Alvin Gentry
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"Alvin Harris Gentry" is an American basketball coach. He currently serves as an assistant basketball coach for the Golden State Warriors. Gentry was a former former college basketball player, who has led four different National Basketball Association (NBA) teams. He served as an interim head coach for the Miami Heat at the end of the 1994–95 NBA season/1994–95 season, and later coached the Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Clippers, and Phoenix Suns.

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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.

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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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I don't know if there's another guy that you could say 'Well, he guarded Yao Ming and then the next night he guarded Tony Parker. I don't know if there's anyone who asks a guy on their team to do as much as we ask Shawn to do.

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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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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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Or Rip comes off and finds Chauncey Billups right here.

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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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