Chronic: Adelman would be wise to heed Rockets' blunders

Great article. Too much funny business going on within the Rockets organization, sheez.

 

WOW I'm convinced Les Alexander is an incompetent fool and JVG is no better

 

see, this is why im so torn up with whats up with the organization.. someone's saying this and that, and someone else is saying the complete opposite from the other story. its just too confusing.. is jvg really gettin his @ss booted out of here in such a disrespectful way, or are they really making a compromise or working something out that would be best for both parties?! this whole fiasco has really gotten out of hand and i dont know which is truely happening.. whatever happened to "the rockets are one of the classiest organizations in the league"? i mean, i want jvg out, and adelman in, but in fairness, jvg doesnt deserve this kind of a pink slip (if indeed he is gettin this kind of bad treatment with les).

hmmm JVG as a team consultant, or a "defense coach" but on the hush and without the title? and adelman would be the "offense coach".. hmmm....

p.s.
welcome to houston rick adelman!

 

Huh. What a mangled situation this has become. It seems as though Les Alexander doesn't wan't JVG back. I guess he expected Van Gundy to "retire?" To resign? I don't know what he expected, but if he didn't want him back he should have simply told him so. Or HIRED someone to tell him so. Hell, make Morey do it, surely that's part of his job.

I'm okay with the Rockets making a change. I guess Adelman is as good a candidate as anyone out there, except maybe for Larry Brown, and who wants to deal with him? I am upset over how JVG appears to be being treated. I respect the fact that nobody has trashed anybody publicly, but you shouldn't find out second hand that your boss is interviewing for your job. That's bull****. JVG may not have gotten us out of the first round in his four years here but I fully believe that he tried his very best and sincerely worked hard to win. He deserves better treatment, even if the decision has been made to bring in a fresh face.

 

Yawn, Justice trying to create a story out of nothing.

 

This wouldn't sound remotely credible had Rudy's ouster not have been as incompetently handled as what's written here.

 

How do we know Jeff isn't involved in the discussions as is? and F jeff, we need to focus on winning, not being "classy"

 

What's Gundy gotta do?

No justice, no peace?

LOL

 

i don't have a lot of confidence when it's justice writing the article because i don't know what's fact and what's bulls!t.

i mean, i'm a van gundy supporter but i hardly believe it's only one side(the rockets) that's messing around here.

i will say every day that seperates me from game 7, i want him back as our coach even more.

 

Adelman is a terrible coach...

His teams win counts DECLINED in 80% of his years coaching.

What are we thinking???

 

We could bring in DaDa for much cheaper...

jk

 

Sadly, this looks like Richard Justice is trying to sabotage the Rockets effort to improve our coaching situation. However, no coach worth his salt will be intimidated by such "warnings."

 

I am an incompetent fool but I dont get millions. How can be an incompetent fool and make millions bucks? Please tell me.

 

I agree, its BS coming out of his mouth like always

his articles should be banned

 

I do agree somewhat, but hey! it's just a stupid blog and Justice is an idiot

 

Good point. I buy RJ's story as truth, if not fact. Folks, we're losers for a decade. Money (Les) winners and a team no one wants to play in the p/o's, but beats anyway. When we get there, that is.

BTW - RA is as ugly or uglier to look at than JVG. I hope his stache is gone.

 

If you needed Richard Justice to point out the obvious to you.....

Truth- Rockets have not offered Van Gundy publically a new contract.
Translation- They don't want Van Gundy back.
Truth- Van Gundy has not quit.
Translation- He would come back.
Truth- The Rockets have given nothing but muddled signals that change as time goes on.

Translation- They (Les) have handled this about as well as the original Calvin Murphy firing, and Rudy T 'quitting'.

Rick Adelman- I would like to be the first to predict we will not compete for a championship until after the TMac Yao era. Unless they fire Adelman after the end of his first season and get some talented players around TMac and Yao.

Van Gundy had faults just like every coach has faults, but he was one of the top tier coaches, a big step above Adelman.

Does anyone really think a coach is going to fix this....

TMac is soft (mentally and physically)
Yao is slow and unathletic (not his fault, it is what it is)

Both of these deficiencies could be compensated for with the right type of players surrounding these guys, because they are both good scorers.

We have really bad matchup problems- did anyone see what Deron Williams, Carlos Boozer, Harpring and Okur did to us? We only took that series to 7 games because we had a defensive system in place that held the games close and Tracy scored often enough and created enough to keep them close.
We just got exposed, that's all.

Until we get better help than- Rafer Alston, Chucky Hayes, Luther Head, Deke, and J Howard we will remain a team that wins with gutsy defense and the scoring load on two players.

It is sick how far we went this past season with that roster.

I can't wait for Adelman to work magic on these guys, our supporting cast of players couldn't make the bench on Phoenix or Dallas. Smiley face, I feel better now.

 

First time in a while I liked a Richard Justice column. I repeat: This mess is on Les. My respect for him couldn't be any lower right now. Dear Les: Be a man and cut JVG, hire Adelman and take responsibility for the success/failure that follows. You ain't foolin' nobody. Stop the charade. You are pathetic.

 

First of all, this is Richard Justice, so to say that it's worth the paper it's printed on would be insulting to the trees that gave their life to make that paper.


However, if I go on the assumption that it's true, which is an enormous leap of faith, why would Adelman even want to come. The way they've treated Van Gundy is just bizarre. I almost think that in Les's bizarro world, Van Gundy is now his backup plan. Like he can go and court other coaches and Van Gundy will be waiting on the couch for his phone call if those fall through.