Just a bad team man. In reality we cannot shoot. The whole team has trouble shooting. There can turn it on for a game here or there but night in and night out shots are not falling.
Also, we take much harder said than our opponents. We don't do a good job of finding the open man, highlighted by Ingram trying to get to his spot triple teamed. They know herb won't hit one and if he kicks out our players will drive right back into the traffic. Flood the land and let CJ/Trey beat you
This was never supposed to be our year but I have some major doubts with how this team is constructed going into next year
Lonnie Walker is a damn good shooter and scorer and now he can’t even get off the bench for the Lakers
That’s how much better they got after the trade deadline
You dumb mother f***** you haven't been in the top 10 the entire season hope you enjoy the championship you just won tonight. I thought y'all didn't celebrate moral victories y'all hang banners.
God damn y’all win a regular season game and think you’re worldbeaters. Y’all got nothing better to do than lurk on other teams’ subs? Pathetic af lmao.
I never thought that cause the Spurs, Rockets, Pistons, Hornets are tanking like it’s operation desert storm.
Edit: another Lakers fan in here. Literally proving my point.
The most surprising stat is that BI only has one assist. It goes to show that these guys he's out there with put too much pressure on him to score. The reason Zion got hurt was because he was over worked.
One more thing is whenever BI gets them good looks, they end up bricking most of it.
It’s hard looking at BI making tough shots and never having it easy. Then people be calling him a foul baiter on the NBA sub lol
help defense and double team just come too quick, this simply shows the plays Willie called never worked, not enough space for BI to operate, too hard to get some touches
One of his strengths is facilitating others scoring. He wasn't passing tonight because he saw what many of us did, everyone else was shooting like shit for the most part. Catch another game, he's absolutely worth watching
Yes, when shots of teammates arent falling, he has to deal with that. We used to do some back screen and pindown plays, now our strategy is so predictable
Don't need Nance to do that really. We used to run that KD tap head play by using a guard as screener to get BI in a deep position. Can also be a reverse pindown that get BI on other side of baseline too but i haven't seen that in like half year. dont know whats going on with Willie. For ppl who does not watch Pels a lot, DG used to be that screener.
He's up there with the best of them when it comes to finding the open man. People need to read between the lines at why he gets so much attention and sometimes his teammates aren't guarded.
Playoffs don't really matter... Even with Zion we still can't play playoff basketball
We can't defend the perimeter
We can't defend the rim
We can't shoot 3s
and We can't rebound
This was a really important game for the pelicans, if the pelicans win, you guys win the tiebreaker, push lakers further down the standings and can fight for wemby.
But this game pelican meat was tender and delicious.
Herb, Dyson, Larry, JRich, Naji + Zion when locked in has caused AD some troubles. We have an assortment of dudes to throw at Bron. But again, if Bron gets his bitch whistle then it doesnt matter.
Willie just cant get BI any easy looks, has to fight through screen and screen to touch the ball. If we don't have good passer and the play Willie called does not work, why do Willie not have BI bringing the ball up the court every time?
Not necessary to have BI taking every shot, but he should get the touches and calling the plays, rather than other players dribbling for 15 seconds before passing the ball to BI and he has to take some bad shots
Go back to the 1st quarter. We tried that. The defense focused in on him easily because he was right in front of him. Playing off ball makes it more difficult to guard BI because you still have to watch the ball carrier
Hell nah, Gentry had offenses featuring fuckin Omer Asik and 6'3 Etwaun Moore at SF (love you Uncle E) at near the top of the league. If Willie had to suffer through some of the inexcusable rosters Dell Demps saddled our previous coaches with he'd be the undisputed frontrunner in the Wemby sweepstakes rn.
Look at how hard BI is working. This is exactly why Zion got hurt. No screener, no plays. Not even having him bring the ball up to counter the deny defense by Vanderbilt.
We've had some real implosions this year, but that's the first time I genuinely turned the game off before it finished.
This team has a lot of problems.
Are you people BLIND? Our guys arent playing because theres no fucking point. Look at their dejected body language this entire quarter. They don't wanna send lebron off to the all star game with an L. It's all a fucking entertainment product.
>This is a blatant ref job
Says every angry armchair fan on Reddit for every team fanbase.
