Patrick Beverley, Lonnie Walker IV, Juan Toscano-Anderson, Thomas Bryant and even Darvin Ham… Without recruiting superstars, the Lakers were still one of the main animators of this offseason. So many arrivals appreciated by a former member of the house, Byron Scott. ” They needed youth“, judges the ex-California coach (2014-2016), before adding: “ But the hot topic is always what they’re going to do with Russ. “
Himself, what would he do in the file Russell Westbrook ? The former Nets, Hornets or Cavs technician considers that the question should have been dealt with last season, when the leader was recruited: “ Frank (Vogel) should have had a frank conversation with Russell and said, ‘You know what? I’ll get you off the bench, so you can be Russ’. ”
And thus, according to him, dominate the five opposing substitutes without the question of its complementarity with LeBron James and Anthony Davis being posed as much. It is recalled that this option of converting Russell Westbrook into the 6th man had been discussed within the Frank Vogel staff. The latter, who would have paid for his difficulties in managing this situation, had even done without his titular leader at certain ends of meetings.
” They tried to force this situation to work, it was chaos from the start”continues today Byron Scott. “And Anthony (Davis) wasn’t healthy enough for there to be any cohesion or chemistry between those three. I hope this year they will be healthy and prepared for the season, preseason and the rest. Because I think these guys together could be great.”
The coach, according to whom Darvin Ham must continue to insist on the collective challenge of defense, however warns: ” But it will go one way or the other, it will be really good or really bad, no in-between.”
