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
basketball
I can't say enough about our basketball team.
days extra fatigue finished played season team three
We finished the season strong. We had three days off before the playoffs, so we had an extra day. It wasn't fatigue tonight, it was the Spurs. It is going to be a battle. I think that we are a better team than we played today.
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.
five four games great stayed win
This was a great win for us. We've been struggling, injured, with four games in five nights. But we stayed with it and got it done.
bad
When you have a wide-open look, bad things happen. That's the way it goes.
basketball coach good talk
We always talk about basketball stuff, ... She'll talk to me about the practice, what she observed. She's very knowledgeable. She's been very good as a coach up there. They really do play hard, do the right thing.
accustomed anybody beat good since team
When you look at the team since we made the trade, we were in games, but we just couldn't get over the hump. The team's really getting accustomed to what we've got to do to win. We think we can beat anybody at this point. ... There's expectations for us now, and that's a good thing. When there's no expectations, it's no fun. It's drudgery.
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.
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.
definitely players playing struggled unusual
We've definitely struggled so far, ... It's not that unusual when you have players that haven't been playing that long together.
certainly great milwaukee ourselves position win
We've certainly put ourselves in position to have a great trip. Now we have to do it in Milwaukee on Wednesday. It's a big win for us.