Ranking Lakers' true culprits for current mess: LeBron James leads list, beleaguered Frank Vogel free of fault

L.A. has a number of people to blame for its struggles, none being the head coach

None of this is Frank Vogel's fault.

Let's start there.

The Los Angeles Lakers are in a bad way, a mediocre squad hemorrhaging hope courtesy of a constellation of difficult realities: They are old, they are banged up, they are poorly constructed, and they are -- as with all LeBron James' teams that flinch in the face of the inevitable expectations -- veering toward dysfunction as the blame game becomes the organization's most-successful move.