Budenholzer Unlikely To Join Rockets Coaching Carousel

Avery Johnson also thinks Stephen Graham is an NBA rotation player.

He’s not controlling the hire, it’s a philosophical change and greater movement. People are trying to pigeon hole this whole thing and it’s too large to fit into little tiny cubby holes. There was a problem with this franchise from the personnel on the floor, the coach handling them, and the front office’s goals and visions of the team.

It’s not one individual factor or person, it’s a confluence of factors.

“Vets-only” wasn’t the proper term. On a quick side note, it took Adelman half the season to give Patterson minutes, and look what happened.

It’s more of young, unproven players.

As far as being more talented than Martin, Scola, and Lowry, I stand by that statement.

Martin relies on maybe half, or a third of his points on the whistle, which is not necessarily talent, especially when 95% of them are touch fouls. He’s also a very one-dimensional player.

We got the absolute most out of Scola last year. 18 and 8 are good, if not great numbers, but I think T-Will has a higher ceiling.

I honestly think Lowry just got hot during that last part of the season. We won’t know if that span of games were a fluke or not, since we have to wait for next season. An example of Lowry’s case is Trevor Ariza in the playoffs in his final year with the Lakerettes. Shot a very high 3 pt % in the playoffs, then shot around 30% the next year. I love Lowry, but I’m not sure that shot of his is that good.

As far as Adelman forcing his players to earn minutes, that’s incorrect. He said himself he likes to have a full off-season to evaluate new players and plug them into his system. T-Will and Thabeet were unproven and young, but talented players that Adelman would not play simply because they were inexperienced.

You can say he played Dragic right off the bat, but he did that because 1) He had no choice. He had no other PGs. And 2) Dragic ran a somewhat similar offense in Phoenix, so he was already familiar with the offense.

I think people are mis-understanding what I’m saying. Lowry, Martin, and Scola are certainly better than T-Will right now, but when T-Will gets a good jump shot, like Lowry did, he’s going to be a hell of a player.

I’ll put it like this: T-Will has the highest ceiling on the team.

He cant just play Lowrey, Martin, Scola, Miller and Hayes all game every game. even though he’s come close to that in a good amount of games. How much time do you think PPat would have gotten if Yao never got hurt? Lee got more PT when Brooks went down. Certain circumstances made it possible for Dragic, Patterson, and Buddinger to see PT

1.) Goran Dragic – Only available back up point guard (Don’t say Lee, he is a 2-guard).

2.) Patrick Patterson – Took injuries to Scola, Hayes, Miller, AND adjustment problems from Jordan Hill for him to start to see minutes midway through the season. Extremely weak point here.

3.) Carl Landry – Lack of alternatives plus a late break into the midseason in order for him to see the floor.

4.) Chase Budinger – Traded the starting SF, only guy on the roster to take that spot was the guy that Adelman had the previous year or Terrence Williams. He had no choice but to play Chase Budinger.

If you’re going to talk about “earning minutes” you might not want to count pinning your hopes on injury to get a break as “earning” anything. That’s like I’m waiting to earn my lottery millions. It takes an external factor I can’t control. Which means you really didn’t earn much of anything.