{"id":23043,"date":"2021-06-16T10:48:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T15:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23043"},"modified":"2021-06-16T10:48:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T15:48:20","slug":"im-gundy-dammit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23043","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Gundy, dammit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/pelicans\/article_a42c8c30-c970-11eb-80a3-4317f063a7bb.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stan Van Gundy out as coach of the New Orleans Pelicans after a single season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/pelicans\/article_a42c8c30-c970-11eb-80a3-4317f063a7bb.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The decision came on the heels of a disappointing 31-41 season in which Van Gundy failed to turn around New Orleans\u2019 defense and struggled to connect with a roster full of players who are in their early 20s.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/pelicans\/article_a42c8c30-c970-11eb-80a3-4317f063a7bb.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans\u2019 inability to close games was another of its other defining features. It lost an NBA-most 14 games when it had a double-digit lead.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/pelicans\/article_a42c8c30-c970-11eb-80a3-4317f063a7bb.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Perhaps the most frustrating late-game meltdown came in April against the New York Knicks. The Pelicans led by three points with 7.8 seconds remaining. Van Gundy instructed his team in a timeout to intentionally foul, but veteran guard Eric Bledsoe failed to. Knicks forward Reggie Bullock tied the game with a corner 3, and the Knicks won in overtime.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stan Van Gundy out as coach of the New Orleans Pelicans after a single season. The decision came on the heels of a disappointing 31-41 season in which Van Gundy failed to turn around New Orleans\u2019 defense and struggled to connect with a roster full of players who are in their early 20s. &#8230; New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firings","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23044,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23043\/revisions\/23044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}