CP3: "Why wasn't I consulted about coaching change"

[djohn2oo8]

Paul wasn’t happy with the decision, and he certainly wasn’t pleased with being caught off guard by the announcement. He said the Hornets should have sought his and West’s input before the decision was finalized.
"I felt like, maybe somebody would have at least consulted with me and asked how I felt before it happened," Paul said by telephone Thursday night. "It’s not to get my approval, but we feel we should know about the decision before it takes place"

"You can’t put all this on Coach," Paul said.
Scott is the only coach that Paul has played for since coming to the Hornets as a first-round draft pick in 2005. They became golf partners this summer and Paul largely credits Scott for helping him develop into becoming a two-time All-Star point guard and Olympic gold medal winner.
Though Scott was a demanding coach, Paul said their relationship transcended beyond the court.
"
Coach had an open line of communication," Paul said. "Guys would feel a certain way about playing time, and Coach was always honest with you. He was always straight-forward with you from Day One."

http://www.nola.com/hornets/index.ssf/2009/11/chris_paul_taken_aback_by_new.html

[I. Hustle]

They don't have to ask the players for their input on shit

[Brazil]

lol and the mess begins

[Danny.Zhu]

Well, maybe because CP3 is not in Hornets' future either.

[BRHornet45]

lol son ... nice try and making the title of this thread look worse than it really is. you are trying to make it sound like Paul was demanding them to get his approval. he just simply wished they had asked his thoughts about the situation. the real quote below ..

"I felt like, maybe somebody would have at least consulted with me and asked how I felt before it happened," Paul said by telephone Thursday night. "It’s not to get my approval, but we feel we should know about the decision before it takes place"

[Hornets1]

Paul wasn’t happy with the decision, and he certainly wasn’t pleased with being caught off guard by the announcement. He said the Hornets should have sought his and West’s input before the decision was finalized.
"I felt like, maybe somebody would have at least consulted with me and asked how I felt before it happened," Paul said by telephone Thursday night. "It’s not to get my approval, but we feel we should know about the decision before it takes place"

"You can’t put all this on Coach," Paul said.
Scott is the only coach that Paul has played for since coming to the Hornets as a first-round draft pick in 2005. They became golf partners this summer and Paul largely credits Scott for helping him develop into becoming a two-time All-Star point guard and Olympic gold medal winner.
Though Scott was a demanding coach, Paul said their relationship transcended beyond the court.
"
Coach had an open line of communication," Paul said. "Guys would feel a certain way about playing time, and Coach was always honest with you. He was always straight-forward with you from Day One."

http://www.nola.com/hornets/index.ssf/2009/11/chris_paul_taken_aback_by_new.html

Time for you to get a life. Do you just spend your whole day at your computer googling bad things on the hornets? This is about your 5th thread bashing the Hornets. Get a fucking life, just b/c your team is completely depleted and worthless.........

[admiralsnackbar]

This could just as easily be Paul covering his ass.

[lefty]

WTF? :lmao

Why should he be consulted?

He thinks he is Jordan or what?

[2Cleva]

@Chris_Broussard CP3's statement about being upset about BScott's firing is not just PR move. i'm told he's truly not happy. N.O. is a mess, CP frustrated

[hater]

:lol at the pissed off hornet fans in this thread

[djohn2oo8]

Time for you to get a life. Do you just spend your whole day at your computer googling bad things on the hornets? This is about your 5th thread bashing the Hornets. Get a fucking life, just b/c your team is completely depleted and worthless.........

Lol, you mad much? My team at least plays with heart

[balli]

I'm never surprised by Paul's ability to act like such a little bitch.

[Findog]

BitchP3 is just doing the complaining he's supposed to do, no surprises here. No trash-talking or anything personal, this is just par for the course for BitchP3.

[picc84]

Welcome to LA, Chris. :hat

farmar/morrison/sasha for CP3 after Scott gets an assistant coach job in LA, CP demands a trade, and Mitch consults Kobe on rape advice again (memphis)

[lefty]

I don't think he is really upset or hurt.

I think he is flopping.

[Dex]

:lmao

And Hornet Fan wonders why Spur Fan thinks Chris Paul is a whiny little punk.

[phyzik]

This could just as easily be Paul covering his ass.

This is the first thing I thought, Mainly because I wouldn't put it past Chris Paul to be THAT much of a little bitch.

[Dex]

You don't fire the head coach without consulting with the Franchise player.

:cry Too bad, so sad.

