Was Rick Adelman asleep during the 3rd Quarter against Magic?

In the second half, Howard began fronting Yao. That continues to give us problems.

But you know what? We still out-scored Orlando in the second half. Landry played over 20 minutes, Wafer played over 21 and Lowry played over 24 (AB was only in for 43 more seconds than Lowry). Those are significant minutes for our bench.

Expect Landry to gain more minutes as he continues to return to full strength (and you could tell he wasn't at it) and expect Ron's minutes to drop (he did have too many last night).

 

Adelman lets the team play through it so they can learn.

 

All teams have their ups and downs and I'm sure it's very difficult for a coach to decide if it's better to leave in the current squad or make a change or just call a time out. I never felt like the game was in any real jepardy yesterday so I can't say that Adelman was asleep. Maybe Van Gundy was.

 

But they NEVER do. Since forever this team has had it's scoring droughts and it has lost us games.

I'd much rather him call timeout and fix things. Yet it's like he just goes to sleep and then WAITS until the other team gets the lead.

That's the worst part, it's too late once the other team has gotten the lead. Now the momentum has shifted.

 

Rockets were lucky they survived Ron's the True Warier in the 3rd. Hope they don't sign him next year.

 

I noticed the same thing. He should call a time out but instead Orlando called one and basically saved us.

 

Exactly...this is why his teams are always pretty successful. I love that he lets them play through it because when the playoffs come they gotta be able to get through their "funk" and play better basketball.

 

then we don't need a coach....

 

wrong. that shows adelman's confidence in his team, and especially in himself.

 

I wanted timeout too. But after a 2nd thought, I can't remember when was the last time RA fixed things after a TO, or even scored.

 

Heh true.

 

Phil Jackson does the same thing all the time. It's better for the growth of the team in the long run, rather than to micro-manage every little mistake made.

(IMHO) We were soft under the JVG era mainly because he would call timeout right after he sees something he doesn't like. Our players didn't really had to think for themselves (so many times our PG would have to look toward the bench to know what play to run), because they've got the timeouts as the crutch. In those years, our team was mentally weak and was unable to perform when the game was on the line.

I like Adelman's approach. It will pay dividend down the road.

 

Adelman is a slow learner, and a slow reactor, but I still give him the coach of the year if this team can win 54 games with a division title.

 

Someone must've gave Ron the green light cause he was jacking up everything. And Howard WAS fronting Yao, he's tall enough and fast enough to deny him the ball, there should've been better ball movement. Maybe next game...we'll see. We still won though, so whatever.

 

Phil Jackson had the luxury of having MJ and he used to let them play through the game but when he sensed that the team could get in trouble,he took a timeout.
I didn't like the micromanaging of JVG, but Adelman doesn't intervene when he needs to stop the game. Not much ever comes out of his timeouts but I would like to see him pull out guys earlier when they are continuously making mistakes.

 

The way i see it and probably the way the coach sees it is, that ok, You are the best players on our team, you are the starters, and you will most likely be the ones that i will count on in the end of games in the playoffs, so either we win with you or lose with you. He is putting in the players heads that no one will save them but themselves, which i think is a good move by the coach.

 

I was thinking the same thing...Phil Jackson does that too!!

 

you...horrible, just horrible....

 

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