The back-and-forth between Los Angeles Lakers coach Byron Scott and a Los Angeles Clippers television broadcaster took another turn Monday when the broadcaster, former NBA player Don MacLean, took to the radio to respond to verbal barbs from Scott.

MacLean had previously questioned how Scott has managed Lakers rookie point guard D'Angelo Russell this season, saying during the third quarter of Friday’s Lakers-Clippers game that Scott should just give Russell "the keys [to the offense]" rather than playing the No. 2 overall draft pick conservatively.

Scott then fired back after practice Monday at the team’s practice facility, saying "Well, first of all to Don, that's why you not coaching. Let's put it that way."

Later that day, on "The Petros & Money Show on AM 570 LA Sports", MacLean, a Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket Analyst, responded to Scott’s remarks.

"I’m not coaching because I chose to not coach," said MacLean, a former first-round draft pick of the Detroit Pistons who played nine seasons in the NBA from 1992-2001 after starring at UCLA. "So we will never know if I could have been a good coach or not. But I will say this -- I played for a couple of guys in the league. They chose to coach. They had no business coaching and their record showed it. We don’t know if I could have coached or not, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t know the game. I’m not the first person to wonder out loud why he hasn’t just given the keys to DeAngelo and let him figure it out, because you’re going to set records for losing this year."

The Lakers are 9-41 this season and Scott has received season-long criticism from fans and basketball pundits for not giving more playing time to Russell, the No. 2 overall draft pick, thus allowing him to play through mistakes and learn.

Russell is averaging 11.9 points, 3.7 rebounds and 3.3 assists in 26.9 minutes per game, and is coming off the bench for the Lakers after having started the team's first 20 games.

"You don't let a guy go out there and just almost embarrass himself or kill himself by playing 35 minutes and creating 10, 12, 15 turnovers," Scott said after practice Monday. "I mean, the one thing it can do is self-destruct him as an individual."

Russell is averaging 2.5 turnovers per game and had five in the Lakers' loss Sunday to Charlotte.

"So what I try to do as far as teaching him and also protect him from making mistakes like that, and from getting ridiculed after a game like that," Scott said. "My job is to help these guys develop, and that's what I'm going to continue to do. Sometimes it's going to be 20 minutes, sometimes it's going to be 25, sometimes it's going to be 30. It's whatever I see fit to try to get him to understand how to play the game of basketball on both ends of the floor."

MacLean pointed out his history with Russell, noting that he spent five weeks with the former Ohio State standout before the 2015 draft.

"From everything I’ve read, Bryon and D'Angelo never talk," MacLean said. "There is never any communication between them or at least not a lot. I would say this, D’Angelo [is] 50 games in and doesn’t look different than he did in Game 1. So all the development and protecting that Bryon is talking about doing, really hasn’t done him any good, where my point was, if you let him go live with some of the mistakes, live with some of the turnovers, [he’ll improve]."

The Lakers are in the midst of a 10-game losing streak, tying a franchise record, and have the league’s second-worst record. MacLean said he understands frustration from Lakers fans.

"Is that roster supposed to be 9 and 41? No," MacLean said. "The Sixers are supposed to be 7-41 with that roster. So when I watch the Lakers, am I watching a team that’s playing their asses off, that’s playing with spirit and enthusiasm, but you know what they just don’t have enough to win? No. I’m watching an undermanned team that has no clue. That’s what I’m watching, and I saw it Friday night. And I haven’t heard one person go on record either in the media, in print or whatever and say Byron’s doing a fantastic job they just don’t have the players to win. Nobody’s come out and said that."

Scott recently broke a tie with George Mikan for the worst coaching record in Lakers history. Scott has a .227 winning percentage (30-102) and Mikan is next at .231 (9-30).

"When you watch the Lakers play -- first of all I’m watching archaic schemes and it looks like a team that’s playing in 1998, walking it up, isos, no imagination, no creativity on the offensive end," MacLean said. "The only thing the Lakers have is athleticism, and they walk it up every single time.

"And Byron’s gone on record as saying he’s a defensive-minded coach, that’s where they hang their hat; they’re last in the league in defensive efficiency."

The Lakers are allowing a league-worst 108.2 points per 100 possessions entering Tuesday's game against the Minnesota Timberwolves at Staples Center.