[balli]

Please, bp3's just bitching for the sake of bitching. It's not like he hasn't had a conflicted relationship with Byron Scott already. If Scott wasn't fired, I wouldn't be surprised if Paul went calling for his head in a few games. Dude just loves to bitch and moan and cry like a little girl.

[Culburn369]

Dude just loves to bitch and moan and cry like a little girl.

hmmmmmmmm.

[TheMACHINE]

its a cover up...two teams have know "quit" on Scott. Kidd didnt like him and i bet cp3 didnt either.

[balli]

hmmmmmmmm.


If I'm Scott, I go to Atlanta, and demand the head job. Paul will follow.
lol at 50% of Laker fans being butthurt over a former 80's Laker getting fired from another team's coaching job in 2009.

If there's one thing the b-ball world can count on besides bp3 crying, it's Laker fan getting butthurt and overly-protective about one of their own.

[BRHornet45]

Paul is just upset because he had a good, personal relationship with Scott. he will get over it ... most of the team is happy he is gone and West is thrilled.

[lefty]

I'm sure he is flopping :hat

[Brazil]

WTF? :lmao

Why should he be consulted?

He thinks he is Jordan or what?

? don't get your point. He is their franchise player, it seems reasonable to me to imagine for instance Holt discussing with Tim about a Pop dismissal.

[lefty]

? don't get your point. He is their franchise player, it seems reasonable to me to imagine for instance Holt discussing with Tim about a Pop dismissal.
Except that Tim, a 4 time NBA champion and 2 time MVP has more crediblilty as a franchise player

[Brazil]

^yeah but still CP3 is the hornets franchise player and future (or not) he is as much as important for the hornets than Tim for the spurs

[lefty]

^yeah but still CP3 is the hornets franchise player and future (or not) he is as much as important for the hornets than Tim for the spurs
True, but at t he end of the day, he is not part of the front office and there are so other factors that you have to consider, and I think they fired Scott in order to keep CP3:

The Hornets are struggling, and the arena is far from being sold out every night.
Therefore, it's importatn to win in order to get more revenues. They can't afford to lose money if they want to keep CP3.

Plus, if the Hornets start winning again, CP3's opinion will change in a jiffy

[balli]

If the front office had deigned to ask Paul his opinion that would have been fine... but they didn't and don't owe him a fucking thing. He's their franchise player- not their vice president.

If they decided not to throw him a bone, oh well, that's the FO's decision.

[ginobili's bald spot]

lol at 50% of Laker fans being butthurt over a former 80's Laker getting fired from another team's coaching job in 2009.

If there's one thing the b-ball world can count on besides bp3 crying, it's Laker fan getting butthurt and overly-protective about one of their own.

:lol @ your mental gymnastics. That theory is quite a reach kid. Laker fans don't give a shit if Byron fucking Scott gets fired from the Hornets. :rolleyes Utah fans like yourself on the other hand are infamous for having a little dick complex about Chris Paul. This is common knowlege. You can't stand the fact that people think Paul > Williams. This fact is well known and has even been documented by Bill Simmons. So if anyone in this thread is "butthurt" and has an agenda it's your magic underwearing sisterwife having ass.

[Mark in Austin]

IF true - bad move by the front office. Even if they weren't going to change their mind if Paul was against the firing, they still need their franchise player to feel like his opinion is valued - even if the team goes in a different direction.

Paul isn't the VP, but as Paul goes so goes the Hornets. A smart front office knows they need to keep their best player engaged if they want there to be a long term relationship.

This is the kind of shit that leads down a slippery slope of trust issues between players and management. With the botched Chandler trade last year and now this, New Orleans is one management fuckup away from completely imploding like the Clippers last year.

[balli]

This fact is well known and has even been documented by Bill Simmons.
GMAFB :rolleyes The biggest douche at ESPN? Which puts him well in the running for biggest Douche in America? Yup. Let's all bow down before the great Bill Simmons and his ever so illustrious basketball opinions.

[ginobili's bald spot]

GMAFB :rolleyes The biggest douche at ESPN? Which puts him well in the running for biggest Douche in America? Yup. Let's all bow down before the great Bill Simmons and his ever so illustrious basketball opinions.

Regardless of what you think about Bill Simmons... Are you really disputing the point of what I said? You aren't exactly unbiased in a discussion involving CP3.

[jack sommerset]

He wanted to be consulted....HAHAHAHAHA

[balli]

Regardless of what you think about Bill Simmons... Are you really disputing the point of what I said? You aren't exactly unbiased in a discussion involving CP3.

