One day later, Los Angeles Lakers coach Byron Scott said the loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves didn't look any better.
"Matter of fact, it looks worse," Scott said on Saturday in El Segundo. "I mean, seriously, you sit there in person and watch it, and you know it's pretty bad, but when you go home and you watch it again...you know I found myself shaking my head a lot of times while I was having my nice little drink of something."
One would have a difficult time arguing with the Lakers' coach having a drink, or two or three.
"I said, 'let me watch it again in the morning,'" Scott said. "It didn't look much better this morning either."
At one point, a reporter jokingly asked the coach if he was considering suicide with a team that had only won three times in 13 games.
"No one ever has to talk me off the ledge," Scott laughed. "If you ever hear me committing suicide, I got murdered."
Scott added, "I might kill (my players), but I'm not going to kill myself."
When asked about the defense that allowed 120 points, the coach said he did not have anything further to add to what he had spouted the night before. The coach said he did not show his team the footage. Instead, he talked to them about what he saw.
"Just got to move forward," Scott explained. "It is what it is. Right now, we're the worst team in the West. Simple as that, and that's what the record shows."
Not quitting on the challenge though, Scott added, "I think we're a better basketball team than what we're playing or what our record indicates, but it doesn't matter unless we show that on the floor."
