How much blame should Frank Vogel get for the Lakers’ struggles? | First Take
Stephen A. Smith and Monica McNutt discuss the state of the Los Angeles Lakers.
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March 15, 2022 at 4:21 pm
Realized last night Vogel never ran a double-screen in these 3 years. 🚮 coach
zero
March 15, 2022 at 4:27 pm
nah i blame westbrook
Bergamot
March 15, 2022 at 4:28 pm
He should get zero blame. All blame goes to Rob Pelinka for constructing the Lakers the way he did.. I don’t know why he has immunity from these kinds of talks, he hardly ever never gets mentioned
J B
March 15, 2022 at 4:29 pm
How often do they need to talk about the lakers
anhell32
March 15, 2022 at 5:04 pm
Man is ridiculous…..a lot of teams makin noise…having a good opportunity to win it all and they keep the same narrative….
Joe Jeffy
March 15, 2022 at 4:46 pm
I blame WestBRICK. He was supposed to come to the Lakers and pick up for old Lebron
Natarajan B
March 15, 2022 at 6:18 pm
Russ himself will be wondering how he became this bad.
Real American 🇺🇸
March 15, 2022 at 4:51 pm
get rid of Vogel and Pelinka!
Natarajan B
March 15, 2022 at 6:22 pm
Yeah And keep the Whiner and the Glassman till they completely fall apart. Bron, Brow and the Brick is costing Lakers 120+ million $$ next season. So you better realise this team is not getting any better next season either with only veteran minimum players making up the roster.
Kaliba King
March 16, 2022 at 12:28 am
AMEN!
orlando wolfe
March 15, 2022 at 4:54 pm
Vogel is confuse with who to start and who to rotate from the preseason until now lastnite they where out rebound 43 to 66 and he still have lebron playing center who dont play defense are box out
Dennis Dixon
March 15, 2022 at 5:08 pm
I see a lot of coaching decisions that I don’t understand. Your point. Having LeBron at center. Why? The only big they have is Dwight Howard but he rarely uses him. He’s a good player that’ll get you rebounds, set screens. That’s just one example. Many more. I’ve been saying this for a while. Vogel has too much talent on the team, even with injured players, to be this bad. He should be the first to go. Then there is a few management people that need to go also.
orlando wolfe
March 15, 2022 at 5:55 pm
100% on point and a next point is that he need to play Ellington who can help spread the court
orlando wolfe
March 15, 2022 at 5:59 pm
Once Vogel is the coach they’re not going nowhere bcuz he dont have a system for example clippers dont have there 2 best players and they are winning games and that’s bcuz the have a good coach who have a good system
Genshin English Dub Sucks
March 15, 2022 at 6:32 pm
LeBron can’t Play defense rn cause he has to score and non of them other Lakers bums can score or get a rebound.
Rodney Palmer
March 15, 2022 at 4:56 pm
Na hes done
Cemoore Pape
March 15, 2022 at 5:07 pm
pascalifornia
gorobot
March 15, 2022 at 5:10 pm
Lebron has never been coached, Westbrook refuses to be coached, and Anthony won’t change his game. Putting more than 10% of blame on Vogel is crazy because he barely has half a team that he can coach and he had no say in this entire roster. Phil Jackson couldn’t make this a 500 team.
Jet Garcia
March 15, 2022 at 5:11 pm
Vogel is not at fault in the line-up LeFraud built for LAL. 🤦♂️ STOP making him the LeEscape goat together with Westbrook.
KSI Sniipez
March 15, 2022 at 5:15 pm
But even if our defense gets better, our offense is basically a 1 man show, I don’t blame the role players but Westbrook constantly be having 5 points every game 🤦♂️
Mike Howard
March 15, 2022 at 5:23 pm
LeBron James has never been a winner, he’s an opportunist. Bet right now he’s already looking for his next team to leach a ring off of.
gorobot
March 15, 2022 at 5:39 pm
The fact they are thinking of firing Vogel is exactly why they won’t shut Lebron down. If they don’t have Lebron or AD and they let Vogel coach the young guys, if they even go 500 the rest of the year, that’s an indictment on every “star” on the team. If Vogel can get wins with Stanley Johnson, etc. Then that’s even more criticism on Lebron. “How can Vogel do better with no body’s than with Lebron and the HOFs?”
SDBROOKS08
March 15, 2022 at 6:09 pm
Naw don’t blame frank. Westbrick is trashhhhhh
iLLMaTiK
March 15, 2022 at 6:18 pm
the suns choked last year and thats arguably the top squad in the west. i dont think they can win it all, but they can sure be a spoiler against some western team.
EbbsNFlow
March 15, 2022 at 7:26 pm
LeBron is not sitting. He’s after Kareem’s all-time points record, so as long as he’s healthy, he’s going to put up shots (while neglecting defence).
Tashie D
March 15, 2022 at 7:56 pm
Frank Vogel is a coach who is known for defense. He has a roster full of offensive players. He was doomed from the start. The players don’t wanna learn defense, and thats Frank’s area of expertise. If they don’t wanna listen to him, there’s nothing else he can do. If they don’t change up that squad, I think Frank should leave on his own
Mista Idgaf
March 15, 2022 at 8:19 pm
LeBron AD and Westbrook should go
WhYsOSeRiOus?
March 15, 2022 at 8:23 pm
these espn “analysts” will blame everybody BUT LeBen Simmons James. if its not westbrook, its vogel or its AD. BUT LEWHINE? NO, HE’S GOOD EVEN IF HE DONT DO FUCKALL ON DEFENSE
_ MOEGREEN
March 15, 2022 at 8:36 pm
Lakers front office is the most to blame. The Lakers have had 1 good season in the past 10 years. There’s so much dysfunction going on
SOExclusive
March 15, 2022 at 8:41 pm
It’s not Vogel. It’s the team. LeBron has given up on them. Last game there was so many times he just walked and shook his head. LeBron has quit on the Lakers
2nd: This roster of players are trash. They got no hustle or basketball IQ. They don’t pay attention to the ball or their man. Just pay attention to how they defend and get back on defense. It’s LACKLUSTER!
LeBron still takes some blame because he wanted these guys and assembled them
Joe Frazier's Left Hook
March 15, 2022 at 9:31 pm
The Russell Westbrook experience with the Lakers has become the name of the 1985 Hollywood movie, “To Live and Die in L.A.”.
HaL aStarTé
March 15, 2022 at 9:41 pm
“Ha, ha,Haha, hahahaha, ha. And I thought, my jokes were bad.”
Wittle baby lebron got his way,
and now the coach has got to pay.
James Worthy
March 16, 2022 at 12:46 am
Sport analysts be costing coaches & players jobs