Byron Scott maintains confidence that Kobe Bryant will find his shot

The hole keeps getting deeper for Kobe Bryant and the Lakers. “It wouldn’t have made a damn difference”.

At this time, it just doesn’t make sense to bet against the Warriors who are looking like they’re much better compared to their championship run last season. He was carrying his bag across the lobby to a taxi and passed the players and coaches. The Lakers’ 37-year-old star has averaged 15.2 points per game while shooting 31.1 percent from the field and 19.5 percent from 3-point range in 30.5 minute per game. When Scott responds (via ESPN.com) by feeding into Bryant’s ego with, “I haven’t thought about reducing his role”, and “I think his role is pretty defined for us right now”.

Watching the Lakers is not easy, which is confirmed by the 2-12 start to the season, and Bryant is shouldering a large chunk of the blame following an air-ball filled performance in Oakland the night before.

The the longest winning streak is now held by the Lakers, who won 33 straight game in the 1971-72 season. “We do a great job of just staying in the moment”. No. But am I going to say it’s not possible?

“I’ve got faith in Kobe that he’ll be OK, but [Tuesday night] he was really struggling”, Scott said.

“The one thing this [Warriors] team couldn’t do on a daily basis against us, that they’re doing against everybody else, is go small”, Scott said. Now is a time I expect and will be more demanding.

“It’s a very young league, and so they’ve managed to put together a team of extremely intelligent players and extremely versatile players and great shooters”.

Scott said the Lakers did not need to adjust their schemes to find Bryant better shots, but that it was a matter of executing what they already have in place. Everybody’s going to take a team – us, Chicago, somebody, and try to compare us with them. The worse part of that is that they did not get anything from Black Mamba who shot 1/14 in the field.

“Steph, you can see when he gets it, and he wants it, which is the exact same as Kobe”, Walton said, reports Marcus Thompson of the San Jose Mercury News.

Making matters worse: The 17-time All-Star is stuck in the past, a notion which has been perpetuated by the fact that Bryant is surrounded by yes-men, starting with his head coach and former teammate Byron Scott.

Scott is still trying to be patient, as he works to develop the team’s young players like D’Angelo Russell, Julius Randle, Jordan Clarkson and Larry Nance Jr.

Still, Scott said he would prefer that Bryant not shoot as many threes as he has done in the past few games.