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NBA Coaching Rankings: Our ratings for every NBA coach

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on-bas ... -nba-coach

16. Byron Scott

Team: Los Angeles Lakers

Rating: 4.0

Comment: Scott takes over the Lakers, who are expected to win because they are always expected to win and because Kobe Bryant is a lunatic. He's supposed to bring the defense that was missing the last two years back into vogue, and he's got some veterans (Carlos Boozer, Jordan Hill, Jeremy Lin... and yeah, Nick Young) to try and actually win some games with Bryant back. At the same time, most expect the team to be a trainwreck.

Scott has a near-lock to keep his job, because despite the optimism you can manufacture, this team's third-best player might be Swaggy P. They purposefully didn't really go all out to build a playoff team because they wanted to keep cap room. Scott is dealing with the temp guys here, the replacements. The locker room would have to turn on him something fierce.

And there's good reason to believe Scott can do some things here, too. Scott's reputation is "hard on young guys, good defensive coach." But that wasn't really true in Cleveland. They had a bottom-16 defensive efficiency each year Scott was there. He needs good, veteran talent to coach defense well, and he certainly doesn't have that in L.A. But what he does have is some guys he can probably teach to be good players. He worked well with Kyrie Irving and Dion Waiters, just as he did with Marcus Thornton and Darren Collison in New Orleans.

Scott will still be Lakers coach this time next year, and he probably won't be COY. He's basically free from evaluation until the team actually decides to try and go after the ring.


*PS: the lowest possible is 3.0 and McHale is the only non-young coach who got it.

To some people here, 16 might be high for Byron Scott.

Read the whole list. That's some bull **** right there.

4 out of 10 ? Lol

and why the hell Kerr 7,5 but Fisher 3,0 ? Lol

I actually think Casey is too low, despite how much raptor fans complain about him.

Scott rated well below Steve Clifford and Mike Budenholzer???? Are you serious?

dirtymike wrote:Scott rated well below Steve Clifford and Mike Budenholzer???? Are you serious?

tbh they are pretty good coaches.

Mirjalovic wrote:

dirtymike wrote:Scott rated well below Steve Clifford and Mike Budenholzer???? Are you serious?

tbh they are pretty good coaches.

Yeah...but are they THAT much better than Byron???

dirtymike wrote:

Mirjalovic wrote:

dirtymike wrote:Scott rated well below Steve Clifford and Mike Budenholzer???? Are you serious?

tbh they are pretty good coaches.

Yeah...but are they THAT much better than Byron???

Clifford installed one of the best defensive systems in Charlotte with Al Jefferson playing center and Budenholzer has changed Atlanta's identity on offense. Both are excellent coaches.

that ranking is a bit deceiving.

There are only 26 coaches ranked. The four new ones have a ranking of their own. There are also three other coaches tied at 16, so he's really anywhere from 16-19/26 coaches in that ranking.

I don't think the rankings are that absurd. I did find it interesting the correlation between a team's talent and a coach's rank, but then they had Randy Whitman so low maybe just better organizations and talent attract good coaches.

I don't think Byron Scott in a vacuum is an amazing coach, but for this team I think he fits well.

We'll see once things turn around how he fits.

Mirjalovic wrote:4 out of 10 ? Lol

If it's based on the job he's done in NJ, surely wrong; but I guess the ranking is based solely on his most recent job in Cleveland. Talent on the team and expectations are taken into consideration as well.

and why the hell Kerr 7,5 but Fisher 3,0 ? Lol

Notice there's an asterisk next to the ratings, at the bottom of the article, it says, "* - Estimated ratings"

Byron Scott wants Lakers to average 10 to 15 three-point shots a game

http://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/la ... story.html

Though D'Antoni liked his team's high volume of three-point attempts (24.8 a game at a 38.1% clip), Scott was happy the Lakers had only 10 attempts (making five) on Monday in their preseason opener against the Denver Nuggets.

"Our game plan is really to get to that basket," said Scott after practice Tuesday. "I like the fact that we only shot 10 threes. If we shoot between 10 and 15, I think that's a good mixture of getting to that basket and shooting threes.

Scott said he didn't mind his team fouling. "The aggressiveness is one thing I want us to keep our mind on," said Scott. "I think for the first three or four preseason games, teams are going to average shooting 37 free throws against us -- because that's how I want us to play," he continued. "Once we get that established, the referees around the league will know that we're going to play a physical brand of basketball and some of those things will go away."

Sounds good!