Hornets Search for New Coach, Bower to Stay on as GM

The Hornets announced today, April 20, that the search for a new head coach will begin immediately and Jeff Bower will resume his sole duties and focus as the team's general manager.

"Jeff stepped in to coach in a difficult situation and did a phenomenal job this season serving both roles as head coach and general manager." said Hornets President Hugh Weber. "We had a lot of setbacks with injuries but still competed every night even though our players missed a total of 230 games due to injury. This move allows Jeff to focus as the team's general manager and build off of our great draft successes last season. He has been a valued part of shaping our franchise for a long time and we feel fortunate that Jeff will continue in a major role as GM. We will continue to supplement and evaluate our resources on the basketball side so we can compete and maximize our personnel decisions at the highest level."

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Great move though I am not that thrilled that Bower is staying

as GM

We need a NEW HC with new ideas and a new attitude

Our team is not great but it is sure as hell a team that can challenge for the Western Conference Title

by Alious on Apr 20, 2010 4:48 PM CDT reply actions

I'm Thrilled that Jeff Bower is Staying as GM!

He has done an incredible job with his hands relatively tied. As the latest segment of Byron Scott’s tenure showed us, the team was being horribly mismanaged, and after Bower took over suffice it to say that this team was incredible notwithstanding an unparalleled rash of injuries to key contributors on the team including Chris Paul, Peja, and a significant chunk of our bench depth in Sean Marks & Ike Diogu!

With a starting 5 of Chris Paul, Darren Collison, Peja, D-West, and Okafor, and a bench with the likes of Marcus Thornton, Ike Diogu, Darius Songaila, Sean Marks, & JuJu, we could have been amazing absent the rash of unanticipated injuries this year! (I’m aware that I want DC as the 2 & that mine probably isn’t the boiler-plate opinion of how to utilize him, but he can clearly shoot the trey and since the team has only 1 big we could do better by ‘going small’ and absolutely running wild on other teams guard tandems by using both CP3 & DC at the same time, then keeping one in when we bring Thornton in off the bench & switching him to a more “pure point” role).

Anyway, Bower did an incredible job, both off the court as GM and on it as HC, and because he doesn’t have the prototypical pedigree, good looks, or the sexy name of an ex-player shouldn’t be the sine qua non of “a good coach.”

by Grand Tanyon Sturtze on Apr 20, 2010 5:08 PM CDT reply actions

Jeff Bower did not do an incredable job

He sucks and i want him gone

I HATE THE DALLAS COWBOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by jamesyyyboyyy on Apr 20, 2010 6:56 PM CDT reply actions

The starting PG out for 1/3 of the season, the starting SF out for 1/3 of the season, the top 2 bench players out for the entire season, proper use of Collison which allowed him to flourish in a way that Byron Scott would never have done given his penchant for playing favorites with godawful players like Hilton Armstrong, not to mention proper use of Thornton, who turned out to be the steal of the entire draft.

What’s the argument against him?

by Grand Tanyon Sturtze on Apr 20, 2010 10:18 PM CDT up reply actions