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
general happy sit talent
We're not going to sit back and let this continue. We're not happy about what's going on, and I know Mr. Geoff Petrie (the general manager) is not happy either. We have too much talent for this.
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.
bad good knows playing since situation team together
He had a bad situation when he was in Sacramento. He didn't have a very good team. Since he's been here, he's had his team playing well. They play together and they play hard. He knows what he's doing.
game simple win
We got to win that game. Simple as that.
games road win
We're going to have to win some games on the road if we're going to get in the playoffs.
last mentally
We're just mentally different than we were two years ago or even last season.
team
We were a team without a personality. With Ron, we have one.
ball calmed forced half halftime second simple talked trying
We were trying to make the spectacular play, and all we talked about at halftime was trying to make the simple play. I thought the first half we really forced a lot of things, and during the second half, we calmed down the ball pretty well.
ball pass playing struggled turned
We struggled playing the game. We didn't pass the ball very well. We turned it over. And playing on the road, you can't turn it over like we turned it over.
ball game pass playing shot struggled turned win
We struggled playing the game tonight. We didn't pass the ball well, we turned the ball over, you can't win like that. We shot the ball poorly, and our decision-making was bad.
knew
We knew they were going to make a run. They always do here.
attack crowd game knew
We knew they were going to come out and attack us. It was the first game here. The crowd was into it.
sure trying
We're just trying to make sure somebody's on him all the time.
care eight fight trying
We're just trying to get one of those eight (playoff) spots, we don't care where it is. It's going to be a fight right down to the end.