Sportbooks betting on the New Orleans Hornets has not been successful this season but that could change since the team fired head coach Byron Scott.
The Hornets started the season at 3-6 and were struggling against the odds at sportsbooks. Sportbooks betting will be interesting to watch on New Orleans with a new head coach. New Orleans was blown out on Wednesday in sportbooks betting, losing 124-104 at Phoenix. Sportbooks betting has the new head coach for New Orleans being general manager Jeff Bower, with Tim Floyd the main assistant head coach. Floyd was last seen by those in sportbooks betting as the coach at USC where things ended poorly. Floyd has also coached the Hornets and Bulls in the past.
New Orleans Hornets owner George Shinn was quoted as saying that Bower “knows this team better than anyone” and gives the team “our best opportunity to reach our goals this season.” It is somewhat hard to believe that Scott is out of a job. Sportbooks betting indicates that he was the NBA Coach of the Year in 2008. New Orleans went 56-26 two years ago and nearly made the Western Conference Finals in betting at sportsbooks. Last year in sportbooks betting the Hornets went 49-33. They were blown away in sportbooks betting in the playoffs as Denver routed them.
New Orleans has had a rough start at 3-6 but the schedule has not been easy. Sportbooks betting stats show that seven of the games were against teams that have a .500 or better record this sportbooks betting season.
New Orleans has made some changes that did not work out and Scott was the fall guy. The team has no real scorer beyond Chris Paul and very little depth as sportsbooks stats indicate. “We talked about the fact that everyone on our staff is held to a certain standard of performance and we didn’t feel this was happening at the head coach level,” New Orleans vice president of basketball Chad Shinn said. “We feel like we still have an opportunity with our nucleus to get to where we want and Jeff is the right guy, right now to move us in that direction from the bench.”
Things may not get better for New Orleans in sportbooks betting considering the team is already over the salary cap. Sportsbooks info shows that it will be tough to make many moves other than changing head coaches.