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rick adelman wil be available !!

Adelman is a top notch choker and a grade A douchebag. Remember when he sent tapes into the league because he thought the Jazz were getting unfair treatment?
 
Yeah, let's go for the coach in the league who was most like sloan. Anyways, corbin will last at least through next season.
 
Not a big Adelman fan. He seems to take ok players and decent situations and turn them into decent and ok results. Kind of a meh coach overall imo.
 
Adelman's a great offensive coach but not much defensively, isn't that great when his offensive talent isn't there, and has been one of the most consistent whiner's in the league (and his teams often follow his lead and are neither physically nor mentally tough). When he hired Pete Carill - to help install fundamentals of the Princeton offense in Sacramento - he had the most beautifully run offense in the league.

Coincidentally, Adelman and Sloan were teammates in Chicago.
"The guy was the tougest competitor I every saw." -Rick Adelman on Jerry Sloan
"Rick was a little soft." -Jerry Sloan on Rick Adelman
 
Jeff Van Gundy is a stud. I love watchin games that he's on cause he actually speaks up if things are called bad/makes it funny.
 
Jeff Van Gundy would be great. Not sure he would take the job though even if KOC does offer him one.
 
vslice02 said:
Adelman's a great offensive coach but not much defensively, isn't that great when his offensive talent isn't there, and has been one of the most consistent whiner's in the league (and his teams often follow his lead and are neither physically nor mentally tough). When he hired Pete Carill - to help install fundamentals of the Princeton offense in Sacramento - he had the most beautifully run offense in the league.

Coincidentally, Adelman and Sloan were teammates in Chicago.
"The guy was the tougest competitor I every saw." -Rick Adelman on Jerry Sloan
"Rick was a little soft." -Jerry Sloan on Rick Adelman
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No offense but I'm calling bull **** on this. I offer the 1999 Jazz vs. Kings playoffs as proof. That was an incredibly hard fought series by both teams. Malone pelting Divac in the head with the ball so Divac threw him to the ground, Stockton elbowing guys in the face, Weber riding the bench in early foul trouble... Jazz wrestled victory from the jaws in defeat in 1999, but Sactown didn't forget. That 2002 match-up was brutal revenge. Jazz picked up one on the coast only for fans to watch two tight games lost back in SLC. The V-Train was shutdown for 5 in G3, 9 in G4, so they rode other options right through the Jazz defense.

The Kings made it to the WCF that year and participated in one of the hardest fought battles I've ever witnessed. Lakers with a priming Shaq and tough Kobe are nothing to shake a stick at. Kings may have won too, but we all know what Tim Donaghy's deposition and the stats say. 27 Laker free throws in the 4th quarter of game six forced a seventh. LA went on to tear through the wimpy Eastern offering in four quick games.
 
franklin said:
No offense but I'm calling bull **** on this. I offer the 1999 Jazz vs. Kings playoffs as proof. That was an incredibly hard fought series by both teams. Malone pelting Divac in the head with the ball so Divac threw him to the ground, Stockton elbowing guys in the face, Weber riding the bench in early foul trouble... Jazz wrestled victory from the jaws in defeat in 1999, but Sactown didn't forget. That 2002 match-up was brutal revenge. Jazz picked up one on the coast only for fans to watch two tight games lost back in SLC. The V-Train was shutdown for 5 in G3, 9 in G4, so they rode other options right through the Jazz defense.
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As it turns out, the Jazz weren't the only team Sacramento faced during Adelman's 8 seasons as Kings' coach. If you're calling b.s. on Adelman's teams often lacking toughness, well despite very comparable talent - the Kings were eliminated several times in the playoffs because they didn't have the mental toughness to compete and the physical toughness to get defensve stops. 2000: 1st-rnd blowout loss in LA in elimination Game 5 (that game was over 5 minutes in), 2001: (swept by LA in 2nd-rnd - again to a champ team but Sac never came close to threatening them in that series and let LAL do whatever they wanted to offensively), 2004 against T-Wolves (had golden opportunity to go up 2-0 on the road but fell apart in 4th qtr, and did the same in Game 7 after leading for most of the game; the one exception was 2002, where they had both the physical and mental toughness of a championship-caliber team - and the Game 6 officiating had alot ot do with it but also there was also a complete choke job by Doug Christie in the 4th qtr/OT of Game 7 (where he began shooting out of desperation).

And I'm not sure what Vlade's 2002 offensive numbers have to do with anything. The 1999 postseason was really the only time he was Sacramento's primary offensive option - by 2002 he was a facilitator from the high-post and capable scorer but Sac's primary options were Webber, Bibby, Peja and Bobby Jackson.

Like I said, ever since leaving Portland Adelman's had the reputation as a whiner - and often times his teams follow his lead. Very good coach and highly successful - but why the Jazz would want him is beyond me.
 
Right now we don't have any mental toughness at all, let alone any other kind of toughness. This is as soft a Jazz team as I have seen in a very long time. I think that is another reason why Adelman would be a poor choice. Somewhat soft (moderately soft?) coach to coach a softer team? Not a good combo. We need someone to come in, kick ***, and take names. Someone who comes to chew gum and kick *** and is all out of gum. Someone to come in and, well, kick ***.
 
I'd agree if you said a lack of mental focus. They had a lot of instances of guys losing their cool and collection. The OT in 2002 G7 is prime example of falling apart. That has everything to do with mental focus and very little, if any, to do with toughness. Those guys were always ready for a dogfight and often in the middle of them. That tells me they were tough enough.

I don't know anything about the knock on Adelman and his whining or whatever. He probably thought he was doing something to help his team.
 
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