Quite frankly man, I can more than stomach the cp3 > deron opinion. Any day of the week. Shit, I'll play devil's advocate and make the argument myself. I'm not dumb, I can read the stats. I know their respective differences in steals, rebounds and most importantly ast/TO. I got nothing on Chris Paul the basketball player. Dude's legit. I don't hate him one bit because people think he's better than Deron. Maybe he is better than Deron, IDK?

I'm perfectly entitled to think he's a little cocksucker. Pretty much everybody else does; usually not out of loyalty to Deron Williams.

[anonoftheinternets]

This could just as easily be Paul covering his ass.

+!

[cobbler]

Do you morons even read... or comprehend what you are reading?

Although he said he wanted to be consulted... he clarified it with his comment that he said he should have been informed prior to the news going public. He obviously used the word "consult" incorrectly in the first sentence. His latter sentence cleared it up. Well... for those who can read.

"I felt like, maybe somebody would have at least consulted with me and asked how I felt before it happened," Paul said by telephone Thursday night. "It’s not to get my approval, but we feel we should know about the decision before it takes place"

[NBAfan83]

Wow spurs fans really hate CP3, if pop got fired, TD would say something along the same lines.

[The Franchise]

"Coach had an open line of communication," Paul said. "Guys would feel a certain way about playing time, and Coach was always honest with you. He was always straight-forward with you from Day One."

I think this may have been the reason a lot of the me first bitches on the team (West) rebelled. An open line of communication to me means you have no reason to not understand why or how something works because you can always ask. The little bitch also said that Scott helped him develop into the player he has become, so if the Hornets young talent wasn't developed it was because they had none.

[spursfan09]

Yeah they should have consulted him. Can't imagine one decision like this being made without Tim Duncan's input.

[BRHornet45]

Do you morons even read... or comprehend what you are reading?

Although he said he wanted to be consulted... he clarified it with his comment that he said he should have been informed prior to the news going public. He obviously used the word "consult" incorrectly in the first sentence. His latter sentence cleared it up. Well... for those who can read.

"I felt like, maybe somebody would have at least consulted with me and asked how I felt before it happened," Paul said by telephone Thursday night. "It’s not to get my approval, but we feel we should know about the decision before it takes place"

son again, don't bother bringing FACTS into this forum when it comes to Chris Paul ... most people on here have such a deep hatred for him that they fabricate headlines like this to make it look worse than it is and they turn the other cheek when they see the facts.

[cobbler]

son again, don't bother bringing FACTS into this forum when it comes to Chris Paul ... most people on here have such a deep hatred for him that they fabricate headlines like this to make it look worse than it is and they turn the other cheek when they see the facts.

I don't like the little flopper either... but i respect his talents. With that said, I can actually read and he did not say that he wanted a part in the decision, only to be informed of it prior to going pubic. These goofballs here will twist anything to fit their arguments.

[Chris Paul]

Why the fuck didn't they let me know before they Fired Byron? Whoever they replace him with better know how to give good fucking blowjobs because Byron was great at that...

[jack sommerset]

Why the fuck didn't they let me know before they Fired Byron? Whoever they replace him with better know how to give good fucking blowjobs because Byron was great at that...

More gayass trolls.

[ElNono]

Did they call him and told him they're tanking the season?

[nkdlunch]

Wow spurs fans really hate CP3, if pop got fired, TD would say something along the same lines.

WTF???

TD is a 4 time champion and best PF ever

CP3 is flopping his team towards the lottery

[Chris Paul]

Why the Fuck does everyone think I'm a flopper?! If I hit the ground then I was definetely fouled, I have no reason to lie about it. Look at this play, Scola freaking threw me to the ground and yet people still think that was a flop:
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[Chris Paul]

WTF???

TD is a 4 time champion and best PF ever

CP3 is flopping his team towards the lottery

TD can't guard me though...

[angel_luv]

Meep!

[mojorizen7]

So MVP's are whats needed to entitle a player to be allowed input as to the personel,coaching and direction of the franchise?

Lets see:
Nash......check.
TD........check.
CP3........nope, sorry Chris.

Maybe Paul just believes that this FO move is pure garbage and he can't keep quiet about it.....I can't blame the dude.

[Spursfan092120]

Unfortunately for New Orleans, I don't think this team's problems will be taken care of with a new coach.

[lefty]

unfortunately for new orleans, i don't think this team's problems will be taken care of with a new coach.
+1

[Darrin]

I hope one day this leads to him getting out of that god-awful teal uniform. This franchise doesn't know what it's doing.

[redzero]

I hope one day this leads to him getting out of that god-awful teal uniform. This franchise doesn't know what it's doing.

It's like I'm still in 2008!