CLEVELAND -- The Cavaliers coaching search is progressing -- and aging. Charlie Blackmon Jersey . For the second straight day, the team met with a Los Angeles Clippers assistant about its head coaching job. Alvin Gentry is the third known candidate to interview this week with the Cavs, who this month fired Mike Brown for the second time. Cleveland executives met Tuesday with Chicago assistant Adrian Griffin, and the Cavs interviewed Clippers assistant Tyronn Lue on Thursday. Both the 39-year-old Griffin and 37-year-old Lue represent the new breed of NBA coaches: young, former players who are highly regarded but lack head-coaching experience. On Saturday, the Cavs are to meet with former Memphis coach Lionel Hollins. Like Gentry, the 60-year-old Hollins has an extensive head coaching resume and now the Cavs must decide whether to go with an unproven candidate or one who has been through the grind. Gentry, 59, could be considered a favourite because of his background with new Cavs general manager David Griffin. They worked together in Phoenix and have remained close. Griffin has said he wants to find a coach who is more offensive-minded than Brown, who improved Cleveland substantially last season but failed to develop the teams offence. Gentry is also reportedly a candidate for the Lakers opening. Its unclear if David Griffin will expand his search to find Clevelands third coach in three years. The Cavs initially dipped into the college ranks to gauge interest in high-profile coaches like Kentuckys John Calipari and Floridas Billy Donovan, and they may circle back if theyre not sold on any of the four candidates brought in this week. Gentry went 335-370 during stints with Miami, the Clippers, Detroit and Suns. He spent last season -- along with Lue -- on Doc Rivers staff. Hollins guided Memphis to a 56-26 record in 2012-13, but the club decided not to renew his contract despite him leading the Grizzlies to the Western Conference finals for the first time. He won an NBA title as a player with Portland in 1977 and had been with the Memphis franchise since 1999, when the team was in Vancouver and he became interim coach after Brian Hill was fired. Hollins is 214-201 overall and 18-17 in the playoffs. His departure in Memphis has been followed with upheaval in the front office. David Griffin understands the Cavs job could be a tough sell, given the team has changed coaches in each of the past two offseasons. However, Clevelands opening recently became more appealing when the Cavs won the draft lottery for the second consecutive year and will have the No. 1 overall pick for the third time in four years. The Cavs have a young, talented roster and salary-cap space. And owner Dan Gilbert is determined to move his club back among the leagues elite. 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Hey Kerry, Late in the second period of the Leafs-Kings game on Sunday, Jake Gardiner played the puck down with a high stick and proceeded to touch the puck again before being stripped of it by Justin Williams who would score on the play. Why was the goal allowed to stand and why wasnt it reviewable? Thanks, Peter Borkowski Peter, Video review can only rule on high-sticking of a puck that goes directly into the net or is deflected off any player into the net. Review cannot be utilized to rule on a puck that has been struck with a high stick and is picked up by a player of the offending team prior to goal being scored. Following Jake Gardiners high stick of the puck it became a judgment call for the referee to determine if Gardiners subsequent stick contact with the puck constituted possession and control versus a deflection. Rule 80.1 informs us when a puck is struck with a high stick and subsequently comes into possession and control of a player from the offending team (including the player who made contact with the puck), either directly or deflected off any player or official, there shall be a whistle. On this play the referee must have deemed the actions and contact of the puck by Gardiner insufficient to constitute full possession and control and allowed the play to continue. Justin Williams was the next player to touch the puck and tipped it past James Reimer into the net for what was deemed a legal goal. Let me explain why the whistle should have been blown by the referee prior to the puck entering the net. When a delayed penalty or high stick of the puck infraction takes place the offending player or team is typically judged to have acquired possession and control of the puck if he makes a deliberate play on the puck, thereby making contact and/or advances the puck in an intended direction as opposed to a simple deflection. Chris Iannetta Jersey. After Gardiner struck the puck above his head he turned in an effort to beat Justin Williams to the loose puck. The Toronto player then made a distinct play with his stick to clear the puck in a backward direction and away from Williams. Gardiner was able to contact the puck just prior to an active stick being implemented by Williams. After Gardiner advanced the puck it deflected up the extended shaft of Williams stick, struck last seasons Conn Smythe Trophy winner in the shoulder and then rebounded toward the net. The deliberate action by Gardiner constituted possession and control and the deflections off the stick and body of Williams do not. It was however an extremely close play from the instant Gardiner contacted the puck and it slid up the shaft of Williams. It was therefore reasonable for the referee to interpret that the two sticks contacted the puck simultaneously and that full possession and control had yet been gained by either player. My rule of thumb on close touch plays Peter is if the defending player advances the puck more in his intended direction (which was usually toward the blue line or away from an attacking player) it usually meant the defending player made the initial contact of the puck. If the puck was advance in the intended direction of the attacking player I provided him with any benefit of the doubt. Should the puck pop straight up in the air it is reasonable to assume that both sticks made contact at about the same instant resulting in a tie too close to call? The last player to have touched the puck is deemed in possession. ' ' '