i have no idea if this is a good or bad move for the rockets. but im pretty damn sure im going to be more excited now for the start of the season.
talk about mind numbing. your comment would only make sense if the coach was taking the shots. you act like the offense they ran that night caused only 4 players to score. please. luther and juwan jerked off in the corner while the game was going on and no one else really played either. players play, coaches coach. that was on the players.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/4824437.html May 22, 2007, 12:35AM Adelman agrees on deal with Rockets Team plans to introduce new coach Wednesday By JONATHAN FEIGEN Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle RESOURCES THE ADELMAN FILE • College: Loyola Marymount. • NBA playing career: In seven seasons with San Diego Rockets (1968-70), Portland Trail Blazers (1970-73), Chicago Bulls (1973-74), New Orleans Jazz (1974-75) and Kansas City-Omaha Kings (1975), averaged 7.9 points, 3.5 assists and 2.4 rebounds per game. • NBA head coaching career: 16 seasons with Trail Blazers (1988-94), Golden State Warriors (1995-97) and Sacramento Kings (1998-2006). • Coaching record: 752-481 (.610). • Coaching highlights: Took Trail Blazers to 1990 and 1992 NBA Finals; guided teams to 14 playoff appearances and four division titles. Adelman will fly to Houston today and be introduced Wednesday. "The Rockets organization will get an outstanding coach," said Hall of Fame guard Clyde Drexler, whom Adelman coached in six of Drexler's 11-plus seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers. "I think he's the guy to get them over the top." After a series of meetings with Rockets owner Leslie Alexander and general manager Daryl Morey on May 11 and May 12 — less than a week after the team's first-round playoff loss to the Utah Jazz — Adelman became the Rockets' choice to succeed Jeff Van Gundy, who on Friday was fired after four seasons as coach. "Rick is a really good coach and a better guy," Van Gundy said. "I think he'll really do well." Morey, Alexander and Adelman were not available for comment. Adelman, 60, is 752-481 in 16 seasons as an NBA coach. He has a 70-68 postseason record. He led Portland to the NBA Finals in 1990 and 1992 and advanced to the Western Conference finals in 1991 with the Trail Blazers and 2002 with the Sacramento Kings. Adelman's .610 winning percentage is the highest among coaches without an NBA championship. Jerry Sloan (.600) and George Karl (.588) are next on the list. Selected by the Rockets in the seventh round of the 1968 draft, Adelman went to the Trail Blazers in the 1970 expansion draft before the Rockets moved from San Diego to Houston. Adelman will join Rudy Tomjanovich as the only former Rockets players to become the franchise's coach. Of the five teams for which Adelman played, the Rockets will be the third to hire him as coach, joining the Trail Blazers and Kings. He also played for the Chicago Bulls and New Orleans Jazz during a seven-year career. With Portland and his first Sacramento teams, Adelman had faced-paced, high scoring clubs. His later squads, while still among the NBA's top scoring teams, were more half-court oriented and used a lot of cuts and screens in a variation of the Princeton offense. Adelman's first seven Sacramento teams were among the top three scoring teams in the NBA, and his first three Kings clubs led the league in scoring. His 2001-02 team, which advanced to Game 7 of the Western Conference finals before losing to the Los Angeles Lakers, won 61 games by an average of 7.6 points. Adelman was fired after the 2005-06 season in which the Kings went 44-38 before losing to the San Antonio Spurs in six games in the first round of the playoffs. His best season as a coach might have been with the 1990-91 Blazers. Portland went 63-19 before losing to the Lakers in the Western Conference finals. jonathan.feigen@chron.com
Ahh Rockets2k dude... You are a strange fellow. You are accusing Pocket Rockets for generalizing based on this, Yet just ONE post above that one you start a post with this... Can you say HYPOCRISY?
not impressed with the hiring. lateral move. i love the optimism. I can't wait to buy my 2008 championship hat, t shirt, and dvd. i can't wait for rafer to start running and gunning, and hitting contested and uncontested three balls. can't wait for yao to get the ball slapped out his hands only for it to bounce back in the rim. can't wait for tracy to have the basketball break his back, and bounce in for a three.
I'm quite happy about this signing.. good time for a change. Hopefully we can get some decent personels who can run the Adelman show. Get rid of some of the old farts in our team.. and Yao will learn how to dribble again! yaaay!
Im really excited about this. New coach, new playing style ( i was seriously getting bored and angry with JVG offense), and Adelman got really good offense and cant wait to see how he uses Yao. This Morey guy seems like an aggressive GM getting things done. Also he mentioned that this team is not a championship caliber team and expects changes and i cant wait to see new trades and new players.
Congrats Adelman, sure hope that you can turn the fickle fans to your side nad lead us to the second roud!
I just read that news. I don't know this coach well but I think it's a great move from Houston to have Adelman as a HC
Hell Yes!! Great signing. I think many of the current Rockets are perfect for the type of offense that Adelman runs. Now I'm excited and can't wait for the new season to start.
The NBA is a players league and the playoffs are about getting stops, getting boards and hitting shots. Period. No coach in the league can make Chuck Hayes four inches taller and be able shoot. John Wooden is not going to turn Rafer Alston into Tony Parker. Some of you overvalue the effect of a coach to an NBA team. If a roster is structured completely around the talents of two players then the other players need to really compliment those two players and the big two need to dominate. We still don't have depth, a decent point guard, or a versatile power forward. Yao Ming was even slower than normal coming off his injury and maybe has some fundamental deficiencies in his athleticism to be truly dominant against every team. McGrady just doesn't shoot well enough to be in that upper echelon of players, at least not this year. I seriously doubt that Rick Adelman's offensive strategies will solve these roster problems more than Van Gundy could.
And some people undervalue a coach. -Why is it that some coaches just seem to have success where ever they go? -Why is it that some coaches seem to be able to have dominant offenses where ever they go? Why is it that some coaches have good defenses and really bad offenses regardless where or when they coach?
I challenge to name such coach. Phil Jackson doesnt count. A donkey could have coached Jordan's Bulls and OK's Lakers to dynasties.
thank the gods. the past 2 years have been almost as unbearable to watch as the francis years were. and i'm tired of hearing all the bs that all the high offense teams are out of the playoffs now. the spurs can score just as much as they can but usually don't because they don't have to. the spurs don't just beat you with defense. they can keep up offensively with any team in the league. the rockets are not trying to compete by becoming a team that must score 120 pts to win. they are trying to become a balanced team. try to imagine how luther head can thrive with plays that leave him open for mid-range jumpers. never happened with jvg. tmac will also thrive with that play. imagine snyder in a play similar to the harpring gets when he cuts to the basket leaving his defender behind. that's playing to their strengths not leaving them to fend for themselves. why couldn't jvg see that.