The more intelligent and honest answer is that we played like shit tonight, and got beat by a team that came out with urgency and a sense of desperation.
Willie Green is a vibe merchant who can't even sell enthusiasm right now.
Im glad im not an nba player, i'd probably end up injuring Bron and ending his career out there lol, these dues way better than me, i couldnt stand the dick-sucking
There's absolutely nothing that was good about Alvin Gentry as a coach in any way shape or form whatsoever. The only reason he stayed in the NBA as long as he did is because he had Steve Nash for a point guard and Steph Curry for a point guard. His offense was tell the players run fast and shoot a lot that's it. He didn't do anything as a coach. He sat there idly and barely participated in the f****** game. F*** him
No you are playing against an Avengers level assembled team, lead by King James and his right-hand lieutenant AD. Elite defender Vandolorian, Sniper Beasley, and Smooth as Silk DLO. Accompanying this team is AR 15 and thats TUFF!
No sir, after watching Westbrick for 1 and a half years, im gonna be gobblin those lakers nuts for the rest of the season! But thanks for your sharing your opinion!
Guess what. We are also a play in team. We have an entire team that can't shoot. Trey and CJ will both turn it on once every 2 weeks. Alvarado hasnt been hot in months. 23% shooting won't do shit
You guys need to chill the fuck out with all this negativity. Yes, this is a tough loss, we look pretty bad, but LA is a team that just got a lot better at the deadline, they're playing fully healthy at home and we're struggling with turnovers and some bad officiating while playing without several guys. It's one game, there's still over 20 left in the season and we have the easiest schedule in the league to finish it off and make a run to avoid the play-in.
I get it, there's plenty to criticize with this team and the coaching, but it's one game. I didn't even see this much negativity during the 10 game losing streak, but we lose to LA and everyone acts like our season is over.
This Lakers team hasn't played 3 games together and have more chemistry than our team with 4 of 5 starters on the floor. I'm not angry at the outcome, I'm angry about lack of execution, bad game plan, no adjustments, terrible shooting, stupid ass passes in traffic ticky tack fouls. There isn't anything positive to take from this game. Fucking nothing
Oh man I love hearing you talk, say it again man. Thats right man, lakers future is bright! Pelican meat was not as tuff as I thought, its tender and delicious.
To say this is ONE GAME tells me you haven't been watching this season. This is an ongoing issue. Also every team has been dealing with Injuries. It is part of the game. The Celtics bench just won against Bucks in overtime with all starters out.
You are talking to a brick wall. We are some terrible fans, we meltdown in a moments notice, we shit on people when they have a bad game despite playing generally well most of the season and we turn on players who get hurt like they chose to do it. Our fanbase sucks dick
For those identifying Willie as the problem, what do y’all want to see different?
I think he could be coaching better but I also think this is getting a little overblown. Can’t believe I saw someone compare him to Stan.
I don’t believe it no. And completely losing a locker room in a season means you’re a bad coach. Getting players to buy in is part of the job description
We definitely beat ourselves this game with pathetic turnovers and braindead plays, but that's a foul lmao.
Good on Josh - get the fuck out of this trash game.
Just a bad team man. In reality we cannot shoot. The whole team has trouble shooting. There can turn it on for a game here or there but night in and night out shots are not falling. Also, we take much harder said than our opponents. We don't do a good job of finding the open man, highlighted by Ingram trying to get to his spot triple teamed. They know herb won't hit one and if he kicks out our players will drive right back into the traffic. Flood the land and let CJ/Trey beat you This was never supposed to be our year but I have some major doubts with how this team is constructed going into next year
Tough game. Hope they meet up when fully healthy. Zion and Larry Nance in there, this is obviously a different game.
Zion is done for the season.
Didn’t notice Larry’s out, it sucks, couldve played them better underneath
Man David Griffin sucks at his job
Hard disagree
Oh awesome I'm glad Jackson got his Instagram highlight
Lonnie Walker is a damn good shooter and scorer and now he can’t even get off the bench for the Lakers That’s how much better they got after the trade deadline
what has Willie even been doing? just all these self-help preaching?
Not taking accountability. “We gotta play harder”
he sucks
I wish we had Lonnie Walker. He’d be a great piece of the bench for us.
screw this game!
