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

They're an agency. No connection necessarily, but I'm sure they've dealt with the Lakers before.

 

They're one of the largest sports talent management agencies in the world. They represent over $1 billion in salaries in the NBA alone. They're also based in Los Angeles.

 

Coaches getting fired left and right yet we're stuck with this abomination of a head coach

 

Wasserman represents Anthony Davis, Kenneth Faried, Russell Westbrook, Pau and Marc Gasol, Book and Robin Lopez, Al Hoford, Draymond Green, and Derrick Rose along with a ton of other lesser name guys.

 

2017-18 Los Angeles Lakers

Head Coach - Luke Walton
Associate Head Coach - Tom Thibodeau

C-Horford/Black
PF-Randle/Nance
SF-Durant/Swaggy
SG-Westbrook/Williams
PG-Russell/Clarkson

 

Game. Over.

Then if we played the Warriors and their "Small Lineup" We could also go small with:

C- Randle
PF- Durant
SF- Westbrook
SG- Clarkson
PG- Russell

And switch everything on defense just like they do to be effective.

 

This was pathetic. Worthy, Green, and Cooper all tarnish their own names to keep their buddy happy.

Let me tell you, I've been through the fire with some of my friends and if they're f***ing up, I'll be the first to tell them. That's part of what a good friend does. You can be constructive with criticism. And to protect him so vehemently while you bash people with similar, even better, production? That's pathetic.

 

I get trying to protect your own and we were all sold on Byron's connection to the past and our Showtime glory, but Byron has been FLAILING. Just absolutely horrible without question this year. Last season he got a pass because at least we were playing hard with Kobe out and a lousy roster. But this year? No such pass. He's done worse with less, he has not reeled Kobe in nor truly limited his minutes, he has ignored and misused players with his absurd rotations (Tarik Black and Brandon Bass being prime examples, using Lou as a starter when he is a sixth man of the year last season, and to a lesser extent not playing Nick Young), and he has really jerked around our young core players with the arbitrary benching and short minutes for Randle and Russell.

Call it like it is . . . Byron has completely, flat out sucked. Thank you Don McLean for finally saying publicly what many of us were thinking.

 

I get it as well, they don't want to "hate" on him or whatever. But like you said, they can still critique the coaching, the system we run, or the mistakes being made FROM coaching, and they don't. It's always what the players are doing wrong. When B0ron was on the TWCSN team he criticized 'Antoni all the time, talking about what he'd do different, that's what these guys get paid to do. But apparently Access SportsNet has become about putting on a good face, reading happy fan tweets, trotting out Clown Miller to distract us with basic stuff. I don't even know, it's all a distraction from the real problem.