NBA Coach Rankings: How Does the Suns Alvin Gentry Rank?

I feel like we have a good coach when it comes about advising players, making them feel comfortable and all that stuff, he is damm good making offensive schemes when the clock is running out yet he hasn’t been able to set a consistent defensive team, you can blame it all on the players but i look at teams like Boston/Miami/San Antonio and they have been able to pulled off a defensive consistent scheme without having the best pieces to, take a look at Joel Anthony and Ray Allen.
 
I guess my problem with Gentry is his lacks determination, he just doesn’t know how to utilize the tool he’s got.

Aaron Brooks, he is not a passer, he won’t be Steve so let him be him and play his game, let him take shots with freedom.

Warrick, in any other team Warrick would be under the rim 80% of the time, trying to either get a foul or score, not shooting mid range.

Maybe he didn’t have enough time to figure who his starters were, and so injuries and trades made it even harder, i just think Doc Rivers would have done a better job.

My overall opinion on Gentry: is a quality coach and he is improving, with the right pieces he can do magic.

’And oh i kinda hate him a little for letting Kobe spank his ass while he was laughing like a college girl while my dreams of an NBA Champioship flushed down….yeah…

“he just doesn’t know how to utilize the tool he’s got”

I giggled at that. Sorry.

He had that one great season and must be given credit for that. But, otherwise in his careerr? Meh.

Funny about him getting dinged for his lack of player development. It almost seems like he’s the victim of his own success there. Had Dragic and Lopez not shown such promise under his tutelage in 09-10, would anyone have been surprised by their struggles this year? These guys were not blue chip prospects, no matter how much we liked to think they were. Lopez is a low lottery pick and Dragic is a mid-second rounder. Earl Clark? As soon as an NBA coach can get some production out of him (I’m not holding my breath), I’ll criticize Gentry, but not before that.

Although, I applaud him for trying and for actually getting some help in that department.

And coaches with Amare Stoudemire on the roster somehow always seem to be a lot better than coaches without him.

With the level of talent Gentry had on last year’s 40-win team, a really good coach would have won 42 games. A really bad coach would have won 30-35.

And I fully agree with Ray on the player development thing:

Lopez? Fragile as a butterfly’s wings. Even in 09-10, I thought he was highly overrated. He had a few good games between long bouts with injuries, alongside Amare who was playing at the MVP level and drawing 90 percent of the other team’s defensive effort. We were better off with Jarron Collins at the 5.

Dragic? The fact that he has had a career at all is due to Gentry reconstructing his psyche following the Terry Porter debacle. Running with the Brazilian Blur, Goran was the Dragon. Without him, he was the Drag On.

Clark? Way more worried about booty than basketball. I rarely feel sorry for China, but in this case…

was that he didn’t take advantage of the once in a lifetime chance to put the Silo in against Shaq last year.

I’d have really liked to have seen those two go at it.

When he has had the cattle he’s done very well. When Amare and Barbosa left it’s funny how Dragic and Lopez struggled with most of the second unit. Our roster last season wasn’t settled so to get to 40 wins i thought was good job.
Next season won’t tell us much because of the lockout. The next season after that Hill and Nash might have retired and the rebuilding might have to begin, so unfortunately for Gentry he might not get a settled roster for a while if he lasts that long. But i do like him and hope he can keep his job for a while.

I think this is the first time that Alvin has gotten to have his picture in the masthead at suns.com.

to essentially blame the roster failures on Gentry, even if he did sanction some of the moves. It was always going to be hard to figure out how to keep us relevant post-Amare, I think Gentry did OK though.

My gripe with Gentry is that his late game decisions are average at best, too many times last season, last second plays were drawn up that never came to fruition and simply didn’t work, resulting in no points scored and games lost. The only time I can remember something working perfectly was the Hill alley oop to J-Rich early on in the season. That has to go on the coach.

But so long as Nash is here, Gentry is the right coach, because he knows this team’s style better than anyone.

Last year sucked! BIG TIME!

1. For some strange reason our FO thought Warrick was ok.
2. For another weird reason our FO thought that Hedo could play PF.
3. Chill was a good selection , but he got hurt to the point to where he couldn’t even hit a mid-range jumper. There goes his season!
4. Then our only Center got hurt and with that injury he lost every amount of confidence he had in him.
5. That caused Frye to start at center which meant that Dragic only had one shooter to pass to, so he started to struggle and lost his confidence. There goes our backup PG!
6. A trade is made, we get Gortat, he’s cool, but wait! There’s a catch, we have to give up our only go to guy….
7. Gortat improves our defense and Carter actually does ok his first few weeks here. However, our offense sucks!
8. So, Dragic is traded for Brooks. A lot of tears are shed that day. Trade looks good at first.
9. Things start to get better and Channing Frye thrives next to Gortat and we start to win games. For the first time that season, we actually look like a playoff team.
10. Then Kevin Durant lands on Frye’s shoulder. Hey, it couldn’t possibly get any worse…right?
11. WRONG! Steve Nash’s body can’t take it any more, so he breaks down!
12. Vince Carter reaches like his career 15th thousand point or whatever and decides to stop trying all together.
13. Pietrus gets hurt and he’s done.
14. Frye and Nash comes back, but it’s too late.
15. Season ended.
16. I forgot to mention that not having Amar’e or a decent option to replace him really hurt too.
17. We still won 40 games.

Gentry did the best he could. For those who get him on the late game adjustments; he didn’t have a guy on his roster who could draw a foul and get to the line. That is why we lost about 14 games in the 4rth quarter. Without having one of those guys, teams could easily shut us down. It didn’t matter what Gentry did.

The only thing I feel I can get him on is defense. With the amount of guys who are capable of playing average to good defense on our roster, we should have at least been in the low 20’s. Instead, we were ranked in the bottom 5. However, he went out and hired a defensive coordinator, so I’ll give him another chance.