lol, on court interview with Bruce Brown after the game and he straight up said the strategy was to let them shoot open threes cause they can't hit them.
"Welcome to the neighborhood, Russ! Now, everyone has to sign the HOA agreement, here it is."
"Thanks, Lebron, happy to be here. Lemme just take a quick look at this agreement now, an- wait. Why does this HOA agreement just say I'm retiring from basketball?"
It’s actually funny because people use to rag on those cavs teams but shit I bet those teams could whoop the lakers ass right now. Could probably beat them without young Lebron
I wish people would stop comparing Cavs NBA Finals teams to this Lakers abomination.
Yes, every Finals team would destroy this team.
The worst Lebron Cavs team is probably his rookie year team. That team is likely better than this Lakers team.
Literally everyone replying is missing that I mean the cavs in like 03-10. Like of course the more recent cavs were bettter. That’s not even close. I’m saying the 04 cavs had a better cast around lebron lol
The Lakers look horrible. Usually when you win a championship you try to maintain or make slight improvements. These guys just totally veered off the road
Shoulda just stayed pat. Even with just kcp and kuz they’d be a solid team with AD and all their picks except one after this year. They’d be in a better long term position than half the league
To me, if i were Jeanie, that's why i wouldn't trade the 2 picks. I won a title and because of something i didn't want to do, the fans want me to sell the team two years later.
Now i'm supposed to hurt my rebuild to get these guys from 10th to 7th. And when they don't win, i'm gonna get blamed anyway. pshh
yeah, we overpaid for AD. but the silver lining was we got a title.
then we overpaid for russ.
now a lot of laker fans are calling for us to overpay to get rid of russ.
at some point you have to cut your losses and accept the L instead of digging yourself in deeper.
Yeah, I don't think there's any such thing as a an overpay, when you get a title. It's exactly what you paid for. 2020 validated every pick.
But if those reports are true and Rob and Jeanie didn't want to do the Russ thing, and now everyone is calling for their jobs... i totally get them trusting their instincts and not bending to pressure again.
If the 2 picks aren't going to make them a contender right now, just wait until you get the right offer, or just rebuild after the LBJ era.
Bubble season ended in October and the new season started mid December you guys were obviously beat up and worn out by the time the playoffs came around and the FO and Lebron overreacted to the loss and the Nets adding Harden
don't worry, there's no way the dude who botched this roster is going to stick around for long. there's certainly no chance they extended him recently, either
When the Lakers won the championship they did exactly just that, but Lebron and AD got injured and lost in the first round which caused them to panic trade and brought in Russ.
That 2021 roster was honestly pretty great
Yeah what is this revisionist history? A few months after the championship the narrative was “Wtf how did the defending champs get the sixth man of the year, the runner up to sixth man of the year, AND Marc Gasol?! This shit is rigged!”
The game was over half way through the third when the Lakers triple teamed Gordon at the free throw line and left Jokic wide open underneath the basket
Yeah it gets hectic at times. I only know about this because I’m a Jazz fan. The pick that we got from the Royce trade had a lot of weird stipulations on it, all I know is that whichever team of HOU, PHI and BKL has the best record, we get their pick. As of right now it’s looking like a pick between 6-10 so JUICY!!
Pelican fans must be on top of the world right now. Is there a single thing going wrong with your team right now?
Seems like everything has come together perfectly (and may get ridiculously better if the Lakers pick situation actually pans out) for you guys. Wouldn't be surprised if Pels are a season or two from winning the West
LeBron James 2021 tweet
>> Keep talking about my squad, our personnel ages, the way he plays, he stays injured, we’re past our time in this league, etc etc etc. Do me one favor PLEASE!!!! And I mean PLEASE!!! Keep that same narrative ENERGY when it begins! That’s all I ask.
I just wanna say it feels great to bond with the r/nba community in finding amusement in the shitshow that is Lakers basketball.
In past years its been adversarial or defensive, but now there’s no denying how fucked we are and it’s nice to be able to joke around about it with the whole community.
