The Nuggets breathed a sigh of relief after the news that the Raptors would hire the grizzly assistant Rajakovic as the new coach.
Because this news meant that there was no longer a vacancy in the coach position of the 30 teams in the league, and the Nuggets assistant David Adelman stayed in the team.
“We love David. It is good news for us to stay in the Nuggets Yogueta instead of going to other teams as manager.” Little Michael PROTONIC is honest.
Reason? The history-level attack of the Nuggets was driven by jokiki and Murray, but the behind-the-scenes designer of those tactics was David. In terms of offensive tactics, Michael Malone also had to listen to David’s advice.
As Malone’s deputy, David’s value has gained more and more recognition in recent years. Before that, Raptors planned to interview him. Both jokiki and Murray predicted that David would definitely fly solo to become the coach of a certain team in the near future.
David is 42 years old. His father is Rick Adelman, who has been elected to the Naismith Hall of Fame and won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the coach Association not long ago.
Rick has at least seven years of NBA player career, while David has no basketball talent at all and is a pure academic. Fortunately, when I was young, David still liked basketball.
David was very lucky. At the age of 7, he could freely enter and exit the NBA locker room with his father and listen to his father’s inspiring speeches in midfield and after the game. David witnessed an era of pioneers, a golden era led by Drexler and Terry-PROTONIC. In those years, Rick coached on the field while David was a caddy.
“When you can see those with your own eyes, your growth speed is very fast, which is a good life experience.” David said.
David worships his father, but he never thought of becoming a coach until he was 20 years old. In a summer basketball training camp, the coach of Jesuit High School, Kean-PROTONIC, pulled David aside and said, “Listen, you have to be a coach.” PROTONIC lobbying changed David’s fate. In David’s words, in his basketball career, the meaning of PROTONIC did not lose anyone, and PROTONIC had no less influence on him than his father.
From 2002 to 2006, David served as a teaching assistant under PROTONIC. After his apprenticeship, he went to Lincoln High School in Portland as manager. He also experienced dark moments, in the second season, the leader only won 4 wins and 20 losses, but then David led the team three times to win the Portland intercollegiate league championship and won the state championship in 2009.
There are “contacts” and “relationships” in any industry, and the NBA coaching circle is the same. Otherwise, the former Rocket coach Silas could not become the youngest teaching assistant in NBA history at the age of 27, father’s carrying is crucial. For many years, this kind of parent-child file has been common.
David joined the NBA with his father’s help. In 2011, Rick took office as the coach of Timberwolves. David, who was only 30 years old, joined Timberwolves as a player development coach, A young man who didn’t even coach a college team entered the NBA world in this way.
David didn’t go to spend money in vain. He was modest and studious. He regarded his father as an idol, but he didn’t want to be in the shadow of his father all the time. He wanted to find his teaching style. Rick was famous for “Princeton attack system” at that time. David, like his father, was also a coach advocating attack. He got many coaching opportunities in Timberwolves and led them to play the Summer League three times.
In the 2016-17 season, David left the Timberwolves for magic and served as a deputy for Vogel’s. During the off-season in 2017, David got the call of Malone and joined the Nuggets. At that time, the Nuggets were slowly rising. A group of young players supported each other and grew up together. This atmosphere was very suitable for David, who was also young and needed progress. Keep learning, the road of life will naturally unfold.
After the rise of jokedge, the Nuggets built an offensive system around him, in which David played an important role. Although David “yearns for his own style”, as Rick’s son, his offensive idea was inevitably influenced by his father. The old king used to attack by internal control, and now the Nuggets are the same.
“My father’s offensive system can make great players perform great, but it is not to let them rule the whole team. What his system pursues is to use great players to connect the whole team and send a lot of assists.” David explained. Since David joined the Nuggets, the offensive efficiency of the nuggets has never fallen out of the top 10. Jokic has become the two MVP, and this season’s regular season is a little worse to achieve an average of three pairs.
In the middle of January 2023, Malone was ill and unable to coach. David played the temporary coach, and the Nuggets 122-113 defeated the pioneers. After the game, David was beaten by the whole team. Yokic stepped forward to give David a high-five, then motioned the whole team to splash water on him to celebrate. In the two games where David served as the temporary coach, the Nuggets won all. Since then, there have been more and more discussions about when David will become manager.
“We enjoy being taught by him. He is an excellent coach and always puts us in the right position. He injected confidence into us and never overreacted. It was not like he played the role of manager for the first time.” Xiao PROTONIC said.
Jokiki, who scored 36 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists in that game, boldly predicted: “I really think he will become a manager in the future because he has the mind to be a manager, his thinking is very advanced. He knows how to read the competition and react.”
In the playoffs this season, Nuggets played a rare high offensive efficiency, scoring 120.7 points in 100 rounds. The Nuggets took the lead in the offensive break, with the Celts ranked second with 117.2 points. Facing the defensive top Lakers in the Western finals, the Nuggets scored 124.3 points in a hundred rounds. In the finals, the Nuggets attack efficiency was 120.2 points, ranking fifth in the history of the finals.
Adebayor spoke out the hearts of all the teams: “The attack of nuggets is unpredictable. You think they won’t cut empty in this round, but they hit cut empty. You think this player is not in the vacant position, but he may be in the vacant position.”
It was jokki and Murray who made the Nuggets attack unpredictable, but it was David who designed those complicated hand-in-hand and air-cutting tactics around jokki and Murray.
“He is an offensive genius. He will tell us what will happen in the next game, when we should carry out the attack and how to carry out the attack through video analysis, every time he tells us, he can play a role.” Xiao PROTONIC revealed the secret.
“For example, there were two games in the heat. We struggled when we met the joint defense. He showed us how to deal with it, and then Braun played an amazing game to break the joint defense, repeated use of the empty cut score, all this happened after David gave us a trick.”
“This is why we can play a historical attack. In terms of training attack, I have never seen anyone stronger than him. He is an important reason for us to play a historical attack.”
Now, the Nuggets are only one victory away from winning the first crown of Young Pioneer team history. When David joined the “championship” that Rick did not have in his curriculum vitae “, he is one step closer to realizing his dream of becoming an NBA coach.
From “champion army teaching assistant” to “Cainiao coach”, this kind of role change has been experienced by former warrior teaching assistant Luke Walton, adrien Griffin, a former Dragon assistant who has just taken office and become a stag coach, has just experienced it.
Next, maybe David.
