Hollywood Blvd. News – Los Angeles Lakers Edition
- Updated: October 14, 2014
We like to start our day searching the web and reading articles about our beloved LA sports teams. It’s easy to get lost in the depth of the inter web, but luckily for you, we have compiled a list of the most interesting and pertinent news stories for your morning reading pleasure. For this edition, let’s dive into the news surrounding the Los Angeles Lakers.
“This isn’t the way the Lakers wanted to start exhibition play, but it’s as real as the championship trophies in a southeast window ledge overlooking their practice court….
After the remarkably one-sided exhibition, Kobe Bryant said the team was short on its shots and heavy in its legs because of the tough practices conducted by Scott in his first training camp with the Lakers. Bryant said things would improve when practices started “tapering down” soon.
Scott smiled and nodded when asked about it Monday.
“The one thing that I wanted to do against Golden State that last game, we had a good, hard practice that morning and then we had to play against a very good basketball team. So mentally it’s a challenge. And also physically it was a challenge,” Scott said.
“I think the guys are starting to understand that about a week from here, they’ll start feeling so much better about their legs and they’ll be in so much better shape. Even though it sounds sometimes a little madness, running them the way we run them, but it’s all for the betterment of the team and for the end of the season where they’ll still be fresh.””
To read more of Mike Bresnahan’s article, click here.
NBA Senior Writer, Kevin Ding, examines the timing of Byron Scott’s arrival, and according to him, Scott is right on time.
“The eldest child is the one you assume to be the first one coached by the father.
Thomas Scott says no. He remembers when the notion of his father, Byron, being a coach gained its real toehold.
And Thomas remembers the kid who was the first to be coached byByron Scott.
“My dad’s last year here playing with the Lakers [was] Kobe Bryant‘s first year,” Thomas said. “There was a relationship there. There was an understanding. I think my dad saw a lot of himself in Kobe—not necessarily the basketball part, just the mentality, the attitude, the focus he had at 18. It was really intriguing to my dad.
“Kobe saw somebody that he could look to as a role model in the NBA: How are you supposed to work here? How are you supposed to lift? Just somebody he could watch and see, someone leading by example at 35 years old and going harder than the guys at 22. That’s what Kobe got.
“I noticed Kobe would ask him questions here and there, and he always had something. And Kobe would apply it. I saw that early on.”
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