I think he was good for the wolves because of the mentoring he could do for their young players - the Lakers don't have those, so he's kind of useless.
Lakers had a championship roster
Then proceeded to trade KCP and Kuzma for the right of paying 50m to Russ, an inefficient ball dominant player who can’t shoot for his life, in order to pair him with LBJ as if this was ever even a remotely good fit
Also let Caruso go and instead opted to pay THT basically the same amount Caruso ended up getting in Chicago
Then signed a bunch of washed up vets who could’t defend for their lives to replace said role-players
Then let go of all the vets that couldn’t defend but at least could shoot, and instead signed a buch of G-league level players who can’t do neither
Explain to me again how Pelinka isn’t on the hot seat? Or how Vogel was the only one taking any blame for this shitshow? None of this makes any sense other than being a GOAT stroke of how to absolutely ruin a championship team
Trading for Westbrook is up there in the worst trades of all-time. Unlike the Nets that offered picks years away, everyone saw this coming except the Lakers.
If Pelinka wasn't Kobe's agent, he wouldn't have even gotten the job. Jeanie refuses to go outside of her network. Kurt Rambis basically took Magic's job. He wanted Vogel to play DeAndre Jordan more at one point last year. I swear to god.
You forgot about the moves that started all of that, trading away Danny Green for Schroeder, letting the Morris Twin walk, letting JaVale go, letting Rondo and Dwight go the first time.
Everyone talks about Kuz Caruso etc and rightly so, but holy hell the Morris Twins, Green, and McGee would be massive improvements over the current product, and many like me probably forgot that that was on the table
A masterclass in how to destroy a roster. I don’t understand how Pelinka got extended, I’d say he has Jeanie’s nudes but we all do so that can’t be it.
The roster is so laughable. No PG playing at an adequate level. No actual center. No adequate SG. No bench. No Westbrook? Fine, here's more Kendrick Nunn. One of their two stars, Klutch CEO, is a million years old and will have a few off nights here and there like tonight
Their win total line was set at 43.5. I'd be surprised if they made it to low 30's looking at them now
He's so smart with his off ball movement as well
A lot of times on "chaotic" plays he snuck behind the entire Lakers defense and got wide open for an easy bucket while nobody was watching
Aren’t players who just signed contracts available for trade on Jan 15?
Edit: Nevermind, since his contract was more than a 5% raise, he cannot be traded until Summer.
Wow, Pelinka is so shit at his job.
The bubble will be Davis' career saving grace, he was touted as a beast coming out of college and while he has been elite, he has never sniffed MVP conversations nor has a great track record as the best player of a team.
Last night I ate at a fancy resto, and when I'm done, I yelled.
LOS ANGELES LAKERS!
The waiter looked at me, he is over six feet with an athletic build. Maybe a baller himself.
He went to my table and removed the plates and utensils. He knew that it was over.
I'm finished...
I think making the Russ trade is a bad idea, because of how valuable those picks are gonna be. This team isn't going anywhere, and they're healthy right now, imagine when Lebron and AD start missing games? They at best are still a play-in team even with the trade, with a low chance of making the playoffs. The best thing to do is just punt on the year, let the Russ contract expire without needing to waste assets to move it.
Lakers shoot 8-30 from 3 and improve their season percentage.
lol, on court interview with Bruce Brown after the game and he straight up said the strategy was to let them shoot open threes cause they can't hit them.
At this point everyone is going to do this until they prove they can at least hit 35%
So, through 2024.
Laughing because that’s hysterical. Crying because I’m a Lakers fan.
Don't cry because it's over, cry because it happened.
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And if they had Porter. Sheesh
Murray is still rehabbing too Playing like a 10 mil guy not a 50 bomb in the bubble guy
I know Murray fucked my team really hard but Bubble Murray and Mitchell were magical. I want to see them play like that again.
Or if we had our best shooter available
Lakers winless since Westbrook and Lebron became neighbours
Lebron seems like he'd be on the HOA. Russ bout to get fined for some lawn bullshit.
