He was motivated. He was coming home, he had about 500 people coming to see him today, so he wanted to win the game and play well. We were able to accomplish both.
"As player:"
* 3× List of NBA champions/NBA champion
* NBA All-Rookie Team/NBA All-Rookie First Team (1983–84 NBA season/1984)
* First-team List of All-Pacific-12 Conference men's basketball teams/All-Pac-10 (1983)
"As coach:"
* NBA Coach of the Year Award/NBA Coach of the Year (2007–08 NBA season/2008)
* 2× List of NBA All-Star Game head coaches/NBA All-Star Game head coach (2002 NBA All-Star Game/2002, 2008 NBA All-Star Game/2008)
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"Byron Antom Scott" (born March 28, 1961) is an American former professional basketball player and current head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a player, he was an important component of the Lakers championship teams of the mid-to-late 1980s.
More Byron Scott on Wikipedia.It's starting to get better. We still had some lapses in the second half. That's the problem with our young guys. We get a little comfortable when we have a nice little lead.
They were playing harder. They were getting after loose balls, long rebounds. We had to match their energy. In the third quarter and fourth quarter, we did a much better job.
He's really good. He's gotten better each month and he knows we expect a lot from him, and he expects a lot from himself. I don't think anybody could envision him playing this well this early, but now that we see how good he can be, we continue to try and push it.
Like I told the guys, that's a good basketball team. We hung in there, we kept fighting, but that is no consolation. We still have to learn how to get over the hump.
I said a few weeks ago that J.R. wasn't playing well and if it continued, I would have to make some changes, and today was the perfect time to do that.
We got stops, we forced them into some contested jump shots and we were able to rebound the ball. We just did what we do best, and that's try to get up and down the floor. That's how we play basketball.
We did an exhaustive tour of all the possible facilities in the Oklahoma City region, and the Sawyer Center is a fantastic facility that exceeds all of the criteria that we had.
It's starting to get better. I thought we had some lapses in the second half. We get a little comfortable when we get a nice lead.
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