Players starting to quit on Adelman?

[CruzDude]

A one line item buried in the bottom of Mitch Lawrence's column in the New York News today stated, " One member of the Kings thinks Sacramento's poor start partly due to fellow players starting to quit on Rick Adelman."

Then since the Knicks game the Kings have begun to look just the opposite. Where to comments like that come from? "One member of the Kings......" could be a ball boy, an usher or a security guard. Or could it be a player?

Mitch was likely here for the Knicks game sitting on press row. Maybe it was one of the stats guys on press row? arrrgggggghhhhhhhh. Who in NY cares about anything in Sacramento? Stuff like this really ticks me off. No rhyme or reason to say it 8 games into the season. Did someone say the same when the Pistons got beat by 37 last night?

At least the Kings don't have a guard banging heads with the coach in the national media.

 

[VF21]

I honestly believe that some of those out-of-town writers pay WAY too much attention to the cab driver, the bellhop at the hotel, etc. Either that or the voices in their heads...OR he could have been sitting next to that fountain of Kings lore, Ailene Voisin. In fact, when I think about it, that line sounds pretty much like something dear Ms. V. would say in one of HER columns.



The fastest way to insanity is to actually pay any attention to what they say in their home-town papers about our Kings or anything related to Sacramento.

 

[nbrans]

If a New York sports journalist says it it HAS to be true.

 

[Bricklayer]

Mitch was likely here for the Knicks game sitting on press row. Maybe it was one of the stats guys on press row? arrrgggggghhhhhhhh. Who in NY cares about anything in Sacramento? Stuff like this really ticks me off. No rhyme or reason to say it 8 games into the season.

That part I disagree with -- if would be a HUGE concern if it were true, and we were having the same conversation on here last week. Bob Weiss has lost his guys up north -- it can happen quick.

That said, I read Mitch's column this morning and didn't even consider it worthy of note. He is like Vescey in that he is always going to throw in a bunch of one line asides that you can't tell whether he's heard something, not heard something, made something up, whatever. Just filler -- I'm sure we all on this board have a better feel for what's going on in Kingsland than Mitch does.

 

[Fillmoe]

i wouldnt believe this for a minute

 

[quick dog]

I was thinking that Adelman had a rebellion going when the Kings lost some of those early winnable games, but the team sure looks righteous now. I specifically looked hard at Bibby, whom I accused of having an attitude early-on. I did not see any problem in the last game. Quite the contrary. The players were focusing on Adelman's every word. I think we are OK. Nothing like winning to change attitudes. Bibby is now back in the groove. Adelman may be the best coach that we will ever have. You don't know.

 

[Gary]

I feel that the slow start is Partly Adlemans fault because he isn't using the bench correctly. The bench aren't sure if they are going to play on any given night.. When the bench isn't producing he sticks with them. He does not put in others that are VERY capable.

 

[Ryle]

If the Kings come out and play like dog**** tonight then I would say they have stopped listening to him.......although I could argue that they stopped listening to him a few years ago

 

[CruzDude]

Tonites game in SEA threw a blanket on Mitch's fire, rather little match flame. End of this "filler" as Brick says.

 

[BigWaxer]

I feel that the slow start is Partly Adlemans fault because he isn't using the bench correctly. The bench aren't sure if they are going to play on any given night.. When the bench isn't producing he sticks with them. He does not put in others that are VERY capable.

I just don't understand comments like this. How is the bench not scoring RA's fault and tell me a bench that knows they are going to play every game. There is a reason these players are on the bench to begin with.

What bench players on our team are very capable? I see Thomas as the only bench player we have that is worth anything. The others mostly specialize in one facet of defense and you cannot count on offensive production from them. I think Garcia is our only other option or hope to get scoring from the bench. Martin has showed me (better yet not showed me) enough this year that I am ready to bail on him. We need scoring and this is something RA has no control over. He does not make shots fall.

 

[VF21]

Sometimes people have to stretch a bit to find a way to blame Adelman, BW...

 

[VF21]

We have a "Fire Adelman" thread and we have a couple of pretty lengthy threads going about what the bench needs, including one in the NBA forum. At this point, I think keeping this thread going, too, would only segment the existing conversations since it seems to be drifting away from the original poster's intent. So, if no one objects too strenuously, I'm going to close this...