The Los Angeles Lakers have had one of the worst seaons in franchise history and coach Byron Scott's recent comments about his players sums it up well.
According to the LA Times, Scott said that despite the team's struggles he still tries to teach his players as much as he can so they can develop. While he knows that a few players would like to learn and be a part of the team's future, Scott notes that he can't trust certain others.
"I got a sense of a whole lot of them I wouldn't want to be in a fox hole with," Scott said. "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."
Scott added that he won't consider the season over until the day after the last game is played.
The Lakers have lost 56 games this year which passes the 2013-2014 squad's 55 for the most in franchise history. An elbow injury to Kobe Bryant earlier in the year kept the star out for a majority of the season while Julius Randle, the team's first round draft pick, broke his right tibia before the start of the season.
With Bryant's career on its last legs, the Lakers will try their luck with the draft and free agency to build for the future.