Alvin Gentry

Alvin Gentry
Alvin Harris Gentryis an American basketball coach who is head coach of the New Orleans Pelicans in the National Basketball Association. Gentry was a former college basketball player, who has led four different National Basketball Associationteams. He served as an interim head coach for the Miami Heat at the end of the 1994–95 season, and later coached the Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Clippers, and Phoenix Suns...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth5 November 1954
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Every night, you can pencil in 20 and 10, and now all of a sudden you can pencil in 25 and 11. That's a pretty big jump for a guy that's already putting up massive numbers.
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It's tough to throw over Shawn Marion. If you throw it over Shawn Marion, you're probably throwing it out of bounds.
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Dan's high school used to have this shirt that said 'organized chaos,' and that's pretty much what it is. There's a method to what we're doing, and Steve is great at reading situations and creating opportunities for guys.
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For the most part, you just have to fight through it mentally. Once you do that, you can deal with the physical part. . . . But I think Mike really has a great feel for when guys really need to work and when they need to save their legs. That helps us tremendously.
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They'd come in and he'd already have a full sweat going. He definitely set a tone going into training camp.