There’s Kobe Bryant and Jordan Clarkson — while you have the rest of the L.A. Lakers squad wishing someone in their circle had enough clout to get Scott fired.
Scott has been open with his criticism of Jeremy Lin, Nick Young and anyone else on the Lakers roster he deems soft or not willing to put in the work.
During a conversation with the L.A. Times, Scott complimented the want to learn from Clarkson, but basically ripped every other Lakers player within ears distance.
The shot Scott fired was deafening:
“I got a sense of a whole lot of them I wouldn’t want to be in a fox hole with,” Scott said after Monday’s practice. “I think they’d end up shooting me in the back. So I’ve got a pretty good sense of the guys that I think are going to be around, that we will build around, build together in this process and go through it.”
This current Lakers team has more losses than Mike D’Antoni’s 2013-14 crew that finished 27-55. Scott says he keeps teaching because he’s not a quitter.
“The first thing is, I don’t quit,” Scott said. “And when April 15 comes or April 16 and we look up that next day, then I’ll know the season is over.”
So Scott keeps teaching because, well, he said he’s “got to teach every day.”