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Hornets may be revamping entire basketball operations
Posted on 7/15/10 at 9:47 am
Posted on 7/15/10 at 9:47 am
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Hornets senior director of player personnel Brian Hagen is not under consideration to replace Bower. It appears the Hornets' basketball operations department may undergo a revamping, resulting from Bower's sudden departure after 15 years with the organization. Weber said the team plans to evaluate the entire organization.
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I know I'm in the minority here, but I am very optimistic about the Hornets future.
This post was edited on 7/15/10 at 9:50 am
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Posted on 7/15/10 at 9:49 am to Mickey Goldmill
I really hope it's pritchard. He can do a lot with very little.
Posted on 7/15/10 at 9:50 am to Mickey Goldmill
i am too. CP3 will lead us back to the playoffs with marcus averaging 15, d west with 20 and 8 and okafor 12 and 10.
Posted on 7/15/10 at 9:51 am to LSU Fan 90812
I hope it's someone with some charisma and a great salesman that can help convince free agents to come here. It's more than just making good decisions, you are salesman number 1 in leading the charge to get people wanting to play here.
Posted on 7/15/10 at 9:51 am to LSU Fan 90812
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Posted by karmapol1ce
I really hope it's pritchard. He can do a lot with very little.
just curious, but why do you think this?
Posted on 7/15/10 at 9:52 am to Chad504boy
All of this talk about change also leads me to believe Shinn is on his way out.
Posted on 7/15/10 at 9:55 am to Mickey Goldmill
That's what I was thinking. These have to chouest moves.
Posted on 7/15/10 at 9:58 am to LSU Fan 90812
pritch is supposedly black balled
Posted on 7/15/10 at 10:01 am to BilJ
I remember seeing Joe Dumars at one of the games last season.....I can only hope they wouldn't take that route.
Posted on 7/15/10 at 10:05 am to dj30
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just curious, but why do you think this?
His rebuilding of the blazers through the draft and FA was nothing short of spectacular. Good trades, good draft picks, all while staying under the cap and not really using Allen's money as a crutch.
It was a dumb move for Allen to fire him. People forget how bad it was before Pritchard turned the whole organization around. Now they have Roy and Aldridge and a bunch of young talent. They are a playoff team. Before they were the jailblazers.
Part of the reason Pritchard was fired was his unwillingess to overspend for flashy free agents, and that PA got impatient with his method of team building.
If Oden doesn't get hurt two out of four years there's no way Pritchard is gone.
Posted on 7/15/10 at 10:06 am to BilJ
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pritch is supposedly black balled
link?
Posted on 7/15/10 at 10:07 am to Chad504boy
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I hope it's someone with some charisma and a great salesman that can help convince free agents to come here.
Or someone who can hire that guy.
Why don't we hire World Wide Wes to be our head of basketball operations?
Posted on 7/15/10 at 10:08 am to LSU Fan 90812
quote:I heard this on Moscona's (sp?) show yesterday afternoon. Seems like the Hornets are serious about him. The Hornets' release about Bower was awesome: they basically read the definition of insanity in their explanation of why Bower was fired.
I really hope it's pritchard. He can do a lot with very little.
Posted on 7/15/10 at 10:08 am to LSU Fan 90812
I'd take Pritchard in a heart beat
Posted on 7/15/10 at 10:09 am to LSU Fan 90812
it was a yahoo article posted a few weeks before he was fired. I don't feel like looking it up, you can do the work yourself if you wish
Posted on 7/15/10 at 10:12 am to BilJ
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it was a yahoo article posted a few weeks before
I heard an interview on 870 AM of a sportscaster from the Portland area (forgot name). He said he liked Prtchard but if the rumors were true, he would have fired him also. Says he was fired for other than basketball reasons. Would not elaborate.
Posted on 7/15/10 at 10:15 am to The Sad Banana
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I heard this on Moscona's (sp?) show yesterday afternoon. Seems like the Hornets are serious about him. The Hornets' release about Bower was awesome: they basically read the definition of insanity in their explanation of why Bower was fired.
Funny. Moscona thinks its good to talk NBA now? We must have really hit the dog days, because I've heard him say multiple times that he won't ever talk NBA.
About Pritchard, the Blazers firing was ridiculous. Pritchard is a shrewd evaluator of talent. In fact, he's been one of the best GMs in the league for 7 years, and may be aside from Sam Presti the best young GM in the league.
Firing Bower for him would be the smartest decision the Hornets ever made. Pritchard would NEVER have overpaid for the likes of Peja, Posey or MoPete. His MO is drafting and acquiring young talent, developing them, and then trading them for usable assets when necessary, ie his acquisition of Camby from the Clippers last season to keep the Blazers in playoff contention.
Part of my reason for not ever fully buying into the Hornets as my team has been the ridiculously awful moves of Bower and Shinn, couple with Scott as one of the worst playoff coaches in history.
Pritchard/ Williams era would be a huge step.
Posted on 7/15/10 at 10:16 am to Sid in Lakeshore
Posted on 7/15/10 at 10:16 am to Sid in Lakeshore
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I heard an interview on 870 AM of a sportscaster from the Portland area (forgot name). He said he liked Prtchard but if the rumors were true, he would have fired him also. Says he was fired for other than basketball reasons. Would not elaborate.
ew. i know nothing about that and it might finally make sense.
there was no reason to fire pritchard for basketball reasons.
Posted on 7/15/10 at 10:23 am to Fun Bunch
I heard rumblings of all this for the last year from different perspectives.
The other side of the coin had the Vulcan (read:non-basketball) company meddling in the Blazers organization in what amounted to as a basketball coup for Allen's allegiance. Pritchard lost, and that piece is basically as big a PR ad hominem piece as I've ever seen to try to explain to the city of Portland (who loved Pritchard) why the Blazers were justified in firing the best GM they ever had.
What people don't realize is that a GM in basketball IS more valuable than the coach, unless the coach is named, Riley, Jackson, or Popovich. And especially outside of the major markets.
Pritchard was solely responsible for the reconstruction of that organization.
The other side of the coin had the Vulcan (read:non-basketball) company meddling in the Blazers organization in what amounted to as a basketball coup for Allen's allegiance. Pritchard lost, and that piece is basically as big a PR ad hominem piece as I've ever seen to try to explain to the city of Portland (who loved Pritchard) why the Blazers were justified in firing the best GM they ever had.
What people don't realize is that a GM in basketball IS more valuable than the coach, unless the coach is named, Riley, Jackson, or Popovich. And especially outside of the major markets.
Pritchard was solely responsible for the reconstruction of that organization.
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