Watching Deke in the playoffs reminds me how much Scott sucked. The moron couldn't figure out how to use him.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (o.iatlhawksfan @ May 2 2008, 11:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>What Scott?</div> This one
Scotts no idiot, the guy knows how to use his players, where they can excel. Chandler's having a career year peja's having his best years since Sacramento David West was a bench warmer, before Scott came in
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (o.iatlhawksfan @ May 3 2008, 12:15 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Scotts no idiot, the guy knows how to use his players, where they can excel. Chandler's having a career year peja's having his best years since Sacramento David West was a bench warmer, before Scott came in</div> Chris Paul would make lots of coaches look smart
You can't say a coach was successful they have a certain superstar, not many coaches are good without, a certain superstar on the team. Either way, you can't give all the credit to Paul, There;s been plenty of instances where, he has drawed up a play at the end of games, to let not paul, but David West or peja get a game winner or game tying shot.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (o.iatlhawksfan @ May 3 2008, 12:29 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>You can't say a coach was successful they have a certain superstar, not many coaches are good without, a certain superstar on the team. Either way, you can't give all the credit to Paul, There;s been plenty of instances where, he has drawed up a play at the end of games, to let not paul, but David West or peja get a game winner or game tying shot.</div> Those plays work because of the attention that Paul draws. Besides, it is very silly to bring up what Scott has done with the Hornets when talking about how bad he was with the Nets. I give credit to Scott for actually learning from his mistakes. If Chandler had been on the Nets, he would have been as poorly used as Deke was.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (o.iatlhawksfan @ May 2 2008, 11:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I never followed the Net, all i know is now he's a pretty decent coach</div> Why are you arguing with him then? Mutombo is 42 now and is playing great. He was 4 years younger when he was with NJ. Duncan and Robinson destroyed us in the Finals of '04. If Scott wasn't such a retard and played Deke more (or at least get him involved), the stinky meadowlands may have a championship banner hanging in the rafters.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan @ May 2 2008, 11:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Watching Deke in the playoffs reminds me how much Scott sucked. The moron couldn't figure out how to use him.</div> And that was back when Deke was still in his forties!!
In fairness to Scott, Deke didn't change from eating only cookies to a more balanced diet based on the "food pyramid" until 2004.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ghoti @ May 3 2008, 07:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>In fairness to Scott, Deke didn't change from eating only cookies to a more balanced diet based on the "food pyramid" until 2004.</div> In 2001, the NBA instituted the new defensive three second rule and permitted zone defenses for the first time. The rules dramatically limited Dike's effectiveness. He had twice as many defensive three second rule violations as any other player the first year of the new rules, the last year he played with Philly. He couldn't sit in the paint. His diminishing mobility was exposed. He couldn't defend the pick and roll. In the years before he joined the Nets, Mutombo averaged 12.3 points, 12.3 rebounds and 3.4 blocks. In the years after, he has averaged 3.8 points, 5.7 rebounds and 1.2 blocks. He never recovered...never. Rather than blame Scott, blame Thorn for trading away two offensive threats around the basket for a guy who played in 24 games...and then failing to replace them. The Nets didn't lose the Spurs series because Scott misused Mutombo. It lost because it didn't have reliable shooting, particularly upfront and on the wings. Rogers was out of shape from Day One. Thus, KMart goes 3-for-23 because there is no one else.
His per 36 minute rebounding numbers are better the 3 full seasons in Houston than they were on the Nets and his FG% is much better. He has also played better in the playoffs for Houston than he did for the Nets. Scott's inability to use him also caused the Nets to buyout Deke and have a huge unmovable load on the cap for two seasons. Deke has fully demonstrated that he can still be useful and the Nets and Scott screwed the pooch.
Deke was also hurt a majority of that season, no? And also had a hard time fitting into the motion offense, because he would hold the ball entirely too long. I would take Scott over Frank eight days a week.
scott has improved immensily as a coach. he finally realized he can't rely on his assistants that much in NO. guys like pargo, bonzi, julian wright have all been playing well and he's giving them the chances. having a PG like paul helps but scott has improved chandler and west. frank on the other hand..... just gets worse as does our team every year
it's also pretty sad that nobody respects our coach as well, our players certainly don't and just thinking about it, shaq calling frank "Laura" is just sad
