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How does Adelman's "HOF career" impact this team today?

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by meh, Apr 19, 2011.

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  1. meh

    meh Member

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    Adelman has shown that given a team with Clyde, Porter, and a hard, physical frontline, he led them to the finals.
    Adelman has shown that when given crap in GS, he looked like crap.
    Adelman has shown that when given Divac, Webber, Peja, Bibby, and Christie, he can almost beat a championship caliber team playing 5-on-8.
    Adelman has shown that with no stars but many average to above-average players, he can coach them to slightly better than .500 record.

    During Adelman's tenure here, Bosh decided he'd rather play for for a coach with no experience while getting paid less. Melo decided to play for a coach that basically made a living off of Steve Nash. For that matter, no star player decided Houston was the place to be when JVG was here too(T-Mac wanted Yao), nor Rudy T(Pippen wanted cash and Barkley wanted Hakeem).

    Honestly, why do people act like his departure is the end of the Rockets world as we know it?
     
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  2. Glenyo

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    Rick Adelman is not a rebuilding coach, new coach rebuilding team that fits in.
     
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  3. PeppermintCandy

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    No coach will ever be the main reason for a star player at his peak choosing a team, IMO.

    Kobe Bryant may have wanted Phil Jackson to come and coach him in LA many seasons ago, but if Jackson were coaching, say, in Minnesota back then, I can't see Bryant signing with the Timberwolves just to be with Phil.
     
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    I guess you're trying to say two things in this post.

    1.) Adelman's not as good of a coach as he's made out to be. :confused:

    2.) That Adelman being coach somehow didn't help free agents come here. Again. :confused:

    Those are two pretty terrible points, and could have been made just as terribly in one of the many threads about Adelman.
     
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  5. meh

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    No. They come down to one point, Adelman's IMPACT isn't what people make him out to be.

    If Adelman "made" those contending teams, as many seem to believe, then he should've "made" a contender in Houston. Whether it be luring great players here, or making superstars out of our picks. He does neither, because he's just a coach whose job is to coach. He can't turn Martin into Drexler. He can't turn Scola into Webber. He had top 5 defenses in Sacramento, a team most people think is soft, while built a bad defense in Houston with some say all-defensive team in Hayes and Lowry.
     
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    To me, its all a case of Adelman being a HOF coach, people just can't seem to grasp that as he ages, his performance doesn't remain HOF caliber. Its very rare you have a Belichick type of coach who is still as good at 65 as he was at 55. Most of the time people regress, and in this case it was shown by old man Adelman not looking at the "new age" data that DM and his staff puts out, opposing every trade that went down this season, and most of all playing favorites regardless of performance as we have seen with Brooks and Miller.

    With Adelman, the Rox overachieved largely because of his SYSTEM, which is why I'm for retaining Turner or Sickma and letting them lead this team. You keep the system which is RA's strong point, and maybe you replace the coach with someone who has a more open mind. Then you let RA go to LA where he'll continue to contend for rings. Everybody wins.
     
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    A lot of people are just emotional. I would have loved for Adelman to stay, but the differences were mutual and most people that are criticizing this probably were arguing that the Rockets needed to be rebuilding and overturning their roster. Well, that's primarily what Adelman had a problem with.
     
    #7 durvasa, Apr 19, 2011
  8. BackNthDay

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    Dude is 65 years old, seriously, he can collect social security. It's time to bring a young fresh face into the mix.
     
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