If Adelman uses the entire roster as it is we won't make the playoffs next season. WE have to upgrade that scrub group.. the ones not named Tracy and Yao
Yao's not doing the running. It'll be the players around him, who at the moment are playing living statues, beyond the 3P line.
I just don't get why people assume he won't use Yao in the low post just because he didn't use Brad Miller or Vlade in the low post.
Well JVG was no wizard that's for sure. He wasn't all that great a coach because he couldn't make these players better. But Adelman can and will. Why just look at what he did in Sacramento! Maybe wizard is the wrong term. How about saviour? I wouldn't be so quick to bash the Chronicle. Word from my sources more or less confirm what Justice has been saying (you have no idea how much it pains me to admit this).
1. because he hasn't before; 2. because he was brought in as a reaction to JVG; 3. because apparently alexander has made some comments he wants to be more phoenix-like; 4. because the new coach has to answer to the owner, ultimately. hey, i hope he uses Yao EXACTLY like JVG did this last season. i think that plays to Yao's abilities perfectly in the NBA game.
no, novak, vspan and snyder are fine 8-12 players on a bench. The problem is that they have to get better in front of those guys if the rockets make a really strides.
I think this hiring is a very good one, I don't care if Adelman plays more uptempo, I'm just happy the rockets have a coach which has a few more tricks up his sleeve when it comes to offence. Watching the rockets this year osmetimes was very painful and especially in the playoffs it was even more painful. This hiring is good for both Tmac and Yao, it will hopefully open up there offensive games alittle as with JVG it was just abit to predictable. It will be interesting to see what he does with Yao, as I would love to see Yao with abit more variety to his game and with Adelman we may see it. In all Adelman may not be a a better coach then JVG but I think Adelman is probably a more balanced coach which is good for the team.
Retirement has already been good for JVG. On the picture on the front page of Clutchfans, he's grown his hair back.
There were quite a few games (before the knee injury) where Yao was the first player down the court during fast breaks. So don't tell me he can't run.
I still find it hard to believe the coach had more to do with us not winning than the fact that our 3rd best player is Shane Battier, who is roughly = to Bruce Bowen for the Spurs. I guarantee the Spurs wouldn't have any titles if Bowen was their 3rd best player. Especially if Duncan was outplayed by an opposing star like Boozer outplayed Yao. I hope Adelman does a great job. I hope we win a ton of games. I would love to be wrong and have him "develope" Novak into Peja and Spanoulis into Bibby as DD suggested. That being said I think that hope is pretty far fetched to say the least. Even Morey said that he doesn't consider this roster to be contender quality. That is why I am amazed that people think the coach is going to make this dramatic difference. My general theory is that you change coaches when you have a roster that is widely considered to be more talented than the opponents and you lose. Kind of like Del Harris moving out for Phil Jackson for the Lakers. I mean I would consider Avery's top seed flame out in the first round more worthy of firing honestly, and I don't think he deserves to be fired. Adelman is a good coach. I don't think he is a bad hire. I just don't have any higher expectations from him than I did for JVG. I don't think EITHER coach was going to won us a championship this year in hind sight. Sure I hoped, I cheered, I was upset when we lost game 7. I just consider the roster and poor execution by the players to be the primary downfall. Much more so than any coaching adjustments or not playing a motion offense when we were missing wide open shots in the offense we had.
This is not reality. Since the team with the best players usually wins, no coach would ever get fired.
Hasn't done what before? When has he forced any player to go away from his strengths? I don't expect you to have an answer for that; but are you going to tell me Adelman is against scoring in the post? I've seen Bibby post up plenty, I saw Drexler do it, Christie, Weber, Duckworth, Strickland, Divac, etc. Do you think if Adelman had Shaq in his prime, he wouldn't be playing in the post? Good coaches utilize the talent at their disposal. If the coach wants to win, he'll go with what has the best chance of being successful. Why would he do anything else?
he's on prozac. no...i'm mr. sunshine about things i have evidence for. i have no evidence that vspan = bibby and novak = peja.
Going into a series there is a general consensus on which team is more talented. No one thought GS was more talented than Dallas. Denver wasn't more talented than the Sonics when they got their upset. Certainly the JVG Knicks that made the finals were no where close to the most talented team in the east. Either your talent is over performing, under performing or about where they should be. Personally I only look at the coach when I feel the team is under performing.
Hey now, stop being Sam Fisher and extrapolating out......I said I HOPED they could become that type of player...... This is where people come in and argue with me saying "You said this" and "you said that" when in reality I said no such thing.... DD
