PORTLAND, Ore. -- Los Angeles Lakers coach Byron Scott has an Instagram account that he says a family member monitors on his behalf, keeping him up to date on, for instance, what kind of messages and comments fans are sending his way.

“There’s been a lot of angry fans,” Scott said Saturday after the 2-12 Lakers' morning shootaround at the Moda Center in advance of their game against the Portland Trail Blazers.

“She says she’s trying to hold her tongue and not respond. And I tell her, look, don’t respond back to anybody. Because she’s family, she takes it personal. And I don’t read it because I know me -- I take it personal and I might say something and I don’t want to get into that with people.”

There is growing chatter from a fan base upset with the team’s start, but Scott said he blocks it out.

“The one thing I’ve always said, and a great old coach told me this a long time ago, when you start listening to the fans, you’ll be sitting with them next,” Scott said.

“I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to fans because fans are fans. Fans aren’t at practice every day. They don’t know the preparation. They don’t know what goes into it. They just see the end product, so they have no idea. And they all have their opinions, but I don’t put a lot of stock into it.

“That’s why I don’t go on my Instagram and all that stuff, because as [she] would tell me, a lot of them are pissed off and hot and all this and then you’ve got some that are very supportive that say, ‘Hey, we know it’s a process. We know it’s going to take a few years.’ But this is L.A. You want to win right away.”

One common message that Scott said he received from fans via Instagram late last season concerned the team’s top-five protected first-round draft pick.

In short, as part of the Steve Nash trade, the Lakers faced losing their pick to the Philadelphia 76ers if it fell outside the first five slots. However, the Lakers finished with the league’s fourth-worst record (21-61) last season and ended up with the second overall pick in the draft, which they used to select point guard D’Angelo Russell out of Ohio State.

The Lakers are in a similar situation this season in that they face losing their 2016 first-round draft pick, which carries top-three protection, meaning it will fall to the 76ers if it goes outside the first three slots.

While there are surely many Lakers fans who hope the team loses enough to ensure they keep their pick after what expects to be another loss-filled season, Scott said that is not his focus.

“I don’t think about that stuff right now,” he said. “To me, it’s impossible to think about the team and trying to get our young guys better and try to get our team better and then also think about a pick that’s six months away that you might not even get.”