ALVIN GENTRY RUMORS & GOSSIP
Report: Mike D’Antoni Wants Nate McMillan or Alvin Gentry on Staff
According to Ken Berger of CBS Sports, Los Angeles Lakers head coach Mike D’Antoni plans to add some popular names to his coaching staff to help fix the team’s woes on the defensive end of the floor.
With the Lakers in full-on evaluation mode after getting swept in the first round by the Spurs, coach Mike D’Antoni is actively exploring his long-standing desire to add a defensive...
Alvin Gentry Would Love To Coach Bobcats
Alvin Gentry considers Charlotte his home and made it clear that he would love to coach the Bobcats, who have a head coach opening after firing Mike Dunlap.
“It reminds me a little bit of the teams I had in L.A. (with the Clippers): Young players, very energetic guys,’’ Gentry said. “Kemba (Walker) and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist have a lot of potential and (Gerald) Henderson...
Phoenix Suns were better off under Alvin Gentry
As we enter the final week of the NBA season, we usually examine the playoff races and who is or isn't squeaking into the postseason. For one team though, it's a time of reflection, and to ask what could we have done better? For the Phoenix Suns, the answer could be to not fire your head coach, Alvin Gentry, halfway through the season in the final year of his contract.Oh...
Sun-Set For Gentry As Phoenix Fires Bench Boss
The Phoenix Suns concluded on Friday morning, that the losing streak that engulfed the club, had to end. They decided that the best way to remedy the situation, would be a new voice in the locker room, so according to a report from the “Arizona Republic,” they fired veteran head coach Alvin Gentry. The Suns lost at home to the Milwaukee Bucks Thursday night, pretty much sealing...
Suns make a change for change's sake
PHOENIX So, Alvin Gentry and the Phoenix Suns have come to the shared conclusion that someone else should coach this struggling NBA team.
Examining this opinion from the perspective of Gentry, whos been the teams head coach since February 2009, is something were going to skip.
Instead, our expected task should be deciding how we feel about the Suns portion of this mutually pondered...
Via Fox Sports Arizona
January 18, 2013
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Staggering Suns 'part ways' with coach Gentry
The Phoenix Suns say the team and coach Alvin Gentry have ''mutually agreed to part ways.''
Gentry had coached the Suns since replacing the fired Terry Porter at the All-Star break of the 2008-09 season, compiling a 158-144 record. His 2010 squad, led by Steve Nash, advanced to the Western Conference finals.
But Nash left and the team underwent what has been a disastrous...
Via AP on Fox
January 18, 2013
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Gentry out as Suns coach
PHOENIX -- Alvin Gentry is out as the Phoenix Suns coach.
The news was first reported Friday morning by FOX 10 sports anchor Jude LaCava and was confirmed by the Suns shortly afterward, who said an interim head coach would be named within 48 hours. Immediate speculation centered on assistant coach Elston Turner and player development assistant Lindsey Hunter.
The Suns issued a...
Via Fox Sports Arizona
January 18, 2013
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Gentry's Suns will mix up lineups
PHOENIX -- This year's rewritten Phoenix Suns script seems to be offering considerably more than a changing of the point guard.
Evidence of the differences is everywhere.
There's a new offensive structure (which wasn't working very well), a fresh paint job for the U.S. Airways Center floor and nine players who worked somewhere else last season.
One additional -- and...
Via Fox Sports Arizona
November 15, 2012
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Gentry 'frustrated,' considering lineup changes
After Wednesday's loss to the NBA champion Dallas Mavericks dropped the Suns to 2-4, coach Alvin Gentry said Thursday he's frustrated with how the team is playing and is considering lineup changes.
"I'm frustrated in that I think we're much better than we're playing," Gentry said. "I don't think I'm asking anyone to do anything that they...
Via Fox Sports Arizona
January 05, 2012
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Suns find offense, get much-needed victory
PHOENIX -- Alvin Gentry assumed the responsibility of carrying 1-year-old Matteo into the Phoenix Suns' locker room on Monday afternoon.
The Suns' head coach seemed happy to do it. Well, he sort of owed the kid's dad a favor.
Matteo's old man is Steve Nash, and the veteran point guard did Gentry a solid by carrying his team down the home stretch of a 102-91 victory...
Via Fox Sports Arizona
January 02, 2012
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