Looks like we will have Coach Sleepy to kick around for a few more years
by grungedave on Dec 31, 2009 8:48 PM CST
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PrintThe Rockets are extending the contract for Rick Adelman.
Granted, I have never publicly shied away from my opinion that letting JVG go was a mistake. I like Rick Adelman for his ability to juggle all sorts of personalities. And his backhanded compliment of Tracy McGrady this past week ("he was a great player") was epic. Plus, his family seems to be a bunch of fun-loving drunks.
Also, it's hard to ignore the results Adelman has coaxed out of the team. 50 win seasons each of the past 2 years... a playoff series victory - something not even JVG did with us... and the team is without 60% of its salary cap in available talent and yet they are still on pace to win another 50 games this year. I may argue with you about how much of a role Adelman directly has in all of this, but this is how professional sports work - when the team is winning, the coach must be doing somethingright. Even if that something is (figuratively) falling asleep during critical points in the 4th Q while Brooks, Lowry, Scola, Landry and Battier figure out adjustments on the fly.
So, I say... congrats, Coach Sleepy. And may the good times continue to roll in 2010.
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lol
a week ago or so, Clutch Fans was freaking out because some dude on realGM (or some other site) posted saying he had first-hand knowledge that Rick was going to sign with Portland again next season, because apparently Les Alexander hates him.
People will believe anything.
Unlike with other Houston sports franchises...
…I don’t really have any major problems with what Adelman has been doing. True, I think he’s overusing Ariza, but that’s a quibble. Whatever he’s doing, it’s working—a huge part of the reason we’re succeeding is not just our depth but our style of play, which becomes obvious in how our scoring shuts down whenever we stop moving the ball around and running up and down the court.
I think you'll love this, Dave (if you haven't already seen it)
He was just saying what was the reality. He wants as a coach to win every night and Tracy wasn’t ready to participate in that. – Les on Adelman’s comments during the T-Mac escapade
"I'm just looking forward to something great happening in the city of Houston" - Tracy McGrady
Still waiting...
by DreKeem on Dec 31, 2009 9:12 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
This team is a lot better off now with Adelman as coach than…
… if Van Gundy was still in charge of this squad. VG would be lucky (IMO) to get 30 wins outta this team.
Adelman deserves to be named “Coach of the Year”. Few ever dreamed this squad would be this good.
I’m sure the NBA is realizing that they made a mistake by not giving them any nationally televised games this year because they are fun to watch and they play the game the way it was really meant to be played.
Of course, the league would never admit this. But I’m sure that there are a lot of so-called “experts” and NBA people who feel stupid right now for all that egg they have on their faces. The better Houston does, the dumber guys like Barkley, Stein, and Jalen Rose look and that’s a good thing.
I had to stop arguing with drunks, Steeler fans, and all other fools.
It was making my brick wall jealous...
We don't want him to win coach of the year though as then
he will be fired 2 season later….see Sam Mitchell, Byron Scott, Mike D’antoni etc
"We obviously didn’t know the scouting report that well on Andersen. We knew he’s a shooter but we didn’t see him play at that level." Phil Jackson on underestimating the aussie
So we are to believe that the NBA Coach of the Year award is supposed to be…
… a “curse” like the Madden video game cover? Anyone who get the cover on that game either gets hurt or has a bad year and anyone who gets named NBA Coach of the Year always gets fired?
Both are just coincidences. To believe otherwise is just superstitious mumbo jumbo.
Most coaches tenure with their teams average only a short time. (I believe it is like only 2 years, on average) Injuries, personnel improvement by the other teams in the division (which causes a coach’s own team to win less), and underachieving players on their own team cause most of the firings.
Football is a violent sport where the average career is short anyways so that accounts for most of the reasons for the so-called “Madden Curse”. (I believe the average NFL career lasts less than 4 years)
I’ll tell you what, why don’t you guys send Adelman a lucky rabbit’s foot and a lucky horseshoe to help him out just in case?
Come on, this is the 21st century. Belief in this sort of nonsense should have disappeared long ago. Please don’t tell me 2 smart guys like you actually believe that? If Adelman gets canned 2 years down the road it won’t be because he won an award. To believe otherwise is silly…
I had to stop arguing with drunks, Steeler fans, and all other fools.
