Frank Vogel is the new head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. The path to hiring Vogel, as discussed on the latest Laker Film Room Podcast, was jagged and messy. This, along with the inclusion of Jason Kidd on Vogel’s staff as a “prominent” assistant coach, will serve as a daily reminder of Vogel’s perceived spot on the totem pole of the team’s power structure. The implications of that are not yet known, but they’re difficult to view through a positive prism, regardless of Vogel’s credentials as the last candidate standing.
Those credentials, though, are where we should start because it’s the saving grace of the hire in the bigger picture.