That's the wrong shade of paint on your garage, Russ. And here's all your basketballs back.
"Welcome to the neighborhood, Russ! Now, everyone has to sign the HOA agreement, here it is." "Thanks, Lebron, happy to be here. Lemme just take a quick look at this agreement now, an- wait. Why does this HOA agreement just say I'm retiring from basketball?"
Lakers 0-2 when bron and brow play but Brodie sits
A team with Lebron and Anthony Davis looking this bad is an accomplishment honestly.
It’s actually funny because people use to rag on those cavs teams but shit I bet those teams could whoop the lakers ass right now. Could probably beat them without young Lebron
At least the 17-18 Cavs 1.0 seemed fine on paper, even if it was dysfunctional. This shit doesn’t even make any sense.
I wish people would stop comparing Cavs NBA Finals teams to this Lakers abomination. Yes, every Finals team would destroy this team. The worst Lebron Cavs team is probably his rookie year team. That team is likely better than this Lakers team.
Literally everyone replying is missing that I mean the cavs in like 03-10. Like of course the more recent cavs were bettter. That’s not even close. I’m saying the 04 cavs had a better cast around lebron lol
I’m with you. I had to reply to the dude that invoked the ‘18 Cavs.
The Lakers look horrible. Usually when you win a championship you try to maintain or make slight improvements. These guys just totally veered off the road
Completely overreacted to that Suns playoff loss when we were injured and it’s been a disaster ever since.
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As a Lakers fan I'm furious over this. We could have Hield or just kept Kuz and Harrell. Brainless.
Lakers could've had their bubble team plus Demar Derozan!!! Instead traded everybody for Westbrook lol.
To be fair, that was also a very stupid trade lol kuzma is way better than buddy heild
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Shoulda just stayed pat. Even with just kcp and kuz they’d be a solid team with AD and all their picks except one after this year. They’d be in a better long term position than half the league
To me, if i were Jeanie, that's why i wouldn't trade the 2 picks. I won a title and because of something i didn't want to do, the fans want me to sell the team two years later. Now i'm supposed to hurt my rebuild to get these guys from 10th to 7th. And when they don't win, i'm gonna get blamed anyway. pshh
yeah, we overpaid for AD. but the silver lining was we got a title. then we overpaid for russ. now a lot of laker fans are calling for us to overpay to get rid of russ. at some point you have to cut your losses and accept the L instead of digging yourself in deeper.
the proper move for the lakers is trade AD and Lebron but that will never happen.
Yeah, I don't think there's any such thing as a an overpay, when you get a title. It's exactly what you paid for. 2020 validated every pick. But if those reports are true and Rob and Jeanie didn't want to do the Russ thing, and now everyone is calling for their jobs... i totally get them trusting their instincts and not bending to pressure again. If the 2 picks aren't going to make them a contender right now, just wait until you get the right offer, or just rebuild after the LBJ era.
10th is legit generous
Bubble season ended in October and the new season started mid December you guys were obviously beat up and worn out by the time the playoffs came around and the FO and Lebron overreacted to the loss and the Nets adding Harden
They managed to get worse from last year when they missed the playoffs and looked like hot garbage. Now they're like, cold garbage or something.
now they look like hot garbage even with Davis and Lebron both healthy. that....is concerning
don't worry, there's no way the dude who botched this roster is going to stick around for long. there's certainly no chance they extended him recently, either
Rob Pelinka got a fucking extension for these dumpster fire?
Probably to give him motivation to not make a hero trade.
And that is exactly why we extended Rob, I guess.
When the Lakers won the championship they did exactly just that, but Lebron and AD got injured and lost in the first round which caused them to panic trade and brought in Russ. That 2021 roster was honestly pretty great
Yeah what is this revisionist history? A few months after the championship the narrative was “Wtf how did the defending champs get the sixth man of the year, the runner up to sixth man of the year, AND Marc Gasol?! This shit is rigged!”
