“The Lakers feel like an outdated local general store”: Colin Cowherd criticizes Lakers’ front office and owner for messing up the biggest franchise in history
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Frank Vogel, Jeanie Buss and Colin Cowherd
Colin Cowherd a sports media personality known for his bold takes on players and teams recently took a shot at the Los Angeles Lakers. On his show/podcast which goes by the name of “The Herd with Colin Cowherd”, he criticized everyone around the franchise for their season failure and the way they handled the situation around fired Head Coach Frank Vogel. The Los Angeles Lakers are the biggest flop of the season as the roster during signings and on paper looked like a beast ready to win it all. But unfortunately, the reality is quite disappointing as the team is out of the picture since they didn’t even make it to the play-in tournament, and playing in the postseason is no longer even a dream for the veteran roster as the Phoenix Suns once again wiped their chances.
The Los Angeles Lakers throughout the season have shown how consistently inconsistent they are when it comes to winning games and improving their record. As they wrap up their season after recording a dub against the Nikola Jokic led Denver Nuggets and firing their Head Coach Frank Vogel who brought home the 2020 NBA championship. The franchise didn’t only had a failed season but they also failed to manage the chemistry between the locker room and the front office. Colin Cowherd though focused right there as he blamed the front office and owner Jeanie Buss for messing up the biggest franchise in the league’s history.
The veteran roster of the Los Angeles Lakers which was hand-picked by LeGM (LeBron James) failed to step up and deliver to close the game with a dub on every given opportunity. This resulted in their season failure as they end it all with the record of 33 wins and 49 losses at .402 as the 11th seed in the western conference. Russell Westbrook and Frank Vogel were scapegoated most of the times and even everyone around agreed with it. But Colin Cowherd has brought in a totally different take of his.
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Colin Cowherd on the season failure of Los Angeles Lakers and firing of Head Coach Frank Vogel
Colin Cowherd criticized the management, front office, and owner of the franchise for such a big failure and quoted: “We know this to be true in all sports. There are very few great owners. There are very few great front offices and very few great players we know that and that’s empirically true we know that…The purchase of the Lakers by the Late. Jerry Buss a maverick just a unique all-time sports character and since he is passed it is not the same organization. Forget hiring coaches they can’t even get firing coaches right. Frank Vogel found out he has been fired through a tweet from an NBA reporter. So as a sports fan sometimes a great owner passes and hands it to his kids and it’s never the same.”
Further, discussing the team decisions and Frank Vogel Colin Cowherd quoted: “This team was not about Frank Vogel, they used 41 different lineups. He didn’t want Russell Westbrook and they got Russell Westbrook. There was a story out in the LA Times saying Westbrook was ‘disrespectful’, ‘disingenuous’, and a ‘disaster’ for the Lakers. Don’t forget, pre-Vogel, if you take the last game Kobe ever played as a Laker, in the previous five years to that they had the worst winning percentage in the league. This has been a mess for a long time. In the last 11 years, if you take out the pandemic season in the bubble… which was a weird break for one team, the Lakers because old LeBron and brittle Anthony Davis got a four-month break in the middle of the season… if you take out the bubble season, the Lakers have won in 11 years 41% of their games and have had 6 head coaches. This is not a Vogel issue, this is a systematic, front office, ownership, mess. They increasingly bring in old players with big names to make it relevant.”
Further, Colin Cowherd brought in a comparison of Al Davis owner of Oakland Raiders, and quoted: “Who is that? That was the Raiders in the last 11 years with Al Davis. In the last 11 years of Al Davis, they won 41% of their games. In the front office, they had too many friends of Al Davis. They had a lot of bad draft picks. They were bringing in people like Randy Moss to remain relevant like the Lakers are bringing in Dwight Howard, Carmelo, or Russell Westbrook to make them relevant and make them sound big on paper, and then they’re terrible on the floor. This is what it’s become, diehard fan bases and great fans clinging to tarnished, dying brands. Don’t let that pandemic season get in the way – 11 years, 6 head coaches, you’re winning about 40% of your games, and like Al Davis’ Raiders at the end, you’re bringing in big names so you can sell tickets. It looks great on paper but then you hand it to a coach and there’s nothing he can do with it. This is not a quick turnaround. As the NBA is exploding into a global game the Lakers feel like an outdated local general store. Sad, but that’s exactly what the Lakers have become. Forget hiring the next coach, they couldn’t even fire Frank Vogel with dignity.”
Colin Cowherd backed everything up that he said and made a bold claim of with facts and relatively correct evidence. As he used the stats and numbers describing how down and bad the Los Angeles Lakers have been in the last 11 years if we don’t count the bubble season. His blames and takes were directed towards the owners and management of the franchise as in the end they call it out and not the players. He was also upset with how they handled the firing of Frank Vogel. The Los Angeles Lakers though now have only one option remaining and that is to bounce back better in the next season with some healthy decisions planned and executed for their improvement.
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