Byron Scott is out at New Orleans
November 12, 2009 by James Edwards
Filed under Chris Paul, NBA Basketball, New Orleans Hornets
NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
NBAObsessed has mentioned it before many times, it is the “what have you done for me lately” NBA. One day you are great and the next day they want to get rid of you. The latest to feel the sting of the NBA, if we can use a Hornet metaphor, is Byron Scott. One time coach of the year and toast of New Orleans turned into just toast.
The Hornets were off to a slow start and management decided to act, so they fired Byron Scott.
The Hornets are 3-6 this season. Scott was in the last year of his contract. Scott could not be reached for comment.
Scott had a 203-216 record in five-plus seasons in New Orleans, winning coach of the year honors in 2007-08 when he guided the Hornets to a franchise-record 56 wins and a first-ever division title in the NBA”s Southwest Division.
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The Hornets General Manager Jeff Bower has taken over the team and hired Tim Floyd as his assistant coach. David West spoke out on Floyd claiming the team won’t be as predictable any more.
“We’re not going to be as predictable as we have been in the past. I know that, having played for Tim before,” said West, a sixth-year veteran. “That’s something I’m looking forward to, in terms of style of play.”
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West also blamed Byron Scott’s pride for the Hornet’s downfall.
Will Tim Floyd be good for the play of Chris Paul?
Tim Floyd has been successful at every coaching stop except for his stint with the Chicago Bulls, where he unfortunately arrived after most of the last championship team left.
This past year he lost to Michigan State University in the NCAA’s then watched as 3 of his players declared for the NBA draft and the school underwent an NCAA investigation for illegal payments involving the handlers of O.J. Mayo. Tim resigned.
Was Byron the problem at New Orleans or like with a lot of demanding coaches, did his message finally fall on deaf ears? We may never know!
To see how Chris Paul feels about the firing of Coach Byron Scott read this
—-Chris Paul feels the Sting of Hornets firing—
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