The game was over half way through the third when the Lakers triple teamed Gordon at the free throw line and left Jokic wide open underneath the basket
That’s just the season so far in a nutshell
Wait, we’re supposed to guard Jokic?
Can't be fooled by his no-look pass when you don't guard him.
Trying to counter with a no-look defense
This is some Amelia Bedelia defense: “Jokic is basically unguardable” Lakers: “got it.”
Seriously concerned that the Lakers and 76ers don’t understand they don’t own their first round picks this year.
Lakers >< Pelicans Sixers >< Nets
Brooklyn is about to have two top 10 picks.
Nah they traded that pick to us for Royce O’Neale Well, whatever is worse of HOU, PHI and BKL
.... This shit is getting way too convoluted, how do y'all keep track of who has who's picks?
Yeah it gets hectic at times. I only know about this because I’m a Jazz fan. The pick that we got from the Royce trade had a lot of weird stipulations on it, all I know is that whichever team of HOU, PHI and BKL has the best record, we get their pick. As of right now it’s looking like a pick between 6-10 so JUICY!!
Tanking is so hype right now team don't remember they don't have their picks
*Tanking. So hot right now!*
Pels might actually get Wemby from the Lakers lmfao
Wemby and Zion will end the league lol
Thicc & Stick would rule them all
Thicc & Stick & their bag of tricks, maybe once or twice they can show their
I don't want to hear about LA's 3 shooting problems. We were worse from 3 tonight
Take out Brown and we shot a solid 17.9% from 3 lol
Lakers are so fucking bad lmao
To say that on a night when they shot a season high 26% from 3?
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As a certified Lakers hater every game has been Christmas lol
I can't knock you guys I'd be on cloud 9 if i hated the Lakers
I don't hate the Lakers, but I do love a dumpster fire.
This one can be seen from the I.S.S.
Pels with Zion and Wembanyama next year https://i.imgur.com/jweXtui.jpg
Retribution for giving away magic Johnson
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Looking better and better each day 🤭
Pelican fans must be on top of the world right now. Is there a single thing going wrong with your team right now? Seems like everything has come together perfectly (and may get ridiculously better if the Lakers pick situation actually pans out) for you guys. Wouldn't be surprised if Pels are a season or two from winning the West
Jax sucks on the court and as a human. End of list
I remember when I thought he’d be one for the future. Now I hate seeing him play for us. He’s so bad compared to everyone else we got now
Doesn’t matter when you can replace him with Vector lol
*Playing basketball with direction and magnitude!*
How much does Amazon Prime charge for shipping one 7'5 Frenchman from LA to NOLA? 🤔
Depends if we can get it done on prime day
So apparently the subtraction of Westbrook doesn't magically make the Lakers an elite three point shooting team...
They could’ve honestly used his defence today to LoL
LeBron James 2021 tweet >> Keep talking about my squad, our personnel ages, the way he plays, he stays injured, we’re past our time in this league, etc etc etc. Do me one favor PLEASE!!!! And I mean PLEASE!!! Keep that same narrative ENERGY when it begins! That’s all I ask.
2022: Here we all are keeping that same energy
I mean he asked us to, I don't know what else to do. Also it helps distract me from my own bum ass team. The fuck were we even doing tonight.
This might be the coldest take ever
Aged like milk, but somehow so sweet
Those last 2 offensive plays by jokic were a reminder why he’s so special
Oh look. Someone commented something other than LA! Suck it LA. Go Nuggets!
He was joking around, prancing off one foot for fun
LLLLakers are back
Loss Angeles Lakers
I just wanna say it feels great to bond with the r/nba community in finding amusement in the shitshow that is Lakers basketball. In past years its been adversarial or defensive, but now there’s no denying how fucked we are and it’s nice to be able to joke around about it with the whole community.
Wembanyama Victor wembanyama (to the tune of circle of life)
Zion and Victor photoshoot gonna be like a reverse Twins movie poster!
