The Ballad of Frankie Smokes
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ ? minutes
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Summary
In a move that has been on the horizon for weeks, the Lakers parted ways with Frank Vogel on Monday, ending his tenure as head coach after 3 seasons. In part one of their discussion of the move, Pete, Mike, and Darius revisit the circumstances of Vogel's hire, how his philosophies as a head coach perfectly matched his 1st Lakers roster, and how it all came together in their run to a championship.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.4 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show |
| 0:15.5 | because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. |
| 0:23.5 | What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought you by the Blue War |
| 0:26.6 | Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And it was a busy day in Lakerland |
| 0:31.8 | today with the biggest news being the Lakers fired Frank Vogel today. And I would like to |
| 0:37.1 | talk about the story of Frank Vogel with the Lakers fired Frank Vogel today. And I would like to talk about the story of |
| 0:39.3 | Frank Vogel with the Lakers in part because I think that going slowly in retelling how we got |
| 0:46.7 | to this point and the story of Frank's journey with the Lakers and to hear is going to inform |
| 0:52.0 | us on where we are and also where we're going. |
| 0:56.2 | Dee, I mentioned a couple pods back that when Vogel got hired, I was in the hospital. |
| 1:00.7 | So the timeline of him getting hired and all of that is very fuzzy to me. |
| 1:05.7 | Tell us the story of how Frank came to L.A. |
| 1:09.1 | Mike, I'm going to want you to just jump in here and cut me off as much as you want. |
| 1:14.4 | But the ongoing circus of that offseason was just the story of the day around the Lakers. |
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