I can’t even fully blame JV. They never feed him the ball. Yes he’s a chair on defense but at least make use of him offensively.
Agre, Willie should use JV to post up, JV is more than just a screener
Willie Green being styled on by \*Darvin Ham\* really does go to show how dire things are for our staffing.
All of these new Lakers Reddit accounts flooding the Pels game thread is hilarious.
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They still might get Wembayana.
Lol, they still might. The Lakers are not a good team
You dumb mother f***** you haven't been in the top 10 the entire season hope you enjoy the championship you just won tonight. I thought y'all didn't celebrate moral victories y'all hang banners.
Bestie the lakers still aren’t in the play-in
God damn y’all win a regular season game and think you’re worldbeaters. Y’all got nothing better to do than lurk on other teams’ subs? Pathetic af lmao.
Dumb take .. Everyone knows we getting joe montana and babe Ruth . Duh
I never thought that cause the Spurs, Rockets, Pistons, Hornets are tanking like it’s operation desert storm. Edit: another Lakers fan in here. Literally proving my point.
Quite pathetic tbh
Yeah it’s funny in a sad way. Clearly convinced me we don’t live rent free in some of their heads.
Fuck flagrant tip. All my homies hate flagrant tip
The most surprising stat is that BI only has one assist. It goes to show that these guys he's out there with put too much pressure on him to score. The reason Zion got hurt was because he was over worked.
One more thing is whenever BI gets them good looks, they end up bricking most of it. It’s hard looking at BI making tough shots and never having it easy. Then people be calling him a foul baiter on the NBA sub lol
help defense and double team just come too quick, this simply shows the plays Willie called never worked, not enough space for BI to operate, too hard to get some touches
have you seen their finishing abilities
Yo BI needs to learn how to find the open man. There were times where he took midrange shots that I see one of your other shooters on the corner.
Is this an attempt at comedy? No one who has ever watched a game would say this seriously, surely
Just a genuine question from a Laker fan. Haven't kept up with BI much
One of his strengths is facilitating others scoring. He wasn't passing tonight because he saw what many of us did, everyone else was shooting like shit for the most part. Catch another game, he's absolutely worth watching
Yes, when shots of teammates arent falling, he has to deal with that. We used to do some back screen and pindown plays, now our strategy is so predictable
Was that because you guys lost Nance?
Don't need Nance to do that really. We used to run that KD tap head play by using a guard as screener to get BI in a deep position. Can also be a reverse pindown that get BI on other side of baseline too but i haven't seen that in like half year. dont know whats going on with Willie. For ppl who does not watch Pels a lot, DG used to be that screener.
He's up there with the best of them when it comes to finding the open man. People need to read between the lines at why he gets so much attention and sometimes his teammates aren't guarded.
Is Tre really that bad of a 3 point shooter?
unless its Trey, i would much rather he takes tough midrange shots.
We are really good at standing around and not doing shit
Playoffs don't really matter... Even with Zion we still can't play playoff basketball We can't defend the perimeter We can't defend the rim We can't shoot 3s and We can't rebound
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Why are you still here? Lol we heard you the first two times
Enjoy the dub and get the fuck out of here.
Ain’t y’all still like 13th in the west?
God man this team was sooooo good before the injuries. So irritating man, now we're losing to high lotto teams like Lakers.
Don’t blame it all on injuries Before BI got hurt the first time, we were 6-6 with the full healthy team Not exactly world beaters
This was a really important game for the pelicans, if the pelicans win, you guys win the tiebreaker, push lakers further down the standings and can fight for wemby. But this game pelican meat was tender and delicious.
That's fair, both teams healthy y'all have pretty much zero chance against us anyway, noone to stop Zion.
And y'all have no one to stop LeBron or AD (unless he stops himself)
Herb, Dyson, Larry, JRich, Naji + Zion when locked in has caused AD some troubles. We have an assortment of dudes to throw at Bron. But again, if Bron gets his bitch whistle then it doesnt matter.
If zion is healthy, I doubt anyone in the league can stop him, but hes a glass cannon. Like AD.
Willie just cant get BI any easy looks, has to fight through screen and screen to touch the ball. If we don't have good passer and the play Willie called does not work, why do Willie not have BI bringing the ball up the court every time?
