 What's the word y'all welcome back to Kenny for real what we almost exclusively talk about basketball and I say that because I Mentioned in a past video that I'd be throwing like random obscure Simpsons references in my videos were to date in the mail. I just got this This is like what people consider the Simpsons Bible the ultimate guide to the Simpsons So expect my references to be get more obscure and more frequent because we got this 300 pound book Pacer fans, I'm gonna say right off rip. I apologize. I still have not given you your video when you hired your head coach I told I came out to Joe I don't know who he is and now it's been a few days and I can say with 100% certainty I still don't know who he is So because of that I'm gonna postpone your video because you're in a lot of rumors right now with trade So let's wait and see if y'all make some trades before I really talk about things that's going on and Indianapolis But today we're talking about the pelicans Be sure to leave a like on the video if you're new around here subscribe man We got this community of 290,000 people that have one comment common love and that common love is the game of Basketball Wow, it's a beautiful thing, isn't it so subscribe hit that bell so you never miss a video So today we're talking about one of the more intriguing young teams in the NBA the New Orleans pelicans Team that was close to making the playoffs and some people depending on who you ask I'm gonna say that the playing experiment was really to try to design our Williamson in the playoffs to go against LeBron In the first round so we can have that passing of the torch moment that everybody seems to love Well, they did not do that and they end up losing and they had like the easiest bubble schedule And that was the reason why Alvin Gentry didn't get fired because well You have the easiest bubble schedule and you weren't even in a play in us That's kind of rough my G But I will say that Alvin Gentry is a better person than I am on so many different levels After he was fired He took a lot of the people that wrote that wrote hip pieces on him out to dinner to kind of pick their Brain or why they feel a certain way about him that is admirable Imagine the youtuber Putting it putting on our perspective going out and finding the people that wrote hate comments is like bro Let me take you to dinner. It just doesn't work that way. There's no way I'm taking hate commenters to dinner But Alvin Gentry did and I'm hoping that he gets a job eventually I mean whether it be an assistant or whatever because I mean there's only two vegans He's left so it's not a lot going on for him. Maybe it's an assistant coaching job But Stan Van Gundie is the guy now it's been a few years if we seen Stan Van Gundie as a coach But I do remember a lot of his philosophies and things that he has done And that's why I wanted to come into this video because I think is an interesting hire for the New Orleans Pelicans I've seen a lot of people dislike the hire completely and I've seen a lot of people absolutely love the hire I'm somewhat in the middle and I feel like that's really the case with a lot of hiring of coaches It's very rare that you're gonna say right off rip or really realize right off rip Whether a hire was great or good or bad for a team unless it's like Jim Boylan and he loses the locker room in the first week It's gonna take some time before we really get to know if Stan Van Gundie was the right hire, right? And Stan Van Gundie has a good track record and I think this is why I'm in the middle But I'm probably leaning more towards the I like this hire because he is a guy that has the reputation of being a pretty good Player development coach and again the Pelicans were one of the youngest teams in the league a youngest cores in a league And then he's also a guy that can help you win games right now He has an above 500 or record as he had coach and he's taken some pretty Okay-to-bad rosters make him go really far some of his philosophies like with those Orlando Magic teams Would work today. We're talking about having guys like Hiddle Turcaloo who in this situation would be Brandon Ingram. I Guess Brandon Ingram. There's no perfect match from that Orlando man I was trying to do it and trying to make Zion Dwight Howard, but I don't know if we're gonna be able to do that but they're their philosophies from that team and you can take and Incorporate this Pelicans team and be pretty good. He's a good player development Coach and he also can help you win right now and you take a look at this roster. They have both of that, right? Lanzo balls had the best year of his NBA career, but he's still super young Zion's going to your number two still super young We know what Zion can be up. We can speculate what Zion can be But we saw in a small little sample size if you can get him to stay fit He can be a very crazy good player in his league and Brandon Ingram blast them into an all-star But you also got like the veterans of Jewel holiday You also got the veterans of Derek favors who the advanced statistics absolutely loved Derek favors before he signed to to the New Orleans Pelicans. I don't know what they look like this season I know I watched them play a bunch and he's just kind of existed on the court And that wasn't really the case when he was in Utah So this is a team that on paper should be a very good defensive team But they were the bottom third of the league and that's kind of unacceptable when you think about how good of a defender Jewel holiday is you talk about all the defensive praise we give Lanzo as a young defender Brandon Ingram has all the tools to be a good defender Derek favors like I mentioned advanced stats Absolutely loved him Josh Hart. These are guys that should be a good defensive team But they weren't and one thing that is consistent about Stan Van Gundy's teams He's going to get the most out of his teams defensively I don't know the specific stats But I I can say off the top of my head that he's always had a good defensive team and it's mostly due to his coach And now the one down side one of the downsides to the Stan Van Gundy thing throughout the course of his career And people are gonna highlight this is when he was the coach general manager And obviously they didn't work out with Detroit Do y'all remember the name John Lauer? Because I remember the name John Lauer he got an absolute bag from Stan Van Gundy Like there should always in my opinion be a third outside source that's building the team and not the coach Because the coach is always gonna think about the now because it is literally his job to win games now And because of that he may give a bigger contract than you probably should for John Lauer We may trade some draft picks away and off the top of my head I don't think Stan Van Gundy made any dramatic trades or anything But those are the type of things that can happen if you