Possibly Frank Vogel sits right now on the bench hotter and more unstable the entire NBA, It’s almost a volcano about to explode. in fact one loss to the Jazz in the game last Tuesday morning it would have cost him his job.
And it is that according to various information in Los Angeles, Frank Vogel was very close to dismissal after the bulky and humiliating defeat of the team stillbeat the Denver Nuggets by 37 points. The subsequent criticisms of Magic Johnson and the message asking for forgiveness from LeBron James they didn’t help and Vogel was a foot and a half out of the Lakers. The balmy victory against the Utah Jazz, 101-95, is what has saved the veteran coach so far.
The game against Utah could have been Vogel’s last on the California team because, according to this information, the halfway point of the season, along with the mediocre 22-22 balance, the seventh place in the West and the fragile image that the team gives has destroyed the safety net that Vogel had, the technician who directed the franchise title in 2019-20 after more than a decade without winning it.
Against the Jazz, the Lakers snapped a three-game losing streak and halted the firing of their coach. But the board still has enormous doubts about the lack of control Vogel has in the locker room. For now the dismissal has been stopped, but everything indicates that Vogel’s future as coach of the Lakers is a question of game by game and, taking into account the journey full of turbulence that the Lakers are experiencing, his position on the bench runs serious risk.