You know seeing how great Houston looks this year I only mad at what happen with Rick the last year or two. The Maloof and some of players are responsible for letting Rick go. When some of players stopped listening or caring about Rick and the Kings, I knew Rick's time with us was coming to an end. The players had alot to due with letting Rick go.
People sometimes say that, but by the end there there were very few players who had been with Rick for any length of time to tune him out. Peja had of course quit, but that was a larger issue than about Rick. Mike was accused of quitting, but he's never been anything near as good since Rick left. Brad possibly, but he was still competent when Rick left, if lazy. Got worse after he left, rebounded, now is showing us what really quitting looks like.
It wasn't players quitting on Rick, it was front office mistakes and impatient deluded ownership. We came back wiht substantially the same team the very next year, minus Rick and Bonzi + Muss and Salmons, and were much worse. We AGAIN came back with substantially the same team this eyar (which was just amazingly asinine) and here we are again. Rick left back in the playoffs, we haven't sniffed that since. If everybody quit on Rick, well they have quit even faster on the other coaches. But at a certain point its not really about quitting -- its about talent and chemistry, or lack thereof.