It was making my brick wall jealous...
by steeler-hater on Jan 1, 2010 10:35 AM CST up reply actions
Correction…
… “Anyone who gets the cover…”
I had to stop arguing with drunks, Steeler fans, and all other fools.
It was making my brick wall jealous...
by steeler-hater on Jan 1, 2010 10:38 AM CST up reply actions
the reason CotY winners get fired
is because most of them were never really any good, and they won the award because of one season driven by either luck or the sudden and spectacular rise of a certain player. When they or the FO goes back to fucking things up, disappointment reigns, and so they get fired.
Come on, this is the 21st century. Belief in this sort of nonsense should have disappeared long ago.
As I’ve said previously, sports fandom in general is not a rational exercise.
Agreed about the part…
… where you say that “sports ‘fandom’ in general is not a rational exercise”.
But surely personal intelligence can overcome personal passion once in a while…
…don’t ya think?
I had to stop arguing with drunks, Steeler fans, and all other fools.
It was making my brick wall jealous...
by steeler-hater on Jan 1, 2010 10:53 AM CST up reply actions
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know so…
… like I said, be sure to send Adelman any & all lucky charms you can think of because he’s gonna win the Coach of the Year.
As far as Troy P. goes, (although I don’t root for injuries for anyone) it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving team…
(Hence, my screen name)
I had to stop arguing with drunks, Steeler fans, and all other fools.
It was making my brick wall jealous...
by steeler-hater on Jan 1, 2010 12:50 PM CST up reply actions
Check this out.
Pretty long string of coincidences, if you ask me.
by DribbleHooper on Jan 1, 2010 4:41 PM CST up reply actions
With Adelman as coach, we know what we are getting.
The guy has been consistent with his team ball approach wherever he’s gone and been successful at it. He’s great with the overall team plan and in giving his players lots of flexibility and room to grow. Maybe he’s not too great at mapping clutch plays at game’s end. Sometimes he makes great substitutions. He’s very consistent and that’s good for us.
Great timing by Les Alexander to show support to the coach after the resolution of the T-Mac issue.
hmmm...
Adelman is a good coach, he’s good for the regular season and decent in the playoffs, but he was unable to lead Portland to the title when he had the players to do so. Say what you want of the Chicago Bulls in the Michael Jordan era, but it was Adelman’s poor on-court management in the money time that was Portland’s biggest drawback against them.
Hopefully he’s improved since then, and I still think he’s a good coach for the Rockets, but when Houston is finally ready to make a run to the title (I am not optimistic about that at present), I wonder if he’ll be the right coach to lead that run.
Say what you want of the Chicago Bulls in the Michael Jordan era, but it was Adelman’s poor on-court management in the money time that was Portland’s biggest drawback against them.
I think it’s silly that you so casually dismiss the Chicago Bulls’ role in this. The biggest problem the Blazers had in the finals was that they just weren’t nearly as good as those Bulls teams.
OK, but Jackson > Adelman as well
…which is the point I was trying to make here.
The Bulls won, so they were indeed superior. I am not pretending to re-write history ! The court always speaks.
When I look at areas in which the Blazers came short at the time, in my view Adelman’s coaching was near the top of the list. Thanks for the reality check anyway.
agree to disagree?
I think by that point in time, whomever was Jordan’s coach really didn’t matter.
The smartest thing Phil Jackson did by then was to stay out of his way.
Maybe the Bulls-Blazers series is not the optimal example.
But through our run this season, we could point to several games when we could have mapped a better clutch play to help our offense during the endgame.
I know at that time we were still searching for a go-to guy (and have since seemd to find two in Brooks and Landry) but one could also argue Coach could plan a better strategy for those times. As Morey said, let’s take care of our leads so he can last until 2011 :-)
Still for our present team, Coach Adelman is the best one to have on our side.
That was only 1 series mate
They got beat by 2 better teams in the finals, no biggie, Clyde still got his
"We obviously didn’t know the scouting report that well on Andersen. We knew he’s a shooter but we didn’t see him play at that level." Phil Jackson on underestimating the aussie
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