Alvin Gentry said what about DeMarcus Cousins’ game?

While the Pelicans were able to pull out a crucial comeback victory over the Sacramento Kings Thursday, there was something else more noteworthy than the result. Hall of fame big man and current TNT broadcaster Chris Webber detailed a conversation he had with Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry about DeMarcus Cousins. If true to word, it’s one of the more confusing, head scratching comments/theories you’ll ever hear.

If you watched the first half of the Pelicans game versus the Kings there was something that had to catch you ear. No, it wasn’t the talk about Boogie returning to Sac-Town. Neither was it TNT’s broadcaster Chris Webber’s affinity in using the “chicken or the egg” idiom when breaking down Cousins’ missteps in Sacramento. It was coach Alvin Gentry’s comments in a conversation with Webber prior to the game.

According to “C-Webb”, Gentry told him he didn’t want Boogie settling offensively. Webber, being a hall of fame big man himself assumed Gentry was referring to Boogie attempting too many three’s. From here, we can only hope Webber misheard, or as baseball great Roger Clemens once brokered into our brains  “misremembers” the conversation.

Per Webber, Gentry explained that he didn’t care if Boogie “shot 12 threes”. He thought Boogie “settles” and attack’s the basket too much.

When has being a seven-foot attacker of the basket meant settling?  What would be the point of being blessed with that level of height? Could you imagine Cavs’ coach Tyronn Lue saying, “I just wish LeBron (the greatest attacker of all time when focused) would stop settling by attacking the rim. We need him shooting more three’s.”

Even Chuck, Kenny, and Shaq discussed it during halftime.

What in the Meyers Leonard are you talking about ‘A-Gents’? This year through the first four games Boogie is shooting 30 percent from three. The previous three seasons he shot 35 percent.

And we don’t mind if he shoots more?

How can a team that was theoretically built to slow teams down in this era thrive that way? They’re a low post team! Even if Boogie was a 40 percent three point shooter, New Orleans should be a team capable of scoring in bunches, but run a style that punishes smaller lineups inside.

It’s like Alvin hasn’t watched Boogie over the past few years. Maybe he feels Cousins is too turnover prone when attacking, but a lot of that has to do with the amount of times he’s creating from behind the arc to begin with.

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We all know Cousins can hit the three, but he’s also a complete menace in the post. In other words, he’s probably the last person you’d want to see not named LeBron James running full speed towards you.

Cousins was built 6’11 and 270 pounds worth of southern, thick cooking and attitude. It’s almost impossible to use those advantages attempting double digits in three’s a night. We know Gentry probably wasn’t being literal, but even the thought of inching there is ridiculous.

We should all hope that there was some sort of miscommunication between Gentry and Webber. The big man tandem of Cousins and Anthony Davis should give us the best of both worlds. The ability to stretch the floor, while attacking it. People didn’t spend time comparing the two to Kane and Undertaker for nothing when Cousins first arrived.

Comments like these if true make it easier to push the narrative that Gentry isn’t the right fit to be head honcho in New Orleans. His successes in coaching have been surrounded by teams that space and shoot the basketball at elite levels, in Phoenix and Golden State. His system predominantly caters to perimeter scoring.

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It may be time to truly wonder if he’s capable of coaching two elite big men if he’s unbothered by the amount of long range jumpers they take.  As much finesse and flexibility the duo possesses, they were built to induce pain. It’s difficult to dish that out, 23 feet away from the basket, consistently.