[CHRON / Fox News] Rockets have preliminary talks with Adelman

what are the certain situations in which JVG returns? What does he want? More control over the talent that we obtain?

 

exciting news!
i want to see some hope next season, not like this season 52 wins but no hope.

 

So Rick Adelman it is, Anyone know what the earliest possible Rockets can official announce the coaching change?

 

Partly true, partly not true... lets just say, the Rockets need to have options in case those certain scenarios can't come to fruition, and they need to make sure some of these potential coaching candidates are actually open to coaching the team next year (or they leave themselves with zero leverage and zero viable candidates).

 

Sounds good!

 

Not even close... Adelman will also have some input which correlate with the same "scenarios" where JVG could return (ie - Adleman won't simply accept what he's given and say "sure, I'll coach it...").

 

I wouldn't mind seeing Adelman in here. He hasn't won the big one either but at least he has gotten teams close and just lost to better squads (kinda like Van Gundy).

Maybe it's just me but I think Yao has the skills to be more than a banging center.

 

I'm thankful that we found out he could be a banging center at an all-star level... it would have been much harder for Yao's career to develop the other way.

That being said, now that he has a decent low-post game, some variety will be a welcome change.

 

i wonder if an Adelman signing would get Bibby interested in asking for a trade to Houston.

 

The conditions are not up to Van Gundy they are if he is willing to make some changes. Imo!

 

JVG could care less about what the Rockets do or his ego. You read too much into his persona simply from his media interviews.

Remember, he had no problem with being the Rockets second choice after Larry Brown turned them down. Jeff appreciates the chance to coach in this league at all, given his background (no playing experinece, career assistant, lucked into the job when Nelly clashed with Knicks management).

 

I don't see why he would not want coach Houston. I mean we have possibly the best 1-2 punch in the league. Although our bench needs major upgrade but I am sure Adelman can still get the best out of what we already have. Clearly that was the problem with JVG who could never maximize the players he had and always wanted his type of player which were hard for CD to get cause we had no good assets.

Simple rule of life: polish your junk before you put it up for sale and sadly JVG never understood that.

 

Its a two-way street... both sides are demanding changes from each other.

And you better believe a new coach is going to have a list of demands/plan for this team that isn't neccessarily going to coincide with management (unless we hire a coach who is DESPERATE enough to simply be a yes-man).

Adelman has an ego, Larry Brown has an ego... both will have a laundry list of demands. Del Harris may be the one established coach who's willing to go to war with what's already here... he's too old to care about trivial things such as "his ideology."

 

Look at the talent Adelman's teams have had... despite our 1-2 punch, we all know that's not enough (especailly compared to the other western conf. contenders). Also, look at what has happened with Adelman's teams when the talent hasn't been there... I can bet serious $$$ that he will agree/desire some changes to be made as well before he signs on.

Taking into account Yao and T-mac's injury concerned, this doesn't even rank in the top 5 in terms of total talent that Adelman has coached.

 

i do not think the players will all of a sudden forget how to play defense after Van Gundy leaves the team
so i think next year our defense will still be dominant with an improved offense.
Good Luck Mr. Van Gundy...i will miss you
one question: i heard Adelman uses something like the princeton offense or something like that, what is that? (sorry i am a strategy noob)

 

With the team they have right now, they should rebuild. They have some good swingmen in Martin, Garcia and Salmons and I'm thinking Petrie is salivating at the thought of dumping some contracts so add more depth, youth and athleticism around those three.

The biggest stickler I see is Bibby's contract. We don't have enough contracts and/or attractive pieces that would make the Kings jump up and down