NBA: Pelicans have agreed to make Warriors assistant Alvin Gentry their next head coach

[Pelicans78]

all the more reason for him to leave.

Well, Anderson and Gordon are off the books after this season freeing up cap room. Holiday was playing the best ball of his career before his injury. He's a keeper. But Evans, Anderson, and Gordon need to go.

[da_suns_fan]

Good for him and them.

[Splits]

Holiday is solid, but owing $21m to Tyreke ing Evans over the next two seasons. On the bright side, this year was his first in the league where he didn't get worse from his previous year.

Maybe he turned the corner?

no

[JMarkJohns]

Gentry isn't D'Antoni. He is more than capable defensively.

That 2010 Suns team featured multiple defensive specialists in the rotation, and was one of the first to bring to successful use the 2-4 defensive wing with Hill and Dudley defending all of those positions. Word is he was behind the Marion use defensively from 1-4 as well when he was D'Antoni's assistant.

[HemisfairArena]

Epic fail,,,,

[apalisoc_9]

wow...good hire.

[baseline bum]

Awesome, now we won't have to see Tyreke Evans constantly keeping the ball out of Davis' hands.

[BG_Spurs_Fan]

Great hire.

[Caltex2]

Better than Thibs or JVG.

I followed JVG's Rockets teams. He was an average coach.

Based on what? The Rockets stars were always injured under JVG's watch. Either that or they had the year with Yao!!!!!! and Steve Francis, who faded from oblivion shortly thereafter. They did have a good team in '05 that got too high on themselves when they started doing a little good.

Anyways, why they're going with a retread like Gentry, IDK. It's not as if he's an unproven assistant, getting his first shot. Technically the other two are retreads but with a much better tract record of success.

Adelman got more out of those teams than JVG. Sorry, but JVG hasn't done crap since 1999. Very overrated coach. He's a good coach, but nothing extraordinary.

Adelman's reign also coincided with a better GM (one who didn't set the franchise back years with bad contracts) and JVG laid the defensive foundation for them.

[Venti Quattro]