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Suns Fire Alvin Gentry

I think this is stupid. They gave him a crap team. What did they expect? Their record is more a relection of their GM than their coach in my opinion.
 
nightmare3983 said:
https://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8857447/the-phoenix-suns-parted-ways-coach-alvin-gentry

No interim coach has been named yet. I personally think they should have waited until the end of the season. I don't think anyone is going to do much with that roster this year.
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LOL.. but that's exactly what they want to do my friend.

It's the GSW model.

1. Fire the coach.
2. Trade Gortat for young players + picks
3. Tank... HARD!
4. Decent draft picks
5. Rebuild with the young core
 
Hotttnickkk said:
LOL.. but that's exactly what they want to do my friend.

It's the GSW model.

1. Fire the coach.
2. Trade Gortat for young players + picks
3. Tank... HARD!
4. Decent draft picks
5. Rebuild with the young core
6. Play Michael Beasley more
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amended.
 
Hotttnickkk said:
LOL.. but that's exactly what they want to do my friend.

It's the GSW model.

1. Fire the coach.
2. Trade Gortat for young players + picks
3. Tank... HARD!
4. Decent draft picks
5. Rebuild with the young core
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Right, they're built for the lottery. I just don't see what they have to gain by having someone else take over halfway through the season. Although rumor has it they're handing the reins to the guy they want, Lindsey Hunter. Maybe they're just letting him get some experience since Gentry wouldn't have been back next year anyway.
 
nightmare3983 said:
Right, they're built for the lottery. I just don't see what they have to gain by having someone else take over halfway through the season. Although rumor has it they're handing the reins to the guy they want, Lindsey Hunter. Maybe they're just letting him get some experience since Gentry wouldn't have been back next year anyway.
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No, I don't think they were built for the lottery at the start of the season. In fact they haven't been playing the lottery game, and their philosophy (since they've hired Lon Babby) has been to try and lure free agents (instead of get new players through the draft) while staying competitive.

This season though things came undone when it was announced that Channing Frye would be out for the season. I think they're still confident that they can be competitive, but it hasn't turned out that way. Gentry isn't the reason they're struggling (it's not enough decent players, and not having Frye to stretch the floor seems to have hurt them a lot).

So the fact that they've fired Gentry tells me that may be they want to try and play the lottery game because I don't think Gentry would allow the team to tank the way Mark Jackson did for the GSW tankers last year. I wouldn't be surprised if they start trading Gortat, etc, and really blow it up.
 
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