Blaming the coach for not being able to make the playoffs with these players is just insanity. If Les thinks the problem is with the coach, then he is dumber than I thought. I thought getting rid of Rudy was stupid enough. Morey should be smart enough to tell Les how stupid that would be.
RA playing Brooks 20 mins a game had a lot to do with us missing the playoffs. He's not blameless, he's the freaking coach! He's the guys who put the players on court. Maybe if we didn't take off once he couldn't play his favorites you would have a point, but that wasn't the case at all.
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No coach is perfect. If you want to nitpick on every decision a coach makes, you can find fault at everyone. I am sure if you were the coach, I could find 1000 times more mistakes than you can find with Adelman. You have to look at the overall picture. Any coach taking the talent level of this team to a winning record is doing a good job.
I'm not all that sure it was Adelman's decision to play Brooks. That may well have been a showcasing order.
Guys, it was obviously an attempt to get him out of his funk. When exactly do y'all think he should have permanently placed last year's Most Improved Player and arguably most important player to only see garbage time. Three games after he came back and struggled? 5? 10? No coach does that. It's not like we were playing good while he was out. The reason we struggled early on is because we did not have the same Aaron Brooks from last season and Adelman recognized we needed him. There was no reason for him to believe Brooks would never come out of his funk. Should he have also not played Chase Budinger the rest of the season after he struggled early?
Exactly. The 'history revisionists' on this board also fail to point out that Lowry was TERRIBLE in October and November - even as a starter while Brooks recovered from his ankle sprain. If you don't remember that, just check out his splits and game logs on ESPN. (Meanwhile MIP Brooks only played in the first 4-1/2 games before getting hurt and was averaging 16/5 at the time). Lowry and Budinger were both horrible in the early part of the season, but both picked up their games BIG TIME after December rolled around. Hayes improved steadily and significantly all year - even though many of us, (myself included), agreed with DD's assessment that he was just 'comfort food' - and that Adelman should no longer play him major minutes. I hope the Rockets resign him. His teams play hard, and the offense is so much easier on the eyes than a JVG team.
Most of the games of the 0-5 was with Brooks on court. The loss after the OT, with courtney Lee missing 2 consecutive FT that would have secured the win without OT, was the game where both AB and KM went out, the reation in such game came inmediatly after.
Read the previous post, the 0-5 game was the famous OT against the then unbeatable Spurs, it was just random that after Brooks went out on that game, Rockets player so well, and Spurs were lucky to get into OT? After such 0-5, victories started to come, about 50% of the reamining games, with Brooks out...doesn't it say anything to you?
For the record, in the Spurs game, Brooks had 18 points in 17 minutes before he went down. He wasn't the problem, and the Rockets in fact only trailed by 5 at half. Scola and Martin led the charge in the second half, and Lowry didn't play in that game. I'm not a Brooks fan, and prefer Lowry, but look a the facts AS THEY WERE back then. We went 5-7 in the first 12 games with Brooks out - not counting the Spurs loss in which Lowry didn't play. It's not like we immediately started kicking ass with Lowry starting. He stunk up the joint until December as well. Lowry's stats in October & November were terrible. He averaged almost 32 minutes/game, but shot .373 from the field, .222 from 3-point range, .676 for FTs, and averaged 8.2 points and 6.4 assists per game. That's below Rafer territory. Reference this thread, "What's wrong with Kyle Lowry?" back in mid-November to jog your memory, or check ESPN game logs. http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?p=5708109 I'm not dogging Lowry, he's been an absolute stud since December started. I'm glad he's now our starter. He's EARNED it. I'm just pointing out that it wasn't obvious to Adelman (or to anyone else with eyes) that Lowry was the answer early in the season.
Maybe with Adelman gone, the Rockets can finally lose enough games to get a top lottery pick instead of competing for an 8th seed for another season. Also, a younger, more malleable coach would make it easier for Morey dictate who to showcase for possible trades, something that may not be easy to do with a veteran coach like Adelman. Terrence Williams's stock might become worth something again, though we may have to suffer a season like the Nets.
Don't forget all the time he had Jordan Hill out there killing this team. Adelman isn't doing anything that half the coaches in the league couldn't do. He runs a team with great offense but plays no defense because he has a roster loaded with players who play great offense but no defense.
Amazingly enough there are still a couple of people here who agree with that notion. I mean we just had someone post that the Rockets are loaded with great offensive players, and that being the 4th-best offensive team in the NBA (really tied with the Heat for 3rd) should be expected with this roster. You really can't make this stuff up.
I wouldn't mind giving JVG a chance with this squad. Let Deke, Dream, and JVG turn Thabeet into a defensive juggernaut And let the other 4 guys run the with 3rd most PPG again. And pay Chuck Hayes!
