Keep Adelman for at least Another year

I'm not going to try and convince people here of the wonders of capitalism, but you sell for what the market will bear, especially if you see your career coming to an end.

If I still had my '73 Torino, and somebody would give me $4000 for it, I'd take it, and not feel guilty for one second.

Hakeem went and played in another uniform. What did he owe us before doing that?

 

Fair point. It is more insulting to offer Adelman a one-year contract than to offer Yao the veteran's minimum. And neither is likely to be accepted.

From what I've seen, Adelman is not a proponent of the easy answer. He doesnt' make dramatic or sudden rotation changes when things aren't going well. Instead, he gives the players time to figure things out, much more than most of us are willing to.

If you're out of the rotation, you'll need to work hard to prove that you deserve playing time over the guy in front of you. But once you're in, he's pretty loyal to you and will give you some time to figure things out.

A lot of fans seem frustrated by this aspect of Adelman's coaching, but I see it as one of his strengths. It's a show of great trust by the coaches to the rotation players, and teaches younger players to earn their minutes instead of expecting them. And given time, it has shown to build incredible team cohesiveness.

The downside is that a roster probably needs to remain fairly stable for a long stretch before Adelman's method really bears fruit. This may be why people say it takes several seasons for a team to really "get" Adelman's system.

 

The way the roster is shaping up we need to keep him. Let Morey decide who plays by making trades to force Adelmans hands for the minutes Morey wants for his own players. If he wants more minutes for Patterson? Trade Scola so we can get that Small forward or center we need. Problem solved. He wants less Chuck Hayes minutes for Adelman to play? Get a quality 7 foot center for Adelman to play. Very simple. Twill isnt good enough to get minutes and neither is that 7ft 3 guy we got in the D league. I dont see a problem with keeping Adelman.

 

Don't resign a coach who can't keep his team focused on a garbage kings team. Team caught looking past is a coaches fault as much as the players

 

So then hire a robot? Rick is a human last time I checked, and humans make mistakes. Everyone looked past this team, if you said you did not then you are lying.

 

I want a coach that keeps his team focused. I don't blame Rick completely, he's old and tired. I hope he leaves and I sure he will.

TIME FOR CHANGE

 

yes if we get a superstar or legit addition, no i we continue to play draft picks

 

Yeah thats true. BUT??


Who is out there?

 

Why couldn't RA make any adjustments tonight when SAC bigs were outplaying us in the 2nd quarter?

All we did was chuck up 7 straight missed 3s? Why didn't he try a 3-big combination of Hayes-Scola-PPat?

For how good he is at preparing the team, RA really sucks at game management and adjustments. I think he has taken this team as far as he can go.

Les and DM will now have a serious discussion about our coaching position for the team going forward.

 

That's Morey's job and I trust him

 

Can't blame sh!!ty shooting on the coach. Come on guys.

 

No but I came blame him for sh!tty in game adjustments. When you don't run plays to post up till the last 10 minutes.

Way to prepare your guys coach

 

Excellent point about Adelman, and why I think Alexander should give him the boot next season. In an ideal world wherein your roster doesn't change and you already have 5-6 guys who are set to receive 30 mins a night, then he would be great. However real life isn't like that all, the roster changes depending on injuries, trades and the growth of the player. No team stays the same over a long period of time anymore, except maybe the Lakers who have just done minor retools since the Gasol trade and the Mavs.

 

I don't understand this at all. Haven't the Rockets already dealt with roster changes based on injuries, trades, and growths of players the past several seasons? And despite that hasn't Adelman had the team performing beyond what anyone expected?

Just a big to your post.

 

Whom should we get who is better? What would be your suggestion?

 

We have only one post player on our entire team. So I can only assume you're saying if we gave the ball to Scola in the post more often and earlier we would have won the game? Okay, I guess.

 

I thought RA's great pride was that his offensive system could always give us good looks.

 

They sure looked like wide open shots to me.

 

Disagree with this. Good teams have a core group of at least three or four players that spend numerous seasons together. The Thunder, the Spurs, the Bulls, the Lakers... the list is pretty long.

Bad teams don't have such a stable core and keep making dramatic changes in hopes of finding that magical combination.

Right now, we're closer to the second category. In every season as the Rockets coach, Adelman has had to rely on a different combination of top three players leading the team. In a three year span, we've gone from Ming/Artest/Scola to Brooks/Ariza/Scola to Lowry/Martin/Scola.

And yet Adelman has been able to squeeze out a winning record every season, while getting star-level performances from a revolving door of non-star players.

Yes, Adelman would thrive with the right core and enough time to develop them, or in other words ingredients necessary for a contender. But even without such an "ideal situation", he's proven that he just knows how to get the job done.

 

If Rick leaves it will be a massive step backwards for a lot of players in a new system.

There are folks on the floor for the team that thrive because of his system, folks like Hayes, and Martin that would drastically suffer if they switched it up.

I hope they give him a 3 year extension. Let Morey have another offseason unfettered by large contracts and see what Rick can do.

Just my .02.

DD