That's the problem, right there. You either maximize your drafting or you excel in flipping assets and luring free agents, preferably both. Minny does neither. Love is gone, probably to LA.
Better than a coach who took us to 2 championships and one who took us to the Finals (and won a 'ship as the Celtics Coach)? Umm, OK.
No, it's not emotion. It's honestly factual to state that you are an idiot to put him ahead of Bill Fitch and Rudy Tomjanovich.
McHale is better than most think posters voice. He has had a revolving door as far as a roster since they day he showed up. He had one of the least experienced team of ALL-TIME in the play-offs last year and played a competive series against a more talented OKC. He managed 4th seed in a stacked WC with again a key piece revised in Howard. The young guys are showing lots of improvement under his direction. I liked Rick but he fails to develope the young guys and his defense is worse than McHales. I'd rather have JVG and a lifetime supply of happy pills for the players... Best news on this is Love is all the more likely to say to Minny I'm going to Houston to play for my old buddy McHale and his awesome young team in a year, so trade me now if you want something for me.
I said it before but at 68 years old he is way too old to keep coaching. Coaching is a stressful job, add the constant travel and the grind can get to you. In RA the fatigue showed in laziness when it came to coaching, his last year in Htown he kept playing his favs Cbud and Brooks even when they were stinking it up, and he'd write rotations before the game and stick to them no matter what. Guess what happened in Minny? Look at the forum posts and they talk about why Cbud keeps getting PT over Shabazz and why Love keeps playing entire 3rd quarters no matter what, resulting in leads being blown in the 4rth quarter when he sits down. Being able to beat teams like Miami and then get trashed by GSw without Bogut is pretty much the signature of RA teams nowadays. I`m so glad that crap doesn't happen to us anymore...or at least not as much as before.
Good for Adelman, he should've never been in Minny to begin with. If he's still interested in coaching, he'll be a no brainer for LAL or NY.
I'd fire Mchale right on the spot and hire adelman. Coaching is the only thing that is holding us back from being true contenders.
Wait, those of you talking about NY, you do realize that Phil Jackson is President of the Knicks, right? Anyone that thinks Adelman would work under Phil Jackson must not have watched playoff basketball from 2000 to 2002.
He seemed like a compitent coach, his lack of bench use is what pissed me off. I give props to McHale for benching Lin for Beverley, I doubt Adelman would have.
The only way that McGrady "held back" anybody was by being injured. And Yao held McGrady and Adelman back in the same way.
Your clearly speaking from emotions because pretty much everything you typed was inaccurate. Adelman lazy? Lol, ok. Theres no way you can be "lazy" and get those results with the injuries, roster turnover & lack of talent on that Rockets team. Some of you are very unappreciative of the hard work it takes a coach to have a young, undersized, not very talented team competing every night. No way that team should've been anywhere NEAR good. The same coach w/ 2 of the most injury plagued superstars in franchise history comes out with the highest winning percentage, yet you guys think he's a failure? What incredible logic
First of all, it's you're, not your. Second, how many Finals appearances did Adelman lead the Rockets to? Third, if you're going to discount Rudy due to having Hakeem, then you must do the same for Riley b/c of Jabbar and Johnson, Phil Jackson b/c of Jordan, Popovich b/c of Duncan, etc. It's about the playoffs. And Adelman has led the Rockets to 1 more playoff series victory than McHale. One. What the **** good does it do to have a great regular season winning % and then do sh** in the playoffs? Really, it's quite obvious that you don't know what you are talking about by rating Adelman as the Rockets' best coach. That'd be like ranking Karl Malone as the best player of all time b/c his regular season winning % is the best. It's just silly to discount the playoffs, which you are doing. These are the 3 greatest coaching jobs in Rockets' history: 1. Rudy T leading a 6th seed Rockets to the championship in 1995; 2. Bill Fitch leading the Rockets to the Finals- beating the defending champion Lakers- and taking one of the great teams of all time to 6 games; 3. Del Harris taking a team with a losing regular-season record to the 1981 Finals. Then, we can talk about Adelman and JVG and Don Cheney and McHale. For those who care about the ultimate goal of an NBA team, that's the truth. How anyone can rank Adelman higher than #4 above 3 coaches who took the Rockets to the Finals is just mind-boggling. Especially b/c we never got past the 2nd round with Adelman.
not sure if i would bring adelman back over mchale... and love adelman and am not that high on mchale. the reason being that part of rick being let go was that he wasn't really taking to the analytics approach as much as morey wanted. for example he had to trade battier to force adelman to give chandler the starting spot and the lion's share of minutes at the 3. great coach, but may be too old school to fit well with an analytics driven team. he, karl, lionel hollins (who is young but was fired for not following the numbers) are ALL better than mchale but wouldn't fit well here.
Very overrated and extremely rigid as the Rockets coach. As much as McHale frustrates at times, at least he isn't afraid to shake up lineups when things are not working. Lin would be starting and a 35 year vet with no skills would have somehow ended up here as starting PF if Adelman was still coach. Forget about HCA in the first round too.
