Jeff Van Gundy Rick Adelman Kevin McHale J. B. Bickerstaff Mike D'Antoni Who do you think is the best coach we had? Mike Obviously has the best record. But does he have the best team talent wise? Rocket River
MDA. Two 2nd round appearances, one Western conference finals, and the most wins in a season by our franchise. A ton of CF posters have amnesia, but they always forget that if CP doesn't get injured at the end game 5, this team likely wins the championship that year.
Adelman, proven coach multiple series, and in 09 was Robbed of a championship when Yao basically had a career ending injury in that Lakers series. They had no answer for Yao and still took the eventual champions to 7 even without Yao (yes, moral victory but I know that series made them concerned, until Yao's serious injury). I mean he was legit robbed of a chip in Sacramento as their coach too against the LAL. The Portland loss back in the day was against MJ's Bulls so that's fair... Anyway back to Rockets: -Artest added that missing enforcer element -Of course Mr. Glass McGrady really screwed things up... If he was healthy that team was set -Yao was seriously playing If he got that team earlier with Artest there would have been at least one championship. While I do think MDA was robbed with the CP3 injury, he didn't make adjustments and I think that's his main fault in the playoffs, short rotation and no change ups. I mean he has the GSWs epic team on the ropes, I think Adelman would have won one more game out of the 2. He also got a lot of the players respect, **** he coached Artest for years, if you can coach Artest, egos like Harden and Westbrook aren't anything. He'd have this team clicking a lot sooner I think. Obviously the game has changed but I think he'd adjust to accommodate this 3 ball and then instead of missing 27 3s he'd have done something to hold that lead. -Gundy, great defense, but didn't use the offense he should have for the personnel he had. I'd definitely take him as a coach for defense. But not to run an offense. Have him Co Coach with MDA and Maybe it'd work. -side note yes... He took an 8 seed Knicks to the championship, but that's the east post MJs Bulls ... The championship was already played in the West
Man to add, if Rick had this team with CP3 or WB, he wouldn't allow that weak **** playoff play We've seen, and he'd light a fire under their asses, I'd definitely think a chip would have happened. Of course he'd probably make some players cry... But they'd ****ing man up. Coach Adelman had the respect of his players and he got more from even role players.
Also, when you know he can coach a player like Artest and have his respect, you damn well know he is special handling harder players to coach. It's similar to Phil Jackson coaching Rodman and then later Artest. Yeah, there were still technicals but you don't see ****ing Rodman taking his shoes off in the 95 WCFs during the game and pouting on the bench ... Yes... That happened, haha
Rick the ruler by a mile... Then JVG... offensively challenged but good D and accountability... Then MDA... great offense but defensively challenged... lack of accountability and in game adjustments... McFail was a figurehead... JBB was a joke...
Uhhh there’s this guy named harden , and the WCF year there was this other guy named Chris Paul. MDA is a sitting duck most of the game
