It's a myth that Adelman develops rookies. He didn't play Landry last year until Yao went out. He barely played Brooks.
Luther Head said he played poorly last year because he thought he would get benched for every mistake he made. He never felt that pressure from JVG.
He developed our rookies, but not include Dorsey, for me, the best news is yao and Tmac played less time and we still won the games. Now we only need to waiting battier back. Next 10 games except Spurs(Manu Ginobili may back soon), our opponents are not strong. We have chance to win 12-0 in a row..
correct. Everyone saying "he brought in crappy knicks players!" tell me who he cut to bring them in that is still in the NBA.
im impartial to the whole adelman vs jvg thing. Jeff proved he couldn't get us over the hump. And Adelman is yet to prove that as of yet. If you're going to look at how we run our offense/defense... I'll give JVG credit because our players still use his principles on defense. So it is more JVG than Adelman that can be given credit for why the Rockets are still a great defensive team. Ad far as offense goes, neither coach has been able to do a good job with this team. That-being-said, Adelman is getting the point that his princeton offense doesn't work with our roster and has started adjusting the offensive plays. Things are slowly starting to work now and I think that make Adelman a smart coach. JVG could never change the way he coaches for his team.
I am so tired of hearing why the "motion offense" isn't working. Seriously it is just like you said, there are plays and they can either run them or not. If they are not running the plays bench them or give up as a coach. Reefer is killing himself out there trying to get them to run a play and they sometimes just ignore him. Its crazy
He doesn't like to play rookies. He was forced to play Brooks and Landry last season. Brooks because there was basically no one behind Alston (Francis got injured and Mike James quickly became hated by his teammates), and when we traded James/Bonzi for BJax, Bjax became the backup PG. Landry got playing time because if anyone remembered last season, we sucked during the first half of the season. Scola wasn't consistant and Hayes was Hayes. Generally he doesn't like to play rookies, he's had a long career of coaching. Just look at what rookies he plays. If it wasn't so late I would look it up myself. The only rookie of note that I remember not getting any time was Kevin Martin in Sac.
he has lost some of his white hair and gets one year OLDER than he was last season. I haven't seen any change except those. Maybe we will see him change a little bit when his hair-loss is escalated to JVG's class.
Landry in the rotation was because, last season vs Timberwoves at home, we won about more than 20 points in the second qt,in the garbage time, he played pretty well. seems got 15 points and ten more rebounds. His performance conquered Adelman..
He picked Kevin Martin didn't he? Kevin wasn't great from the beginning. He developed into the player he is now. He picked Garcia who is also pretty good and picked several good players. At least he plays them when he has no choice, but with Jeff, he'd sign your favorite old Knicks. Uh... no. Landry played because in practice he showed that he can play. Coaches during interviews before Landry's performance was all surprised and said he just needs to practice a little more before seeing playing time. Seriously... give credit where credit is due. Rick knows how to use rookie and Jeff doesn't. That's the easiest difference you can see between the two. Tell me which player Jeff has picked, that turned out to be an exceptional player.
Maybe you are right, I dont know wheater Landry played by his good practice or not, at least I first saw he played for us was vs Timberwoves at home
Adoo, LOL. --- You are so biased right now that I think it's best you just stop posting in this thread. How can you call Rick-Kings a choke-job and not the Jeff-rockets? Do you know what logical fallacy is? Do you know what that does to your argument, your support? You lose all credibility if you don't make any sense. So you believe that taking the PRIMETIME Bulls and Lakers on, to 6 games and 7 games, and losing is a choking? Prime MJ, Pippen, Shaq, Kobe? 6 games in the finals and 7 games in a "controversial' WCF? Or first round beatings? Dirk and Boozer? MJ and Shaq? I'm sure we can argue that Rick's teams in Sacramento and Portland were really talented but there were primetime legends playing against them, too. And if you can call the Kings, a team that destroyed the Mavs on a regular basis, and went on to the WCF, something that JVG hasn't known, a choke job, isn't it fair to say that a Rockets team with Yao and Tracy, not leaving the first round, a choke job? Again, I'm sure we can argue depth but let's not forget their opponents, their 2-0 leads, and the depth of the opposing team. Someone else said it pretty good: Rick has inherited damaged goods. No disrespect to JVG, but I'm 100% confident that had it been Rick in 04-05 with a still prime McGrady, they would have gotten out of the first round, especially after a 2-0 start (credit to JVG). I think Rox would have had a better seed than 8th. Also, why is Webber leaving Horry to go after the rebound with about 2 seconds left your support for choke? That's so stupid. It was a mistake, maybe. But that's not called choking. Choking was in game 7 when they missed a lot of their free throws. But should there have been a game 7?
i call them as i see them you're confused. The Kobe/Shaq team was not the PRIMETIME Lakers nor Bulls. it not that Adelman's team loss, it is how they lost, victory was in their hands. all his team had to do was to have the best 4 shooters shoot. with Mavs, once Dirk got hot, there was not stopping him. what else would you call a team that while in the WC Finals, in crunch time of a tight game at home, where the top 4 options passed the hot potato to the 5th option in the same WC final, protecting a two-point lead, with seconds to go, the defender left a proven clutch shooter open for a game-winning tre. ??????
Adoo, I did not call them the Showtime Lakers. You are the one confused. What I was trying to say is that they are prime-time players, legends, elites, hall of famers, and were respectively in their primes. Let me break it down for you. MJ-Pippen, Shaq-Kobe or Dirk-???, Deron-Boozer?? And I call that a MISTAKE by Webber. That's not called choking. I really hope english isn't your primary language because your vocabulary is really mixed up. English is not my native language. Webber not being where he was supposed to be is not called choking, lol. Besides, what was more of a threat? Shaq getting the rebound and putting it back in or Vlade tapping the ball out in hopes of time running out but instead, falling into the hands of Robert Horry with 2 seconds left? You should just stop. The Kings played a great series. Their only fault was missing free throws in game 7, a game that should not have happened. Too, they gave up a 24 pt lead in game 4 that resulted in that Horry shot. The point is: The JVG-Rockets giving up 2 series after leading 2-0 in the FIRST ROUND is called choking as much as the Rick-Kings losing game 7 at Arco Arena in OT. Controversial WCF, Game 7, OT, or first round?
im gonna go ahead and predict adoo's rebuttal for you: "the rockets only lost because dirk caught fire. they also lost to the jazz bc carlos boozer caught fire and once you catch fire there's no way you can stop it so its not your fault you lose, thats not choking. on the other hand, losing a close and controversial series against two of the best players in the league in their primes is choking."
