原文出自 nola.com http://www.nola.com/hornets/t-p/index.ssf?/base/sports-1/109906893368240.xml SCOTT SPEAKS Sunday, October 31, 2004 Hornets coach Byron Scott sat down with staff writer William Kalec to discuss the coming season. Evaluate the talent you're able to work with here compared to the team you inherited in New Jersey four years ago. There's really no comparison. New Orleans is way ahead. You look at what we have here one through 12 or one through 14, it's much deeper. We had a young star at the time named Stephon Marbury, who is a lot like Baron (Davis) in a sense that he could do a lot of things. After that, Keith Van Horn. We had just drafted Kenyon Martin, so we had some talent, but it's nowhere near what I have in New Orleans. Is there a compromise in coaching philosophy when you take a new job and don't necessarily have the ideal personnel to fit your style of play? Do you adapt your philosophy at all to blend with the players available? It kind of goes both ways. You might have to give a little as far as what you're doing because of the talent you have, might have to play to their strengths, as well. Give and take. But I think we have the talent here to fit the style of basketball that I want. You're always trying to add certain pieces to the puzzle. Next year, you go out, knowing you have a pretty good foundation of the stuff you're running and the type of structure that you have and you try and find other guys that you feel can fit in, as well. Is there any benefit to being fired from a job in the middle of the season and having a couple of months to regroup mentally and physically before taking another job? I don't know. I haven't had another job yet, a full season, to compare. So I can't really answer that. But as far as I'm concerned, it gave me time to get away from the game for a little while. Then I started to miss it. When you start to miss it, then that's when you know that's what you want to do. I think I was born to play this game just like I feel I was born to coach it. Once I was away from it for a little while, that itch came back. It's something I wanted to get back into, but I wanted to find a situation that was right for me. That was this job. How important is it for you to establish a healthy relationship with Baron Davis in the early stages of your tenure? Baron respects me as a coach, and I think he respects me as a man. The only way you can form any type of relationship is with honesty and communication. We've had that since Day One. We get along extremely well. There are days I tell him, 'You've got to do this, and you've got to do that.' You know what? He goes out and he tries to do it. That's all you can ask for. From my perspective, the coach-player relationship has been wonderful. Communication is the one thing we always have to leave open -- always communicate with one another. If we do that, we'll be fine. When did coaching enter the equation as a possible profession after your time on the court expired? I'm 32 years old and I was with the Indiana Pacers and Larry Brown is my coach. We're in practice one day, going through a lot of stuff. And there were times when Larry would ask me, 'What did you guys do in L.A.? What would you do here?' I would just answer it. One day after practice, he comes to me and says, 'You know, one of these days you're going to make a good coach.' I never thought about it until he said that. The wheels started turning. I said, 'You think so?' From that point on, I started keeping a diary with me of plays we were running, plays we ran in L.A -- things I liked. Does your style of coaching or persona on the sideline originate from coaches you played for or is it a niche you had to discover yourself? I never looked at anybody and said, 'This is how I want to coach. This is who I want to emulate.' But I get comparisons from everybody I know that I have the same demeanor as Pat Riley. I have the same drive as Riles. When I do think about coaching and think about the things I would like to be, I would like to be like Pat Riley because he was driven. And I would like to be like Larry Brown because he was a teacher. If I can take one thing from each of those guys and apply it to myself, I'll be a much better basketball coach. . . . . . . . William Kalec can be reached at [email protected] or (504) 826-3413. --

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