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    I think the Kings were stupid to fire Adelman. It takes more than one season to turn a transition team like the Kings into a defensive powerhouse...and the Kings were actually a pretty good defensive team during one of their running years under Adelman, first or second in the league in opp FG%...the year they took LA to game 7. Adelman gave the Kings an exciting brand of ball that filled up their stadium and put Sacremento basketball on the map....


    Rick Adelman has never had the personnel to win an NBA championship IMO, and the fact that he has almost done it several times has a lot more to do with his coaching ability than it does the talent level of the teams he has coached....the best player he ever had was Drexler...a poorman's Jordan...and he almost won a le with him.


    Any man that can nearly bump off the Shaq Phil Kobe Lakers with 3 chokers the caliber of Peja, CWebb, and Hedo is one of a good coach and has my respect!

    If only they'd hit their free throws in game 7...Something they were just about the best in the league at doing.
    i dont give a what he nearly did. i want a coach who is gonna do it period. and i think PJ is the guy who can take us over the hump.

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    Carlessimo deserves a chance!
    and hes gonna get it. i hope

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    Me too, I don`t want to see PJ in SAC
    well to bad.

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    Oh and Adelman deserved to get fired after his coaching job in Game 6. That was one the worst coach game I've ever seen. The Spurs couldn't stop Wells and Artest so what do he do?

    Runs play after play to get Mike Bibby going

    Yeah, thanks for playing right into the Spurs' hands. Pop couldn't have drawn up a better gameplan to give to the Kings.
    thats what i have been trying to tell all of these idiots who think he should have another chance.

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    Look at Flip Saunders with the Pistons... I think Nellie would be great with the defensive personnel the Kings have. Nellie is a great coach. The longer he coaches the greater his chances of winning a championship... which means he should hit any second now. Him and Cuban were just like oil and water. Nellie would have been just as successful as Avery this season if not more so. I believe more so.

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    PJ would get choked out by Artest.

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    who says ron would play another game as a king
    he said he wanted rick back

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    who says ron would play another game as a king
    he said he wanted rick back
    ron thanked rick adelmnan yesterday at the practice facility and said that no matter who the coach is he just wants to win a chamnpionmship. so get that idea out of your head right now buddy. ron will be a king for a while. that comnmenmt he made about his salary was just ron being ron. he doesnt care who the coach is. he also said he wants bonzi back which i agree with.

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    who says ron would play another game as a king
    he said he wanted rick back
    is that what your hoping?

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    I want wells gone not ron

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    PJ would get choked out by Artest.
    you should know all about players who choke out people. your teamn is known for that kind of . but anyway are you guys gonna actually trade randolph for ing kenyon martin?

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    I want wells gone not ron
    if wells leaves im gonna cry. he said if he leaves it would be because the maloofs dont want him. he also said hes tired of moving and he wants to finish his career here. do you think pj wants to coach again? i hope he comes here.

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    he could make in the millions to coach or make in the hundred of thousands to be head assist coach
    what do you think?

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    he could make in the millions to coach or make in the hundred of thousands to be head assist coach
    what do you think?
    good point.

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    if wells leaves im gonna cry. he said if he leaves it would be because the maloofs dont want him. he also said hes tired of moving and he wants to finish his career here. do you think pj wants to coach again? i hope he comes here.
    After dogging it for years and turning it on for a two week contract drive, you want Wells back? Really?

    Don't you think he'll start mailing it in again as soon as he gets paid?

    You could probably get Jamal Crawford and a couple of #1s from the Knicks.

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    After dogging it for years and turning it on for a two week contract drive, you want Wells back? Really?

    Don't you think he'll start mailing it in again as soon as he gets paid?

    You could probably get Jamal Crawford and a couple of #1s from the Knicks.
    he didnt just play well in the playoffs he has been our most consistent player. jamal crawford sucks. petrie is like ten times smarter then thomas. doing a trade with them is like taking candy from a baby im sure. thomas would probably trade channing frye for rasho.

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    After dogging it for years and turning it on for a two week contract drive, you want Wells back? Really?

    Don't you think he'll start mailing it in again as soon as he gets paid?

    You could probably get Jamal Crawford and a couple of #1s from the Knicks.
    He turned it on because his injury had healed.

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    He turned it on because his injury had healed.
    thers no point in even talking to some of these spurs fans.

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    He turned it on because his injury had healed.
    If you say so. But he's bounced around the league an awful lot over the years, and I can't remember many times people were saying "Wow, Wells is unstoppable out there" at his previous stops.

    I mean, I understand why you guys like him, but his history would hang a pretty buyer beware" sign on the guy.

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    If you say so. But he's bounced around the league an awful lot over the years, and I can't remember many times people were saying "Wow, Wells is unstoppable out there" at his previous stops.

    I mean, I understand why you guys like him, but his history would hang a pretty buyer beware" sign on the guy.
    bounced around? this is his third team. plus his problems in memphis were playing time. he will get plenty here.

