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NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.

Chris Paul is the present for the New Orleans Hornets and the future for Jeff Bower the new coach. Without a buy in from Chris Paul, the New Orleans Hornets are going nowhere and Jeff Bower is going somewhere else. Right now Chris Paul is very unhappy over the firing of Byron Scott.

For Paul, this wasn’t so much professional as it was personal. He takes things hard and feels them deeply. Truth be told, Paul is livid. C.J. Paul posted an apparent dig at Weber on his Twitter account: “I can’t stand when [people] that don’t know basketball make major basketball decisions. It turns out to be a disaster.”

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NBAObsessed discussed the change in regimes earlier.

—–Byron Scott is out at New Orleans—-

How could a once on the right track franchise go so far off course. In a matter of hours they have fired the once steady voice of Coach Byron Scott and alienated their best player, the small speedy superstar Chris Paul.

Chris Paul has a lot of concerns

The hiring of former GM Jeff Bower to be the head coach smacks of interim at the best. There was just nobody internally to nominate for the job. Bower’s is not a great coach or X and O’s type guy, hence the hiring of Tim Floyd to put some pizzazz into the team.

Still the team’s fortunes rest on the shoulders of Chris Paul and if he is not brought back into the fold, the team will suffer.

Yes, Chris Paul hates change, and the firing of Byron Scott is the most dramatic of his professional career. Eventually, Paul will come to understand that Scott had chances to save himself. When the Hornets were young and restless, bouncing between New Orleans and Oklahoma City, the franchise valued Scott’s evenness. He always makes you believe everything will be all right, but that eventually evaporated. They needed something more tangible, something they could touch, and Scott struggled to deliver it.

Things can change fast in the NBA and now is the time for change in New Orleans. The real problem now is deciding whether the change is positive or negative.

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