Could Phoenix Suns' Head Coach Alvin Gentry Be The First To Go?

the most likely to happen, not some big trades to save the franchise.

in all sports, just not the NBA. Which only makes that worse. But at least we’re the best at something!

I just don’t see the Suns firing Gentry during the season. I think they’d wait until season’s end.

We went from JRich/Barbosa/Dragic to VC/Pietrus/Brooks to Price/Brown/Telfair, did we really expect anything different? I don’t understand why we thought it was a good idea to trade all of our even somewhat talented guards or let them go, but it happened. As much as I hate to say it, VC was still an upgrade over everyone else on the roster because he was a threat to score, and he can actually create for himself. Pietrus is just the precursor to Brown.

Even if it’s a contested fadeaway jumper, it’s still better than Brown or any of the rest of our rotation to jack up a shot. Compound the fact that we lost Brooks, and Nash is the only talented guard on the roster. Doesn’t matter that the other players try hard, they just can’t make up for the fact that they can’t create vs. an nba defense. Hedo would be a huge upgrade over anybody. This team can’t play, and Gentry is not the coach for this team as much as I like him. We better hope we can even get someone like James Harden this summer, or it’s going to be a long rebuild…

I really really like our coach and don’t want him to go. It is not his fault that the FO has handcuffed him and our team.

is not at fault, this team is simply who realists thought they would be at the beginning of the year.

If you dump Gentry you do it in the offseason so a new coach can come in in the best situation. This season is lost anyway.

The only reason I would dump Gentry is to get someone like Jeff Van Gundy that could really change the mindset of the team for a post-Nash era. I do not rate JVG highly overall but for that reason I would consider him.

If the Suns wanted a great coach they should have fired Gentry this year when Rick Adelman was available.

Is anyone out there with me? Is this one of the weirdest transitions in pro sports. From that great squad that was one non box out by Jason Richardson from going to the Finals to this? Just so bizarre watching all those former Suns flourish around the league while we dwindle away.

True, you can’t blame Gentry. But he also did a lot of this inconsistent lineup dabbling last season, not letting the team get into a rhythm, just like this year. Give it a week or two and settle in, unless someone does something amazing. This pattern of benching guys, then bringing them first off the bench in later games must really mess with guys’ heads.

Either way, the guys look pretty weak. Teams getting open shots, we can’t create shots (except for mighty Steve, at his advanced age). Got to gel as a squad if we have any hope at all of the playoffs.

when he’s coaching bad players, not so much. i’ve argued this for a while, but do you really think that greg popovich or phil jackson could do a better job if they were forced to rely on guys like ronnie price and shannon brown? look at those lakers teams from 2004-2007. They were essentially terrible, but snuck into the playoffs because kobe was playing at the absolute apex of his career at that point. look at the spurs the season before they drafted duncan. popovich was the coach, but after david robinson went down with an injury they went into all-out suck mode to put themselves in a position to draft a stud.

This is long-winded and kind of rambling, but my point is this: when you fail to assemble a team of talented players, you can’t pin blame on the coach when they don’t win.

If you look at that 2009-2010 team, one of the things that made us so good and so dangerous was that every single player on the team had a specific role, knew what it was, and was comfortable with it. hardly anyone on this year’s team has that kind of certainty, if only because no one (outside of nash and gortat) has proven consistent enough to justify that kind of confidence

in my opinion, we should only think about jettisoning gentry if it becomes apparent that he’s lost control of the team and the players no longer buy into him. i don’t think that is the case. by all accounts, he’s a great guy and players love him. shit, even nash said that the problem is we lack talent.

I was hoping Robert Sarver would be the first to go. NO coach in the league could win consistantly with this PHX Suns roster. Until we get a Team President willing to spend more on the team and worry less about the bank account the PHX Suns will Suck and yes, Steve Nash I feel sorry for you.

Steve Nash has my okay to ask for a trade and quit wasting your talents. It will be a hard adjustment for me…but, unless Sarver is willing to bring in some help for you please move on to greener pastures!!

starting with the owner, who doesn’t spend. Then the GM, who allows talent to leave with nothing in return. Then the coach, D’Antoni, who trades all our picks away, doesn’t develop what bench he has, or teach any defense; or Gentry, who cannot settle on a squad, teach fundamentals; or Elston who (what does he do?).Then the players, apart from a few, who want to much money, wants to be ‘the go to guy’, doesn’t want to work on defense and just get spoon fed by the greatest PG in the history of the game. weh! Is this like Boston’s ‘Babe’ curse? Or something like that. Only ours is SARVER.

It’s bad enough, so lets not compound matters. I does look like the FO is going to be force into doing something. Lets pray it benefits the Suns.

I think Gentry is ok for now. He is a players coach who is not afraid to mix things up. Not to mention he has had success in Phx when he had a decent squad. And all the players like him, even Chilly who has gotten the shaft more than any other player on the team. They never bad mouth him. Gentry is not the problem. Its the combo of players that are on the team.

or in this case a start of the season with no training camp and players on one year deals and which coach out there is going to coach this collection of so called tallent to anything better than our current 7-13.From the start of the season we knew this was going to be a hard season and we were looking at 8th seed at best. I say ride out the season get better tallent in free agency and then see if he is our coach of the future.

Persoanlly i think he is an ok coach nothing special like Pop or really bad like Rambis.
he needs to improve his in game management better with less complaining and more coaching.

Gentry is not the one that sold all the first round picks for 1 mil or traded them away to get rid of a player who was making more than the minimum. If you don’t have the money, don’t buy the team. He bought this team for attention, like when he was on the court waving that damn finger.
Don’t fire Gentry, fire Sarver.

I don’t blame gentry or the coaching staff. It’s like nash has said, we lack talent to win games right now.

At some point we"ll have to address that isuue. It’ll most likely be after the season where the front office has been planning to spend in free agency. Hopefully we have a blockbuster draft night with at least 1-2 aquisitions as the free agency talent pool continues to decline. I’d like to add eric gordon and two draft picks in order to call it a successful off-season.

Agree with everybody’s posts above regarding the current state of our suns,nobody is wrong with what they’ve already said. This team needs to make some changes, but gentry isn’t necessarily one of them right now.

7 footer, i think the fans certainly think that way, the front office doesn’t . They are most likely afraid to admit their mistakes handling player aquisitions(aside from gortat and morris) and overpaying certain players for one good season(frye and chilldress).

Sooner or later they"ll have to address these concerns by the fans, it will only get uglier until they do. i think they need to really put some pressure on their scouting department(lindsey hunter is a suns scout now?) to give them the best incoming information on prospects in this deep 2012 draft.

I have to wonder, if we fail to sign any quality free agents this off-season, will the front office re-sign nash and possibly hill to max contracts saying that’s just as good as getting a dwight howard or russell westbrook?

FO goes into complete re-build mode. Trade Nash (grrrrr) and Hill for whatever pic they can get in return. Their line of thinking will be this, ‘Brooks and Dudley give a decent back court, with Gortat and Morris as the foundation in the front court’ They will say something like ‘we tried to stay competitive while rebuilding, but it wasn’t happening’.