There's something respectable about the throwback spirit Byron Scott is bringing to the Los Angeles Lakers, but respectable won't win games on its own.
The two most publicized (and ruthlessly scrutinized) prongs of Scott's preferred approach are these: The Lakers won't shoot many threes, and they won't hesitate to foul on defense. Per Eric Pincus of the Los Angeles Times, Scott broke down those principles after the Lakers' preseason opener against the Denver Nuggets on Oct. 6.
The threes: "Our game plan is really to get to that basket. I like the fact that we only shot 10 threes. If we shoot between 10 and 15, I think that's a good mixture of getting to that basket and shooting threes."
The fouls:
The aggressiveness is one thing I want us to keep our mind on. I think for the first three or four preseason games, teams are going to average shooting 37 free throws against us—because that's how I want us to play. Once we get that established, the referees around the league will know that we're going to play a physical brand of basketball and some of those things will go away.
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