Alvin Gentry

Alvin Harris Gentry (born November 5, 1954) is an American professional basketball executive who is the vice president of basketball engagement for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association. Quotes We just got to play better. It’s that simple. There is no secret formula. We have to do a better job of protecting the ball. We have to walk to the line and make free throws. We have to stay within what we are supposed to do from a game-plan standpoint and we have to execute. They’re not going to beat themselves. They’ve never been a team that’s going to beat themselves. If you’re going to turn the ball over in crucial situations, then you’re going to have a hard time beating them. We made bad decisions. We were trying to hit grand slams when all we need to do is hit singles. We need to just move the basketball, and let the game come to us. [We need to] stop trying to force the issue. We have to get back to being who we are and that’s being a team who moves the basketball and makes elementary school plays — and then execute. That’s how you win games in this league. That’s exactly what they (the Spurs) just did. No fancy, great, kind of plays — they kill you with execution, and that’s why at the end of the first half they had one turnover, because they execute and get shots. That’s what we need to do. We don’t need grand slams. We don’t even need doubles. We need simple singles that get us to the next pass and the next cut. We’ve got to get away from all of these home-run plays because inevitably what it does is that it costs you against a team that has a high basketball IQ and that’s not going to beat themselves. Tell them to make the simple play. That’s the way you convey it. We don’t need to make great plays. We are a good basketball team and when we move the basketball — we had seventy assists in the first two games. Now, we’ve gone away from moving the ball and making simple plays and that’s what we’ve got to get back to. I don’t care who is out or this guy didn’t play, or that guy didn’t play. We have to be who we are. And, who we are is a team that moves the basketball and finds the open man. It doesn’t matter who that open guy is. We have to get away from trying to make great plays. Great plays will get your ass beat against teams like this. Game 9: Pelicans-Spurs Postgame Quotes 11/3/18, November 03 2018 External Links Category:Basketball coaches from the United States Category:1954 births Category:1950