I don’t think Frank Vogel went into Friday night’s game trying to lose, but if he was trying to help the Lakers tank, I’m not sure how different the lineup choices he made would have been. Because if bad basketball groupings that don’t make a lot of sense together on paper or in practice were an album, Vogel played all his greatest hits in the Lakers’ 114-111 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans.
The defeat dropped the team to 31-46, three games behind the Pelicans for ninth place in the West, a full game behind the Spurs for 10th, and on the verge of missing the play-in entirely.