Byron Scott Outcoached Everyone This Year
Jerry Stackhouse may not necessarily agree, but Byron Scott was the best coach in the NBA this season.
His team lost out on first place in the brutal Western Conference by just one game, and for his troubles, he’s going to be named the Coach of the Year tonight before Game 5 of the Mavs/Hornets series.
It’s the first time, Scott has earned the league’s Coach of the Year award that is selected by print, radio and television media that covers the NBA.
Scott beat out Boston’s Doc Rivers, Philadelphia’s Maurice Cheeks and Houston’s Rick Adelman for the award.
The New Orleans Hornets are obviously an amazing story, and they had no business whatsoever winning as much as they did this season. A lot of the credit for that success has to be given to Scott.
Not only that, but coach Scott has also overseen the stunning development of Chris Paul, who could be given a prestigious award of his own pretty soon.
47 Responses to “Byron Scott Outcoached Everyone This Year”
Apr.29 at 9:06 am
TADOne says:
This is kind of ironic because of the way we used to bag him when he was in NJ, but it is deserved. Congrats Byron. Now you can uncross your arms.
Apr.29 at 9:17 am
Ken says:
I think he deserved it.
Apr.29 at 9:25 am
Jason says:
Good for him. I’m not trying too be mean, I like Maurice Cheeks..but I don’t feel like you should be considered for anything when your team made the playoffs being 2 games below .500. I understand they overachieved..but come on now.
Apr.29 at 9:25 am
riggs says:
im pretty sure if u panned down that picture of byron for the headline, his arms would be crossed.
Apr.29 at 9:27 am
Spaceship Jay says:
Lol TADOne, the uncrossing of the arms is hilarious.
Apr.29 at 9:27 am
j-dot says:
Deserved it. Hope justice is done and CP3 gets mvp aswell.
Apr.29 at 9:34 am
BETCATS says:
ok, good for him. We got Larry Brown!
Apr.29 at 9:43 am
BETCATS says:
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Apr.29 at 9:45 am
BETCATS says:
we got Larry Brown Yall
Apr.29 at 9:48 am
Sesa says:
so Mutoni thinks that Paul will be MVP
Apr.29 at 9:51 am
Cheryl says:
Be careful what you wish for, BET.
Apr.29 at 9:53 am
maio says:
Funny how he’s busy outcoaching Avery, the now former COY, and unleashing CP3 upon the
soon-to-be former MVP. BTW if the Mavs get ousted, Avery is history.
Apr.29 at 9:54 am
matt the jazz fan says:
They should give these out after the playoffs. All of the awards.
Apr.29 at 9:57 am
BETCATS says:
Cheryl, i wanted Paul Silas, so did every1 -MJ, but 3 seasons later, after the Cats get to their 3rd straght 2nd round and done, LB will leave and Paul Silas will be brought in to replace him. I still dont get how somebody who said the Bobcats would be their ‘dream job’ gets passed by. Who dreams of the Cats beside me? Hell, i dot even dream of them.
Apr.29 at 10:11 am
Cheryl says:
Silas deserves to be back coaching. He has worked very well with young teams in the past. He does tend to lose them around year 3 or 4, but LB will lose them after the first practice.
Apr.29 at 10:21 am
BETCATS says:
(i just used a smiley, that is not G)
I think the Larry will bring us to the 6-8th seed. It all depends if Sam and Ben will let me write the season prevew or if i need coment # 200 000 to do that
Apr.29 at 10:51 am
G Diesel says:
After seeing Kobe last night, I don’t know how anyone would say that CP3 will win MVP
Apr.29 at 10:53 am
Diesel says:
I don’t think he deserves it. Scott’s coaching pretty much went like this every game: “CP3, dribble by 2 defenders and throw tyson a lob” no real coaching necessary there. CP3 should get the coach of the year and give the MVP to Kobe.
Apr.29 at 11:09 am
cdro says:
but adleman shoulda won it.
Apr.29 at 11:12 am
Rasheedionics says:
This doesn’t reflect well on Lang’s assumption that Byron Scott has been an assistant coach all these years. So Byron Scott wins COY while Eddie Jordan’s team can’t get out of 1st round 3 years in a row in the East.
Apr.29 at 11:25 am
Justin says:
No votes for SVG? C’mon now….
Apr.29 at 11:33 am
detroit says:
But what about Flip Saunders? He wasn’t even a finalist?
Apr.29 at 11:44 am
Co Co says:
Byron Scott is handsome.
Apr.29 at 11:58 am
Nick says:
Get a time machine, go back to the begining of the season, take Paul and West away for 40 or so games combined, then at the end of the season tell me if byron scott is a better coach than rick adleman. This is just silly.
