this is true and Rick Adelman when he had committed and healthy superstars had an easier job too. which makes me conclude this has nothing to do with Rick Adelman since he's one of the best coaches of all time.
RA >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any of the coaches mentioned above I hear he's available to the Rockets, too.
Well put, I agree. Fans can be very shortsighted. There probably is not anyone better that is available. As I said earlier, it may be tough to retain RA after this season, with a roster that is not capable of making a run.
I would hate to see him go, he's very under appreciated . I don't how long you have been reading clutchfans, but the irony of all this JVG banter is that the "FIRE JVG" thread popped up like a bag of Orville Redenbocker during his tenure.
I have read from this site pretty much from day one, but didn't frequent often because I was on the road with a band. Can't believe I didn't sign up till 09 being a Rockets fan since 81. Anyway, rambling. I think most of the people that have been here or have been Rockets fans for years, know RA is a great coach. I think it's the knee-jerk youngins who live in the I need it now mode that are calling for his RA's head. Be careful what you wish for people, it could get much uglier than it is now. My hope is Morey can upgrade this team in a big way and RA gets his chance to make another run at this thing.
sweet! When you watch the Rockets games with the other team's announcers, they always respect Rick Adelman.
Rick is one of the 5 best coaches in the nba, and really the only 2 you can say with certainty are better than him are Jackson and Pop.
Rick is one of the best coaches in the NBA hands down. People don't understand how bad it gets. As long as Rick wants to be here he should have a spot. The problem is I think this team is closer to rebuilding rather than re-loading.. How does Rick respond to that? (assuming we trade away a few of our best players for younger options)
I love Doc (probably my personal favourite coach), but I'm not convinced he is (the recent Celtics success is built upon KG's back), he's a players coach, but he has a team full of future hof players. Sloan, seems to have had the same success level as Rick, never really had the most talented team, but just couldn't claw that final step despite almost being there and gets his teams to regularly perform above the curve, but Jerry has never been cheated by refs like Rick's team was (really no one has ever been cheated like that Kings team). Those 3 are about even really.
Mike Brown over RA? you gotta be kidding.. sum sum sum bwahaha ha yeah dat wuz uh uh boyee dat wuz guud..
Do you think people are robot? That they can't change even after several decades? Young Adelman was one of the best coaches in the league's history. He's what now, 65? You think a 65 year old dude is able to replicate his performance when he was in his 40's or 50's? Sometimes coaches are so competitive they can still be effective past the age of retirement, but in those cases the team must already be a powerhouse to get his attention. A middle-of-pack team like us is the worst team for Adelman, he doesn't put in the extra work required to make the team competitive. You can the players putting less and less effort in the game. He's lost the players, probably because they think he doesn't care anymore at this point.
i agree. his knees arent what they were 20 years ago. he has to learn to not rely so much on his athleticism and more on his BBall IQ...
Wasn't he still in his 60's, 2 years ago, when the Rockets took the NBA champs Lakers to 7 games, without T-Mac(at all) and Yao Ming(half the series)? He hasn't changed that much. It's the team that got wrecked. There is only so much a coach can do with moneyball stars that aren't true superstars.
Put another vote for those that say we should be kissing the toyota center court for our good fortune for every season we retain RA. Nobody on earth could coach this current group into a contending team... probably not even a 50 team. I love our players, but objectively, we are putting an inferior team on the floor almost every night. We've won 22 contests that so many coaches would have lost. Having watched Rockets basketball struggle when we had Hakeem, I feel like I know real frustration. But watching us struggle with an allstar-free group of plucky but defensively pathetic role players? It's not on the coach.
And until they got KG, Celtics fans wanted Doc out of there. I might be wrong, but I vaguely reading some rant by Simmons on how Doc was a problem during those days. So it's not the coach, it's the roster. Honestly, you keep Adelman as long as he wants. Coaches at his level are incredibly rare, and you don't throw them away.
If I am not mistaken, Doc Rivers had a pretty lousy record, before they formed the Big 3. The Celtics won 33 games and 24 games in 2 seasons. Doc Rivers had Paul Pierce and Al Jefferson for most of the season. They were so bad that they got the 5th pick in the draft(traded for Ray Allen). I would hate to imagine how Doc Rivers have fared, if he lost both Pierce and Al Jefferson for a whole season. He certainly would have done better than 33 win, 24 wins, or Adelman's current 0.450 winning pace with no Paul Pierce, Al Jefferson, Yao Ming, or T-mac. Adelman has almost as many wins, 22, in half a the season than Doc Rivers' 24 wins in his lottery season for 82 games with Paul Pierce and Al Jefferson.
