Can we just start over as a freakin' city?!? Wipe every sports franchise in this town COMPLETELY clean and start from the damn ground up. So sad.
Adelman is fine, he's not perfect but he is fine, I think he made good rotation decisions today, Miller with Hill was a great move, it frees Hill from having to think too much and just out there to play, and Miller can do the thinking and directing for him. The problems are the players.
Exactly. You have to have good players to be a good team, and the Rockets don't have very good players, especially with Yao and Brooks out. Our best offensive players can't play defense and our best defensive players can't play offense, it makes it a nightmare to create a lineup because to win consistently in the NBA, you have to have players who can, at minimum, be a plus on one side of the court and at least hold their own on the other.
Give the same roster to Rick, I highly doubt he would of won a championship because he wouldn't know how to handle the EGO's. Ric's a player's coach, that Big 3 would of ran through him like a hot knife going through butter. Doc Rivers was there to install some discipline and insure Ego's were checked behind.
<br> No, the easiest person to blame was T-Mac, then Rafer, then Ariza. Houston fans usually point fingers at the coach last, so you're kind of off base there...
Just like your comment about Doc River's record prior to the Celtics.....Righhtttttt because in the end he won a championship....if it was that easy by slapping 3 all star players together......I guess Miami should be a lock for a championship with ERik as the head coach.......
<br> This is what people refuse to admit. In years past, we still had "Gundy players." Then we had injury issues and chemistry problems. Finally we have a complete roster that is supposed to be suited to Adelman's game. What's happening now? You can blame Brooks and Yao being out, but we weren't exactly winning with them either...
Funny, just last season, people were saying that Adelman should be considered coach of the year by getting a no-star team to play hard and win games they had no business winning. I guess somehow he just suddenly got stupid over the offseason.
Yes that's right, Doc deserves all the credit for that ring and none to Tom Tibby turning that Celtics D around and getting KG the DPOY. Doc was a lottery coach before KG and Allen came on but you keep slurping his...drinking that kool aid. And oh yeah, WTH is Doc Rivers got to do anything with Adelman or the situation here? Is Doc going to become suddenly available if Rick is fired? Armchair GMs smh...
really? dm has made great moves to make the roster better; getting scola for vspan, forget about it. it is adelman's responsibility to get the best from his players. that is the job of any coach. i believe that adelman isn't doing his job very well.
This guy is serious I saw this on an episode of Special Agent Oso Hamza's assignment was a success, because he followed 3 special steps
Ya seriously Armchair GM's, giving all the credit to an assistant coach but yet avoiding the main question...can Rick do the same job as Doc and win a championship using the same roster, with a player's coach mentality....... My point is, you don't need Rick 900 wins, for a coach to attempt to win a championship but hey maybe we should hire Don Nelson next, since he has a 1000 wins. Great logic!!'
I was responding to ericmark who was blaming Rick Adelman for bringing in Kevin Martin and Brad Miller. Daryl Morey is GM. He gets credit for the good roster acquisitions (like Scola) and thus should be blamed for the bad ones. Fair is fair.
Mismanaged Yao? How do you mismanage someone who isn't there? That's like saying Adelman mismanaged McGrady. As for the rotations, I think it's easy to be critical of the coach when losses occur, but have you seen how close this team has been? Are you actually saying that a player like Taylor or Hill would turn these games around? That these players do not come a greater cost than their benefit? You can't be serious. We need scoring in bunches and no one on that bench can do that. We need maturity and leadership, and yet again no one on that bench has that. We need late game composure (which is a function of leadership and maturity), and yet again no one on the bench has that. The list goes on. The problems we have are on the court execution, not behind the scenes fundamentals. This team has it's role players playing like they are primary options. We are trying to ask a player like Scola to give us more than he can, that isn't Mr. Adelman's fault. Let's overlook the fact that this team has had a different set of faces year in year out. Let's overlook the fact that the team has gone through periods of where they don't know who is playing night in and night out. Let's just look at the record. In a bloated west, with no Yao, and no real leadership this team was 42-40 last year. That's not half bad, and in the Eastern conferences that's a 6th place finish. The year before that we a .646 record and the year before that we had a win record of .671. All in all, as a Rocket, he's been a winner. The problem is, we as a team don't know if and when Yao will play. When you take Brooks out of the equation as well, the system is bound to break. Adelman in a slump? I think a 50+ win season is good enough for me...
Lets see who can Coach Rockets: Clutch The Dream Shane Battier Derek Fisher Kenny Smith Charles Barkley JVG ________________ Anyone i missed?