have a coach last year But one thing we've seen is that pretty much all of that is done Like I think Doc Rivers was the last one with the Clippers and that that even ended a couple seasons ago So you really you very rarely rarely get that Stan Van Gundy There's a guy that got nothing but high praise from a lot of the players that played for him JJ ready came out on all the smoke and mentioned how Stan Van Gundy is the best NBA He made sure he specified NBA because he don't want the Duke heads to come out and talk about you can't talk Bad about coach get you just can't all time great So best NBA coach he's ever played for and one of the reasons he is the player he is today That's very very high praise and before Stan Van Gundy and Dwayne way had this little feud if y'all remember that a few years ago Dwayne way had praised Stan Van Gundy for his coaching when they were together And it made me think like bro when the heck was Stan Van Gundy coaching Dwayne wait And he was the assistant for the Miami Heat when Dwayne way was like a rookie in a sophomore and then Stan Van Gundy was a part of one of the few one of the few coaching trades in the NBA history He got traded to the Orlando Magic for a second round pick I mean it worked out because your Orlando Magic ended up going to having a finals appearance under Dwight Howard and and Stan Van Gundy Now that's one thing the Dwight Howard thing didn't work out as far as them personally And that's something that people have been writing about as well. How does this 61 year old? guy relate to these low 20 year olds, but at the end of the day I Think that they're gonna recognize how how elite of a NBA mind He is or basketball mind. He is and start to really put that above anything else I mean, I'm going to personally miss Stan Van Gundy when he was commentating because I thought he threw this extra little thing That a lot of the coaches turned commentators didn't really do he's breaking down place at a point where I was like Oh, that's very interesting. And it was funny on the call. I'm also gonna miss his Twitter account Now he just got Twitter like six months ago And he's been all over the place with Twitter But he was one of my most favorite follows because he was not afraid to speak his opinion and I like stuff like that But you know once you get a job in the NBA, you cannot you cannot tweet anymore And that's one of the reasons why magic John's was like, I'm not gonna be here He wanted to tweet about other teams and he was not able to do that So Stan Van Gundy's Twitter account is probably gonna die out which is kind of sad depending on who you as I know Some people probably absolutely hate it But get them back to his philosophies a lot of stuff that he did especially with the Orlando magic when he was their coach We'll fit today With just like having a good big and yes Zion is that good big even though he's like six five six six He will be that big and just surrounding him with shooters and now you try to figure out Do you make the roster changes? What happens with drew holiday? What happens with Derek favorites because like I mentioned He just kind of existed on the court for a lot of the season and he doesn't really fit Zion as far as like a pair I think the Zion's gonna finish out a lot of games closing at the center and that just kind of makes Derek favorites Absolute like there's the five that should be along Zion if we're gonna put a five next to him Which you probably should because he's six five six six. It's like the Miles Turner type. He's in he's been a trade rumors I don't know if he's been associated with the pals The Aaron Baines type who's a free agent this offseason the guy that can have the ability to open up the floor for Zion To do bully ball moves like he's used to doing and I think that if there's anybody They could potentially put together the right system around with Zion could do it could be him He's hit on some he's hit on he's missed on others the drumming thing There was ties where he was a coach and he was trying to give a drumming like post touches as we know That's just not who drumming is You know, this is not who drumming is but then you got the Dwight Howard situation where he maximized the white Howard on the Offensive side of the ball with not really much post game Seven guys got his hands full because you're gonna have fans that are looking to win now But you're also gonna have fans that that want to see the development of these young players So they're right there in the middle. This is a team that should be in playoff contention again next season Because I don't think they're gonna make any significant moves Brandon Ingram is restricted And I'm pretty confident that they should bring him back and stand that gunny at the end of the day I think It's gonna turn out to be a pretty solid hire But again, it's no way for us to really know right off rip now Let's talk about the remaining coaching vacancies that lives that leaves to one of them is okc and I don't I haven't really read anything about okc and who they've been hiring or are talking to or the Houston Rockets is the other one and Jeff Van Gundy is a finalist for the Houston Rockets job It's about to be 2009 all over again Both of Van Gundy's head coaches potentially. Oh, that sounds that sounds like a dream. And then we get Jeff Van Gundy off the call Not a bad idea. I like Jeff Van Gundy. Sometimes sometimes not a bad idea So I'm curious about that Kenny Atkins has been a name that and when I was ranking coaches for my Chicago Bulls Kenny Atkins it was a name that I wanted to see up there and so far he doesn't have a job and maybe okc's that I don't know But man, he better figure it out. It's only two jobs left And I don't know if you really want that Houston Rockets job Kenny We need we need you to go to play of development and okc you probably be that I don't know if he's just not interviewing or the people that aren't interviewing him is like Maybe he's not as good as the average fan thinks he is. I don't really know at the end of the day I think Jeff Van Gundy is a very interesting hire For for the pelicans and I'm super excited to see the things that he can do for this organization And I'm super excited to see how Zion is used differently because I think there is a world where Zion comes into next season And he plays to an all-star caliber level. I don't think I'm crazy to say that and Jeff Van Gundy or Sam van Gundy could potentially bring that out of him Let me know what you think in the comment section especially if you're a pelicans fan because again I've seen both sides of the coin and nobody was right. Nobody was wrong at this point We can revisit this video in a year and try to figure things out But they get they locked him up Look at my boy Colbert. They locked him up for four to five years. So he'll be there whether you like it or not All right. I'll see y'all later. Peace