Byron Scott
Byron Scott
Byron Antom Scottis an American professional basketball former head coach and player. He last coached the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. As a player, he won three NBA championships with the Lakers during their Showtime era in the 1980s...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth28 March 1961
CityOgden, UT
chance couple depends healing monday process
Monday is a possibility. It just depends on how well his process of healing goes. We didn't want to take a chance on these couple of games.
positive team
One positive of having a young team is they don't quit,
league oklahoma stern understand year
(NBA commissioner David) Stern and the league put us all in a bind. We understand the situation. We're going to play another year in Oklahoma City, and then after that we have no idea what's going to happen.
close doubt great superstar
I was going to say he's going to be a great player. But I think he's pretty close to that already. He's going to be a superstar in this league. There's no doubt about that.
bleed gold purple
I'll always bleed purple and gold, but I'm not going to give up any wins.
allowed body danny junior minutes struggling weeks
So I said, 'Let's take two weeks and get your body completely healed. That allowed us to get Junior back here ... and now we're not struggling with Danny going 40-plus minutes every night.
concern fear few game next simple win
No fear or concern at all. We're going to take it for what it is, a real important game for us. We probably have to win the next few games, simple as that.
good looks tonight
Right now, he looks like the Antonio of old. I told him tonight it was good to see him back.
looks
Right now, he looks like the Antonio of old.
coming floor putting ready second soft tells
Right now I'm disappointed because we are not ready to play in the second half. We are coming down the floor like we are down 30 points, putting up threes and not getting into the lane. I thought we were soft on defense, soft on the boards. That tells me we're scared.
add healthy houston repertoire stretch
Luckily, it wasn't his ribs. We'll just add that to his repertoire of injuries. He's going to Houston (for All-Star Weekend), I told him to have fun, but be careful, we need him healthy for the stretch run.
finding four good job matter near nobody picks setting shots three
When he has his first three or four shots with nobody near him, and he makes those. Then it doesn't matter who's on him after that. They did a good job finding him, setting good picks for him.
games looked miss
When I looked at the schedule, I thought he could miss 10 games at the worst.
game thinking
When you can take the thinking part out of it and you can just play and react, it makes the game a lot easier. Right now, he's just playing.