[CHRON / Fox News] Rockets have preliminary talks with Adelman

Why cann't they hire two coaches one for offense one for defense like in the NFL? I mean colts had a good offensive coordinator and they hired a defensive coach and he doesn't really mess around with the offense. Are NBA coaches' ego really that big?

 

I think the organization will officially announce the new coach tomorrow, because they would need to get this done before JVG does his first game at ABC

 

You mean, like how Shaq announced his retirement before being on the TNT halftime show?

 

You do realize being an NFL coach is ~100 times more complicated than the NBA, eh?

 

I do realized NFL is much more complicated but why cann't a good defensive coach like JVG hire a good offensive coach?

 

Because it's not like that. He has guys on his staff who focus on offensive development -- like Thibodeau working with Yao.

It's just a silly comparison. In the NFL, defensive and offensive players are separate. Not the case in the NBA.

 

It is kind of what the Mavericks are doing.

DD

 

So we may get an offense-minded assistant coach? I think JVG is not going to give up on this team or rush for a decision until the end of the playoff. The management just tries to press on JVG by interviewing RA or someone else.

 

I know JVG has his father and all, but is it insecurity that makes him afraid to surround himself with NBA guys who have signifcant head coach experience?

Why would he think that he cannot learn anything from guys who frankly have as much or in some cases more experience than him? Wierd. Like much else about JVG.

 

LOL, and since when did this become a requirement of success? You do know that Tom Thibodeau is regarded as one of the top young coaching prospects in the NBA and is being mentioned for the SAC job right?


Armchair coaching in the age of the internet = out of control.

The NBA is a player's league. It's not a coach's league - and it damned sure isn't an ASSISTANT coach's league.

Those of you seeking a magical panancea from a coaching change after a season that was largely overachieving, at least up until the end, are setting yourselves up for a fall.

 

Certainly not a requirement for success but just might save you from failure. Of course you would have to be open to others opinions. Would never happen with Jeff Van Close-minded.

 

He could, but like 99% of all NBA head coaches, he doesn't. Why hasn't Adelman ever hired a good defensive coach to help him with his swiss cheese defensive philosophies? Did you know the Maloofs cut him loose from the Kings because they wanted someone more defensive minded? What you suggest sounds logical but is rarely done in the NBA. For good or bad, head coaches set the philosophy on both ends of the floor and almost never delegate the hands on stuff to assistants like they do in the NFL.

 

One word: playbook

NFL teams have hundreds of plays in each playbook and the players have to learn each play through meticulous repetition and that takes a different coach for each on offense and defense. Divide the responsibility among two groups to train each side. That is why coordinator sit in the booth to call out plays to the head coach. In the NBA for one the players are responsible for both offense and defense and the fact that teams don't run plays that run into the 100 count. It 's more strategy than specific plays. Yes coaches have a few dozen plays but teams don't place total emphasis on the plays only. So many other areas in which coaches have to make spit second decisions and on-the-fly adjustments. In the NFL coach gives out a play and team tries to execute it to perfection as possible. All about timing, rhythm and matchups.

So there is very little use of a "defensive coordinator" in the NBA. You can't teach how to play defense, you just have to show how to implement it properly. Plus there are very few defensive schemes or plays in the NBA like zones and coverages but not a whole lot of stuff. It is more philosophical and hands on defense not something chalked up to be played out on the floor.

 

Good news! So, Aldeman might be the new coach and JVG can be let go after June 30th??

 

Get serious, you CAN teach how to play defense, which is why some coaches ALWAYS have teams that play tough defense, like JVG, and other coaches always have teams that are sorry on defense, like Adelman the last several years. The NBA isn't Rocket science on either side of the ball and that is why there are no offensive or defensive "coordinators".

 

Uh....Tex Winter........Pete Carril....etc....etc...etc....

 

well, it looks like they are going to drag it for another month until the season is officially over...

 

etc...etc...etc...?

Pete Carroll is the football coach at USC.

 

Typo.....Pete Carril - ex Princeton coach who was basically the offensive coordinator for Rick Adleman at Sacremento.

DD

 

Adelman needs a defensive guy, not the other way.