I know a lot of Hornets fans have been calling for Byron’s head, so I’m sure they’re happy now.

That being said, I’m not sure how much of it is Byron’s fault give the current Hornets roster. Perhaps a coaching change might turn the team around, but given their current personnel, it’ll be hard. Sure, Byron’s lineup decisions was at best, questionable (seriously, Devon Brown in the starting lineup?!), but they really only have like 1 superstar, 2 borderline all stars, 2 promising rookies, 1 okay sixth man, and the rest are peanuts.

Still, I can’t say that I’m surprised, especially since every single Hornets defeat has been a really really ugly rout.

It’s really unfortunate that Byron’s departure from the Hornets is kind of reminding me of his Net’s departure. He always has that brief moment of success and then … bottom of the barrel blah.

“Obviously, I love this place. (The Lakers were) my team. I still tell people I bleed purple and gold, no matter what. And I always will. Like Jerry West will always be a Laker, and he’s the one who brought me here. That’s like my Dad. So that’s always going to be associated with this organization. It’s not bad. It’s not good. It’s good for me. This is still home. In the summer, I still come back here.”

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

Coach of the year to fired 1.1 years. There has to be some hyperbole on that scale or man the Lakers really can do some serious damage! :).

Lakers definitely need to sign Byron to something.

haha too many hands in the kitchen is always a possibility when it comes to ideology. But when it comes to coaches, B. Scott is up their with the best of them. There are very few coaches left that have shown they can motivate a team to go above and beyond expectations. The only other coaches i’d even consider a near-par replacement for phil are Sloan and Papovic, and those to are likely to be on the jazz and spurs until they are too old to chew their own food.

No offense to Shaw, but the Lakers are a Grade A organization, you dont go from managing AA small ball, to being the headcoach of the greatest basketball organization ever. I wish Shaw all the success he deserves, but i think the right path for him is the same as Kurt Rambis. Manage a younger developing with very little expectations, learn to get the most out of less talented players, than once you have players like a kobe and LO, artest, bynum, etc you know how to maximize their abilities.

Im sure shaw already has a grasp of how to maximize the lakers abilities, but as they say, bikes are always easier to ride with the training wheels on, and in this case Shaw needs to show he can coach without Phil to support him.

He’s now had two teams that have tuned him out and essentially kicked him out of the rebuilding, he’s horrid at recognizing and playing young talent (Smith, Bass, Collison, Thornton, etc.), and he has practically no idea how to run an NBA offense. The only reason the ‘07-’08 NO offense functioned was because 1) Paul is amazing and the Paul-Chandler pick-and-roll, practically the only offensive play Scott knows how to run, was downright unstoppable 2) Peja was still alive and hitting threes, spacing the floor much more for Paul 3) they had Pargo, whose shot-first tendencies were actually beneficial considering how bad the bench was otherwise. Without wings to hit treys (Thornton can though, isn’t that why they drafted him?) and Chandler replaced by a more traditional back-to-the-basket big man in Okafor, the offensive production effectively ground to a halt.

And before you mention the consecutive Finals in NJ, consider that 1) the East was awful in those years. They were in the Finals because the rules said someone had to be. The real Finals were the WCF 2) he had Eddie Jordan to run the offense, which was still pretty bad (17th in offensive efficiency in ‘01-’02, 18th in ‘02-’03) despite having Kidd in his prime.

the little one.