[Chron] Justice: Alexander willing to roll dice on coach

man the Rockets did good. Justice is correct in saying adelman should stay. What more could he have done looking at the whole season.

 

Any small amount of sense you made was killed by this sentence.

 

Link?

 

Here it comes ...

 

Has anyone found the phantom article? I don't see any recent Richard Justice articles.

 

Is it only in the print edition?

 

I hate this Jordan argument. I know you guys all have charts and stats to try and prove how the Rockets would have beaten him if the Rockets played him in a playoff game but the thing is we're talking about the greatest man to ever play the game of basketball. There were tons of games the Bulls 'should' have lost but he singlehandedly willed them to victories. Even if some team might have matched up better with Jordan in the regular season, he is a different player in the playoffs. So when someone says the Rockets were lucky to have not met up with those Bulls, just nod your head and walk away. No one is saying the Bulls would have necessarily beaten the Rockets but whenever you're in a playoff series and the best player ever is on the other team, you just never know.

 

I don't know what RA's relationship with Les is like but possibly Les wanted RA to play more of the young guys and develop them for the future (TWill, Pat, Thabeet etc...). I know RA has been known to rub owners the wrong way (Sac).

Regardless I think Rick did a terrific job and think the Rockets should try to bring him back. But we will likely never know if Rick was directing the Rockets to the future in the way that DM and Les wanted.

 

So you've seen it? I don't live in Houston at the moment, so I'm not sure. I figured now days they'd have every print article available online though?

 

IBTL. Where's the article and I trust Morey to tell Les that we need Adelman. If Morey doesn't think we do then I'm glad to see Adelman go.

 

How about the Bulls were lucky not to have met up with the Rockets? What's so wrong about giving the Rockets full credit on their championships?

Mike was there in 95 he lost to the Orlando. No one say's well the Bulls won all those rings because Magic retired and Bird was gone or Isiah was old. Please, who knows if the Bulls even get past the Knicks in 94 to meet us.

 

Les has allowed his GM's to go out and spend whenever a GM felt spendind would make the team better.

CD and Morey have had no problems with Les NOT spending moey. He buys picks, spends money on a D-League affiliate, hires expensive techies that crunch Morey's numbers! Sounds like a owner that stays out of it and that's what successful owners do!

 

Alexander doesn't have a job, he has a team.

Seriously, you're right -- Adelman is a better coach than Les is an owner. Morey is probably a better GM than Les is an owner. But, Adelman and Morey can be fired; Alexander can't. We're stuck with him for as long as he wants to be around. I'm just glad he doesn't completely suck. He was smart enough, at least, to hire Morey and Adelman in the first place.

 

I hope you aren't because anyone who pulls the Jordan crap is just asking for it.

 

So now we got our rings because of luck? Dude there's a guy who needs to get paid in two dollar bills, stop posting and go handle it.

 

Thanks Javon! finally someone recognizes that Hakeem was the greatest basketball player of all time and better than Wilt! But Jordan was great in his own right and it would have been a great series.

Great quote! I took the liberty off adding some things you may have missed typing in haste but I'm sure you meant to add them.

Once again, it appears that you made some mistakes while typing that I was more than happy to help you with. :grin:

 

^^^ crash you missed one

Why yes, Hakeem improved more statistically from the regular season to the playoff than Jordan did, now that you mention it.