mary said:Has nobody even mentioned Don Nelson? Technically he's still being employed by Cuban, but its also been rumored that Nelson is interested in coaching again.
Who knows!![]()
Don Nelson? Oh please...
Someone shoot me now.
mary said:Has nobody even mentioned Don Nelson? Technically he's still being employed by Cuban, but its also been rumored that Nelson is interested in coaching again.
Who knows!![]()
VF21 said:Don Nelson? Oh please...
Someone shoot me now.
I am a big Rick Adelman fan, as I've mentioned many times. But I think Mike B hit the nail on the head when he said that Coach Adelman has lost this team. At times it looks like the players are content to give less than 100% effort, and Coach does not seem to hold them accountable for that. It is time for a change.
According to Bill James, teams respond best when player's coaches are replaced by strict coaches (for reasons I won't go into unless you really want me to). Coach Adelman is a tremendous player's coach. But it appears that it is time to replace him with a more disciplined, more structured coach. In my opinion, the best available coach out there is Eric Musselman.
Eric comes from excellent coaching bloodlines. His dad, Bill, was a terrific coach who never had any NBA talent to work with (see photo of Bill).
Bill's commanding presence was so refreshing to see in an NBA game. I went to a Kings-Timberwolves game in 1990 or 1991 when Bill was coaching Minnesota. The T-Wolves, an expansion team, had no talent -- Pooh Richardson was their best player. I remember Bill being so intense on the sidelines that he rarely sat down; it was like every possession was the last possession of the NBA finals. Early in the game Richardson made a great defensive stand, and Bill cheered him on with Marty Schottenheimer-like intensity.
And Bill wrote the book on defense. Literally. He wrote a book called "33.9 Defense." Here is a review of the book:
"For those younger coaches who do not know Bill Musselman he was one of the most creative and temperamental coaches of the last generation. His unfortunate death left a void in the coaching world because of his energy and imagination. This book, 33.9 Defense essentially is his how to book coaching manual for the great successes he had as head coach of tiny Ashland College in Ohio where his teams lead the nation in defense 3 consecutive years. Bill used this success to jump forward into head coaching jobs at the University of Minnesota, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and toward the end of his career tremendous success in the CBA. His Tampa Bay Thrillers won 3 CBA titles.
In the book, Bill noted, "We have one little rule that practice starts at 3:30 pm prompt. The gymnasium doors are locked and we are ready to go about our job in a workmanlike manner." The review concludes, "There is no question Bill Musselman was a strict disciplinarian, but more importantly he had a clear concept of what would bring out the best in team morale and effort."
When Bill died, Mychal Thompson, one of his former players, said, "If they have a basketball court in heaven, Lord help them, because he's probably putting them through those five- or six-hour practices we had to go through," Thompson said.
That was who taught Eric, first hand, about coaching.
Then Eric coached under Chuck Daly, one of the Top 10 coaches in NBA history. Eric also coached in the CBA and compiled a 270-122 record, and coached the Florida Sharks in the USBL to a 53-3 record (that is not a typo).
When Eric got his first NBA head coaching job in Golden State, he, in one year, improved the team by 17 wins and wound up second to Greg Popovich in NBA Coach of the Year voting. He coached one more year in Golden State and compiled virtually the same record as the year before, despite the fact that the Warriors had lost Antawn Jamison and Gilbert Arenas. The Warriors, however, fired him because, IMO, they saw an opportunity to hire the local Mike Montgomery.
Since then, Eric has been, and is, an assistant to another very underrated coach, Hubie Brown disciple Mike Fratello. Eric has also followed in his father's footsteps by writing several coaching books, including a book entitled, "Motivating Your Team."
http://www.champonline.com/ermusin.html
I think Eric Musselman is exactly what this team needs. And we should grab him before another team sees the light.
Anyway, here is his profile from nba.com when he was head coach of the Warriors:
"A young, energetic coach with an extremely successful record in basketball’s “minor leagues”, Eric Musselman was named head coach of the Golden State Warriors on July 26, 2002. Just 37-years-old at the time of his hiring, Musselman becomes the youngest current head coach in the NBA. Prior to joining the Warriors, Musselman worked two seasons as an assistant for the Atlanta Hawks after spending the prior two seasons with the Orlando Magic.
Musselman joined the Magic after spending the previous seven years as the head coach and the previous eight years as the general manager of the Florida Beach Dogs (formerly the Rapid City Thrillers) of the Continental Basketball Association. In 1996-97, Musselman led the Beach Dogs to a 38-18 record and a trip to the CBA Finals as his squad held CBA opponents to a league-low 90.8 points per game. As the club’s general manager in 1988-89, he hired current Timberwolves head coach Flip Saunders - then a college assistant - to coach the Thrillers.
As a CBA coach, Musselman posted a 270-122 record (.688), marking the second highest winning percentage in league history behind Milwaukee Bucks head coach George Karl, who coached for five seasons in the CBA.
