The sounds of last summer.
I found the .mp3s I saved from 1140 Grant & Mike of Rick, Joe and Elston the days after the firing and the pre-Muss hire. Pretty wild stuff.
I'm re-listening to the audios today. Here are some transcript quotes from Rick's interview about blame in the SA series and how it relates to players tuning out the coach. Grant brought up Mike wandering around during a critical timeout before he blew an assignment on Barry:
"I think it is just an excuse when things go bad. There is no way Mike did not know what we were doing. I mean I know I told everybody and I called them together before they went out again and told them again. We've gone through that situation time after time. If guys are going to make mistakes, if a guy makes a physical mistake, you know like, what about the Dallas game the other night when Stackhouse got that ball and (player?) almost stole it? I mean should he have driven to the basket? Hell yes he should have driven to the basket! They were only down 2. And he had a wide open look at it, he's athletic and a great freethrow shooter but he drives to the corner and basically ends the game for them. Now is that Avery Johnson's fault? I don't think so. You have to trust players are going to make the right decisions. Sometimes it just doesn't happen. And, I think the coach has some responsibility for that but if that is going to be the reason that something happens for a long term event, ya know, I just find that amazing. You know I don't know what else we could have done. You know that's a game we weren't even supposed to be in. Now, it's as hard on me as it is still hard on me that we didn't win that game cuz who knows what could have happened. It's hard on me we didn't win the 5th game where we gave up 5 straight layups. I mean, that's on me too as a coach but I think there's a, it's an equal blame thing. I think everybody is in it together. When someone makes a mistake you all have to bear the brunt of it."
About coaching your team:
"You have to go with what you can do for your players. How do you make them better? How do you make them work as a team? That's what I did. It's easy for somebody to say, like Mike Dantony now, what's he supposed to do? Stress a half court game and the defense? No. That's not who they are. He's gonna win a lot of games. Maybe he won't win a Championship, but i'm sorry, it's all about in this league winning with the team you have. And if I had a really good defensive team, it's funny, when we got Ron everyone said we became a better defensive team, I guess that's the day we started teaching defense (laugh). I mean it's just ludacris. I mean, we're coaches. I mean I have a Hall of Fame coach on my staff, I have two guys who are great defensive players, you know three of four years ago we had the best defensive team in the league statistically. So what is it that you are talking about? That we don't stress it? No. It's just that that's the type of team we have. I'm sorry, but if you want a good defensive team here in Sacramento - then get defensive players. I mean it's as simple as that. I can't say it any simpler. And if the Maloofs want that, then go ahead and get defensive players. If they think it is just so simple to get a bunch of guys who are offensive players, who their strength isn't at that other end, and you're suddenly going to make them something they arn't? You're kidding yourself. I mean you are you, you gotta be kidding yourself. I just find that, it's something that, what you don't have then that's what you need to do. If you have a coach who is a disciplinarian, get a player's coach. If you have a player's coach, get a disciplinarian. That's how it works in this league. You have people just jump all over the place. I think what it comes down to, a successful coach in this league with talent, is they take the team, they take the strengths and they get them to go with those strengths. And they win. And I mean, that's what I tried to do."
It goes on. If you guys want to hear the interviews I will get them to TZ or louis to post or figure out how to post mp3s. Good stuff looking back and seeing what we have now.
(This is a FanPost from a member of the Sactown Royalty community. The views expressed come from the member, and not Sactown Royalty staff.)
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Re: The sounds of last summer.
Adelman's rant about a coach working with what he's got puts Musselman's reign in perfect perspective, actually. Muss has not maximized this team's strengths at all. It doesn't help that the team has two stars who function best in a high-post motion offense (Bibby, Miller) and two who would probably work better in a draw-and-kick system (Martin, Ron). Talent is part of the problem, but Muss certainly hasn't played to its strengths.
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Mar 20, 2007 2:26 PM PDT
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I'm going to listen to these today... could make for an interesting subject with regards to this season's progression. Pyro is awesome.
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Mar 22, 2007 7:57 AM PDT
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Re: The sounds of last summer.
And Lord Petrie as well, right?
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Mar 22, 2007 4:52 PM PDT
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Mar 22, 2007 4:29 PM PDT
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Or Lord Petrie either, right??
Yes, this is a recording...
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Mar 22, 2007 4:54 PM PDT
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Mar 22, 2007 7:09 PM PDT
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Ive said it before & ill say it again. Having money & willing to spend it does not mean they are good owners in basketball decisions. Things that qualify are style of play and hiring coaches. Or maybe they dont. Maybe joe is right. Defense wins championships.
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Mar 22, 2007 7:32 PM PDT
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Re: The sounds of last summer.
How in the world do you know this? We've gone around in circles before, but at least be honest pookeyguru. You do think that every bad decision this franchise makes was made by the Maloofs and every good decision by Petrie.
It's amazing that their relationship has lasted this long being such a fractured pairing.
And yes, that was sarcasm.
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Mar 22, 2007 7:39 PM PDT
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Mar 22, 2007 8:01 PM PDT
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In 1999, petrie traded for Nick Anderson. How well did that turn out? That cost the maloofs ultimately an extra year of the ultra worthless brent price.
Petrie acquired jason hart last season. Did hart work out like anyone including petrie hoped? That cost the kings another year of hart as well.
Overall i like "Lord" Geoff Petrie's work. But along the way he has made mistakes that ultimately cost the maloofs money. Anderson's mistake was costly as the kings had to pay christie and anderson then brent price. They did this while paying the luxury tax. Were the kings better than? Yes they were. If anything i respect the maloofs for allowing that stuff to happen. However they were willing to spend money to allow Geoff to try and improve the team. Why such a short leash for rick adelman after a season that most could have done without? Why didnt Petrie get the ax too? After all they didnt need to extend Petrie in 2004 to the extra years.
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Mar 22, 2007 8:12 PM PDT
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