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Utah Jazz: Adelman can't get over Utah's tough tactics

Adelman couldn't beat the Jazz when he was with the Kings, and he still can't beat the Jazz now with the Rockets. He is outcoached every playoffs by the man who should have won 3-4 NBA Coach of the Year Awards, but blames "tough tactics" by the Jazz for his inability to coach a team to victory. That this flunky is receiving consideration for NBA coach of the year is ludicrous. It isn't "tough tactics" that help Jerry Sloan coach ALL of his teams to success regardless of the players. It is fundamental basketball and a work ethic second to none. Maybe Adelman hasn't noticed that every championship team plays tough and physical ball in the playoffs. Did Shaq win rings by playing soft? How about the pistons, were they rough or soft? The Bulls with Jordan had some designated physical players underneath, the spurs play physical inside, and the Heat, with Shaq, played rough too. Adelman is a ballerina instructor in a league of tough-minded coaches. Not surprisingly I've never heard Jerry Sloan blame another team's rough tactics for any Jazz losses. Have some cheese with that whine, Adelman!

You don't hear coach Sloan complain about all the cheap shots taken on Williams. Adelman is just beeing such a whiner.

I used to have so much respect for Adelman. Now I see he is just Tracys wipping boy.

What is Adelman talking about. If Deron comes out of this series with half his body parts he will be doing good. Go ahead and send the tape to the league, all will show is how the refs are letting the Rockets beat up on Deron!

The Rockets reflect their coach. Instead of playing hard and sucking it up, they whine and complain. And there is no player on the court more dirty than "Coca" Scola.

Adelman is just coaching the refs. If Adelman got his wish and the tape is sent to the league, the officials would see how DWill is getting clobbered with no calls.

This sounds like last year when Vangundy kept complaining that Houston was in a "knife fight with the Bully Brothers from Utah".

These guys do their share of pushing and holding.

I find it interesting that Adelman is whining when this is the same coach that had his team cheap shot Stockton and injure John's back in the playoffs years ago. He didn't whine then and Sloan didn't whine then.

Welcome to the NBA Playoffs, Adelman!

Sloan should have been coach of the year many times. The problem is that the Jazz are too stable. They don't have long stretches of bad years and then a good one. Sloan is just consistent and that is why he will be a hall of fame coach. That is why he is the 4th winningest coach in NBA history.

Adelman is doing whatever it takes to help his team win the series so you can't fault him for that.
If Jerry Sloan announced he was retiring Adelman would be one of a short list of coaches that I think would fit here. If he got that Houston team as currently constituted where they are now he should be considered for COY.
And so should Sloan, every year.

Stop whining. Tracy McGrady has all the calls going his way.

The NBA, and more so the Playoffs, is a man's game. Men playing rough, getting knocked around, slammed to the ground, the real men get up dust off and do it again, the fakers (McBaby) get up cry to the coach, media, whoever will listen. Real coache's tell them to shut up and play, the others (Adelboob) whine. McGrady is getting all sorts of touch fouls called against the Jazz, while D-Will is getting slammed to the ground, kicked, shoved and nothing called. He is playing the same or more minutes than McGrady and look who shows up in crunch time, D-Will, while McBoob does a vanishing act.

Adelman apparently doesn't bother to watch what his own players do to every Jazz player that drives to the basket. There haven't been so many body slams since the last pro wrestling championship. And what do you know, the refs haven't been calling any of those. McGrady has gotten off easy. He should try taking what Deron Williams has had to take from the Houston players.

Just play the game, it's the playoffs, it's always physical. Where have you been Adelman that you've forgotten? Quit playing the media and just coach your team.

McGrady just can't handle itwhen they are are called a bit more fairly than they might have been in the past. He is still getting some "superstar" calls based on his rep but maybe the refs are realizing, like the rest of us, he is no superstar.

When the playing field is leveled and you take some of the "gift/phantom" calls away, that he has been getting for years, he suddenly just becomes a slightly above average player.

If our guys got superstar calls like that then this series would be over already.

I hope the NBA/refs don't buy into this protect McGrady crap. It sick and it cuts into what the average fan views as fairness.

Adelman knows the only way they can win is if he can convince the NBA/refs they need to protect McGrady and give him better calls than the rest of the players. Then, even if they lose, he will have laid the groundwork for a diversion for the fact his coaching and these players could not beat the Jazz. If the refs give him the calls, then they get to push the series to 6/7 games. No downside for him. Whine, whine, whine!!!

I thought that players and coaches were fined for making derogatory comments about the refs to the media. Am I wrong here? I think this ridiculous attempt to bias the officials through the media is outrageous. Refs call it how you see it.

Maybe I have jazz fan goggles on, but it seems like the Rockets are playing just as physical as the Jazz. Yet only when the Rockets lose we hear complaints.

One of the things I like least about Sloan is his contempt for 3 point shots. I think taking 3's are crucial to winning, just ask the spurs. Like the Jazz the Spurs have attempted around 13 3's per game in the playoffs and I think that is a good number. Taking 3pts spreads the defense making it easier for D-will to drive the lane and kick/layup/pick and roll. I have also noticed that missing a 3 gives a team a better chance at a long offensive rebound. Jazz have taken more 3 point shots this year than ever before and they have been rewarded with the best winning record since the glory days. Stick with the 13 3's pg.

I am really getting sick of Houston's constant whining, complaining, and excuses. My opinion is that as a fan, I can blame the refs, and get upset over bad calls all I want. But for a coach to come out after every loss, blaming the refs? Seems pretty pathetic to me. If it wasn't for the missed offensive goal-tending call (in Houston's favor) at the end of game 4, it wouldn't have even been close enough in the end to have a discussion. Go Jazz, finish the job tonight!

McGrady's already protected beyond what he deserves. I don't think there's ever been a more loved loser in the history of the NBA. The national media has a love affair with this guy. Despite the commentators love for him, I loved that ESPN showed the sign, "Where McGrady can't advance happens." I also give props to the ESPN halftime crew for not talking about McGrady once. It's getting ridiculous. The Jazz will win the series. I'd rather it happens tonight so that I can stop hearing about how amazing this guy is. Good, yes. Among the best, nope!

I am just a simple person but it seems to me that when you are making 30% of your 3 pointers, that gives you three attempts at a 90% shot(layup) to achieve the two and potentially get the foul as well, getting roughly the same result...then even when you shoot your free throws poorly you get the other team into a situation where they have to play careful defense and increase your chances in the middle. When your 3 pt. percentage goes down, it is definitely to your benefit to go in rather than try the 3. In some ways the 3 has ruined the game I grew up loving. The other thing that brought it down is the incessant whining...during the game I can understand as that is an emotional setting and the players and coaches are on edge. What Adelman is doing now (he seems to have taken a page from Phil Jacksons play book) is like crying wolf...they cry so much that when something serious actually happens, nobody takes them seriously.

Adelman's comments will get him the sympathy he wants and I predict the Rockets win tonight with a closely called game against the Jazz.

A lay up, like any two point shot, is worth two points, a three point shot three points.

Mathmatically that makes it seem that shooting 33.3% from three land is that same as shooting 50% on a two, but the problem is variance. Teams might shoot between 35% (rarely) and 55% (also rarely) on two pointers, but they will NEVER, I repeat NEVER shoot 0% from the floor by pounding it inside like the Jazz did from three point range Saturday.