Byron Scott puts Tarik Black in Doghouse. Says he needs to play balls out.

[Indazone]

http://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2016/1/17/10784836/la-lakers-byron-scott-tarik-black-balls-out


Which Scott confirmed after the game:



Mark MedinaVerified account‏@MarkG_Medina (https://twitter.com/MarkG_Medina)

Byron Scott on offseason message to Tarik Black: "You should play like Kenneth Faried, Dennis Rodman, Ben Wallace. They play balls out."



As anyone who has ever watched Black for any length of time can attest, it is hard to describe the under-sized big man's play as anything but "balls out," sometimes even to his detriment when it gets him into the foul trouble he became legendary for during his year at Kansas.
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Great coaching. Nothing like calling your own players out to the national media and saying you won't play unless you play like an All-Star. Byron Scott is a waste of air.

[Texas_Ranger]

retard coach doing retarded things. not surprised.

when will he say the only thing that would be true? That Kobe sucks.... Well I am still waiting for that.

[Indazone]

Offensive rebounds are generally a pretty good indicator of "activity" or "energy" as they often involve intense grappling and/or shoving for position. Black had four against the Jazz, and while the two above were good, Black's most impressive one of the night came on the following pick-and-roll with Marcelo "the Catalyst" Huertas:

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Rudy Gobert is listed at 7'1, 245 pounds, meaning he has a full four inch advantage on Black vertically. However, Black outweighs him by five pounds (250), and was able to use his lower center of gravity and positioning here to steal a board from one of the league's best centers who rebounds 25% of opposing misses. Black then just barely was able to quickly flip up his shot over a jumping Gobert, whose standing reach is about 10 feet. Not bad for an undersized big who supposedly isn't playing with enough energy.

When playing this season, Black has rebounded 29% of opposing misses and 12.3% of his own team's, both above average marks. He is not lacking in energy, or effort, or not playing "balls out" or whatever cliche Scott wants to use. He's an undersized backup center who is not a perfect player by any means, but he is a hard worker and is still probably the team's best option at backup center because of his activity on the boards and willingness to roll hard to the basket. That is how he is going to make it in this league, which he clearly understands.

All of this criticism goes to a larger issue with Scott this season: his constant use of intangibles to criticize his team or explain why they are struggling. Here he seems to be playing the results more so than what went on on the floor. Yes, the Lakers lost both of the games Black played significant minutes in, but both of those losses came against superior teams (almost laughably superior in the case of Golden State).

I don't know what Scott says behind closed doors, but the majority of his public comments seem to come back to blaming his team's lack of effort or energy, rather than any fundamental, technical, or schematic changes they could make. There are a lot of things that go into winning basketball games besides superior intangibles.

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This was fantastic to see. This is the kind of article that deserves to go viral. Byron Scott has already been caught lying on Black once, and now he's lying about his lack of effort as if no one else is watching. This stuff has to end, from Scott's lying, to his inability to coach nor even understand the problems of his own team and how much HE is to blame for it, to try to blame Tarik Black for "not having energy" to me is the last straw. The man shouldn't be coaching this team or at the very least should be challenged and exposed for the guy he is and how much he DOESN'T know.

To put it into perspective, Scott wasn't just criticizing that Black has lack of effort "this" season, but hasn't shown it consistently in the entire year and a half he's had him.. which includes his rookie season where he put up better statistics in less minutes than Hibbert OR Bass have this entire season with bigger opportunities and more minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoFkHrTm8y0 watch Scott continue the lies.

We've ALL seen Black from a rookie, for Scott to even insinuate that Black hasn't been a consistent effort guy for ALL of that time is a sham, it's a disgrace, and he needs to be called out on it, and aggressively.

I applaud this man for exposing Scott for the fraud and the idiot he is, whom has lied on Tarik twice now to try to give excuses to not play him. But this guy doesn't buy it and has called out Scott. Hopefully more journalists also start following suit and piling on Scott the way they piled up on every other Lakers coach in the past few years. Scott for the most part had been oblivious to aggressive criticism from the media. It's finally time, and I'm glad to see it happening.

[Indazone]

The only suspense the Lakers bring to the League is how many stupid things will Byron Scott say and when will Jerry Buss buy a clue and fire this moron.

[Alex's foreskin]

The only suspense the Lakers bring to the League is how many stupid things will Byron Scott say and when will Jerry Buss buy a clue and fire this moron.

Jerry is sort of dead.

[LkrFan]

Tarik Black > Hibbert. Tank Commander trying to preserve The Pick! :toast

[Indazone]

Jerry is sort of dead.

lol the same place as the Lakers

[LkrFan]

lol the same place as the Lakers

Rockettes will be shining shoes just like us this year...what's your point?