Byron Scott Discussion 2015-16 - FIRED!!! (PAGE 172)

What are you talking about? All the psychologists say it's good to go to bed angry out of your gourd, hating life because your favorite sports team sucks. Recommended to blow up and take it out on your woman or man first for the pressure release. Sleep like a baby.

 

Sigh.

Probably time to just start a thread discussing coaching options.

 

The crowd at Staples and Lakers fans on the road break into the familiar "MVP .... MVP .... MVP ".... for Kobe Bry .....errrrrr ..... CaCHooKa Man, if you're hating your Lakers fan life. :Headbang:

 

Byron Scott is an atrocity.

How in God's name do you expect young players to develop and mature if you don't play them together? They're supposed to get better in practice really?

The only way to improve is game experience. These young kids are the future of the Los Angeles Lakers. They need to be out there playing 30 minutes a game TOGETHER.

That's how they get better. That's how they'll reach their full potential. Every time I think Byron can't possibly be more incompetent he proves me wrong. Lord help us.

 

Well at least the Lakers have given me some success recently unlike my other sports team which has been pathetic for two decades. I hate how things are right now, but they'll get better once we get rid of this clown coach. We still have a very bright future.

 

That "winning first" comment should get him fired on the spot. SMH

 

Development comes second?



Is he legit serious? With the current state of the team, he thinks development comes second.


I'm legit heated right now....

 

I may be the minority here but I agree that winning should come before everything else.

 

But if we're talking about this season, we aren't winning squat so his argument is moot IMO. Might as well develop the young guys.

His practice quote is what really gets me though. Practice is great, we all get that, but to say that guys will gain experience through practice is real dumb. Nothing compares to in game situations, NOTHING. To develop the young guys, they HAVE to be out on the court against the best EVERY SINGLE GAME. DLo and Clarkson HAVE to face guys like Curry, CP3, Lillard, Westbrook, Parker, Lowery, etc. Randle HAS to go against guys like ZBo, Duncan, Dirk, Draymond, Griffin, LMA, etc.
That is who the young guys will get the most out of. Lets be real, they aren't going to learn jack s*** against guys like Bass and Sacre in practice, they simply won't.

They have to learn to deal with pressure, the crowd, the arenas, and the speed of the game. Russell, especially needs to get used to the speed of the game. It's a night and day difference between college level talent, and NBA level talent. And to be honest, Huertas isn't going to give Russell that experience. Byron can go kick rocks if he thinks that development comes second, especially this season where we clearly aren't going to win a damn thing.

 

I think we would see much better shooting percentages if we played better defense. That would lead to some easy scores which would raise our confidence levels and we would see better shooting across the board. Shooting percentages go way down when most players are out of sync and having to over think.

 

We are not gonna make the playoffs, therefore D'Angelo needs to be playing extensive minutes in the 4th quarter. It doesn't even matter if he's struggling out there. In the long run it'll help his own development and the team.

 

If winning was the most important thing, then please explain your rotations Byron.

How long does he think we'll buy this crap? The scary part? I think he believes what he's saying.

If he cared about winning, Jordan Clarkson would be playing 35 min. He'd have settled on rotations, and he'd have the troops ready.

 

I have had to change my thinking a few times. In the beginning I was skeptical of the hire but wanted to be supportive and give Byron a chance. Last year sucked but with all that happened I hoped for better things this season. Then as pre-season went on and regular season began I started to get mad at Byron for his total lack of coaching skills and knowledge of the game. Everyone else can see what he can't. Now I'm more irritated at management. Obviously Byron is trying, he just doesn't know what he is doing. He doesn't know schemes offensively or defensively. He doesn't know how to manage players or the clock. He is behind the times on physical training and how to preserve bodies instead of wear them down. The one thing I do still hold against him is that he doesn't have the intestinal fortitude to deal with Kobe correctly. As a tough player I thought maybe this would be one thing he could do. I realize at this point that he is in way over his head. I believe he wants to the right thing, he just doesn't have any idea what that is. It would be another terribly embarrassing moment for the franchise to fire him so quickly but I think management could at least force some better assistants on him. Good defense is a great deal about effort but you have to have schemes keeping players on the same page. We have the effort with most players. A good defensive coach could have this team playing better defense after one practice. Considerably better in a few weeks. Right now we are losing in embarrassing fashion with very little player development. After venting I feel much better.. at least till the next game...lol.

 

If I ever thought we had a real shot at the playoffs, I might have different mindset. But I always expected us to win between 30 and 35 games and even that seems like a long shot at this point.
And Byron can't claim to be all about winning when he keeps putting the same failing units out there on the floor. His rotations are awful and have cost us multiple leads in games. If he really was trying to ride a hot hand, then he wouldn't pull so many other guys when they are playing well.

 

"Winning comes first."
Then explain why you left the line up in so long during the Minny game that gave up our double digit lead.

 

Winning comes first.

Where Ryan Kelly and Brandon Bass are switch off at center.

 

We'll be lucky if we win 10 games this season