Rick Adleman: Gone from Sactown

I think the key now is getting a coach that Artest will respect or else he could make the Kings' lives a living hell. I thnk Adelman did a really good job turning this team around...

@Ty-Land
Adelman utilizes big men on the post?? last time I checked, Vlade, C-Webb & Miller make their money on the elbow and just inside the 3 pt line.

Had C-webb not gotten hurt, I tihnk the Kings would've won the ship in 2003 over SA and things would've been different.. oh well...

Rick Adelman's defining moment

@Ty-Land
Adelman utilizes big men on the post?? last time I checked, Vlade, C-Webb & Miller make their money on the elbow and just inside the 3 pt line.

Well I may have been a bit misguided and ambigous. I was intending to refer to his use of passing big men at the high post, where in theory Bogut could use his excellent passing skills more effectively than Stott's present system. That said, the intentions of Larry Harris to get a PF that can space the floor and shoot the 3 (e.g. Murphy, Griffin or Radmanovic etc.) would be highly effective under the Adelman offence out at the 3pt line.

Wit a team like that, they could've bee champs just like that.

He was a lucky shot here and there from becoming an NBA champion. Do you think it woulda made any difference if it was Greg Pop sitting on that bench in the same situation where Horry hit that shot? I dont believe so. One could say that they wouldnt be in that situation if Pop or any other great coach was there but as far as I can remember the Lakers handed it to everyone on their way to those championships. There are always gonna be great teams left in the wake of World Champs. Just look down in Utah where they still have the same coach who coulda won it all with Stockton and Malone. He hasnt been having the rosiest of seasons all the time.

What do you mean about time? The guy has consistently led the Kings to many post-season appearances

And that's where the story ends. Wit a team like that, they could've bee champs just like that. .
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That's not what people thought when they played the Lakers. The Shaq/Kobe combo was absolutely impossible to stop, not just for the Kings. I think they put up a really good battle to stay with the Lakers.

What do you mean about time? The guy has consistently led the Kings to many post-season appearances

And that's where the story ends. Wit a team like that, they could've bee champs just like that. When I just remember how many nights I haven't been sleeping while watching the Kings, man, I was more nervous then him when they lost that game against Wolves .

was part of the turnaround that the Kings experienced during the early 2000's.

Yea, and all guys are gone, so...

Either way you look at it, he was still successful. Like a few posters alreayd said, there were a few shots here and there and they faced the Lakers when they were having some of their best seasons while the Kings were having theirs and faced plenty of tough competition in the West. Not that many coaches win playoff games, let alone championships. Judging by the other coaches that are currently available, I don't think there are many coaches that have won a great amount of championship titles and have enough success to make them more credible than someone like Adleman.

The reason why they had to ship off all of those guys were because.. Well, I don't know what they were really doing. They were semi-rebuilding while also getting signing some aging, but servicable veterans on the team, which is more of the management staff's fault rather than the coach's. The had to get rid of Webber because of his nagging injuries, Peja had to go because he was unhappy and underachieving, Vlade retired and Doug Christie was on the twilight of his career.

Well, I don't know what they were really doing

They were semi-rebuilding while also getting signing some aging, but servicable veterans on the team, which is more of the management staff's fault rather than the coach's. The had to get rid of Webber because of his nagging injuries, Peja had to go because he was unhappy and underachieving, Vlade retired and Doug Christie was on the twilight of his career.

Huh? How can you not know and then apparently know?

When I meant that "I didn't know what they were doing", I meant that I didn't know why they sort of stuck in this warp of rebuilding the team while also having a lot of older players under their payroll.

Don't mind that, though. I was/still am half-asleep at the moment.

He's a good coach, no doubt about it. But, he's like Manning, everything is good untill it comes to playoffs. Something like non-clutch coach. For the love of God, he's so impassive in moments like that, like it's non of his bussines. I wish him good luck with another team, maybe he'll achive something bigger.

dare i say good bye Sam Mitchell? Who know, but that's a different story

I liked Adelman and had a feeling he would be fired, only fron news papers earlier in the season. If he wanted, he can easily be a coach on another team. Things like this happen, and sometimes a change is just what he needs(Flip Saunders?)
Good luck to him

I read ERic Musselman is an option... I think he did a great job in G State and could use another shot up in Nor Cal