Byron Scott Discussion 2015-16 - FIRED!!! (PAGE 172)

^^ Well, I guess that answers the question of whether he is tanking on purpose or just through incompetence. Since we now have clear proof out of his mouth there is no way in hell he should be rewarded with another year given that he's going to end up with the worst record in franchise history this season. How could he be so bad that he could outdo last year with losses? It's nearly unfathomable. But here it is. Bye bye Byron. No excuse for this garbage we've seen this season.

 

:Headbang:

 

I don't understand, but I'm intrigued.

 

Larry Coon has some legit team connections. It's the most encouraging report I've heard on Byron's overdue demise.

 

Yeah. Coon is a legit NBA media guy. He was ESPN's cap guru for a while.

I stayed over at LG for a bit and was reading that Mike Wilbon (ESPN's PTI) has been slamming Russell saying he's been told by sources that he's cocky and has a bad attitude. I typically like Wilbon, but this struck me as weird. How does he know about this, but none of the local media types have reported it? If this would have come from a chump like Bayless, I wouldn't care. But I like and respect Wilbon so it's a little concerning.

 

It was implied that it's not cocky in the good way. More like cocky in the "I'm above this." way.

 

Wilbon I generally respect, but often times his opinions are influenced by knowing or being "friends" with players/coaches/whoever. You won't see him bash LeBron or anyone else of that stature for fear of seemingly not getting an interview later on, or maybe not being invited to their awesome parties. On the subject of B0ron and Russ, I don't think he's watched any of our games this year, and he appears to at least he friendly with B0ron because he defends everything he does.

ANY time Russ or Randle are mentioned on PTI he goes old-school and gets all huffy and parrots B0ron with stuff like "put their butts on the bench, splinters from the wood will teach them they need to earn it". That's not word for word except maybe the splinters from the wood thing, but he says that's how coaches should be, old school, do your job or I'll bench your a**, you do what I like or you don't play, stuff like that. Wilbon fully supports it here, as if this is the 80's or 90's and this is a team full of vets that have earned time over our youth and they need to show respect and take their lumps. Well that's not our situation, that's not really how things work in 2016, and so clearly he doesn't know anything about our team or watch them at all. Who should be getting time over Russ and Randle? Kelly? Nance? Williams? Huertas? Young? Please.

 

If you are genuinely trying to win, then you should never have a lineup that features Huertas, Young, and Kelly together on the court together when a game is not for sure over. Ever. Even if you're down 20 points mid-4th quarter, you can't use that lineup. If there's a couple minutes left and you're down a huge amount and it's garbage time, ok, fine, but other than that, nope. So if he's genuinely trying to win, and he does stuff like this, he's the worst coach of all time.