I know that discussion have been going on, but I think it is time to move on and give him time to get is staff together.
It should be this week Morey said very soon, so I guess they will give Adelman plenty of time to get the team ready and structured
Well apparently now Del Harris may be in the mix, Larry Brown's name has come up too, and there were those Avery rumors. I think we'll take our time on this one and make a decision by the week before the draft.
Harris would suck. Regardless of his relationship with Yao. It is a known fact that he doesn't get along with most of his players. Besides when was the last time he coached a quality team.
Les and Morey better take their time, Walmart takes longer than a week to hire a manager. If I was paying a guy $25M I damn sure would take my time.
I don't know. I have always like Harris and he would be a good quality coach. I would bet that Dallas' success (regular season) had more to do with his coaching than Avery's. Harris knows X's and O's and can coach defense. In addition, he knows how to use a big man that can shoot. If Harris can coach that pathetic Chinese national team to an eighth place finish, he must be doing something right. outside of Yao, they didn't have squat.
agreed. dell harris is a completely average coach. we're better off keeping JVG, though that bridge is burned. the last time he was a head coach was with the lakers before jackson took over. harris never got them anywhere. with only minor roster changes jackson won them a championship the next season. there was a reason harris was replaced. he's not a championship coach. good point but the analogy is a bit off. applicants for that job are willing to wait until a dicision has been made. adleman may get another offer which he likes better. - harris is just an average coach who's only being talked about because he's an assistant on the top team in the league and gets along famously with yao. - brown's name is being braught up because he's a championship coach but he won't play the style les wants. - avery's name was braught up only because he has houston ties, but rest assured he's not as good as his career coaching record. i think any one of us could've coached the mavs to at least 50 wins. any decent coach would have success with such a team. - iavaroni doesn't have head coaching experience in the nba. we're trying to win now, forget about waiting for a coach to develop. sign up adleman before it's too late. great offense, decent defense, playoff experience, proven winner just hasn't got the gold yet.
I'm sure they need to pretend to do interviews with a shortlist before hiring Adelman, so they can look like they did their due diligence.
100% disagree, Harris would be 10x better than Adelman IMO. We need to continue to play lockdown D with the core group we have then Harris could develop Spanoulis and Snyder (he is know for developing young players) and it's Morey's job to land us a talent upgrade at the four. I was a JVG guy but I would be happy with Harris.
when a teams best players are naturally mild mannered this team needs a tough headcoach...i dont think thats harris.
Yao is what he is, dude works hard no matter who the coach is IMO. JVG was good for T-Mac but I really do have faith in Mac being driven to win a title. Yeah he might of not done this or not done that but he played his tail off vs Utah and is the last one to blame.
this is OT, but... both the game 6 in Utah and game 7 in Houston were there for the taking...both times we lost because of poor shot selection and decision making by T-Mac in the closing minutes. I agree he is a unique talent...but in close games in the 4th quarter we consistently blew leads and could not finish. If the game is there to be taken, a great player will take it. This is the biggest difference I have notied between the 05 and 07 McGrady...in 05 McGrady was a killer. Now I just don't see that same fire in his eyes...
Not so much Poor shot selection by t-mac as it was only shot selection. T-Mac carried us the entire game, you don't think Sloan noticed? watch the 4th quarters, Sloan adjusted in both to concentrate basically on no-one but T-mac. All game t-mac had bodies on him, he isn't superman, believe it or not he is human (o rly, ya rly, no wai). A man can only carry a load so far, thats why this is a team sport.. where you spread out the carry load, sadley we had no one that could be effective on the team besides that one guy.
Wait a sec. I thought ced could predict the future. Shouldn't you already know when Adelman will be named Rockets coach?
JVG didn't do this, T-Mac took this shot, Deke looked old, Luther can't play, Juwan can't hit an open jumper, Hayes can't do anything on offense etc. etc. Lots of little reasons but the main reason is Yao played like crap, he was not the pre-injury Yao and this is what cost us period. If we had December Yao we are playing the Spurs.
If we lost to the Spurs who is to say JVG still isn't out there door? All indicators point towards Les canning Gundy through hell or high water...
Les has zero ground to stand on if we lose to the Spurs in the WCF. Fact Spurs have a dominate 4 and a top 3 pg, these are the Rockets area's of weakness. He could not have taken the blame IMO if we would of lost to the Spurs. Infact despite my homer posts/threads I thought we would beat Utah then Golden State/Dallas then lose in 7 to San Antonio. JVG got the raw end of the deal but with the results at hand Les had the right to do what he did. Now it's time for the Rockets to hire Harris a guy who stresses D, has a relationship with Yao and has a track record of developing young players.
very true. yao put up the numbers but they were somewhat hollow. He just didnt look good and his almost 5 T/os a game is just completely unacceptable. as for les. well i've lost some respect for him. just another weasley owner in my book.
