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I know not everything is Gentry’s fault. But I hope I never see him again after this season. Not even as an assistant for another team somewhere. Just stop trying to coach. It’s over.
RIP FlyGirl
AD was a superstar when he played for Monty Williams. It's been downhill since Gentry got here. Energy was something we never questioned with AD. He never took a play off. Under Gentry he has taken several games off, looks disinterested and disengaged.
Monty was making Davis into a machine, but Gentry said he was under utilizing a 22 year old. Davis last year with Monty he posted career highs in PER 30.8 and blocks 2.9. He led the league in blocks consecutive years. Watching highlights of Davis 2014-15 season is nostalgic, it's like a whole different AD. He played with so much energy and passion. He got the ball in spots where it allowed him to dominate, albeit some games he was ignored due to our high usage guards. Monty was turning AD into a mid range assassin.
We made a mistake in firing Monty. I wish we could bring him back, he would fit so well with this team.
Different player
Last edited by HoustonPelicans; 02-09-2018 at 08:46 PM.
AD looks like he’s regressed and/or disinterested. He had so much passion and a defensive stride in college and early in his career. I just don’t get it!
I could also see AD feeling this team is cursed and giving up.
I mean we haven't been healthy ANY season he's been here. No team has ever had the amount of injuries, and to core players, for such a sustained time as ours.
I can honestly see the Cousins injury causing AD to just be sick of it all and quiting on the season.
Now is that an excuse? Not at all. I'm just trying to make sense of what has happened to AD.
We aren’t making playoffs with the way we’ve look since cousins went down. I️ think we are in a really bad spot. We really screwed up trading for niko. Giving up our first round pick... Bulls were smart because they know we really could miss the playoffs. So this is a very real possibility:
We miss playoffs and Bulls get 8th pick of draft. We don’t resign cousins.
AD is not a natural leader. Gentry is not leading either. This team is very disappointing. I️ will trade AD if Cousins isn’t resigning and we miss playoffs. Send him to Boston for Tatum, Brown, Horford and two first round picks. Figure out the salaries and make it work.
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The team feels (rightfully) like they have nothing to play for. They went from being a potential 4 or 5 seed that no one wanted to see in the playoffs, to an 8th seed at best that might get swept. From top to bottom they don't gave the make up and fortitude to respond to this. Might be time to bring in Sam Hinkie, put AD on the block, and trust the process.
I mean...look, that was so bad you can't just point at one thing to explain the badness. But I will say this: replacing Rajon Rondo with Liggins in a starting lineup that had already lost DeMarcus Cousins is just asking for trouble. Asking for a season low offensive output. You go from the #2 team in the league in assists with a Rondo/Boogie/Jrue trio of passers where Jrue might be the 3rd best passer in the lineup, to a Jrue trying to run the team all by himself set with no other creaters at all and a guy who doesn't have to be guarded in Liggins. It's just asking for trouble. You got 4 total assists out of a starting lineup that a few weeks ago might get 20.
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All I know is AD doesn't belong in the upper echelon class. He constantly gets destroyed by other bigs in the league. Pekovic used to own him. Boogie used up own him during his Sacramento days. KAT owns him. And now Embiid. People who say AD is a top 3, hell even a top 5 player in this league are nuts. He's never developed a dominant post game, and, as DefensiveMind pointed out, his defense has severely suffered since Monty left.
Firing Monty and brining in Gentry was the worst decision this team has ever made.
You don’t blame him? That is the stupidest thing ever. We were a 6th seed in the west when Cousins went down. Now we are falling out of the playoffs. Where is the next man up mentality? Did the Spurs fall completely apart after Leonard went out? You have to blame everyone. It is not just Gentry, AD, Demps, or Jrue fault. It is everyones fault. John Wall gets hurt and the Wizards can still win some games by team effort. It goes on and on. I have a feeling if Cousins does not resign then AD requests a trade which really sucks.
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Lol to be fair to those fans, the 6ers game was rough and possibly the lowest point of the season
Also just thought I’d comment on the highlight reel of AD against the Spurs, Ryno < Niko, Mek is slightly better than Asik, Jrue now >> Jrue then, and I would take Reke, EG, and QPon (pre-injury QPon) individually over any current guard on our roster. My point is that team had more talented guys (would be different if we had Solo and Boogie in the court) vs a few really good guys shouldering the entire load
Can you imagine when Boogie & Solo comes back if we also had Gordon or Reke? I legitimately think we’d push the Rockets and Warriors in a series
This isn't some revisionist history. AD DID suck and was playing worse than a Robin at the time. Then he got his head on straight and started playing like a MVP while being the leader of this team, the thing everyone wanted him to do.
AD SHOULD be called out when he sucks and plays bad. Just as he is getting heaps of praise now.
this board.... lol
I really dislike the whole Robin thing. Because depending on which Robin you're....
No. I'm done talking comic books for one lifetime.
Can’t get too excited. They beat a lot of teams they should have beat. The good is they actually beat em which wasn’t the case before. I’d still like to see a buyout if they ever do. Teams aren’t buying out players like before or at least it doesn’t seem like it.
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