Patience of Adelman, Petrie paying dividends

[#4 Mr.Time Out]

최근 색비에 올라온 칼럼입니다. 킹스의 약점은 정말 들어날데로 들어났고 강점도 들어날데로 들어난 상태죠.. 그부분에 대해서 말해 주었네요..또 페트리의 킹스 로스터를 만든 과정등..

제가 영어를 원채 못하는관계로 영어 공부좀 하고 나중에는 해석까지 해서 올려보도록 노력하겠습니다.-0-; 일단은 쭈~욱 읽어보세요..다 이해하실수 있으실꺼예요..

By Mark Kreidler -- Bee Sports Columnist
Published 2:15 am PST Sunday, December 12, 2004

You want to know the Kings' dirty little secrets? I can give you at least four:

1) They're playing the same style of basketball they've always played;

2) They're every bit as good at Arco Arena, and at least as vulnerable on the road, as they ever were;

3) They continue to define themselves as a team that scores first and plays defense second; and

4) You'll have the same questions about them when the playoffs roll around that you had last season. And the one before. And the one before. And stop me before I type again.

Those questions are the keepers, of course, because they're the repeaters.

They're the ones about the collective Tin Man postseason act, and the rusty-gate approach to defense, and successfully converting at least one flippin' key free throw during a playoff game, and yada, yada, yada - there isn't a Kings fan of any repute who hasn't either heard, denied or loudly asked all of them at one time or another during this seven-year (ringless) wonder march.

And the reason those questions will keep arising goes directly back to Nos. 1 through 3 above.

All of which is to say: Welcome to the least panicky organization in the West.

The Kings just don't do impatient. At times it serves them beautifully, and as Exhibit A we'll go with the beginning of this very season, when the front office and coaching staff went right on hugging that hideous, out-of-sync, injury-marred beast that lumbered out to a 1-4 start until it began turning into the more respectable version of the team you see now.

At other times that patience is either tested or put to the huge lie, depending upon whose squawking pie-hole you feel like paying attention to. And as Exhibit A we'll go with the treatment of coach Rick Adelman himself, a man for whom the hanging judge of public opinion seems to keep 24/7 hours and whose critics believe he has been unfairly allowed to hang around Sacramento because of his close friendship with top basketball dawg Geoff Petrie.

I could point out the obvious, which is that Petrie and Adelman rarely see each other away from the office and that their relationship is of the most professional variety, but we don't have the time. And not only that: It doesn't matter. Because it won't change.

It won't change, because nobody forces Geoff Petrie into a hasty or, generally

speaking, stupid decision, and throwing away Adelman at any point over the last two or three seasons would have been a colossally stupid thing to do.

Thankfully, Petrie has had exactly enough clout with the Maloof family to prevail on the Adelman matter. Now the Maloofs are holding off on a decision about Adelman's option for the 2005-06 season, but after all this time that's hardly a mark of impatience.

If anything, it's really of a piece with this whole organizational transformation. You have to go back and think it through to really see the number of times when the Kings could have gone a different route, a panicky, quick-fix attempt of a route, and declined to do so.

Petrie traded for Chris Webber and then patiently waited for Webber to get his head on straight and show up for work. He signed Peja Stojakovic and waited two years for Stojakovic to leave Greece and come to America. He drafted Jason Williams and essentially said to Adelman, "Let him grow," and the Kings went three eventful and entertaining seasons with the erratic point guard before making the well-timed

upgrade to Mike Bibby. His rosters have been filled with the kinds of players - Bobby Jackson, Doug Christie - who became more important to the Kings than they'd been to the teams who didn't mind letting them go.

"I've heard horror stories of coaches coming in and saying, 'We've got to get rid of this guy and that guy,' " Adelman said last week. "You can't knee-jerk react - you've got to let the thing play itself out. Geoff is real good at that. And it's going to be very obvious to you when it's time to do something."

Adelman gave the post-

surgical Webber heavy minutes at last season's end, some of them cringe-worthy, because he, along with Petrie and the rest of the front office, believed the team had no chance of a deep playoff push without the forward. It was precisely the kind of move the modern Kings make - and also the kind of move that can drive a title-craving fan batty.

So it may be again. Vlade Divac left. Greg Ostertag arrived. Christie got hurt. Stojakovic wanted to be traded. Webber tried to reclaim his stature. Bibby's game meandered.

The new version of the old-look Kings went 1-4 out of the gate, and the whole world was collapsing. Only it never did collapse.

What happened instead was this: The same guys playing the same game started doing it better. Nobody will call that brilliance, because everybody has seen it before in Sacramento. Precisely the point.

정말 이때가 좋았던 거 같습니다. 지금도 선가이라에 대해서는 대 만족이지만 오스터택을 보면서 ..디박과 폴라드가 그대로 있었다면..이라는 생각도 종종 합니다..밀러를 얻기 위해 폴라드는 어쩔수 없는 선택이었지만요..키언클락과 함께 진짜 좋아했었는데..클락이라도 다시 돌아오길..

[force]

웨버 상체 근육은 언제봐도 좋다니까~

[야코비치]

오~~폴라드...

[마이크크리스티]

이번에 인디애나 전에서 폴라도 인터뷰 하더군요 영어 몰라서 뭐라는지는 몰라도 킹스 선수들을 봐서 좋았다~정말 좋은팀이였다 뭐 대충 이런거 같던데 경기전에 크리스티 잭슨등이랑 포옹 하던데 ㅋㅋ 으 폴라도 ..폴라도랑 포스터 멋지더군요