Scott regrets not playing Lakers’ veterans more

In an effort to tell his side of the story, former Los Angeles Lakers coach Byron Scott has been doing interviews wherever he can recently. And true to the form, Scott’s confidence has not wavered — Thursday he told the Rich Eisen Show that he is a ‘great coach’ and that he definitely wants to coach again.

During his last season with the Lakers, Scott’s tough-love approach with the team’s young core of Julius Randle, Jordan Clarkson and D’Angelo Russell would often find themselves in his dog house. Scott would bench the youngsters, consistently giving them an inconsistent message that would lift them up one day and then bring them back down the next. Yet Scott came around near the end of the season and put Russell in the starting lineup and allowed the Lakers young core to close out games, giving them the experience they would need to further develop as players.

But now that he’s been let go and is without a job, Scott wishes he would’ve stuck to his guns and given Lakers’ veterans Brandon Bass and Lou …

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