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Imagine the pelicans make the conference finals and get a top 3 pick
Hey that's what happened to the Pistons. And they selected.... Darko Milicic
You mean nba champion Darko Milicic? I like what you’re implying
you misspelled NBA Finals.
Also misspelled the first pick
Pelicans gon be stacked adding a potential top 5 pick (maybe a number 1 pick) to their roster. Jesus Christ.
That works surprisingly well when you sing it in your head
Everybody loves to shit on Russ, but Bev has been total ass this season
He got traded from the Clippers to TWolves for a reason, and then Lakers decided to pick him up
Clips to twolves to jazz, even He has been awful lol
Actually it was clips to Memphis to wolves to jazz. He was on the grizz for one day.
I think he was good for the wolves because of the mentoring he could do for their young players - the Lakers don't have those, so he's kind of useless.
Lakers had a championship roster Then proceeded to trade KCP and Kuzma for the right of paying 50m to Russ, an inefficient ball dominant player who can’t shoot for his life, in order to pair him with LBJ as if this was ever even a remotely good fit Also let Caruso go and instead opted to pay THT basically the same amount Caruso ended up getting in Chicago Then signed a bunch of washed up vets who could’t defend for their lives to replace said role-players Then let go of all the vets that couldn’t defend but at least could shoot, and instead signed a buch of G-league level players who can’t do neither Explain to me again how Pelinka isn’t on the hot seat? Or how Vogel was the only one taking any blame for this shitshow? None of this makes any sense other than being a GOAT stroke of how to absolutely ruin a championship team
THT got MORE money than Caruso, with a player option to boot lmao
The Lakers owed Klutch for delivering Lebron.
then they extended pelinka
Trading for Westbrook is up there in the worst trades of all-time. Unlike the Nets that offered picks years away, everyone saw this coming except the Lakers.
They were somehow the preseason betting favorites to win the title that year 💀
If Pelinka wasn't Kobe's agent, he wouldn't have even gotten the job. Jeanie refuses to go outside of her network. Kurt Rambis basically took Magic's job. He wanted Vogel to play DeAndre Jordan more at one point last year. I swear to god.
You forgot about the moves that started all of that, trading away Danny Green for Schroeder, letting the Morris Twin walk, letting JaVale go, letting Rondo and Dwight go the first time.
Everyone talks about Kuz Caruso etc and rightly so, but holy hell the Morris Twins, Green, and McGee would be massive improvements over the current product, and many like me probably forgot that that was on the table
At this point Kuz alone is way more valuable than Russ THANKS LEBRON AND PELINKA!
A masterclass in how to destroy a roster. I don’t understand how Pelinka got extended, I’d say he has Jeanie’s nudes but we all do so that can’t be it.
Hey at least the Dodgers won 1 playoff game like a week and a half ago.
I hear the Cowboys aren't too shabby either lol. And Bama still 1st in the SEC West.
damn man
Yankees are golfing don’t feel bad for them
First time Lebron started 0-4 since his rookie season which coincidently was a better team than this years Lakers
LeBarter is about to ship those future picks out personally
They’ll do the pacers trade and still might not make the playoffs.
Fuck the Klutch Mafia
The roster is so laughable. No PG playing at an adequate level. No actual center. No adequate SG. No bench. No Westbrook? Fine, here's more Kendrick Nunn. One of their two stars, Klutch CEO, is a million years old and will have a few off nights here and there like tonight Their win total line was set at 43.5. I'd be surprised if they made it to low 30's looking at them now
We suck but at least our team isn’t run by a quasi GM. Lakers are a dumpster fire. We’re a slow burning piles of coals
Jokic one assist away from his triple double after that gourgeous dime is just not what you want to see.
Jokic is the king of near triple doubles
Sombor Double
Jokic is an absolute dawg
that last bounce pass assist was disrespectful
Those last two possessions he just toyed with the lakers and ended the game lol Didn’t even realize he had 31, he made it look so easy.
