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Byron Scott: Some Lakers would 'end up shooting me in the back' in a fox hole

Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports

At the tail end of a disastrous first season with the Los Angeles Lakers, head coach Byron Scott has an idea of who he'd like to go into battle with moving forward.

That means he likes some of the players on the 20-56 squad. Others, well, Scott wouldn't go to war with just anyone wearing forum blue and gold.

"I got a sense of a whole lot of them I wouldn't want to be in a fox hole with," Scott said Monday. "I think they'd end up shooting me in the back. So I've got a pretty good sense of the guys that I think are going to be around, that we will build around, build together in this process and go through it."

Let's be honest: Scott's biggest concern if the Lakers were in a fox hole would be shooting himself in the foot, not someone else taking aim - and likely missing. Although yes, Nick Young would probably misfire "accidentally."

Scott's free to throw shade on certain players, especially since many probably won't be back, but he should probably look in the mirror, too. Amid countless laughable quotes and coaching miscues, Scott has either proven himself a master of a discrete tanking job to retain the team's top-five pick, or an inept coach for when the team's ready to compete.

To be fair, the love child of Red Auberbach and Phil Jackson couldn't have led this team to the playoffs. It just seems unnecessary for Scott to throw salt on what should be a collective wound.

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