<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Ghost of Jason Collins @ Feb 2 2008, 05:51 PM)
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<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Ghost of Jason Collins @ Feb 2 2008, 04:54 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GM3 @ Feb 2 2008, 02:24 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I give credit to the GM for that.
People see his success now and forget what a horrible coach he was in NJ. I'm not a Hornets fan so I could care less what he does now, I just care what he did while he was here. If you guys want to have a short memory and forget thats fine but I won't.</div>
It's funny, while Scott was here Thorn was GM of the year and widely loved by fans. Now all I read about is how everyone wants to get rid of Thorn.
Now Scott is succeeding in NO because of their GM?
Kind of odd if you ask me. You would think Scott must be doing
something right.
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We loved Thorn back then because he got us Kidd and surrounded Kidd with pieces that fit. Scott did not save this franchise, Thorn and Kidd did that. Scott was a horrible coach and still is a horrible coach. The Hornets management has gotten in players that work well together, while our management has just been throwing pieces together that simply do not work. We hate Thorn now because he has been doing a shitty job for the past few years, unlike he did during the 01-04 runs.
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Graph out the two teams since Scott was asked to leave the Nets and you will see they are trending in complete opposite directions.
I am the first to admit that Scott is not, and never will be, a good X's and O's/game manager. But what Scott did do, and the Nets have lacked since he left, is fire and a sense of urgency. Even for the poor mixture of players the Nets currently have (which I completely agree with), to be a .500/sub .500 team in the EC with the players the Nets have is complete a total under performance. And to make it worse, everyone excepts it.
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Please, you are trying desperately that Scott's firing is the reason the Nets have been on the decline. You are ignoring specific factors in this:
Harris, Martin, Kittles, key components to the Nets teams, left the following summer. At that point, the team's decline was due to their departure, not Scott. Also, take a look back on that year and you'll see that as soon as Frank stepped in, the Nets improved dramatically, only losing to the eventual champs with a Kidd with one leg. The season carter stepped in was in turmoil since Martin and other key components were gone. It was not until the Carter trade did we come back into the playoff mix. And of course, at that point as we all know, the team Thorn just made had no depth unlike the previous Nets teams that were under Scott, and for a short time, under Frank. The decline of the Nets became apparent and if you look closely, Thorn is the reason for the decline. He structured the past few teams poorly, ignoring the fact that Carter and Kidd dont mix well, and he grossly overpaid free agents that never contributed(McInnis and Magloire are the obvoius examples). Yes the Nets are under performing, but I guarantee you that even if Scott were the head coach here, things would be no different. Hell, I would even bet that they would be worse.
Now as for the Hornets, they already entered rebuilding as soon as Scott got there. Of course there would be an improvement. Ask yourself, how the hell do you go worse from "rebuilding?"
Plus you claim that firing Scott was Thorn's biggest mistake. I say him refusing to rebuild is his biggest mistake.
