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
ball hard moved quarter solid start third time
We moved the ball and they had a hard time guarding us. From the start of the third quarter we really jumped on them and maintained. This was just a solid win.
ourselves playoff position time
We've put ourselves in playoff position now, we're right there. There are expectations, and this is good, but there's no time to relax.
bit change execution floor missed needed second shots sides
We didn't make shots. We missed shots the whole second half. I thought we needed to change sides of the floor a little bit more. Execution wasn't there.
both broken good guy looked shots
Both of those shots looked good for a guy with a broken thumb.
five game hoping success tonight winning won
Tonight was a really big game for us after winning in Cleveland. We have not had very much success on the road. We've been in every game but we haven't won. Now we've won two and we're hoping to keep it going on the five game trip.
brown corner forced good hard help hit kobe played points shot
Tonight, Kobe hit the big shot in the corner which he does all the time. And Kwame Brown got too many second-chance points and tip-ins because we were forced to help on guys. I think we played hard but not good enough.
came concentration felt few good great maintain ourselves played position pull stops today
We had a great trip. We played consistently, and then came out today and played very well offensively. I just felt that if we could make a few stops and maintain our concentration we could pull away. We have put ourselves in pretty good position going home.
came consistent felt good great hard ourselves played position time tonight
We had a great trip. We played consistent and then came out tonight and played very good offensively. I just felt they were going to have a hard time guarding us and that's what happened. We have put ourselves in a pretty good position going back home.
leave left supposed
We left him when we weren't supposed to leave him. We got off him when we weren't supposed to get off him. The things we were not going to do, we did.
ready waited
We waited too long to get into this game. In the first half, we just never got anything going. I don't know why we didn't come ready to play in this game.
match
I don't even want to think about that, we need to get there (the playoffs) first. Who does match up well with them - Detroit?
control happened second stagnant stopped sudden took worse
I don't know what happened in the second quarter. All of the sudden we just got stagnant and stopped doing things offensively, and then we got worse defensively while they took control of the game.
care five home looked played playing ran shot starting team together
I don't care if we're playing home or not. We just ran into a better team. Their starting five has played together for a while. They executed very well, and they shot it very well. We looked like a team that is inexperienced playing together.
again brad good last mike needed terrific three tonight win
Mike was really terrific again tonight and Brad was good tonight. We really, really needed this win after the last three on the road.