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    HAHA!!!!! Go ahead Nelly take up the reins and make the Kings run run run like they used to a couple of years ago. That way we insure that they won't get far. I like Nelly but he didn't have any fire the last two season with the Mavs, it was kind of depressing to see the Mavs losing and Nelly sitting there not even getting out of his seat or revving up the team.

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    HAHA!!!!! Go ahead Nelly take up the reins and make the Kings run run run like they used to a couple of years ago. That way we insure that they won't get far. I like Nelly but he didn't have any fire the last two season with the Mavs, it was kind of depressing to see the Mavs losing and Nelly sitting there not even getting out of his seat or revving up the team.
    thats why nelly aint coming to the kings.

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    bounced around? this is his third team.
    My mistake. I had forgotten that Portland was his first stop and that he'd been there that long. I thought he'd had a couple of other teams in his first few years.

    plus his problems in memphis were playing time. he will get plenty here.
    Maybe so. And maybe with good coaching, you can keep him on track. I wish you luck on that one.

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    Maybe so. And maybe with good coaching, you can keep him on track. I wish you luck on that one.
    thanks. were gonna need it.

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    ESPN interviewed Joe Maloof, sounds like he doesn't want Nellie (duh!):

    http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2440697

    Sacramento Kings co-owner Joe Maloof has not ruled out Don Nelson as a candidate to replace the deposed Rick Adelman, but Maloof makes Nelson sound more like a long shot than a favorite to take over as Kings coach.

    In a phone interview Wednesday with ESPN.com, Maloof confirmed that Nelson's reputation for free-wheeling offense -- as opposed to the defensive mind-set Joe and brother Gavin Maloof crave -- gives the Kings some hesitation.

    "We love Nellie," Maloof said. "But we do feel like defense has to be the priority. We've seen it with the Kings and we've seen it with our WNBA team -- defense wins championships."

    Nelson already works for the Maloofs as one of the stars in a television project that could wind up on HBO. George Clooney is producing a show for the Maloofs' entertainment arm in which Nelson serves as the coach of a fictional expansion team, along with former NBA stars Vlade Divac, Norm Nixon and Marques Johnson.

    The friendship they now share from the TV connection has linked Nelson to the Sacramento job for months, with Adelman's departure anticipated in NBA coaching circles all season after the Maloofs' brief flirtation last summer with Phil Jackson and with Adelman coaching on the final year of his contract. But there are basketball reasons to link Nelson with the opening as well.

    Nelson is one of the few available coaches with a résumé that compares favorably to Adelman's, after Sacramento reached the postseason in each of his eight seasons. Nelson's sideline presence and considerable experience also hold appeal, with the Kings needing a successor who can reach Ron Artest. Finding someone to click with the enigmatic swingman is a primary consideration, since the Maloofs are committed to building around Artest after he headlined Sacramento's transformation from a 17-24 straggler into a playoff team.

    Artest told ESPN.com in early April that he wasn't expecting to get a vote from his new bosses but that he hoped Adelman would receive a contract extension for his role in getting Sacramento's revival. "Hopefully we can stay together," Artest said at the time.

    He then repeated his preference in even stronger terms after the Kings were eliminated by San Antonio in the first round. Although league rules preclude such gestures, Artest said he would forfeit next season's $7.5 million salary if Adelman and free agent-to-be Bonzi Wells were re-signed.

    NBA coaching sources say Sacramento is not required to ask Dallas for permission to speak to Nelson, who remains on the Mavericks' payroll as a team consultant. Nelson, who turns 66 on Monday, is a coaching free agent at season's end and thus free to entertain job offers for 2006-07.

    Joe Maloof, though, said the Kings' coaching search is only just starting. Maloof anticipates team president Geoff Petrie assembling a list of candidates by week's end that is quickly whittled to four or five finalists who will be interviewed.

    "We haven't talked to anyone yet," Maloof said.

    Yet he did stress that the final decision on Adelman's replacement will be ownership's as much as Petrie's, in spite of Petrie's reputation as one of league's most accomplished team builders.

    "We have to be heavily involved, because this decision is so important for the future of the franchise," Maloof said. "We want to do this as quickly as possible and then leave Geoff and [the new coach] alone."

    ESPN.com on Tuesday identified San Antonio Spurs assistant coach P.J. Carlesimo and former Kings assistant Terry Porter, both former NBA head coaches, as likely names for Petrie's list.

    Carlesimo is a natural candidate if the Kings elect to model themselves after San Antonio, as the Cleveland Cavaliers did last offseason by hiring Spurs alumni Danny Ferry and Mike Brown as their new GM-coach tandem.

    Porter has been out of the league for a year after coaching the Milwaukee Bucks for two seasons and has also surfaced as a possible replacement on Flip Saunders' staff in Detroit for N.C. State-bound Sidney Lowe.

    It should be noted that Nelson, fond as he is of the Maloofs, has his own reservations about a return to coaching. The Kings would have to lure him out of X-and-O retirement if they do want Nelson to come to Sacramento for an interview, after the 27-year bench veteran enjoyed what he often refers to as "the year of my life" since resigning as coach of the Mavericks in March 2005.

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