Mark Jackson has expressed interest in coaching this team. I don't know how well this team will respond to his coaching style and I don't know how comfortable Jackson will feel getting out retirement to coach. But I feel that if Jackson coached this team, he would win as much championships as he did with the Bulls and the Lakers. Plus, Jackson was a point guard in the league and former second all-time in assists. When he was coaching Pippen and Jordan, that knowledge helped. I think he can turn Kevin Martin the same way he turned Jordan around. He's really funny in those ESPN commercials. Let the Zen master return.
It doesn't matter what coach you bring in, we aren't going to change into real championship contenders just via improved coaching this year. That's not to say that Adelman is blameless for our rough start, but the players are just not performing up to the level they did last year, and I doubt that is because Adelman put in a new and worse than ever game plan. Both JVG and Adelman are good coaches, and just like when Adelman replaced JVG, I don't think changing coaches alone is going to make that big a difference in making the team into serious contenders without a big trade or other aquisition of a healthy superstar level player. The problem for JVG was he had one of the worst supporting casts ever to go with the unreliable health of our "star" players. Adelman has one of the best supporting casts the Rockets have had in years, but even worse luck with the health of those "star" players. Too bad Morey wasn't here for all of JVG's years, because if we had this level of role players with a completely healthy Yao and TMac we really might have had a chance to win it all.
This is the same Van Gundy who never got us out of the first round right? Even when we had a healthy and in-prime Yao and T-Mac? The same one who blew two first round series where we were up? You can change the coaches all you want, the problem is the players. The team won't get much better until we get better players, simple as that. The roster we have just isn't very good and is full of soft, one-dimensional players. Go look at the rosters of title contenders, they're full of tough, hard-nosed, sometimes dirty two-way players.
I don't like JVG's slower-than-paint-drying offense. If we can bring him in as a defensive assistant, then I'm all for it.
We need toughness but Gundy isn't the answer. As bad as things are right now JVG wouldn't make things better and probably worse. Consider he struggled with young players and offense. This team isn't built for a JVG and its not just due to the players we have but the fact that Yao isn't reliable anymore. JVG would struggle mightily on offense without having Yao more than Adelman.
WOW! Did you really open this can of worms (Van gundy!!He looks like earth worm Jim!! :grin: ) ......!!
What an embarrassing post for you? You assume that 'development' means results within 5 NBA games? Development sometimes takes much longer than that. It's unfortunate, but true. I see some improvement in Jordan Hill's game. I'd like to see more of PPs game too - but just tossing someone on a basketball court does not equate to 'developing' them!
I like JVG more than RA. though JVG always bring us urgly winning, better than urgly loss now. I think, RA is not a great coach to control tough time such as 4 quarter.
