What's really the downside to having a new, young coach?

Now is that Adelman's assistant coaches? Will they leave with him when he goes to a new team? And by young players, I'm not just talking about rookies. Look at even the young veterans who seem to have improved under Adelman. Also, do you think it matters for a young player to have actual game experience playing on a good disciplined team with a good system? Or can they learn/show just as much playing in chaos?

I was referring to the Rockets actually acquiring an impact player (let's say being good enough to win fifty under Adelman). Would you still be willing to toss away five games?

 

Sounds like the same garbage that was put out last year.

"We will have Yao now"

"The guys will know the system now"

"We have Brad Miller now"

give me a break

 

There is no point in firing Adelman. Every other coach will be just a liability. If we do end up letting him go, I say try to get Van Gundy back here!

 

This team isnt going to suck with a new coach. This team doesnt have enough talent be a contender, but it has more than enough not to suck. The only way it'll happen is if we still have no center and 2 of martin/scola/lowry go down at the same time for a significant amount of time. Sure it can happen, but how likely is it?

We have two options. Let guys go in order to tank and go backwards to get that high pick or keep being that 7 or 8th seed talent while trying to improve. Tanking is going to set you back years. It won't be one season of sucking to get a star and then you're back on the playoff path. Going forward from here wont set you back and we still have the ability to improve. If we were in a situation where we had lowry, martin, and scola "carrying" us to mediocrity and all the other guys sucked and just took up cap space, then yeah, time to blow it up because there's not much to work with it there. you dont really have a star or supporting cast and no way to really get them. That's not the case here. We have enough flexibility to keep going as is and look to improve the team. Keeping the same system/coach is only going to make it easier to evaluate the team, so that Morey can make the best move possible.

 

Why don't you cut through all the bull**** and say what you mean. You don't like Adelman. You think he had little to do with the players improvement and you don't think his coaching and system make much of a difference in wins. In general you think coaches make little difference in wins. It's the players that matter. And you would like to see us tank.

 

meh, can this team coached by adelman would have won at least 50 games this year?

Lowry, Dragic
Martin, Lee
Budinger
Scola Patterson
Hayes Hill

 

when that dude's in the draft, and our team is that close to the worst, i'll support it

 

I don't agree with the tanking nonesense...

I'm sure there are other coaches that can come in...have the same type of gameplans, have the same type of plays...BUT

The one thing that a new, younger, cheaper coach wont have is the proven leadership, accomplishments, and respect that Adelman has. That alone could be worth the extra $mil or two that Adelman is worth...if it gets your team to all be on the same page and play hard.

 

Meh, your dead on....

 

Eh, eh, eh. Not my point. I would be all for recruiting a young coach with a fresh outlook if RA is unavailable for whatever reason. My issue isn't with the idea of taking a chance that can help or hurt you, it's with the notion that becoming worse and becoming better are both good outcomes of a move.

 

The plan of the current Rockets management is building, not tanking. In light of this, I think letting a good coach go is a highly risky business. I hope Morey has done his calculation right.

 

1st Half Record 18-23
2nd Half Record 25-16
Over the last 25% of the season we were 6th in the nba in differential.

This team improved by leaps and bounds throughout the season. One positive acquisition in the off season and I don't see why this team isn't AT LEAST a 50 win team.

I don't understand why people are so ready to scrap what we have. Our team is young, people keep saying this team is built around Yao, but that has become less and less true every single year he has been here and gotten hurt. Yes we are built around him in the sense that he is costing us the most money, but the team we have now is an uptempo offensive beast. We are in need of a defensive presence with height to really put us back where we want to be. We no longer need yao, "the best offensive center in the game", we need someone to clog the paint, get some boards and change some shots.

Everyone wants to start another new waiting process by changing coaches and losing games, when if you really think about it we have been playing the waiting game already for the past 2-3 seasons and the time has finally come. Yao's contract is finally up... I for one would like to see what we can do now when we aren't paying our highest paid guy to sit on the bench. I honestly just don't see anyone who will do a better job than Rick at leading a COMPLETE TEAM next year.

 

Idiot.

There are three things working against you Idiot.
1. There was NO DRAFT LOTTERY in 1984. You could suck and GUARANTEE the first overall pick. Which is exactly what they did for Olajuwon. Now, at best 25% chance for the overall number 1 pick.
2. 1984 the greatest draft ever, there is no sure fire number 1 superstar pick in this or next year's draft. In fact since Tim Duncan in 1997, there has only been ONE (count that ONE) superstar sure fire number 1 (Lebron).
3. Again '84 was great but let's look at the other drafts of that era '85 Ewing (okay, but nothing to go gaga over) '86 Brad Daugherty (no thank you). Heck, we had the number 1 pick in '83 and we got Ralph Sampson (good while he was healthy), but do you know who the 14th pick was (just like we have this year) 'Effin Clyde "the Glyde" Drexler.

 

Definitely, tanking is the way to go. High lottery picks are the key to success.

That was proven when the Rockets won multiple championships with Yao (#1, 02), Francis (#2, 99), and Eddie Griffin (#7, 01), all plucked from the top of the lottery. Those guys delivered!

 

do you really think the current team will win sth for you?

this team was built around yao. it's been said many times by dm since he took over the job. at same time, he piled up the assets (in his opinion) and hoped a trade to get 2nd superstar besides yao when tmac was way out. denying won't serve your argument better.