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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Paul Pressey, Jim Eyen and Mark Madsen will be Byron Scott's assistant coaches with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Scott announced his coaching staff for the upcoming season Tuesday.

Pressey was on Scott's staffs in Cleveland and New Orleans. He played 11 NBA seasons with three clubs.

Eyen returns to the Lakers after three seasons as an assistant coach under Pat Riley and Mike Dunleavy from 1989 to '92. He was on the Sacramento Kings' staff for four seasons until 2013.

Madsen is a former Lakers forward, winning championship rings as a backup in 2001 and 2002. He was a player development coach for the Lakers last season.

Scott also hired his eldest son, Thomas, as a player development coach.

Clay Moser was hired as the Lakers' new head advance NBA scout.

crazyeights wrote:I didn't realize an "advance scout" scouts teams and their strategies, rather than future prospects.

Odd that there were so many rumors that were so wrong. Interested in seeing Pressey and what he could do to develop Randle's game.

While playing small forward for the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1980s, Pressey took on many of the ball handling duties, even leading the team in assists for five straight years. He participated in the 1986 NBA Slam Dunk Contest, finishing in 6th place out of 8.

Paul Pressey
According to NBA legend, Milwaukee coach Don Nelson was the mad scientist who experimented with the "point forward" role and Paul Pressey was his monster. Pressey, a 6-foot-5 swingman from Tulsa with a pterodactyl wingspan, was a 1982 first-round pick who didn't fit naturally into a Bucks rotation that already had Marques Johnson, Sidney Moncrief, Brian Winters and Junior Bridgeman as skill players. Enter Harris, between coaching jobs and by that point a consultant to his pal Nelson in Milwaukee. "I remember it clearly," Harris said. "We were at a meeting at the American Club in Lake Geneva (Wis.), and Nellie said, 'I've got Pressey and he's got to play forward, but he's not really a forward. He can pass. He can see over people. But I don't know what to do with him.' I said, 'Well, you could use him as a point forward like I did with Robert Reid.'

"Nellie just jumped all over that," Harris said. "He loved it and that's the way it was from then on. Nellie was not shy and he talked a lot about it, so he gets credit for it. But Tom Nissalke started it, I named it and Nellie popularized it. That's the honest truth." Pressey's point-forward duties fully blossomed in 1984-85. His assists more than doubled from 252 to 543, then to 623 in 1985-86 when he averaged 7.8 setting up Moncrief, Terry Cummings, Ricky Pierce and titular point guard Craig Hodges. In a Nov. 6, 1984 story in the old Milwaukee Journal, Nelson said: "We gave it a name really to help give some identity to what Press is trying to do for us."

"I loved it," said Pressey, now an assistant on Byron Scott's Cleveland staff. "Nellie put the ball in my hand and he trusted that I was going to do the right thing as far as getting the ball to our scorers. It went over well with the other guys because they knew I wasn't going to be taking a whole lot of shots. I was going to be a playmaker. They were going to get their shots, so they were all for that." Harris coached Pressey in his last three Milwaukee seasons but Jay Humphries and Alvin Robertson passed him as the Bucks' assist leader in 1989-90. He was traded that summer to San Antonio, where Larry Brown had Rod Strickland at the point and used Pressey more conventionally.

kblo247 wrote:FFS


Let me get this straight our head coach is sub 500 for his career. Our lead assistant was his lead assistant in Cleveland where they made history as the first team to be bottom of the league defensively in succession multiple years. He topped it off with a guy from the kings staff who has been abysmal.

I mean I like. Madsen, but damn, even his assistant career is being next to Dantoni. We need coaches who know what its like to win, or at least fresh players turned coaches with a winning pedigree like Payton and Horry


If we were going in with Scott, they should have reached out to the men who made him in Jordan and Frank. Nepotism also didn't work well with Mike and Dan, but we shall see, least the son is young and relatable