Rick Adelman
Rick Adelman
Richard Leonard "Rick" Adelmanis an American retired professional basketball player and head coach. He coached 23 seasons in the National Basketball Association. He served as head coach of the NBA's Golden State Warriors, Portland Trail Blazers, Sacramento Kings, Houston Rockets and Minnesota Timberwolves...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth16 June 1946
CityLynwood, CA
gave great huge impact takes team work
He's made a huge impact defensively. He takes on the better players, makes them work. He's a great team defender. He gave us new energy.
sustain
He's in shape, much quicker. He can do the things he used to do. Now all he has to do is sustain it.
ball call plays
I told him I would put the ball in his hands, call plays for him, make him make decisions.
came fight hung kept proud
It's a real sense of accomplishment. We had to fight through so many things. We made the trade, we had injuries, but we just kept coming. I'm really proud of the way they came back. They hung together, and now they're in.
bad ball defend
The ball bounced in and we didn't defend the play very well. He had a wide-open look and when you have wide-open looks, bad things happen. That's the way it goes.
came controlled floor guys hit marion offensive rattled
They'll let you back into the game, but they've been together. When you have Nash out there on the floor with Marion - especially Nash - those other guys were getting rattled and Nash came back in and hit a big shot. He controlled the offensive end.
approach deal
It's the only way you can approach it. I can't deal with what went on with him and another coach.
bench five four games great guys needed nights people stayed tough win
It was a great win for us. We've been struggling. Four games in five nights is tough and our guys stayed with it and got the win. We didn't have some of our people on the bench and we really needed those guys to be consistent.
ok
It tightened up on him. Hopefully, he'll be OK by Friday.
ball dominated game moving shooting
The first 3 1/2 quarters, I don't know where we were, but we weren't into the game and (the Warriors) pretty much dominated it. I don't have an answer. We just never got it going and they started shooting better and moving the ball better.
kid
The kid is so explosive. He's going to get better. He's going to make it.
carry far guys needs pass willing
The guys so far have been very willing to pass to each other, and that's something that needs to carry over into games,
ball effort great last rebound
A great effort that last part of the game, but you get down to the end, you've got to rebound the ball and we didn't rebound the ball.
effective steve
You want to know who's really underrated? It's Shawn Marion. He's just as effective as Steve Nash is for that team. If they didn't have him, they wouldn't have the same team.