But your agree during the 2008-2009 season, it made sense playing Yao 13-15 minutes straight on many regular season games..... for both halves.....Yao is injury prone but you would think for a 7'6 guy that is too many minutes straight with no real rest. Or how about last year, when he played Ariza for 41 minutes a game for the 1st half of NBA season....
It is about time for a house cleaning. Not yet, but when we're still bad come january it's time to start over
It's amazing how many of you want to give Morey credit for the good moves and Adelman credit for the bad. Morey is the GM! Which players the team acquires is HIS responsibility. And Morey is the one who went on and on about how great Martin was and how efficient, etc. If you want to blame Adelman for bad coaching, fine, but blaming him for Daryl Morey's job is ridiculous. If Adelman has that much influence, then Morey is a bad GM for letting the coach push him into bad decisions.
Players are told usually beforehand what minutes they will be playing before each game, if they can't handle the minutes then I question why they are pro athletes in the first place. I've already went in circles about Yao's minutes, IMO if you got a superstar who can't handle big minutes when needed to win the game, you've got a serious handicap. Guess what, we've got a serious handicap. And Ariza, please, the dude is 24 and wanted to be a All-star, well sometimes All-stars have to play 41 minutes.
This year, the rockets suck. Yao a shell of his former self. Last year, the rockets sucked. No Yao. The year before, the rockets were pretty good. Yao was at his prime. Yao was making Rick look good all this time. Rick Adelman is clueless. Jeff Van Gundy is the better coach. I miss Jeff!
tl;dr Really, I'm serious here, go back to the Heat, they need fans like you. Fire Adelman, Fire Morey, trade Brooks, trade Yao, I swear, it pains me to think that I am associated with these "fans". I think it's so easy to sit back and "voice your opinion" but at the end of the day its just white noise. What you say is nonsense. It lacks critical thought. If you really think that Rick Adelman, a coach who has had a career 905 wins (on 586 losses) and had a 98-78 record as the Rockets head coach isn't good enough for this team, then you are the idiot. Statistically speaking, there always will be deviations from the norm, the average, but in due time everything normalizes. We are who we are, and that's winners. That will show in due time. But yes, by all means, let's fire a man who is in a slump, a slump so small it doesn't even amount to 1% of the man's career experience. Do you realize how dumb you sound when you say he isn't doing a good enough job. Do you realize, what you are advocating is the equivalent of trading a player who on average is a 60% shooter has one game where he shoots 3-10?...Then again, you are the smart one here...
RA being a good coach has been history. he is too old to be a qualified head coach. no energy, no motivation, no quick response, no insight on players, no.....
So you don't think coaches have an impact on the game at all? That the 3-10 record is simply because the players suck? Did you even watch the game today? 3-10 record should have been 4-10. I bet if we dissect the first few games of the season I'm sure we could also see several more coaching mistakes that resulted in that 3-10 record. Hell I can think of one right now: Jordan Hill played 3 minutes total the first three games of the season.
<br> Yeah sorry, I have no problems with the personnel on this team other than Brad Miller who I think received a horrible contract. What else do you expect people to discuss on a message board when a team isn't doing well? As far as bringing up Adelman's stats most of which came in era's long gone with stacked Blazers and Kings teams is irrelevant. This is like being in love with that one player who used to be good, but he's over the hill now. We're winners right now...really? And i'm the delusional one? Are you actually content with what's going on right now with this team? Do you realize that I haven't been saying this based on ten games? Adelman has mismanaged Yao nearly the entire time he's been here. Our late game execution is horrible. Our substitution patterns have been god awful year in and year out. These are issues that have been evident in Rick's entire time here. This isn't about one game or ten games. Again, I don't particularly enjoy relying on having to go on huge late season win streaks just to get a middle order spot in the playoffs. maybe you do, but that's your thing. I'd rather be relevant through and through. But again, you're the smart one who's gonna do another tl;dr
The management has piled up quite a group of 'Adelman-type' players. I think losing Brooks really hurt Adelman most. Buddinger and Battier missing shots wouldn't help either. I don't think a replacement of Head Coach would resolve the problem. I don't see how a new coach would bring the shooting touch back, nor save Brooks and Yao from injuries.
To be fair, I think Rick did an overall better job tonight. He seemed much more active and vocal seeing as how this team is on the brink of desperation. I do give him credit for trying a lot harder now.
Coaches don't have the ability to make a 3-10 team a 9-4 team. They can help great teams get over the hump, make average teams good, but they can't make terrible teams good or great. You can go through game-by-game of every bad team and find games they could have won had certain things gone right. But they didn't go right because they're a bad team. Things go right for good teams and go wrong for bad teams. If you think a player like Jordan Hill can turn a 3-10 team into a good time just by getting more minutes, well, we'll just have to agree to disagree.
He did such a great job, the rockets lost another game.....sure the players could of hit more shots, played better defense..... But he still sucks @ -Calling timeouts when needed -Calling a play from a timeout when needed -Flip flopping between players -Allowing players who need to sit, to continue to play (hey Shane you only shot 8 3 pointers and made 1) -BTW motivating your team to win But hey everything will work itself out.....because he is a player's coach...
A coaching having a 900 win Record doesn't mean much when they are viewed like Don Nelson/Lenny Wilkens...... Give me a Doc Rivers who has less than 500 Wins but doesn't take crap...Hell @ this point give me Isiah....(okay maybe i gone to far)
Easiest person to blame is the coach. Sometimes you have to consider that it isn't Adelman that's turning the ball over out there.
