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
best certainly crowd definitely game playing road team
I don't want to be down 3-0 to the world champions. That would make it tough. It's definitely a game we have to win. ... They're the best road team in the league. When you're playing a team like this in the playoffs, they're not going to be intimidated by our crowd, but our crowd can certainly get us going.
huge needed road stretch win
It's a big win for us obviously. They needed a win, too, and any win you can get down the stretch especially on the road. Any road win we can get right now is really huge for us.
games road win
We're going to have to win some games on the road if we're going to get in the playoffs.
chance fourth road win
I always say that on the road you want to give yourself a chance to win in the fourth quarter.
attack consistent defend effort execute finish games rest road within year
You've got to defend and you've got to execute when you're on the road and we haven't been doing it. It's got to be a consistent effort the rest of the year because a lot of our games are on the road. I think we can get there. We have the team. We have the wherewithal within the games to attack people. But we have to finish games.
best easy expect feelings handle happen road
You can't expect him not to have feelings about this, but I expect him to be able to handle things. It's not been an easy situation. It's not the best thing to happen when you're on a six-game road trip.
brad mike playing struggle year
I've said all year if we don't have Mike and Brad playing well we're going to struggle.
appreciate blessed effort great happens last portland seven situations time
Each time one of those (milestones) happens you appreciate it more because you know when you look back how much effort went it. I have been really blessed to be in two great situations in Portland and the last seven in Sacramento.
attention detail efficient energy games guys halftime hurting last level offense passing paying playing seven teammates tonight trusting trying
Our energy level tonight was up. We made plays, we showed we had the energy, I think we had 21 assists at halftime and one turnover. Our offense was efficient tonight. We haven't been playing well these last seven games and our offense was the thing hurting us the most. Guys were trying to do everything on their own and we need to get back to trusting our teammates and passing the ball. We weren't paying much attention to detail in these last seven games, but we were better tonight.
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.
guys mixed people playing trying
Everything is so new. We're trying to get a sense of what guys can do. So far, they've responded. Every day we've mixed it up with people playing with different people.
attacking basket mike nice ron worked
Ron was attacking the basket and getting (inside). Mike was good, too. They worked well together. It was a nice all-around game.
chance control force great guard league playing ronnie shots stick trying work
Ronnie hasn't been trying to force the issue, he's playing under control. We know he can make shots and guard people, and he has a great work ethic. I think he has a great chance to stick in this league for a long time.