[Basketball News]

Former NBA coach Rick Adelman has talked to the Houston Rockets about the coaching job currently held by Jeff Van Gundy, according media reports Tuesday night.

Report: Adelman Interviews for Van Gundy’s Job

[Lefty Noob]

Adelman, eh? Would he be a good fit for the Rockets, you think?

[EmpireWF]

I don't know that he'd be a big upgrade but they could do worse.

[azrael492]

Personally, I am tired of seeing the same coaches just recycled with different teams. When is the next generation of coaches coming??

[Lefty Noob]

Yeah, me too, azrael. But it is official - Adelman is the new coach of the Houston Rockets. According to the Associated Press, "Adelman, 60, brings an up-tempo, high-scoring system to Houston, a stark contrast to Van Gundy's more defense-minded and methodical approach. Van Gundy was fired Friday after the Rockets were bounced from the opening round of the playoffs for the third time in his four seasons." Adelman was somewhat successful in Sacramento. I wonder what he can do with the Rockets.

[Basketball News]

HOUSTON -- Rick Adelman was residing in Portland, waiting roughly a year for the right job to lure him back to the NBA sideline.

On Wednesday, he didn't have any doubts that he had found it.

The Rockets hired Adelman as the franchise's new coach, introducing the 16-year coaching veteran during a press conference at Toyota Center.

After sitting out the 2005-06 season following an eight-year run in Sacramento, Adelman passed up on other job opportunites to return to the bench with a team that he believes can make a deep postseason run.

"I knew jobs were going to come up," Adelman said. "This was the best job. They had everything I was looking for – good ownership, good organization and a good team with good talent. Everything was there. It was pretty easy. If I was going to coach, this was an ideal situation."

Rockets select Adelman as the franchise's coach

[ThePundit]

I think it's a good move. Van Phony couldn't get them pass the first round. While Adelman is not Red Aurebach by any means, he's still a quality coach. He got Portland to the finals and always had very competitive teams with Sacramento.

[Basketball News]

Under former coach Jeff Van Gundy, the Rockets finished the 2006-07 season with the fourth best record in the Western Conference and once again had one of the league's leading defensive clubs. But, as good as the Rockets were on the defensive end, the team struggled on offense. Houston finished 17th in the league in scoring at 97 points per game and finished 27th in field goal percentage at a 44.5 percent clip. More troubling, the team struggled to find consistent offense in the postseason, shooting a meager 41 percent in a first round exit to the Utah Jazz.

Enter Adelman. During the coach's previous coaching stint in Sacramento, the Kings led the NBA in scoring three times in eight seasons. Adelman mostly relied on a Princeton-style offense during his final seasons in Northern California, but his primary aspiration is to get his teams to push the ball up the floor before the opponent sets its defense.

The Rockets are hoping that the coach can bring those offensive credentials to a defensive-minded club and give the franchise a more balanced approach for postseason success.

"We were looking for a coach that can take us to the next level," Rockets general manager Daryl Morey said during the coach's introductory press conference. "We were looking for a balanced approach and Coach Adelman provides that."

Rockets expected to pick up offensive pace under Adelman