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Comparisons to Al Gentry's first season
Posted on 11/25/21 at 12:22 am
Posted on 11/25/21 at 12:22 am
Uncle Al thru first 20 games: 5-15
14 games against 2016 playoff teams
Willie through first 20 games: 4-16
10 games against likely 2022 playoff teams (12, if you count Washington, which I do not - they look like Fool's Gold).
This season reminds me a lot of Uncle Al's first season as HC. For Al, facing the GSW buzzsaw twice in the first week and a brutal schedule did the Pels in early on. After checking the box scores, the Pels even had our "Big 4" healthy for most of those games (Davis, Holiday, Gordon, Anderson). Willie probably has a better excuse given our franchise player is out of commission, but damn does it feel like deja vu.
-just for fun-
Van Gundy thru 20 games: 8-12
9 games against 2021 playoff teams
14 games against 2016 playoff teams
Willie through first 20 games: 4-16
10 games against likely 2022 playoff teams (12, if you count Washington, which I do not - they look like Fool's Gold).
This season reminds me a lot of Uncle Al's first season as HC. For Al, facing the GSW buzzsaw twice in the first week and a brutal schedule did the Pels in early on. After checking the box scores, the Pels even had our "Big 4" healthy for most of those games (Davis, Holiday, Gordon, Anderson). Willie probably has a better excuse given our franchise player is out of commission, but damn does it feel like deja vu.
-just for fun-
Van Gundy thru 20 games: 8-12
9 games against 2021 playoff teams
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Posted on 11/25/21 at 12:58 am to NOLAbaby
Now do Monty.
Posted on 11/25/21 at 6:17 am to NOLAbaby
But what's it all mean, grandpa?
Posted on 11/25/21 at 7:37 am to LouisianaJoseph
Monty was 13-7 in his first 20 games after taking over for Jeff bower.
Posted on 11/25/21 at 9:52 am to NOLAbaby
We should have kept Uncle Al for a couple more years.
Stan was a wasted season. Al was the perfect "set these young guys up for the real coach".
Stan was a wasted season. Al was the perfect "set these young guys up for the real coach".
Posted on 11/25/21 at 9:59 am to The_Duke
I largely agree, even if I think hindsight is demonstrating that Stan was not the demonically terrible coach his most vocal haters made him out to be.
But he was a terrible hire for the situation we were walking into. Which was a shortened Covid season that was just absolutely brutal on the players mentally and physically.
And we brought in an old school, frick your feelings coach for a bunch of Millennials and aging vets, both that wanted the opposite during the Covid year, and demanded they learn all new systems and grind their bodies into the ground in practice with a roster that when healthy really was never more than a .500 team at best.
But he was a terrible hire for the situation we were walking into. Which was a shortened Covid season that was just absolutely brutal on the players mentally and physically.
And we brought in an old school, frick your feelings coach for a bunch of Millennials and aging vets, both that wanted the opposite during the Covid year, and demanded they learn all new systems and grind their bodies into the ground in practice with a roster that when healthy really was never more than a .500 team at best.
This post was edited on 11/25/21 at 10:00 am
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