When I read Fire Gentry, I thought it had to be a joke! I mean really, what would that accomplish? Gentry isn't the problem! The problem starts at the top with Vivek, and works its way down to the locker room. This team is a mess, and I doubt there's a coach in the NBA that can fix it. Not with this current roster. A roster made up of 100 guards and 200 centers, some of which are merely collecting a pay check. In the 2nd half of last nights game, we had a team made up of losers. No, not all of them! Holmes and Metu busted their butts when they were on the floor, but everyone else just threw in the towel when they got punched in the face.
As a famous boxer once said, the question isn't whether your going to get hit with a punch, the question is what are you going to do after you've been hit? I hate to say this after 15 years of enduring this same crap, but this team needs to be torn apart and rebuilt from the ground up. Something that should have been done when Vivek bought the team. Instead he's been trying to put band aids on the team ever since. I have no doubt that Vivek wants to win, but his problem is that he wants to win with his stamp on the team. His stamp got us Stauskas! His stamp fired Mike Malone after hiring Mike Malone.
Its well know that Vivek wanted to hire Doug Christie as our new head coach until all the rest of management talked him out of it. No disrespect to Doug, but he's had little to no experience coaching, just like Vlade had little to no experience as a GM. How did that work out for us? At least now Doug won't have to hear the fans chanting, Fire Doug in the arena, because that's what would happen with this team.
Everyone wants Fox to be the leader of this team. The problem is, Fox isn't a leader, even if he were to state that he's the leader of the team, if no one follows, then who is he leading. That's not a knock on Fox! He is who he is, and a leader isn't one of them. My problem with Fox is that he's seems to be getting used to losing. I hope I'm wrong about that, but his body language seems to emit that at times. Not to mention, it bugged me to see half our team yucking it up with the Lakers after they just got done kicking our butt's. Yeah, I know, its common for players to do that after a game, and if our record was 14 and 8, instead of 8 and 14, I wouldn't have cared. But it's not!
We've had the core of Barnes, Fox and Buddy for about 4 years now, and it's added up to around 34 or 35 wins every year. Last year we added Haliburton, and not much changed. That's not to say they aren't talented, but that for some reason it's not working. Blame it on whatever you want! The parts don't seem to fit together. Throw in bad coaching and you have the usual result. What's that definition of insanity? To keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result. The only answer I can think of is to blow it up. Stop trying to fix it and rebuild it from the ground up.
Believe me, I'm the last person that wants to do something like this. I'm old enough where I hesitate to buy green banana's anymore. I'd like to see this team become legit competitors before I head to basketball heaven. But I don't see any other way. If you think Ben Simmons is going to cure our ill's, I have some swamp land in Florida I'd like to sell you. I'd like to finish by saying that I sincerely hope I'm wrong about all this. That someone has an answer other than a rebuild.