I'd take Sloan in a heartbeat. He's the guy everyone hates .... accept the team and fans he's working for. Those people love him. He'd bring accountability and a certain toughness to this team that it doesnt have now. His teams always played hard and with a nasty disposition. I'd take Adleman or Van Grumpy too (can I still call him that?! he doesnt seem so grumoy anymore).
Yes rockets has a few replaceable players but we also have to take in consideration the Salary cap, trade deadlines and CBA rules... where as the coaches are not subject to that limitations... for your second point, again I ask you, why do we have to compare replacing players vs replacing the coach... can't we do both? I think we can...
no loves for Larry Brown? I remmember during early days of JVG's tenure, a lot of folks were very high on him