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The Los Angeles Lakers have yet to show any signs of becoming a serious playoff contender, and fans are blaming head coach Byron Scott for it.
With a dismal 2-10 record into the season, the Lakers face another potentially doomed campaign and it is getting harder for LA fans to bare it.
The Lakers' poor outings may have something to do with the struggles of the team's young core of talents and Kobe Bryant's shooting woes, but pundits believe Scott is the one to blame.
Scott seems to be running the Lakers team in wrong directions from the team's offensive system to their incredibly unprepared defense every game.
He also continues to mismanage minutes of an aging Bryant, and fails to develop the team's young talents in D'Angelo Russell and Julius Randle.
As noted by SB Nation's Tom Fehr, "all of these are reasons Scott is a bad coach."
There is a chance the Lakers could once again fire their head coach after a poor start, considering their history of doing that to Mike Brown and Mike D'Antoni, which brings us to the question: who can replace Scott to save the Lakers' downward season?
According to Sam Amick of USA Today former OKC Thunder head coach Scott Brooks would make "an intriguing Lakers possibility."
Brooks, who lives in Southern California and played college basketball at UC Irvine, could simply be the answer for the Lakers' lackluster season and could possibly play an important role in the franchise's future.
Brooks had handled Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook well during his stint as head coach with the Thunder, elevating both players into the NBA superstars they are now.
Amick also noted that Brooks has a long history with Durant and Westbrook, the top free agents for 2016 and 2017. This means bringing in Brooks to the Lakerland gives LA the chance of to finally land top NBA players.
Evidently, Scott is still holding his position as the Lakers head coach. But with the trend of firing coaches starting to take over the NBA and the way the Lakers franchise is heading, it is not shocking for Los Angeles to bring in another coach for the fourth time in the last four years.