Apr.29 at 11:58 am
Nick says:
Get a time machine, go back to the begining of the season, take Paul and West away for 40 or so games combined, then at the end of the season tell me if byron scott is a better coach than rick adleman. This is just silly.
Apr.29 at 12:09 pm
WhaHuh says:
Orlando are just a quiet team, the leaugue doesnt pay them or SVG. When Hedo Turkoglu is ur 2nd biggest star people wont care.
Apr.29 at 12:26 pm
JAZZSPIN says:
Jerry Sloan overlooked again… although Byron Scott was fully deserving this year.
Apr.29 at 12:32 pm
Nick says:
apologies for the double post.
Apr.29 at 1:07 pm
Kadavour says:
Nick has a great argument:
Doc’s team improved by leaps and bounds from last year, but he accomplished that because he added 2 H.O.F. players.
N.O. was beating good teams last year too, its just that they never established a rhythm because they were so beat up health-wise.
Rick deserves it this year because he did the most with the least.
Apr.29 at 2:31 pm
Darksaber says:
And with his arms crossed the entire time too.
Apr.29 at 2:42 pm
NAS says:
I think lang and all the other writers of SLAM should ISSUE A PUBLIC APOLOGY to “Lord Byron” as they called him for saying for over 2 years that lawrence frank was the actual coach and he was a puppet - seems now he was the coach after all
Apr.29 at 3:13 pm
Nick says:
NAS–Give me a couple rings (so guys respect me), and chris paul, and I’ll sit around calling pick and rolls all day too. I’ll even do one better by uncrossing my arms sometimes. Lets not kid ourselves: The reason for NO’s improvement was not Byron Scott. Byron scott has been a constant, whether they sucked or played well. The difference is Chris Paul.
Apr.29 at 3:23 pm
Nick says:
More arguments for Adleman: for a third of the season, Rafer Alston was his 2nd best player. RAFER ALSTON, MAN. With three rookies in the rotation, running a new system, he got his team home court advantage…IN THE WEST! Oh, he also won those 22 straight games, which has been done before, you know, once. They might as well duct tape Adleman to a chair and call him Antoine Walker, because this sh!t is a robbery.
Apr.29 at 3:24 pm
LA Lakers Blog says:
Congrats to Byron Scott, he deserved it, and it seems that all the awards this year so far have been valid! Let’s just hope the MVP goes to KOBE!
Apr.29 at 4:49 pm
Kevin says:
another deserving award.. now Kobe jus needs to win MVP and i’ll be happy on every front.
Apr.29 at 6:31 pm
B. Long says:
Somewhere Jerry Stackhouse is pissed.
Apr.29 at 6:51 pm
Dacre says:
somewhere stackhouse crosses his arms…. kobe for mvp now?
Apr.29 at 9:03 pm
The Last Kings Fan says:
Will the statue have its arms crossed this year?
Apr.29 at 10:33 pm
Dacre says:
lol….IT CERTAINLY SHOULD KINGS FAN..
Apr.30 at 2:33 am
Calvin Cambridge says:
no 1st place votes for Eddie Jordan! I wish non-wizard fans/people who don’t have league pass could have seen what Jordan did with his second string this year…a man named Oleksiy Pecherov was getting consistent burn.
Apr.30 at 6:21 am
Hursty says:
consistent meaning less than 3 minutes a game?
Apr.30 at 6:26 am
Hursty says:
why would a dude who does sh!t with his second squad get a 1st. FIRST place vote over scott-for the reasons above. Adelman- reasons above, 3 rooks, half of the (arguably) best 1/2 punch out for a year and a 22 game streak. Phil Jackson- being Phil. Sloan-37-4. nuff said. they finished 5th in the LEAST!
Apr.30 at 6:34 am
Hursty says:
I stand corrected. He averaged exectly 3 minutes this first round series.
Apr.30 at 6:34 am
Hursty says:
http://www.nba.com/playerfile/oleksiy_pecherov/index.html
Apr.30 at 10:45 am
Calvin Cambridge says:
Let’s think about this Hursty. If a man can overachieve with underachievers doesn’t that make him exceptional?(i.e deserving first place votes)And obviously I wasn’t referring to the playoffs because A. The wizards were healthy B. The playoff ares not where REGULAR season awards are won.
Apr.30 at 12:12 pm
Jess says:
well deserved
Apr.30 at 1:01 pm
Mark Z says:
Congrats Byron. I never liked him, but let’s just say he’s learned a thing or 2 since NJ… He does get props for turning CP loose and developing West, Peja & Chandler into quality starters… And as far as LB in Charlotte… I can’t wait for that show to start. I would hope Larry can get them into the Playoffs in Year 1, because we all know how ‘entertaining’ Brown can be in Year 2 & 3. I can’t believe any franchise would give him anything more than a 2 yr deal at this point.