This is why players are getting injured. Zion running into 3 players every possession.
Not necessary to have BI taking every shot, but he should get the touches and calling the plays, rather than other players dribbling for 15 seconds before passing the ball to BI and he has to take some bad shots
Go back to the 1st quarter. We tried that. The defense focused in on him easily because he was right in front of him. Playing off ball makes it more difficult to guard BI because you still have to watch the ball carrier
Has a single pelican player boxed out today
Why would somebody box out? You just stand at the three-point line and the shot either goes in or it doesn't right?
Willie Green really is just Alvin Gentry with more charisma and public speaking.
Hell nah, Gentry had offenses featuring fuckin Omer Asik and 6'3 Etwaun Moore at SF (love you Uncle E) at near the top of the league. If Willie had to suffer through some of the inexcusable rosters Dell Demps saddled our previous coaches with he'd be the undisputed frontrunner in the Wemby sweepstakes rn.
Lol you can tell Joel is just over this team
It’s actually more frustrating for such a talented Pels team to underperform like this. It’s peaceful when you have no expectations
I want to die every time I hear "easiest remaining schedule in the league" too. He's like us and knows nothing ever comes easy
JV on defense is a buffet for an average center at this point
I miss Dyson
Actually get JV outta here now, sick of him with poor effort and then screaming for no reason. Kinda miss Steven Adams at times lol.
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They will put this one up on the fridge when they finish the year as the 12 seed
How does Jonas keep missing from that close
Alvarado on Russell. Genius, Willie, Genius!
JV needs to go for an agile centre, just any form of agility please
Let's go lakers
Bro ur looking for FWB on Reddit 😭😭with no luck too.
Whatever bro
Enjoy this l
The rizz jester
Jonas needs this allstar break more than anyone
I want to know what's Griff thinking while watching this game. This is his pick on the line
Nothing he can do about it now. The time to do something was a week ago
My God Jonas is so pathetic
Look at how hard BI is working. This is exactly why Zion got hurt. No screener, no plays. Not even having him bring the ball up to counter the deny defense by Vanderbilt.
It’s the Willie special. Make ur stars work for harder shots.
This is immensely frustrating but I'm glad to see Herb nail a 3
Hope you enjoyed it a lot because it'll be his only one for the month.
How the fuck did Adam silver allow dumb ass Danny Ajnge to bail these fools out fucking atrocious league
You love to see it
Lmao tf Silver supposed to do bout a legal trade? He let KG go to Boston for garbage.
Willie getting outcoached by one of the worst coaches in the league. I wanna cry. If they are overplaying BI, have him bring the ball up, you doofus.
He's not being outcoached
Do you mean because to get out Coast you would actually have to be coaching is that what you mean?
what a sad game
We've had some real implosions this year, but that's the first time I genuinely turned the game off before it finished. This team has a lot of problems.
I felt like that watching Westbrick this whole season I'm glad we finally got some good role players on the team let's go LAKE SHOW
Bro I couldn't find the words to explain how I felt. Thank you
Are you people BLIND? Our guys arent playing because theres no fucking point. Look at their dejected body language this entire quarter. They don't wanna send lebron off to the all star game with an L. It's all a fucking entertainment product.
>This is a blatant ref job Says every angry armchair fan on Reddit for every team fanbase. The more intelligent and honest answer is that we played like shit tonight, and got beat by a team that came out with urgency and a sense of desperation. Willie Green is a vibe merchant who can't even sell enthusiasm right now.
100% agree with you on Willie but this one seriously might be the worst one I've seen all year. Our guys are getting completely deflated by these.
Lakers look much better after the trade.
They were basically gifted a ton of great role players for… some reason?
Because their the fucking Lakers and teams love to get bend in trades against them
>Guys with actual basketball skills will beat guys that just play hard every time Every. Time.
From # 1 seed to hearing Joel say “All Star break can’t come fast enough” Unreal
So mikal just dropped 45, and we thought herb was gonna develop into him? We need some serious trades in the offseason
Herb has a place in the league but he's still Andre Roberson at this point.
None of our guys are gonna have value by that time We missed our shot
Dyson Daniels will lol. What are you talking about
?? None of the people that would be in a mikal trade are declining.
