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

I don't understand why people don't think Blatt will be a good hire.

He did a great job with the Cavaliers. They went to the Finals. Gave Golden State everything they wanted and then some. They had way more ball movement than LeBron's previous tenure with Brown and were just as solid defensively. People say he didn't have respect of his players he had to deal with the narcistic egomaniac that is LeBron James. He won't have to deal with that here. Blatt isn't my first choice, but if we can't get Luke or Ollie he'd be #3 for me.

 

I have a feeling they will end up with Ollie, I can see him relate to the young guys. Not saying Luke can't do the same either. He built rapport with the guys in OKC during his stint there, maybe use him to lure KD or Westbrook in the future?

 

Drinks on me fellas.

 

I think every coach dreams of having the Laker gig. Now that Kobe is gone and the expectations are low, I think it's the best job available!

 

I'm definitely open-minded and I'm happy to be proven wrong re: David Blatt. Having said that, he just seems like a putz to me. My moron-dar goes off whenever I see him interviewed. And it does bother me that his players didn't respect him and he didn't know where the clubhouses were in opposing arenas. And FWIW, I'm not sure how much credit I give him for the Cavs' deep run. LeBron was in full beast mode during the 2015 playoffs and in the Eastern Conference, that's usually all you need. Plus he looks like one of those door-knockers from Labrynth.

 

I find it hard to believe Luke would say no to the Lakers. He definitely wants to be a coach. He's have a great young core to grow with. He'd be able to implement his system. There wouldn't be the hoopla of Kobe's farewell tour. There wouldn't be expectations of a championship for two or three years probably. He'll have a chance to really grow with this team and eventually help get the team he played for and won multiple titles with back on track.

 

OK, I don't even post on the boards much anymore but just saw on FB that Lakers fired Byron and have to say I am happy with this for a lot of reasons. Unlike most I wasn't pissed cause we have had some bad years in my 40yrs of life the Lakers haven't had many and as fan of the Raiders and Dodgers I know what Playoff and Championship droughts really feel like. What I didn't like about Byron was that he never developed the team. This wasn't a worst of all time team. We weren't Championship or anything but we should of been fighting for a low playoff seed (prob missing out by a couple games) not this level of disgusting crap we saw. He never took responsibility for the team instead put blame on the young guys. His arrogance without any form of results was the worst for me. I have been on record as saying I'd rather have Mike D'antoni than Byron cause at least with Mike D I knew what his offensive system was where Byron didn't have one, didn't think of one, didn't believe we needed one or was just to incompetent to realize that we needed one. Today is a great day in my world because he didn't deserve to be running a team with this much raw talented young players.

 

Jay Wright is also a good hire for a young roster if we don't get or have no chance with Durant

 

Yeah yeah yeah .... I got your "grit" hanging coach ..... See ya!!!

 

The only way this could be ruined for me is if we hire the likes of a Mike Dunleavy or Kurt Rambis. After completely bungling the last handful of coaching hires, they have to get this one right or it could be the death of the franchise for the next half decade.

 

Maybe with Boron the a-hole gone and hopefully a quality coach hired prior to free agency will persuade one or both of Bass and Black to stay for reasonable contracts.

 

People are actually defending Byron. Are you f***ing serious? He wasn't no scape goat he was the biggest problem with the Lakers. At some point excuses need to stop being made by people for an awful coach. At some point he has to take responsibility which we know he won't. When you do some of the things he did this season like playing Ryan freaking Kelly minutes or when another bum like Sacre gets time over Black, or he benches the two young studs for no reason for inferior players that's on Byron. When the guy constantly has a stupid call out young guys in media strategy which has proven time and time to be flawed and picking favorites I mean that's just disgusting. Professional coaches don't do that.

Was there a lack of talent? Sure. However I don't see how anyone can absolve Byron after the horror show we witnessed for the last two years. It just disgusts me how an idiot like Stephen A. Smith who knows about as much about basketball as my cat does going out of his way to absolve Byron and blame Jim. I'm not here to sing Jim's praises, but he knows a lot more basketball than Smith does. It's clear this wise decision was made by Jim as well as Mitch. Which tells us obviously Jeanie is the incompatent one here. He's still upset Kobe didn't win another ring. DUDE he won five f***ing rings. Yes I would've loved to see more, but he got old and was driven into the ground as well as getting screwed by David Stern. Jim tried to win Kobe another ring. He made two at the time brilliant trades. They didn't work out. Simple as that.

People blame Kobe even ahead of Byron which is ridiculous. Yes Kobe was an old geezer his last two seasons, but guess what? Even when he was out the team still looked like a f***ing JV varsity team. There were times it looked like Kobe didn't even wanna play and he still put him back out there when his shoulder was all wrapped up. Byron was just awful. Again the team sucks we know that and if you're gonna suck why would you waste your time playing guys like Huertas and Lou over your future backcourt? Why would you bench D'Angelo whenever he already had a rhythm? Because he took over really? The f*** is a second pick supposed to do? We WANT him to be that guy you f***ing moron. Why is that he went out of his way to kill Clarkson for his defense and didn't mention the vets he loves being just as bad? How about the fact that he surrounded the three kids with the most God awful lineups with zero speed, athleticism, and spacing? How about the fact that D-League teams look more intuned defensively. It's all about manning up though right? The no defensive scheme coach that's Byron for you. Thank God it's over.

 

Here's a touching tribute with a surprise ending.... called "The Byron Dance"

 

it's sad when the lakers organization actually had to consider whether or not to fire the worst coach in lakers history and one of the worst coaches in NBA history in terms of winning percentage.

with that said, bye bye byron. maybe 4th times a charm for the idiots in the FO? all i'm saying is please, for the love of god keep jim buss far away from anything that has to do with hiring the next coach. bring in a guy whose main focus will be to develop the young guns and start the process of getting this team back into contention. hopefully its a fresh new face, no more of these recycled head coaches.

walton, ollie, miller, messina. and i'm assuming mike dunleavy will of course get an interview like always. plenty of good choices out there

 

Best start to a Monday in a while.

And can we please move this to the NBA discussion. I can't stand watching his name at the top here in Lakers Discussion all the time - get me Messina, Coach K, Ollie or Luke and I'm excited.

Saw the name JVG pop up as well but way too long out of the league for me.