Gentry: 'We're not playing smart basketball'
The Pelicans lost a close one on the road in Portland on Monday, but it wasn't due to a lack of effort.
Head coach Alvin Gentry had ripped his team earlier in the season for not bringing it on a nightly basis, but he's pleased with the way they've been competing. The problem now, as he sees it, is that they're playing hard but not smart.
The part about making the same mistakes over and over is probably the most troubling, but remember, the team is just now starting to get healthy after missing several key players earlier in the season. If this is still going on a few weeks from now, then Gentry will truly have a problem on his hands.
We put ourselves in a position to have and opportunity to win the game but once again we talk about the mistakes that we made and the ones that we made are the ones that we've been talking about now for the last month. Until we get that cured we're not going to win a game, we're not going to be able to win, and we're not going to beat teams when we do silly things, it's just not going to happen. We've got to make smart plays and we haven't done that. We're playing hard and competing like crazy but it takes more than that to win games. You've got to play smart basketball and we're not playing smart basketball.''
