Alvin on the chop and block

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...ss-to-save-job

Sounds like Gentry is about to lose his job

And they want the next coach to also be the president of basketball ops.

Paving the way for Coach Calipari?

http://www.grillingcompanion.com/wp-...QPorkChops.jpg

As much as I would absolutely LOVE Coach Cal here, it's not happening. He seems to be loving it to no end in Kentucky. I'm with MM and I'm gonna say Ettore Messina is the best option. Either him or Van Gundy I guess. But I'd much rather prefer Messina.

I wish people would stop with the Coach Cal to the Pels, News Flash Coach Cal is not coming to New Orleans

Hell yeah!

Dual duties feels like it's got JVG written all over it. Man Monty should've never gotten the axe

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And having a bridge to be able to fire Demps if need be and not crater operations.

....I wish they would just clean house though. Demps is why Gentry is here. He is why this roster is so ugly. Why should he be the one trusted to fix everything? I know someone will mention Cousins, but one deal does not a career make. And that same deal almost would of been Jahlil Okafor if the Sixers GM didn't over-value him.

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Yea if only he made the playoffs!

I'm willing to give Demps a second chance if he does wack Gentry. #FireGentry

Guess I'm whining.

Heck with that noise, you don't get to fire two coaches and keep your job. Boot Demps as he is the one poorly constructing this team.

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I wish people would stop with the Coach Cal to the Pels, News Flash Coach Cal is not coming to New Orleans

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I don't know why or how you know but I'm sure he wouldn't mind another shot in the pros if the money is right but who knows. I'm ok with a new coach but I want one that can adjust to multiple kinds of offenses not just small ball or big ball.

Gentry needs to go!

If Gentry goes then Demps goes too. I can't give Demps credit for getting Boogie it took a total idiot to trade Boogie for what they got in return.

This is much needed...I think gentry should be fired if he makes the playoffs or not. Dell should of been fired when Monty was let go.

Why would anyone believe Dell would hire a good coach?

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Blind squirrels and nuts.

Firing Dell and Gentry could make more damage than good. IMO the most important thing is to keep Boogie here. Dell is good enough at finding role players and Gentry is probably good enough to bring AD, Boogie, Jrue and better role players to the playoffs next year. Let them gel next year and have Boogie sign the new contract here. Then Gentry can get fired unless the team shines :).

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Gentry needs to go!

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I'm in! He needs to go!

#FireGentry

Gentry gotta go. I think Demps will get another year to build the roster around Boogie and AD.

If they bring in a new coach that has bball ops duties there will be no need for Dell. So might as well let him go.

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He tell you this himself?

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Firing Dell and Gentry could make more damage than good. IMO the most important thing is to keep Boogie here. Dell is good enough at finding role players and Gentry is probably good enough to bring AD, Boogie, Jrue and better role players to the playoffs next year. Let them gel next year and have Boogie sign the new contract here. Then Gentry can get fired unless the team shines :).

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Even when coaches get dual duties (president & coach), those teams still keep a GM right? Like SVG has that in Detroit but Bower is still the GM. Maybe keep Dell but he has to have these deals approved by the president/coach with dual responsibilities? This would simply just be to keep Boogie from potentially growing frustrated

Monty is the only coach I trust to bring in. I feel like everyone else is a gamble, especially JVG. I remember when he first came to Houston he was so stuck in his ways, him and Steve Francis butted heads the whole year. Then they brought in Tmac and he had some success but he never got out the first round eith Tmac and Yao. Even got blown out by 40pts in a game 7 by Dallas. Van Gundy never adjusted or changed the entire time he was with the Rockets. It made sense to walk the ball up when you had 7'6 Yao, but he kept the same pace even when he was starting 6'6 Chuck Hayes. He also refused to play rookies, that's why Rudy Gay was traded for Shane Battier. All in all I don't see Cousins liking JVG long term.

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Monty is the only coach I trust to bring in. I feel like everyone else is a gamble, especially JVG. I remember when he first came to Houston he was so stuck in his ways, him and Steve Francis butted heads the whole year. Then they brought in Tmac and he had some success but he never got out the first round eith Tmac and Yao. Even got blown out by 40pts in a game 7 by Dallas. Van Gundy never adjusted or changed the entire time he was with the Rockets. It made sense to walk the ball up when you had 7'6 Yao, but he kept the same pace even when he was starting 6'6 Chuck Hayes. He also refused to play rookies, that's why Rudy Gay was traded for Shane Battier. All in all I don't see Cousins liking JVG long term.

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Our current centerpieces really are built to Monty's liking IMO. Defense first, slow down the pace, get the ball inside

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Our current centerpieces really are built to Monty's liking IMO. Defense first, slow down the pace, get the ball inside

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isn't that crazy though? when he was here dell was building a fast paced team not really montys style and now that gentry is here he's building a slow it down team not exactly gentrys style lol its the weirdest thing

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Firing Dell and Gentry could make more damage than good. IMO the most important thing is to keep Boogie here. Dell is good enough at finding role players and Gentry is probably good enough to bring AD, Boogie, Jrue and better role players to the playoffs next year. Let them gel next year and have Boogie sign the new contract here. Then Gentry can get fired unless the team shines :).

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I'm not really sold on boogie signing here.He will have offers from far better teams.

Give Monty Dell's Job - if he wants to be coach again, done - otherwise hire Becky Hammon as our coach and let them continue working together.

