Alvin Gentry relieved of head coaching duties
- Thread starter Tetsujin
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Thanks Coach Gentry. You were given a tough assignment and you stuck it out. I appreciate that.
Out of curiosity, who was the last Kings coach to win their final game with the club?
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Certainly not Dave Joerger or Luke Walton.
So far so good, but since there are two threads on the same "topic" with different focuses, let's try to remember to keep comments about Gentry and the end of his tenure here, and comments about the upcoming coaching search in the other thread.
QWERTYLICIOUS
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Great guy, I have nothing but respect for him as a human. He was tasked to do something that was dang near impossible, so I am not holing a grudge on him for failure to perform. I just hope we can, at some point in the near future, get a coaching hire correct once again.
Bosnian Diehard
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I hope this is just because he has one year left on his contract and that he’s well-liked within the organization.
If he is joining the front office (something I predicted) he should have lost more games.
SLAB
Hall of Famer
Assistant to the Regional GM.
This is giving me flashbacks to that sacbee article about how Vivek likes to hire people into the front office and then give them powers that are way outside of their job scope. I can see Vivek allowing Gentry to draw up plays from the office and fax them to the new coach during the games.
EIM86
Starter
if it gets rid of Dumars I’d be ok with it. It prolly won’t be this though sadly
Telemachus
Starter
Make him an advisor to Joe Dumars.
See_Hanks
Bench
I looked at the roster on the last game of the season.. I don't even recognize this team. I knew of like 2 players. They need to win now. I was a fan for a long time but I couldn't care less about the Kings now.
Keeping Fox who seems to miss about a 3rd of the season every year for various injuries yet trade Haliburton? Good lord. This team is full of a bunch of people in the front office who don't know basketball. We have had plenty of time to rebuild, and we would have been if this team made the right and OBVIOUS to all of us fans moves... Phoenix is not a big market and have rebuilt the team to playoff status three times in the time it's taken us to land at another losing season (howmany years in a row?). I am so sick of seeing this team fail, and now that I don't even know any of the players on this team they better do something quick or they will be losing a lot of fans. If we cannot get behind these no name players then there is no reason to stick around.
Keeping Fox who seems to miss about a 3rd of the season every year for various injuries yet trade Haliburton? Good lord. This team is full of a bunch of people in the front office who don't know basketball. We have had plenty of time to rebuild, and we would have been if this team made the right and OBVIOUS to all of us fans moves... Phoenix is not a big market and have rebuilt the team to playoff status three times in the time it's taken us to land at another losing season (howmany years in a row?). I am so sick of seeing this team fail, and now that I don't even know any of the players on this team they better do something quick or they will be losing a lot of fans. If we cannot get behind these no name players then there is no reason to stick around.
steelevt
All-Star
Do you get credit if he comes back in a front office role? Or was your hope only to return as a head coach
QWERTYLICIOUS
Starter
In all fairness to the Kings, you could look at almost any roster of any team's final game and not recognize the team. Because that's just what happens a lot of times. The regulars sit, while the youngsters are thrown in their to give them minutes, and experience, and something to talk to their kids about during dinner, or before tucking them in at night.
And, unless you lived under a rock during the previous 81 games of the regular season, the Kings' roster in game 81 really shouldn't have looked all that different.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
yeah, not sure it’s fair to judge a roster on a night where the team’s two stars are out with injuries and three other rotation guys/starter level players are out or sitting the entirety of the second half.
Agreed - Heck, it appears that Chris Mullin is still "advisor to the chairman" - can we please ship him out, too?
what? he went to St. Johns before the other moron left. that can't be right.
Sacramento Kings Staff & Executives - RealGM
But yeah, I wonder what's going on there. This says:
Chris Mullin surprises Warriors' Steph Curry after Curry passes Wilt Chamberlain on scoring list (sfgate.com)
the RealGM link says he's had the role 9 years but certainly if that was his title when he was officially part of a two headed monster it can't still be?
I need to get in on one of these advisory gigs seems much more lucrative than actual job job.
Section 101
All-Star
Wait, Gentry was actually coaching?
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