« I could hardly believe it »: the shocking behavior of the Lakers in the middle of the game
While the Lakers have completed a disastrous season, promised to date as one of the worst in history, tongues are starting to loosen on the side of Los Angeles. And as much to say that the last hallway noises hurt for the purples and golds…
The 2021-22 season is coming to an end, and one certainty has become obvious: the Lakers have signed one of the biggest flops in NBA history. Out of the loop since the start of the campaign or almost, the Angelinos have gradually sunk into a hole from which they could no longer get out. Balance sheet? A pitiful 11th place in the West, far from the title targeted at the start of the season.
Total dysfunction at the Lakers
This flop in terms of results comes on top of big attitudinal issues, which are starting to emerge in various media. In addition to a rather striking first revelation, the media Heavy reported other behavioral issues during the purple and gold season. And it’s quite evocative…
One evening while the game was in progress, a friend working for the NBA texted a Laker to hang out after the game. At half-time, a strange thing happened: the player in question replied to the SMS. The mentioned friend was all the more shocked when he learned that Frank Vogel was standing right in front of him.
The employee who broke the news then continued:
» I could not believe it. A little later, when we actually met, he told me he wasn’t the only guy who was texting other people.
The player in question told me that it was nothing against Vogel. The players liked Frank and thought he knew what he was doing. They saw him as a good guy, but Vogel had been sidelined too much. By what ? By the role of the Rambis, by the fact that LeBron no longer wanted to fight… All that complicated the task of Frank Vogel.
You will have understood it: despite all his good will, Frank Vogel ended up losing control of a locker room which no longer responded and which allowed itself things far too far removed from the normal functioning of a group of professionals. Under these conditions, no wonder the season ended the way it did…
It is now confirmed: the cacophony was total among the Lakers, and these latest revelations only confirm it. There is definitely work to put everything back in working order in the city of angels. A vast program…