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Gentry gotta go. I think Demps will get another year to build the roster around Boogie and AD.

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I think that this is the best thing to do.
Give Dell credit for Boogie move and give him another year.

But Gentry needs to go.
With him in the mix We're not gonna make another move forward.
We must build a winnig culture, only then Boogie and AD will stay here for many years.
Winning guel everything , loosing dont.

Send them both packin and start over


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imo when we traded for boogie, the writing was on the wall for gentry.......boogie is to slow and out of shape imo to be running the fast pace gentry likes so if we are going to invest in boogie then gentry will have to be fired and hire someone who can be creative to make AD and boogie work........

imo gentry had his team this season and was relying on AD to be his 5 but AD took those beatings from some bigs lol and came out and said that he didnt want any part of that anymore lol.....then the trade talks for okafor started coming in and imo if we would have traded for okafor then imo we would have made the playoffs because we would of still had our bench together...i believe jrue,AD,okafor,galloway, buddy, reke,maybe jones, and the rest of the team would have made the 8th seed because of depth and firepower and gentry would have had that as a achievement to still be our coach....

the boogie trade was a blessing for us and a curse for gentry because i just dont see this working for him....AD and boogie have to play down low...inside/out...boogie posting up....plus with all the nba talking heads saying that we will get the 8th seed just by having AD and boogie will count against gentry also,,which i think is unfair because we loss all our scoring after the boogie trade imo a min. of 50pts from 4 players leaving and no way we could have made those points up from d-league players to make the 8th seed......

so i think the end is here for gentry which is sad because we could be doing what the lakers are doing now to get Ball as their first pick...we should be developing diallo by letting him play and finding cheap shooters to add to our bench next season and let boogie and AD gel in training camp with the new head coach.....

Why would Monty come back here? He was treated like s*** by fans. So much so he told his kids not to come to the games by the end of it. He's not coming back.

They will hire whoever shows up for the interview with power points showing how Gentry is misusing Boogie.

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David Weasley , Gerry V? I would interview both of them!

Doesn't Gentry have a radio show? Anyone have the balls and time to call up and ask wtf was he thinking last night when he saw Babbit on Cousins? Why did he not receive 10 touches on the low block in a row? Why did they just run offense as if that mismatch was a mirage?

You can't hire Monty. It doesn't matter if he is the best coaching option out there. You can't hire him.

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Give Dell credit for Boogie move and give him another year.

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Dell lost all credit I gave him for the Boogie deal when he waived Casspi. Here's a guy who was already 4th best player on the team, gives us a leg up on re-signing him next season... and we cut him just because of a short term injury and Dell is freaking out about trying to make the playoffs to save his job.

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Doesn't Gentry have a radio show? Anyone have the balls and time to call up and ask wtf was he thinking last night when he saw Babbit on Cousins? Why did he not receive 10 touches on the low block in a row? Why did they just run offense as if that mismatch was a mirage?

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I think he quit after 2 shows.

The chop AND block?

Chopping block.

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Dell lost all credit I gave him for the Boogie deal when he waived Casspi. Here's a guy who was already 4th best player on the team, gives us a leg up on re-signing him next season... and we cut him just because of a short term injury and Dell is freaking out about trying to make the playoffs to save his job.

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I agree it was a bad move knowing where we are in the standings but we were really thin and we're hoping for the PO

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Dell lost all credit I gave him for the Boogie deal when he waived Casspi. Here's a guy who was already 4th best player on the team, gives us a leg up on re-signing him next season... and we cut him just because of a short term injury and Dell is freaking out about trying to make the playoffs to save his job.

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What about it now? Cassipi is back :)

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What about it now? Cassipi is back :)

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Where are you seeing that?

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Where are you seeing that?

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Tryna figure that out too. Only thing I could find was a tweet from two days ago saying that Casspi was rehabbing at the practice facility. Like I said in the other thread, I believe the only reason they cut him was to free up a roster spot, but they had an agreement to sign him after he got healthy. Just my guess tho.

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Tryna figure that out too. Only thing I could find was a tweet from two days ago saying that Casspi was rehabbing at the practice facility. Like I said in the other thread, I believe the only reason they cut him was to free up a roster spot, but they had an agreement to sign him after he got healthy. Just my guess tho.

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That might have been the initial verbal agreement, but that isn't binding. Casspi might have more suitors that he expected.

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Tryna figure that out too. Only thing I could find was a tweet from two days ago saying that Casspi was rehabbing at the practice facility. Like I said in the other thread, I believe the only reason they cut him was to free up a roster spot, but they had an agreement to sign him after he got healthy. Just my guess tho.

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Yeah. Saw a couple people talking about seeing a tweet, but nothing I found confirms a signing.

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I read it here in another thread.

Dell made some bad deals that are still on the roster (Asik, Hill) but the Cousins trade surely bought him another year. Plus you have to give him credit for finding complimentary guys like Crawford, Frazier, Cunningham.

Gentry must go though.

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Where are you seeing that?

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Apparently it's not true :(

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Dell made some bad deals that are still on the roster (Asik, Hill) but the Cousins trade surely bought him another year. Plus you have to give him credit for finding complimentary guys like Crawford, Frazier, Cunningham.

Gentry must go though.

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IMO Hill's contract isn't THAT bad. I think it will be more clear next year. Asik's contract is horrible but I remember how many posters really wanted him here. Not that it's an excuse but I am just saying

Gentry teaches AD Kung Fu so that he can chop and block