re: like Jrue Holiday but....

Maybe I'm totally off base here, but if Gentry not wanting to have control over player personnel was a large part of the reason he was hired, shouldn't he be adapting his system to the players on the roster instead of trying to generate a certain style of play with a roster that doesn't fit that style?

I hate to use the "square peg, round hole" analogy, but it seems to fit what we've seen in his two seasons here, at least from my vantage point.

With AD and Cousins, having a guy like Reke who may be a "ball stopper," but can drive to the basket, get the defense to collapse around him and dish to the open big man for an easy bucket seems practical. Jrue has his strengths, but he can't get to the goal the way Evans can. If the centerpieces of the franchise are going to be AD and DC, would it not make more sense to run more of an iso & PnR half-court game than a fast-paced, spread-you-out ball-movement game?

It just seems to me that with those two players being the cornerstones, Gentry's preferred style of play isn't going to maximize the talent on the roster.

Just my $0.02, and if I'm wrong, please feel free to correct me. I don't portend to be expert and won't take it personally if my perception is not consistent with reality.