Nick Young right now. Every time he's mentioned I cringe. Or rather that's last month's reaction. I'm really reaching the point at which I simply don't care. This has been a tough season. A terrible team, terrible shooting from Nick, absurd interactions between Byron and Nick, and injuries from Nick have really changed my view on Swaggy. I'm hoping the season's end puts a halt to these feelings, too, but I'm not sure. What's bothering you, Lakers fans?
I don't blame Nick for those interactions, btw. I think Byron's a nut sometimes. He seems to do utterly bizarre things to multiple players.
Byron's an idiot. Speaking about Byron, I can't stand hearing about how our players are 'soft,' need more 'effort,' or we had a lack of 'focus.'
Well, he can't say that for obvious reasons. Nevertheless, I would like to cite anything other than just mere 'effort,' 'focus', or being soft as a basketball team. He wouldn't dare sight his lack of X's and O's as the main culprit to why we lost games, though. He's a great inspirational life coach that has the guys playing hard, but he's not exactly a X's and O's strategist that we need in the future.
If anything, those are the 3 things we've done best this season. None of that crap matters though if you suck. I could go out there every night and play my a** off, set hard screens, all with laser focus...but I suck and five of me out there on the court doing that would result in a 140 point loss.
I still think Young will be a good contributor off the bench when he has NBA-caliber players around him.
Not trying to start any problems, but honestly I'm tired of hearing negativity about Byron. I think there's some warranted hate, but there's also a point now where a large group of fans (not naming anyone in this thread) are just jumping on the dumping wagon. In a season like this, I'm going to give just about everyone the benefit of the doubt for now.
What's bothering me the most right now..... Having to constantly hope my team loses so we can have a better pick, but at the same time want some of our guys to improve and play well. Like many of us have said in this forum in either the chat or threads we've created, this situation we're in now sucks and is very uncomfortable to be in. It's frustrating.... I wish Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones could do the little flashing light thing to me like in Men and Black so I can forget about this season and just move to the lottery night/draft and forget that we even had to go through this season.
Amen to the bolded/underlined part. I get that many fans are pissed and upset but your beating a dead horse by bringing it up constantly. It's why I rarely visit the Byron Scott Official Thread now-a-days.
Towns is or will be better than Okafor. Maybe we won't get a chance to draft any of the two but if you have a chance, you get the guy who consistently put up the numbers and not a guy who scores 2pts one game and 25 the next in the tournament. Sorry I've been to LG.
I agree with what you're saying. I don't post here too often, so I doubt you're talking about me, but I've been hating on Byron WAY too much in personal conversations with friends. I realize now that a lot of it is probably just trying to find a scapegoat for my frustrations. BUT... I know this is gonna be blasphemous, but I think if you replaced "Byron" with "D'antoni" in your post, it would've been just as applicable to last year.
I think both guys warranted a good deal of criticism, and both guys often also received less credit than they deserved. I'm more bothered by Byron off the court than I am by him when he's coaching. I think he creates more small fractures in relationships than MDA did, but he doesn't simply drive away every big man like MDA did.
Agreed with that Trodgers. Byron seems to go out of his way to dump on his own players. Lin and Young especially. The recent dig on the JC and RW comparison is another example. There is a fine line between playing the old school tough guy and then there is just being a plain douche. Byron has crossed that line more times than not.
He is trying to be the Zen Master, but that just does not work. PJ knew when to use these psychological tricks.
Letters from L.A. Times sports readers, sanctioned by editorial selection clearly, more so when Kobe was still playing that he was the cause of everything gone wrong and dumping on him.
