The only player Lakers coach Byron Scott has consistently talked positively about is Kobe Bryant. As for the rest of the team? Scott has been merciless, publicly criticizing them, calling them “soft” and telling them they need to “man up”. Nick Young is often the player in Scott’s crosshairs recently saying that Young is a “home run- or a strikeout-type guy on the offensive end” and needs to “grow as a basketball player”. Young says he’s used to Scott’s criticism and he takes it with a grain of salt but I wonder how the rest of the team will feel about Scott’s latest comments.
Byron Scott still is making his Lakers students attend classes, knowing full well no amount of practice is going to change this sorry season.
Still, the Lakers coach is eager to see whom his prized pupils are and which ones are just showing up because they must, until the season mercifully comes to an end on April 15.
Scott has discovered that rookie point guard Jordan Clarkson yearns to keep learning and that there are others who are less interested in playing all out.
“I got a sense of a whole lot of them I wouldn’t want to be in a fox hole with,” Scott said after Monday’s practice. “I think they’d end up shooting me in the back. So I’ve got a pretty good sense of the guys that I think are going to be around, that we will build around, build together in this process and go through it.”
Source: LA Times
