The Los Angeles Lakers are a dismal 0-4 on the young season in a daunting Western Conference. Even the most optimistic fans likely realize this team isn’t winning a title this season the way it is constructed.
Rather, Los Angeles could look toward the rest of the 2015-16 campaign as a way of developing a promising young core consisting of D’Angelo Russell, Jordan Clarkson and Julius Randle while still finding a way to win some games with established veterans. That is a tricky balance, and head coach Byron Scott discussed it, per Baxter Holmes of ESPN.com:
That is the reality. But the second part of that goal is you’ve still got to develop the young core of guys that you have. That’s my job, to try to win basketball games and in the meantime try to develop young people.
I’m not always thinking about necessarily developing them. I’m always thinking about trying to win. I’m always thinking about trying to win. The development part comes secondary to that, but in practice and everything is where you really work on the development part.
Despite the presence of the talented ...
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