From 1990 thru 1997, Musselman had 24 players called-up to the NBA, the highest number in the league during that span. He holds the distinction of being the only person in CBA history to coach in five league All-Star Games (1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997) and was the first coach in professional basketball history to win 100 games by the age of 28. When he was 23, Musselman became the youngest coach in CBA history.
Musselman also served as head coach of the Florida Sharks of the United States Basketball League. In the summers of 1995 and 1996, he coached the Sharks to a combined 53-3 record (.946, including playoffs) and back-to-back USBL Championships. He holds the highest winning percentage in league history.
His received his first NBA coaching experience in 1990-91 as an assistant coach for the Minnesota Timberwolves on the staff of his late father, Bill Musselman. The Musselmans are now the first father/son head-coaching duo in NBA history.
After graduating from the University of San Diego with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1987, Musselman took a front office job with the Los Angeles Clippers before taking on the role of assistant director of scouting. A three-time member West Coast Athletic Conference All-Academic squad, he played in two NCAA tournaments. Following his college career, Musselman was selected by the CBA’s Albany Patroons in the fifth round (58th overall) of the 1987 Draft. A graduate of Brecksville (Ohio) High School, Musselman has two sons, Michael and Matthew. He was born November 19, 1964 in Ashland, OH.
yanon said:No body is proven until they get a chance. It is like the medical resident. If they don't get to practice want they learned, they will never become a real doctor.
Someone posted this about Eric Musselman. I think the Kings should give this guy another chance of coaching a NBA team since he really didn't have a fair chance (no Baron Davis) at Golden State.
AleksandarN said:Retired for health reasons.
VF21 said:What's Whoopi Goldberg up to these days?
LA King Fan II said:Adelman has lost the team. IMO they aren't coming back. He looks like a magician who made his assistant disappear behind a curtain, and now can't find the curtain.
Bricklayer said:Hey, he was ex-Sacto King, so can;t be all bad.
Actually I thought of him when I made the above post. I remembered his short stint as the coach of the Lakers years ago. Thought he might actually make a good head coach. But again have no idea how he is thought of around the league.
piksi said:I just remembered that Nick Nolte did well coachong Shaq and Penny.
SacTownKid said:Did you guys ever think about the possibility that Rick would resign if the teams doesn't turn it around?
I bet thats how it would go down. If Rick feels his players aren't listening then he'd probably take himself out of the situation if he feels it would help. This guy is well respected for a reason, he deserves it.w
Padrino said:i would absolutely love it if the maloofs would let adelman run the course of his extension. and i would love it even more if the maloofs attempted to renegotiate his contract, and he declined the offer. the kings, as a team and as an organization, are clueless to how great they have it, coaching-wise. i've long been an adelman supporter, despite his obvious flaws as a coach. he's a winner. he may not have coached his way to a championship, but very few coaches do, in the relative scheme of things. the kings could do much worse than rick adelman, and i suspect they will when they [STUPIDLY] fire him.
Ryle said:How great they have it??? That's laughable. If the Maloofs offered Adelman an extension right now I would make sure that my season tickets are not renewed and I could let someone else take them......like alot of people did this year.
Ryle said:How great they have it??? That's laughable. If the Maloofs offered Adelman an extension right now I would make sure that my season tickets are not renewed and I could let someone else take them......like alot of people did this year.
Padrino said:rest assured that rick adelman wasn't the cause of this. it aggravates me to no end that people make statements like this concerning adelman, yet think petrie and the maloofs did the right thing when they traded webber, the only sacramento king last year who gave a damn. hey! i've just had an epiphany. maybe those season ticket holders didn't renew their ticket package because the face of the franchise was traded, and we've got an absolute **** return from our "flexible pieces." adelman is far from the cause of the kings problems. true, he's not a defensive minded coach, but he also has very little to work with from his players, defensively speaking. he's got undersized players, with brad miller the only king pushing 7 feet. if petrie had done his job and acquired the right kinds of players to meet the kings needs, then adelman wouldn't be forced into the situation he's in. the team is constructed poorly. that is hardly the head coach's fault.
Text edited by VF21. Come on, folks. Keep it civil, okay? It's gonna be tough enough as Kings fans for a while. We can debate about all of this without it getting personal...
Bricklayer said:Complete lack of perspective continues.
You are talking about one of the 10 winningest coaches of all time (will almsot surely be). A man who has a good shot to win more games than Red Aurebach, and who holds the franchise record for wins for the Kings.
Unfortunately people around here have long since forgotten what a bad coach actually looks like. I have not. We used to have a lot of them. I'm hoping/praying that we soon don't have another.
Ryle said:Well, let's see. A guy is sitting up in Portland about ready to take the head coaching job at Portland State when his old buddy calls him to coach. He just so happens to inherit a team with one of the best power forwards in the game and one of the best centers in the game and is given an Assistant Coach who's offense pretty much plays into these players strengths and the team takes off.
I think the success here has been more about the players the team has had then the coach.