Whether a person is a politician or a head coach, to raise the public’s hopes to impossible heights only to dash them is the quickest path to unemployment. Byron Scott has inexplicably committed this mistake seemingly at every turn with the Los Angeles Lakers, and it’s unclear why. The rhetoric he has employed has played a huge role in his fall from grace in the public, and will play an even larger one in his eventual termination.
No one can claim that Byron Scott stepped into an ideal situation. Signing on with a team built around an injury-plagued superstar, who is notoriously difficult to work with, with a lack of assets and continuity is no coach’s dream.