Griffin, however, didn’t feel the need to change his head coach. Griffin, who previously worked with Gentry on the Phoenix Suns, is confident that Gentry is the right coach for his rebuilding Pelicans. “Everybody says, ‘Why didn’t you start over with a new coach?’ ” Griffin said. “ ‘Well, I don’t know a lot of other coaches that I went to the conference finals with, with a roster similar to this.’ The fearless Alvin that coached the 2010 Suns to the conference finals is a different animal than he was able to be here. My job is to get to channel as much of that person as I can because that was a masterful job that I watched him do.