Yao was on the playoff roster and he played more playoff games in one year than Tracy McGrady ever has in any given year. What is the most successful Adelman coached Rockets team? The team that lost in the first round or the team that won in the first round?
Are you completely inept comprehension wise? This is the 3rd straight reply filled with all sorts of hogwash independent of the "Principle" I brought into question. Thread title reads: Greatest players in Rick Adelman History why are you asking me that question? Excuse mY harsh words since you are apparently the only "99'er" that believes he should be on a pedestal, and are a seasoned basketball fan...are you seriously going to sit there and tell me that the success of a team and the skill of a player has a 100% causal relationship with team? Team does bad, so the player has to be that bad? Wrong. It is simply a correlation, and as you so ironically brought up...what is the #1 rule in statistics? CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION Are there are no other variables in play? A little guy named ron artest apparantly had little to do with it, wafer, landry, the trade of rafer, emergence of brooks, aquisition of lowry? How can a fan that claims to know so much about the past rockets team know so little about, the current ones? Now please don't reply back to me in the same ignorant manner, and answer YOUR own question in terms of the context YOU presented. It really takes something this flawed for a person like me to even defend an antagonist character such as mcgrady. wow.
you are turning this and every other thread into a mcgrady thread. There are so many great players listed who helped Rick become a legendary coach. And you choose to talk about the one who is not on there? I mean I left out some other noteworthy players like Artest and Battier for last year.
Based on what?!? Isn't every thread in the GARM already a mcgrady thread I love the innocent act. This doesn't have to do with mcgrady, it was a matter of principle but me arguing any longer won't much good. So could you try making a more accurate poll next time? Some of us just want to know the current ratio of TOF/YOF on this board and what we are dealing with
Instead of voting on the poll i will Rank them. My reasoning is overall skill as a basketball player. Clyde C web Yao Ming Kevin Duckworth Terry Porter Tracy Mcgrady (TOF, he is this low b.c the poll is asking for the time rick was here) Bibby Peja (don't know why he's on there...) AB/Scola aren't eligible as of yet, not in the league long enough to be included.
cwebb and clyde were the best players BY FAR coached by rick. they all achieved not only their best individual success, but also team success. clyde had his 2 best years under him: 27 points, 6 boards, 6 dimes chris webber posted all-nba season under him: 23-24 pts, 10 boards, 4-5 dimes. i don't even think it's an argument.
cwebb was great passer during his hey day with Rick Adelman. Remember when he and everybody's favorite former Rocket, Juwan Howard were the building blocks of the Wizards, they both stunk up the joint. Adelman unleashed Cwebb's true skills under his system. I feel that he's doing this for all our players today.
cool. somebody wonder why i put peja on there, this was the reason why he got a big contract from the hornets. his performance with the kings under rick was great.
that Sacto Queens team was one full of chokers. in a tight game, at home, w < 2 min to go, the Queens were ahead by 3. all of a sudden, none of the Queens wanted to shoot---not Webber, Peja, Bibby nor Divac---they just keep passing the hot potatoe, ending up w the 5th option shooting a 20-footer. the whole TV audience can sense the choking, so did the Lakers, who stepped on the Queens' throat.
this one's easy, you're talking about a top 5 SG of our generation. i put him behind kobe and jordan.
