The Los Angeles Lakers have finally made a good decision and fired coach Byron Scott according to Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical.
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Scott led the Lakers to 38 total wins over the last two seasons and the team has not been any sort of semblance of a group of people who look like they enjoy playing basketball together. With Kobe Bryant's looming retirement and a lot of young guys on the roster, Scott wasn't the right fit for this team. He should have been coaching a much more veteran-laden team.
He publicly ragged on young rookie D'Angelo Russell all season and repeatedly kept calling his team "soft" after losses. You can say those things about your team, but after awhile that broken record doesn't get heard. Not to mention that a team that continually plays soft despite its coaches wishes not to has either tuned out the coach or is just a reflection of the coaching its received to that point.
There are still quite a few names left that could take the job like: Mark Jackson, Spurs assistant Ettore Messina, former Cavaliers coach David Blatt and others.
