re: Two things must happen this summer for us to be a good team

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this is the most talent he's had on a team. Darren Erman is one of the best defensive minds in the game.

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Our D has been pretty good this year.

We'll see what we do the rest of the season. But Gentry's results speak for themselves. His sample size is enough as a HC and an assistant coach.

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i'm not an irrational new orleans homer, for starters. i listen to the experts who analyze basketball for a living and say he's one of the best offensive minds in the game over emotional homers. if you gave up on him during the injury-plagued season, then your'e dumb f'er. dudes a good coach that's been dealing with an incompetent front office since he got here (which lucked into the worst (best) trade in the history of the league and bought himself who knows how much longer.

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The "experts" talk about his basketball mind. He is known to be a good offensive mind. He is a terrible head coach. His clear role is that of an assistant. At 62, he is not likely to change his ways.

Al was a step back from Monty and Monty never got another look as an HC.

You are right. He is 62. If he hasn't done it by now, he probably won't do it. The warriors didn't blink when he left and Kerr was out for half a season. He gets too much credit for that, imo.

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can you name a player that has anything bad to say about Gentry?

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That's because he is a "players coach" and he is super nice to them.

That doesn't change the fact that his teams just don't win.

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Also, what is the right coach? Someone threw out Lionel Hollins to bring in Grit and Grind, but Kevin McHale said he didn't think Twin Towers would work in today's NBA. The current/"new" defense rules that allow zone are a large part of what's killed post play and the traditional center's value. So maybe McHale is right. That doesn't mean AD and Boogie can't work, both definitely fit in the modern NBA, but maybe slowing it down for alternating post ups isn't the direction to go.

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ding ding ding

if we're using Grit and Grind as an example for what to do on offense, that person has no clue what they are talking about. their offenses were putrid. their defenses were top notch and won them games. Boogie/Davis arent good enough there (yet...maybe ever) to do that.

dumping the ball into the post is not zigging while others are zagging....it's pointing to an outdated and losing strategy b/c people "grew up with it" or "Shaq did it" or whatever nostalgic, unthoughtful way they want to put it.

the reason entire reason Davis/Cousins can work is because they can play outside the paint. they have to in the modern NBA

there's a way to get Cousins and Davis the ball in good spots for them on the block. that way is not dribble up and post. they did some of that last night. they failed at times.

highly recommend checking out Rob Mahoney's (SI basketball writer) pod "Breakaway." last feature was on D'Antoni and his system, but more his philosophy on offense than anything else.

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what ways need to change? are you under the impression his style of coaching has always been that which he helped implement at Golden State?

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He wasn't the head coach at Golden State.

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He wasn't the head coach at Golden State.

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no shite?

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Convert useless money into useful money. This is the big challenge. Asik, Ajinca, QPon are 20 million dollars of complete deadweight

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It's going to impossible to offload all 3. You can get rid of 1 if you attach it to a trade with our 2018 pick for a shooter. I don't know how you're going to offload the other 2 though. I just don't see it.

Regardless you'll free up enough cap space with a move like that to get another shooter in addition to the one you're trading for, preferably one that can play defense.

That's pretty much the best we can expect for this offseason.