My thoughts exactly. Instead of rewarding the bench for getting them back in the game, he brings out his overpaid starters and gives Yao the last shot even though he couldn't make a thing all night long.
We should have had Artest on Jamison, especially since Butler was out. Wait...how did we lose the Wizards when they did not even have Butler? LOL!!!
None of the starters except for Scola played more than 32 minutes. That shows me Adelman used his bench players quite a bit. Head and Wafer didn't get playing time but we had McGrady (32 minutes) and Barry (16 minutes) in there at SG. Should Adelman have played them less? And I missed a chunk of the second half when I think Hayes got his seven minutes, but his +/- was -10, so I'm assuming he wasn't the solution for replacing Yao. Granted, Adelman's bringing the starters back in at the end didn't work out. The bench was playing great, but he gambled on his big dogs and lost. But still, the overall minute distribution doesn't seem to have been the problem.
Yes he is, i think JVG would not even play t-mac until he felt like he was 100% percent. I don't think he would let this in one game out another fly.
The only problem I have with him is that he keeps playing the laconic Rafer Alston as a starter when he has a much better option in Brooks. DD
Chuck was out there when we were (edit out Ron... cause he wasn't the only one doing it) chucking and turning the ball over in the second quarter. He never played in the second half.
Thus the reason that plus minus stats suck.... Artest was HORRID in that period and the reason that Washington got hope and a 10 point lead..... And ending the half by missing 2 of the 3 FTs...inexcusable. DD
He wasn't the only one doing it.. Aaron had a couple of turnovers and missed shots, then when Yao came in he had a turnover and a couple of missed shots. It was all around suckage in the second quarter. They were just blowing by people for layups. Edit - after looking at the play by play.. Ron had 4 of his turnovers in about a 2 min 30 second span... so okay yeah he was a major part of the issue there.
People argued about 4-0 with Brooks' record. Now we lost to the weakest team. Not to keep Brooks as a starter is not his only problem. How to use Yao is the bigest task. I doubt he will make any changes.
The problem is it was the same gamble he used for 3 games in a row now. It failed twice and let the other team back into it on the game we won! Adelman doesn't believe in going with or rewarding those who energize the team, but rather relying on his starters even if they haven't shown anything the rest of the game. People used to complain about Van Gundy being too rigid with his rotation, where are those complaints about Adelman? He has a strategy in mind and will use it regardless of how players are playing that game. That's rigid and that's poor coaching.
How soon people forget how ugly and predictable JVG offense was. I know some of you people love too hear him announce, but JVG suxs and he makes my stomach curl. He loved to run the same play over and over and it was so predictable that everyone in the arena knew what the Rockets were going to run. At least Adelman still goes to those high % shots but mixes it up a bit. On top of that the plays that JVG ran didn't even let players run plays that would exploit their strengths, he wanted the plays to be systematic and exactly as drawn up and never let the guys make plays within the flow of the game.
I'll give you that his offense was stale, I will - BUT are you willing to acknowledge that Van Gundy got more out of his players than Adelamn did? Tracy was a different player with Van Gundy. I'll grant you, some of that is injury and age, but not all of it. Tracy is far more complacent than with Adelaman. Defensive lapses like we saw last night would never happen under Van Gundy because he wouldn't stand for it. And Van Gundy wouldn't put in his starters just because they are his starters. Adelman's offense may be better (however it isn't as good as advertised), but that's all he has going for him. And by the way, even with Adelman's offense the Rocket's sit at #25 in field goal percentage in the leauge - wow thank god we don't have Van Gundy's stagnant offense, otherwise we wouldn't be better than the 5 teams (New York, Oklahoma City, Milwaukee, and the Clippers - good company huh?) we're ahead of in that regard...
My bad... he just missed a few shots in a row and had that one turnover all in about a 4 minute span AB didn't get as much run last night... I don't know if it's because of the matchup with the PG's of WAS or what.
with JVG, every game was a borefest, win or loss. whenever we were down going into the 4th quarter, i knew it was a loss because our offense was so slow and ineffecient it would take YEARS to come back in the game. at least with Adelman most of the games are exciting. the Wizards game was exciting even though we lost.
Exciting? Watching the Wizards getting wide open layups is exciting? They had 44 points in the paint. 44 That's not exciting that's a freaking snooze fest.
