Stanley Johnson saved us last game and he only plays 16 minutes
Melo is back from injury and gets 30 minutes
Vogel is now actively trying to get fired
James gonna quit by the end of the season
Man’s needs a vacation asap
Russ been playing like f***ing ass man, whats going on
He’s ass, not sure if he should be playing more then 20-25 minutes a game at this point
goodbye Vogel lmao
Los Angeles Lakers will not be making a personnel move at this juncture and Frank Vogel will travel with the team tomorrow to coach in Orlando on Friday, league sources tell
@YahooSports
not yet lol
they're prob gonna wait until the next 6 road games until they pull the trigger.
Next few weeks might be rough
Los Angeles Lakers will not be making a personnel move at this juncture and Frank Vogel will travel with the team tomorrow to coach in Orlando on Friday, league sources tell
@YahooSports
not yet lol
We lose tomorrow and he gone
He’s ass, not sure if he should be playing more then 20-25 minutes a game at this point
Idk man , getting rid of tht will free russ
Long before Russell Westbrook was benched down the stretch of Wednesday's 111-104 loss to the Indiana Pacers, Los Angeles Lakers coach Frank Vogel was given assurances that the organization would support him in taking a hard line while coaching the star, sources told ESPN.
Over the past week and a half, Lakers management has told the coaching staff to coach Westbrook as they see fit, even if that means pulling him from a game, as Vogel did for the final 3 minutes, 52 seconds of the fourth quarter against Indiana, sources told ESPN.
One source close to the situation described the message from management to the staff as, "You got to do what you got to do."
Apart from his offensive struggles, Westbrook failed to execute on the defensive end. The final straw, pushing the staff to honor their instinct to bench him, was when Caris LeVert blew by Westbrook on defense for a layup with 7 minutes, 13 seconds remaining.
The coaching staff had repeatedly emphasized the scouting report to take away LeVert's right hand, and Westbrook, guarding LeVert at the top of the key one-on-one, didn't angle himself properly to thwart the drive and allowed LeVert easy access to the paint en route to the hoop.
The coaching staff had been debating whether to pull Westbrook from late-game situations for weeks, sources said, but always refrained because of worries about the lasting impact on Westbrook's psyche.
Indeed, even LeBron James danced around the subject of Westbrook's benching, perhaps not wanting to draw further attention to the indignity for the former league MVP.
via ESPN
The coaching staff had been debating whether to pull Westbrook from late-game situations for weeks, sources said, but always refrained because of worries about the lasting impact on Westbrook's psyche.
Indeed, even LeBron James danced around the subject of Westbrook's benching, perhaps not wanting to draw further attention to the indignity for the former league MVP.
via ESPN
We gotta let russ play just get tht the f*** of the court
We gotta let russ play just get tht the f*** of the court
let russ play and go 5/17 from the field or go 0/5 from 3
or make some stupid turnover late in the game
nah
only thing Vogel did right tonight.
let russ play and go 5/17 from the field or go 0/5 from 3
or make some stupid turnover late in the game
nah
only thing Vogel did right tonight.
B**** we LOST
Somebody should come in here and tell me why our defense is good like they did couple pages ago