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scott was scapegoated. The hornets team is terrible.
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+1 on your calls.
The entire blame doesn't lay with Byron Scott, but change has to start somewhere, and its usually the coach that goes.
It is one thing to be lacking in talent. But the Hornets just aren't showing any fight whatsoever, and the season has barely started. And when a team is giving up that early, short of making wholesale roster changes, you have to put a lot of that blame on the coaching staff.
Christ almighty ... GM Jeff Bower is the new head coach. the mother er responsible for these wonderful Peja and Posey contracts! ..... Tim Floyd is brought back as an assistant
Agreed, but I wouldn't blame the owner, they have a very high pay-roll. Their front-office just made a lot of bad decisions, the contract with Peja being the most notable one (and of course Peja had a prime, he was an excellent player, if he was still at that level the Hornets would be a good team).
Early to say if Paul leaves. Things change very fast in the NBA.
Good decision. Let him deal with the mess he created.
Isn't Avery Johnson from Louisiana?
Wonder if they'd approach him... maybe after the season and an interim coach.
He needed to be fired.....he's a horrible coach.
I just like to return the favor of saying another star player is going to leave their team
GM Jeff Bower is the new head coach
Former Hornets and USC head coach is being brought in as an assistant
I remember when this chode was talking to Stack cuz he got to gravy train on Magic's back.
It's amazing how you Spurs s attempt to make everything about your team.
Anyway, today is a good day.
The official announcement:
November 12, 2009
NEW ORLEANS - The New Orleans Hornets announced today that they have relieved Byron Scott of head coaching duties. Scott will be replaced by General Manager Jeff Bower.
“I want to thank Byron for the hard work he has put in during his time with the Hornets,” said Hornets Owner George Shinn. “I’ve hired Jeff Bower to take over the coaching reign. He knows this team better than anyone, has the respect of the players and in basketball circles, is regarded as one of the best basketball minds in the business. This is our best opportunity to reach our goals this season.”
Bower, who has spent his 14-plus seasons with the club, has been an invaluable asset for the Hornets at all levels in basketball operations. He began his tenure with the Hornets as an advance scout from 1995 to 1997 before earning a promotion as the team’s director of scouting. In addition to his scouting duties during the 1998-99 season, Bower joined the coaching ranks as an assistant after Paul Silas was named interim head coach on March 7, 1999 (and helped him lead the Hornets to a 22-13 record). After serving as the assistant general manager for the 2000-01 season, Bower was promoted to general manager in June of 2001 and has since held that position. He returned to the bench as an assistant coach under Floyd in 2003-04. Bower’s years of experience working at all levels in the Hornets’ basketball operations department culminated with his appointment to the current post of general manager just prior to the start of the team’s 2005-06 training camp.
“Accountability was our theme this past summer,” said Hornets Vice President of Basketball Chad Shinn. “We talked about the fact that everyone on our staff is held to a certain standard of performance and we didn’t feel this was happening at the head coach level. We feel like we still have an opportunity with our nucleus to get to where we want and Jeff is the right guy, right now to move us in that direction from the bench.”
“As we look at our long-term coaching plans, it’s not about who the head coach is, it’s about the role of the head coach to get the team to perform to their capabilities and reaching our potential this season,” said Bower.
Prior to joining the Hornets, Bower enjoyed an impressive career at the collegiate level. He spent three years as an assistant coach at Penn State University from 1983-86 before moving to Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. After first serving as an assistant coach from 1986 through 1990, he was promoted to associate head coach, a position he held for five years. Bower helped lead the Red Foxes to an NCAA Tournament appearance in 1987 after winning the Northeast Conference.
In a related move, Tim Floyd has been hired as the top assistant coach.
Floyd served as head coach of the Hornets for the 2003-04 season, leading the team to a 41-41 record. Most recently, Floyd served as the head coach at USC from 2005-2009, leading the Trojans to a 85-49 mark and three NCAA appearances during his tenure. In the 2007 NCAA Tournament, Floyd led USC to a Sweet 16 appearance. The team’s 25-12 record that season set a record for most wins in school history. The Trojans advanced to the second round of the 2009 NCAA Tournament before falling to eventual runner-up Michigan State. Floyd also coached for the Chicago Bulls, Iowa State, the University of Idaho and Texas-El Paso. Floyd is a native of Hattiesburg, Miss., and a 1977 graduate of Louisiana Tech.
I saw an article saying Jeff Bower will (the current GM).
Not sure I like that move.
Bottom line is this team doesn't have enough talent. Even ideally their record shouldn't be much better than it is. They played the Spurs, Mavericks, Celtics, Lakers, and Suns, all teams they should have lost to, even though they did wind up beating the Mavs.
Tim Floyd is a great fit, Paul is like his ideal type of PG.
It's amazing how you Spurs s attempt to make everything about your team.
Anyway, today is a good day.
Its true...that loss set your ty team back 20 years.
I wonder who the next one will be
son we have enough talent to compete. whenever we won 56 games we had even less talent than we do now! ... are we deep? no, but we have more than enough talent to at least compete and be a yearly playoff team.
Have you even watched the Hornets this season other than maybe 1 or 2 games? Notice how pretty much everyone outside of Chris Paul, Okafor, and a couple of rookies seem to careless about being out there. That reflects poor coaching and OR they don't respect what coach is telling them. I don't care WHAT level of basketball is being played ... high school, college, D-league, or pro ... by the way MOST of the Hornets players are lolly gagging around and making it blatantly obvious that they are half ass trying (David West perfect example), that should never happen and it reflects on the coaching.
Byron Scott was somewhat scapegoated but he was also a part of the problem. It's easy to fire the coach and bring "change" and hope.
After awhile, players just tune out their coach, I think Byron had lost his team. He wasn't going to be able to fix it so this was a necessary step in moving forward.
I think every coach (since Jordan's days) that has received COY got fired or left the team within a few years. This is the COY curse because; I think Pop was the only coach to escape this fate.
Yeah that guy who led the Nets to 2 straight NBA finals appearences is the problem in New Orleans, I guess he had to be the fall guy.
thank you. couldn't have said it better
Byron is a good coach but its obvious the Hornets effort level has been turned down for a while, probably because they dont like him. These enforcer coaches can only last so long.
oh yea son ... because what he did over 6 years ago with an enormous amount of talent around him counts for what he is doing today.
Bulls fan huh? ... son with that type of mentality you may as well bring back Pippen as your new starting forward. You remember how good he was back in the 90's??
Chris Paul is going to play for the Clippers 2012 or when he demands a trade to get out of there
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