Article about Rudy T in today's LA Times

jsuspect · May 27, 2008

Decent article. He mentions taking the Laker's head coaching job as a big mistake due to his previous health issues.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-crowe27-2008may27,0,6965020.column

tinman · May 27, 2008

jsuspect said:

Decent article. He mentions taking the Laker's head coaching job as a big mistake due to his previous health issues.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-crowe27-2008may27,0,6965020.column
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awesome,
i'm glad the rest of the family is doing well in their careers too!

tinman · May 27, 2008

omjanovich says he's unsure what the Lakers do with his reports after he files them into a software database designed by son Trey, 25. But Kupchak, noting that "Rudy's always been a film and data kind of a guru," says, "Everybody can watch games and assess Kevin Garnett and Tayshaun Prince, et cetera, but Rudy assesses everyone. . . . It's information that can be valuable."

Tomjanovich was asked his opinion before the Lakers traded for Trevor Ariza in November, he says. When they traded for Pau Gasol, he was not.

Notes Rudy T., smiling, "That one was a no-brainer."

He was embarrassed by the way his coaching career ended, he says, guilt-ridden about leaving assistants behind and powerless to end it any other way.

"I know it was the right thing to do," he says, noting that his choice became apparent when a doctor suggested to the recovering alcoholic that a powerful antidepressant might pull him through. "A whole bunch of things go through your head -- the macho stuff and all that -- but I sort of learned, 'Do you want to be a tough guy or do you want to live a rich life?' The NBA is wonderful -- it changed my life -- but there is a time to live life."

That time, he says, is now.

His son works with him. His older daughter, a psychiatrist, was recently married. His younger daughter is an assistant to filmmaker Woody Allen.
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Trey Tomjanovich for Rockets coach in the year 2028!!

tinman · May 27, 2008

Paper: HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Date: SAT 11/13/2004
Section: Sports
Page: 1
Edition: 3 STAR

THE RETURN OF RUDY T / A familiar face / Rockets pleased former coach is happy, healthy

The only other Rockets players to have played for Tomjanovich - Yao Ming and Bostjan Nachbar - were with him for just one season. But Yao made it clear that season left an impression.

"I think of Rudy like a father," Yao said. "I remember my first year I came here, I felt nervous. The first couple of games I played, I played horribly. But he just kept telling me to be relaxed, and he didn't put me under a lot of pressure. That made me grow up and grow up and grow up.

"To see him back on the court, that's very good for him. I'm very happy for him."
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