Bingo. We might have a Pritchard situation all over again. Those who say adelman doesnt want to rebuild or build must have forgotten the kings.

 

Perhaps some of you "Morey just know stats and Adelman coaches contenders", which of the following teams do think win more games?

Mediocre to crappy coach + KMart/Lowry/CBud/Lee/Hayes/Scola/Hill/Patterson/Battier
Adelman + Players like these in their primes(and I use the term loosely) Rafer/Head/Battier/Hayes/Kirk Synder/Bonzi/Sura/Mike James/etc.

I'm not sure why any fan would think the GM and the coach matter the same to any franchise. It's like trying to compare a mid-reliever with a starting pitcher. Regardless of quality, the starting pitcher always bares more impact on the team. Similarly, regardless of quality, a GM has more impact than a coach. This isn't the NFL. This is the NBA, the ultimate players league.

Unless you think you can replace Morey with a much better GM, then there's really no contest between a coach and GM in terms of who to keep.

 

they've been a more than decent team in all four of Morey's years as GM in spite of 40 mil of the payroll being hurt and rebuilding.

 

Why can't we have our cake and eat it too--even if we can only eat just a slice of the cake.

I believe Elston Turner is a potential candidate for coach.

 

You can't expect every player he drafts to be as good as Brooks and Landry.

 

I have to go with Morey..if Adlemen was such a good coach he would've had this team winning at the BEGINNING of the season. Also, our defense has deteriorated every year since Aldemen has been coach. Under Adelmen the defense took a back seat to the offense. We need a coach that values BOTH equally. (Like Tom Thibodeau..why did we let him go!?) Also, this team took off after the trade deadline..you wanna know why! Its because of Morey!!...trading away Aldemens favorites Brooks and Battier opened up playing time for Budinger, Lee and PPat..Morey forced Aldemen to change his crappy rotations. I'm not sad Adlemens gone at all. Do you know why?!...THIS TEAM NEEDS TO REBUILD. The longer we avoid rebuilding and the longer we keep pinning false hopes on Yao miraculously coming back. The longer it's gonna be till the rockets are ever a contender again. And I'm talking about TRUE rebuilding...not rebuilding on the fly...you're just gonna end up with a mediocore team if you do that. Also, Aldemen isn't into rebuiding...he'd leave for another contending team or retire before the rockets ever become true contenders again anyway..Les mad the right choice..

 

And this is the Coach's fault how?

 

Some of you trip me out. There is a reason the defense got worse under Adelman and it has to do with having no real Center protecting the paint. Adelman's team have been good defensively throughout his career until the last 2 years where he had no center.

It's funny that people actually blame Adelman for our defensive woes when these same people say Scola and Martin can't defend worth a lick while we also have a 6'6 Center protecting the paint.

 

you are right...we don't have a real center...this team needed a REAL center and who did Alelman chose....BRAD MILLER!!

 

Adelman is what he is - a veteran, experienced coach with an impressive resume containing HOF credentials. At 65, he was just not interested in coaching the NBA equivalent of a garage sale. DM has yet to show that his methods work - that you can assemble a championship roster by picking up other the end-of-bench and rejects from other teams. He's very good at the PR spin game but last time I looked, PR spinning does not equate with winning NBA titles.

 

Morey is the GM. It is up to him to put a real center on the roster.

Trusting in Yao being healthy was apparently his idea on bringing us a true Center to protect the paint but yes by all means put all blame on Rick Adelman

 

Yes. The Kings. Whom Rick took over when he was 52.

As opposed to rebuilding the Rockets, which he would begin at the tender age of 65.