Why our problems boil down to the coach

I would start Brown over Dudz, because as much we all love him he is not a SG, he is a bench SF, besides his defense hasn’t been there in a while, Brown can thrive very well next to Nash, he can D, he can score and here is the tricky part, Is he a hot head? Yes, What have Gentry done to get the max out of him ? Bench him.

Morris is great but I think he is getting too comfortable launching jumpers sometimes, I would love to see him more under the rim, I don’t know Gentry’s posture about this but he seems OK

I realize he has no decents Back up PG or SF ot C, but ir RoLo turns out fine in another team then I’ll be sure Gentry sucks at coaching young players.

Gotta look at reality…How much more impressive is 29-37 versus 24-42…? Seriously.

Bootycracklicious anyway you look at it…

First, may I suggest breaking it up into paragraphs? People don’t like walls of text.

Second, all the things you mentioned (defined role, etc.) is exactly what made that ‘09-10 team special. You can’t take that away from Gentry, because with a good roster he was able to do what you want your coach to do. It’s always more about the players than the coach. The NBA is a player’s league. But the coach deserves the credit for putting his players in the right position to succeed, which you said Gentry doesn’t but he clearly did in ’09-10.

Third, wedge made an excellent post above.

That honor goes to the GM for putting together a roster that lacks a starting-caliber PF, or anything resembling an isolation scorer. He can share that honor with Babby, since the ‘plan’ doesn’t seem to call for winning this year.

On the other hand, I don’t feel Gentry is a great coach. It’s one thing to run a system offense, but it’s another to have virtually no other options outside that system.

simply because i know that people on the outside looking in really are in no position to judge the job you are doing, regardless of your basketball knowledge. Sure, you may have an opinion, but your are basing that opinion on circumstantial information.

Unless you are in their practice, in the locker room during games and in the huddles during timeouts [not just one, but all], you really have no perspective on what is being stressed and whether those things are being absorbed by the players or not.

I have had teams that were simply bereft of offensive players. Despite the fact that I worked them to the bone running our motion and putting in simple quick hit plays [maybe one or two – all they could handle], the players were simply not skilled, nor intelligent enough to handle pressure against better teams. The talent was simply not there.

Despite all of the hard work I and my players put in, we still had parents coming down into my timeout huddles and “making suggestions”. From the stands, they wanted to take the evidence of a team that could not score [or turned it over] and jump to the conclusion that I was not teaching them anything.

However, when I invited said parent to my practice, it took one practice for him to see that I indeed was teaching and that these players were simply lacking basketball IQ, athleticism and skill. That is how it goes sometimes. Once this parent realized what had been talked about over and over again in practice, yet failed to materialize in games, he realized that he should change his expectations and focus on cheering for his child when he does something positive.

As pertains to Gentry, while I can see things on the court that I would say or limitations, I am not in his practice, huddles or locker room. It isn’t my place to assume I know what goes on and what is said. Therefore, judging him based only on what I see on the court is unfair.

Additionally, if you were to fire gentry, who would replace him? I don’t see anyone out there that would do any better of a job.

When hustle has no talent

Dont eat the candy mmmkay.