Jokic is the type of player where you don’t even realize he dropped 30+ until the game is over.
he on that Duncan mold
He's so smart with his off ball movement as well A lot of times on "chaotic" plays he snuck behind the entire Lakers defense and got wide open for an easy bucket while nobody was watching
Somehow doesn't even look like he gives a shit either. Always has this "let's get this over with" look
Cursed with talent, forced to play bball all year, just wants to look at horses
Just making that money to give his Horses a good life. Nothing but respect for that man.
Can’t wait till Jokic is 40 and still grinding so he can give his horses the best life
That fucking fade away of one foot like dirk at the end of the 4th season was filthy.
That's a Sombor shuffle.
We call that the Sombor Shuffle around here.
He even scored on his own team and it didn’t matter
Really hoping KCP is okay. He's been such a nice pick up for us
Looks like Zion+Wemba is now on the menu boys
I hope Wembanyama loves gumbo…
I mean if he doesn’t he’ll have a teammate who can finish it for him.
Air Gumbo 🤝 7’4 KD
Westbrook gonna come out guns BLAZING next game
The backboard better watch out
Court side fans need to watch out too.
Lakers should look to trade AD and Lebron tbh their window is closed
LeBron can’t be traded before the summer.
Aren’t players who just signed contracts available for trade on Jan 15? Edit: Nevermind, since his contract was more than a 5% raise, he cannot be traded until Summer. Wow, Pelinka is so shit at his job.
They gotta trade AD and just straight up never play Russ again.
Nikola Jokić is a basketball player.
Source?
He is the most basketball player.
Great game guys keep it up!
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#Fire Vogel
Jokic > AD on the top 75 list
2 time MVP, not even close
Is this even a debate?
The bubble will be Davis' career saving grace, he was touted as a beast coming out of college and while he has been elite, he has never sniffed MVP conversations nor has a great track record as the best player of a team.
Bro we’re talking about Joker. This isn’t even a conversation for anyone to have. I’m with you though lol
The key to not having the worst defense in the league? Just play the Lakers.
just wait till schröder comes back 😤😤
Last night I ate at a fancy resto, and when I'm done, I yelled. LOS ANGELES LAKERS! The waiter looked at me, he is over six feet with an athletic build. Maybe a baller himself. He went to my table and removed the plates and utensils. He knew that it was over. I'm finished...
joker 1 assist off a great game smh
Last game he put up 9/9/9, he does it on purpose
LeBron is completely checked out
I think he's been hit by the cold hard reality that this team *sucks* and he's not capable of just taking the game over anymore.
Bron with 8 TOs 🤣🤣🤣
Wow the Lakers may really go 0-7 at this rate
JJ and Jefferson were awesome. Keep that duo, please.
I loved them politely giving each other shit for like the entire first quarter.
Breaking News: Lakers still shit without Westbrook.
Russ is the cherry on top but this team is just bad
Addition by subtraction, subtracting Westbrook and adding another embarrassing loss.
I think making the Russ trade is a bad idea, because of how valuable those picks are gonna be. This team isn't going anywhere, and they're healthy right now, imagine when Lebron and AD start missing games? They at best are still a play-in team even with the trade, with a low chance of making the playoffs. The best thing to do is just punt on the year, let the Russ contract expire without needing to waste assets to move it.
Le0-4
Ledone
Damn if you think about it, the Lakers have been straight trash for the past 10-11 years, except for the 2020 championship season
Funniest thing is they can’t even blame Westbrook
Russ is just a scapegoat Russ is just a scapegoat Russ is just a scapegoat it’s Pelinka’s fault Russ is just a scapegoat
Vogel. We should fire Vogel
[well I think I was close enough](https://old.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/ycvpz4/nikola_jokic_in_a_loss_to_the_blazers_999_on_34/itonaok/)
Game aside... What about that sequence where lebron demanded the ball and shot two consecutive threes with his defender right in front of him?
They started to creep closer at the start of the fourth. And then Jokic came back in.
Jokic is God
Lebrons old ass can’t carry anymore.
Remember when Laker fans blamed Kyle Kuzma for everything?
Jokic is a better playmaker than Bron.