I admit I feel nervous about JVG leaving and have no idea who should replace him but I do feel that we need veterans who have athletic ability,smarts and toughness. We can't afford having old and injured guys. VSpan and Novak were not the panacea to our ills but we need to develop talented youth for the future even if they are raw now.Giving up Rudy Gay for Battier was a sign of abandonment of our future needs for the present. Shane didn't do a bad job but we needed more than just getting him. If JVG can't incorporate the neccessary changes right away he needs to go. Morey has to prove himself as a GM and lacks basketball experience which can cause problems. Frankly the thing that bothers me the most is the inabillity of the Rockets to pickup good players out of the draft. I'm not expecting miracles out of the 26th pick but I feel we will get stuck with a stiff or someone like Reece Gaines while somebody after us will end up with a decent to good player.
weren't you a previous van gundy fan? you don't like the coaching or the player moves under him? anyways, my first choice remains van gundy. i think he's a fantastic coach capable of having a good offense with more capable offensive players. 04-05 proves that. that said, i'm willing to try someone else if it must be. if anything adelman would make it an easier time reading this board, atleast the coach b****ing would be gone for a while. i voted Marc Iavaroni because he's someone fresh to the scene. basically i think it'd be completely stupid to let van gundy(unless he's walking himself) and we don't come out with either adelman, iavaroni, or even dell harris. i think we certainly can get any of those guys but my personal preferences end there. unless phil jackson plans on walking from la.
I don't want del harris for one reason: everyone and their mother would be like "dude, you're getting a dell" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spa_l_12cIw
I'm 100% certain those Kings teams would crush us routinely. They shouldve knocked off the Lakers but the refs and Robert Horry messed that up. The beauty of that team was that the sum was greater than the parts. The pseudo-Princeton Offense worked like a charm for that team. It's not fair to do individual comparisons. But as a team, they'd destroy the present Rockets.
maybe this should be the [Official] Potential Coaching Replacements thread or maybe just the Potentially [Official] Coaching Replacements thread I can't make up my mind enough to vote.
Rick Adelman is the right coash for houston at this moment, who know how to play inside and outside game
I don't think there is a better coach than JVG on that list..thts why i'm not sure they should let him go...I think he should get one more year...if there was a coach out there that stood out, I would be all for a change but since tehre isn't, I think we should stay with van gundy if I had to choose, I would say go Adelaman..maybe he can bring Bibby with him
thats a touchy situation as well. so we go from having 2 variables...1) new GM 2) needing some better players. to three variable. 1)GM 2)players 3)Coach.
You guys are out of your mind... I'm shocked by these results. Rick Carlisle is easily the best option on this list. He is the ONLY guy I would want to replace JVG with.
Best Candidates: Adelman - been to the finals twice, but had misfortune of playing M.J. and the Bad Boys. But he is a pretty good coach, he turned the Kings into winner and Trailblazers really didn't come into their own until took over as coach. He might be the coach to get us to the next level. This could be team that finally gets him that title, because they aren't really any dominate teams in the NBA right now. Brown - hard to say, he might be another version JVG, but better coach than JVG and he might could work wonders with this team, I think he could key in Yao's weakness and limit them and he could definitely make us better team against the Spurs, Mavs, and Suns. Only thing is he might not won't develop any young players and he might jump ship after 2 or 3 years. Rookie Coach - Just start with somebody new who hasn't coached before and see what they can do, like Avery, Popovich, or Scott did with their teams and it worked out.
If Jeff is gone to me, it's Adelman or bust. Last year when Adelman led the King's who were but a shell of their former selves he somehow took the Spurs to six games with Bibby, Artest and Bonzi freakin Wells. They were a 44 win team that year. Never mind that pure shooters were mostly invisible outside of Bibby but a lot of the offense went through Wells! It's asinine when you read people say that Rick can't coach the Rockets because they don't have any pure shooters. He'll have two fuggin superstars! My God, if you bring in one more player who can consistently score this is a 55 win team. Daryl Morey isn't Geoff Petrie but if he comes close we should be in good shape. Rick runs a system that if the pieces work the team overarchieves. I think last year's Sacramento playoff squad was a good example of that. He adjusted to his team and I think we need a coach like that since we'll be in salary cap purgatory during the Yao/Tracy era.
wasn't wilkens the one taking cheap shots at the rockets team during an nbatv broadcast near the end of the year? I don't know how anything he brings to the table would be a breath of fresh air to this roster...
If we picked Adelman up as our new coach, if JVG stepped down, would Bonzi give it another shot in Houston?
Man, there's so many threads about this subject... should I just cut and paste my opinions from the others??
Yao and tmac aren't getting younger. Wanna win a championship in the next 2 yrs??? Hire Larry Brown. This guy knows how to win. He may not want to play young guy, but he can take a good 50 win team like the Pistons with Rick Carlisle before he took over, and take them to a championship. Figure something out at PF and PG, maybe trade for Mike James and use the MLE on a PF, and we could potentially be title next yr. We are not going to rebuild the team now to run and gun with a bunch of young kids to teach for a guy like Iavaroni, and we are never going to run and gun with Yao anyway. We need a guy that can coach veterans to a championship, like Larry Brown. If he wins a title here and comes within a Robert Horry dagger of back to back titles, and then leaves, fine.
DEckard or others , could you explain what is the attraction w. Adelman. I'm not saying you support him. I am being lazy; I know.
