Rick Adelman is in the final year of his contract

[RookieOfTheDay]

I'm an Adelman fan but right now, i don't give a rat's patoot who the coach is. You don't fix bad teams with coaching. Coaching is the last thing you address after all of the pieces are in place. Until we see what The Kings do in trade, free agency, and the draft, it makes little difference who the coach is. Build a roster with enough talent and experience to win consistently, then worry about coaching. Worrying about coaching before that happens is putting the cart before the horse.

 

[Tyndel]

I disagree. It starts and ends with the coach. He decides who to switch against and who not too when to play zone and when the play man to man he decides with rotations how hard players hit the defensive end. he picks the offensive plays he tailors them to his personnel or leaves his players hanging unable to execute them because they don't fit what he had in mind. He stops runs with timeouts and changes tempo by calling plays when needed from the side.

A good coach on a bad team isn't going to win a championship but it does make a difference who the coach is and a good coach coming into a under performing team can make them respectable enough to not scare off free agents.

 

[Bricklayer]

I wouldn't count them out of the playoffs just yet. They are only 5 games back from the 8th seed and 5.5 from the 6th seed with an easier 2nd half schedule.

Oh its definitely stil possible, and they I am sure will try to make something happen at the deadline. But hey are on the outside looking in, play no defense, and are first round fodder even if they do make it. You get a greater feeling of dissatisifaction from Rick in the interviews he has givne down there of late than you ever have at any other point in his carer. I don't think its enough. He's getting old, has done eveything pretty much, and I think he wants to coach an elite team with a legit chance at a title, or maybe just not at all. Don't think he's so much of a coaching lifer that just scraping by with mediocrity has any appeal to him.

 

[Kingster]

UPDATE: Adelman frustrated with situation in Houston, considering leaving at the end of the season (possibly even retiring):

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/solomon/7426055.html



Obviously Adelman wants to go to a winner. He also had a great working relationship with Petrie (maybe not so much with the Maloofs). Kings will have loads of talent going into next season, and Boogie and Rick seem to be on the same page about at least one thing- they want to win, and hate being in losing situations.

Whether this is *probable* I don't know. But at this point it is clearly very possible, and would be, in my mind, the best case scenario for this team. The city could definitely rally around Adelman as well, since he accumulated so much good will here.

This "going to a winner" stuff just kills me. Isn't a coach supposed to make a winner? Sounds very similar to these losing players wanting to "go to a winner". Whether they are players or coaches, these kind of guys are all losers in my book. They kind of remind me of supplicants hanging around rich folk in order to gain a few crumbs.

 

[Bricklayer]

This "going to a winner" stuff just kills me. Isn't a coach supposed to make a winner? Sounds very similar to these losing players wanting to "go to a winner". Whether they are players or coaches, these kind of guys are all losers in my book. They kind of remind me of supplicants hanging around rich folk in order to gain a few crumbs.

Adelman doesn't have time anymore to build up a team. He's 64. Very few coaches coach into their 70s. Time to retire, enjoy the grandkids, travel etc. Maybe do an occasional guest spot on a halftime show or write a colum for ESPN or something. In any case, his next job taken is probably his last, a champinship is the last thing missing from his resume, and you can jsut see what a hard sell it is wiht a guy like that with a young team unless its clearly just about to blow up. That would have to be our pitch/angle.