What big men did he run things through in New Orleans. That team had Baron Davis and Jamal Mashburn. That was who things went through. They had a loaded front line with role player type bigs. Eldon Campbell, Jamaal Magloire, Traylor, and Moiso. He didn't really develop any of those guys. Mags is still not an offensive player. His absolute best year was 13 and 10 with 1.23 blocks. Thats Antonio Davis production.
That team underachieved in the playoffs and never got the playoff seeding they should have in the regular season. Silas let Baron do whatever he wanted. Total freelance system.
Who did he develop in Cleveland? BigZ was already the main guy there and had almost exactly the same production the 2 years prior to Silas coming in. Drew Gooden was already putting up nice stats in Memphis and Orlando for the time he was getting, although they are still not happy with him. Diop was a total bust in Cleveland and Silas did nothing for him except cut his minutes and games played to almost nothing.
There is absolutely nothing to back up your claim that he 'develops big men'.
Hornets had great role players like George Lynch and David Wesley and solid players throughout the lineup. And this was at a time when the East was quite weak.
Cavs had Lebron, Hughes, Snow, McInnis, Gooden, BigZ, Varajeo, Jackson, Nailon?, Traylor, Pavlovic. They should have been much better and made the playoffs easily.
And you fire Embry to show support for Babs. You clear out Jack, Dick, and Wayne who have all been ducking any responsibility with the club and who are too connected to the politics of the board of directors. When Peddie had Embry start reporting directly to him instead of Rob that was a major signal of backroom politics going on. Dump them all.
