Did the front office miscalculate how quickly it would get ugly, or just make the same big mistake twice?
: The Lakers have a 103.4 defensive rating, the second-best mark in the NBA . He’s using an offense that gives his players open looks; he can’t step in and make the shots for them. When he said he agreed with Westbrook’s instinct to get a two-for-one , one reading of that statement is that he was covering for Westbrook’s mistake and trying to maintain his confidence.
. Benching him, Vogel believed, would only lose him and make it harder to use him. Part of that logic is inexorably linked to how limited the talent on the Lakers’ roster was last season; so far this season, this roster, while younger,. Vogel thought the best way to make the most out of an underwhelming roster was to try to get more out of one of his most physically gifted players.
But the Lakers don’t exist in a vacuum; they exist in Los Angeles. Management should have been able to anticipate that
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