He was still an idiot for the last game. Time will tell. One good game and one bad game. Lets wait till after tomorrows game.
Oh, come on. We're talking about garbage time. Garbage time?? Adelman is giving all the Minnesota youth serious burn -- Williams, Rubio and Wesley Johnson (2nd yr) are getting >20mpg. And he would have cleared the bench tonight with the Rockets as well. This is a COMPRESSED SEASON. Every coach is going to use their bench in garbage time as much as possible. You cannot compare the two seasons. Besides, RA featured a rookie in the rotation every year he was here.
I thought this was going to be just a sarcastic response to the kneejerk topic after the Orlando game. Actually well thought out instead. Given how screwed up this season is, I won't bother to judge McHale until the end of the year. So far I can only say one thing, the Rockets players aren't exactly running around like headless chickens even without Adelman around. But it remains to be seen how well our young players develop under McHale this year. Especially Morris and Parsons since McHale certainly collaborated in drafting them.
Scola has played good chunk of center minutes for quite a while now, even stretching back to Yao/Deke days. So this isn't anything new. NBA today isn't what it used to be.
To be honest, in terms of rational coaching..mchale seems the more liberal and rational compared to adelman and jvg. In terms of playbook it's not that evident yet but in terms of making changes on the go mchale seems to be doing a good job with what he has. I mean last year because of his stubbornness adelman just kept terence williams in the doghouse just because he doesnt want to tinker the existing lineup. That's fine if the existing lineup was great, but it wasn't. Mchale at least tinkers with the lineup and gives everyone a fair shot. Apart from thabeet, the others are getting their shot. But at least thabeet is given hsi garbage minutes when games are over like today.
small thing - mchale put out our young players with about 7 mins left in the game when we're up by about 20. adelman would never have done this. he would usually empty our bench with 4-5 mins left when in the same situation.
At the game, you could really see the players hustling. Seems to me like they have bought into this coaching staff.
REPPED DD is basically the Matt Millen of this board. You can bet on the opposite od whatever he says and have enough cash to buy the Hornets by the end of the month.
Come on. Thabeet, Flynn and TWill are third year players. If you are going to talk about 3rd year players then compare Adelman to that. last year, Adelman gave significant minutes to Dragic and Lee...3rd year players He gave significant minutes to Budinger and Hill...second year players. He gave significant minutes to a rookie...Patterson. And used Ismael Smith instead of insisting on a vet to spell the Brooks injury. That is 6 "young players" who were actual rotational players. And you are talking about Garbage Time. We're talking about Garbage Time! :grin: Besides, Adelman DID give Williams a look early in the season, after the trade for him. And it was shockingly obvious to many CFnetters that he was not playing team ball while on the court. He was a sour puss last year.
Repped! You are right, they were rotation players. It is odd that Adelman is claimed to hate rookies. McHale has given only garbage time to our rookies and sophmores, but Adelman using our draft picks as starter(Budinger) or bench(Patterson, Ishmael) doesn't count???? McHale is waits until garbage time to give significant time to our draft picks from this year or last year. Meanwhile, Adrien been sent to the bench after 1 game. Morris can't get 10 minutes of Adelman's time. Parsons got a DNP in the 1st game. McHale is playing 3rd year and up players only, while the sophs and rooks get garbage time or DNP.
I think that McHale is giving everyone a chance and still looking for what works best. Adrian didn't work out, I doubt he'll see more playing time. The circle of players who'll get minutes will be smaller and smaller. If we didn't have that big lead I doubt any of our bench players would have seen much time..It seems that he knows who can deliver and who might give us some extra points, rebounds, steals etc.. Like I said, game to game, we will see less of Parsons, Flynn, Thabeet, Bud, Williams... I am very impressed with Dalembert, guy is smarter than I thought.
McHale knows what he's doing. Our weakspot is the 3 right now. Bud and TWill have looked shaky at best. Hence the playing of Parsons and Morris. I was shocked to see Parsons out there, but he looked good. McHale isn't dumb though. Lowry, Scola, Martin, Lee, PatPat and Dalembert will get consistent minutes because they produce.
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa? there is so much wrong with what you said, it's not even funny JVG wouldn't give the rookies any time, it was Adelman who changed that...
Yeah, Alter.....I agree....however it will take more than 5 games to figure out the basic rotation. Adrien might still get his chance.
That's because Adelman would has them in the rotation. Sophmore Budinger(2009 draft) was the starter. Rookie Patterson(2010 draft) came off the bench as part of the 8-9 man rotation. While our 2010 pick(Patterson) hasn't played due to injury, so it's not McHale's fault. Our 2011 pick Parsons and Morris get a DNP or garbage time, that's all on McHale. McHale is using only 3rd+ year players in the main rotation.
good post...and we can probably add Dragic to your list of knowns. Adelman did a good job of hiding our small forward weakness post-Battier trade, with only one true SF in the rotation. McHale does seem to be experimenting a lot with that position, like you say. And Morey went out and got him two SFs in the draft. This would have been settled if the lockout hadn't occurred and we have both Summer League and a real camp/preseason.
Budinger needs to be demoted. He has been shaky since last season. Morris needs to be given a chance with at least 10 minutes of meaningful game time and not 5-7 minutes of garbage time.
