While Rick Adelman feels comfortable not returning as head coach of the Rockets, he is not ready to call his coaching career over.

"I definitely would look at situations," Adelman said. "It's not like I'm retiring. I'm OK with doing something else. We'd like to travel. We'd like to do things we weren't able to do because of basketball. If there is no basketball, we're ready for that. But I would look at things if they come up."

After several days of talks, he and general manager Daryl Morey could not agree on the circumstances that would lead Morey to make Adelman an offer or for Adelman to accept it.

"I feel OK," Adelman said. "It's always a sad thing when you depart a situation, no matter what the reasons. There are good people here you get to know. It's always hard.

"They wanted things to be different than they were. Some I was fine with. Some I wasn't.

"The direction the team was going and how they were going to get there, the way things are going to be done in the future, I was not comfortable with some of that."