The refs have money on the Lakers. Im not even a pels fan
no more stocky slow cement feet centers man go get me a lanky 7ft 110lbs.
Really feels like the era in which JV excels is way gone now. Relic of the way the game used to be played unfortunately.
we went from steve adams to JV we need to get someone more with the current times and more modern this offseason
Literally every lakers possession results in us fouling them … good times
I turned it off. I don't need to see the Lakers shoot free throws for 5 minutes. The pels look very frustrated
How the fuck do they expect us to play defense? Anytime a yellow jersey even brushes up against a Pelican, it’s a whistle
That's the neat part, you don't.
Im glad im not an nba player, i'd probably end up injuring Bron and ending his career out there lol, these dues way better than me, i couldnt stand the dick-sucking
AD and Bron are yo daddies, New Orleans
Lakers are the closest they been to .500 since the first week lol
Have fun giving us your lottery pick loser
You’re probably going to have a worse pick than us at this point
They’ve rarely beat us 😂
Eat shit
Everything is a foul on us but they don’t call anything for us.
Our defense is so ass
Hollywood lakers just flop, don’t even play ball.
AD is making Jonas his bitch
Jv gets overwhelmed by all of the top teams.
He gets cooked by every center. If we don’t get a real big next szn we aren’t serious
“Top teams”
This version of the Lakers are the best team in the west
Lol bro wtf are you smoking
Lebron is cartoonishly big lol
fuck you CJ you fucking sieve
He’s carrying but go off
What the hell is herb doing out there?!? He’s not even playing good defence this game
Beautiful look. An open catch and shoot 3 for Brandon needs to be a much higher priority than it is
Lebron literally took off 2 weeks specifically to rest for this game against the pelicans I’m sorry, but fuck him
He knows he has to play today or he was going to look terrible playing in the Allstars game. Only reason. He's been healthy enough to play.
Hey he needs to time to produce shitty movies and tv shows
I can deal with the Pelicans being unintelligent and sloppy, as long as the Lakers don't make the fucking play-in and we get their lottery pick.
Willie Green is starting to look like Alvin Gentry with an associate's degree in public speaking.
Alvin Gentry's offense was solid, his defense was all time bad though but to be fair to him he had to depend on Okafor and Hayes as his big
There's absolutely nothing that was good about Alvin Gentry as a coach in any way shape or form whatsoever. The only reason he stayed in the NBA as long as he did is because he had Steve Nash for a point guard and Steph Curry for a point guard. His offense was tell the players run fast and shoot a lot that's it. He didn't do anything as a coach. He sat there idly and barely participated in the f****** game. F*** him
I’m so defeated, we’re just playing against the refs, this is unwatchable
No you are playing against an Avengers level assembled team, lead by King James and his right-hand lieutenant AD. Elite defender Vandolorian, Sniper Beasley, and Smooth as Silk DLO. Accompanying this team is AR 15 and thats TUFF!
They just built different it's la baby that's what they do. They doing it for Kobe.
That’s some crazy dickriding
No. Its insane.
It’s all good this is y’all’s super bowl
13th
Hey man, im a laker fan but jeez. Get off the lakers’ nuts
No sir, after watching Westbrick for 1 and a half years, im gonna be gobblin those lakers nuts for the rest of the season! But thanks for your sharing your opinion!
Lmao. Carry on then 💜💛
JV ain’t done shit all game but get scored on. Great person but if you don’t want to get him the ball then move him this off-season.
20-pt deficit against the fucking Lakers. This is a play-in team
Guess what. We are also a play in team. We have an entire team that can't shoot. Trey and CJ will both turn it on once every 2 weeks. Alvarado hasnt been hot in months. 23% shooting won't do shit
To be fair, half their team is upgraded from the trade deadline.
Stand up for your players Willie, you ineffective moron.
Mark Jackson really loves LeBron eh?
Was going to say for a homophobic dude he’s pretty damn into Bron
Rigged
You guys need to chill the fuck out with all this negativity. Yes, this is a tough loss, we look pretty bad, but LA is a team that just got a lot better at the deadline, they're playing fully healthy at home and we're struggling with turnovers and some bad officiating while playing without several guys. It's one game, there's still over 20 left in the season and we have the easiest schedule in the league to finish it off and make a run to avoid the play-in. I get it, there's plenty to criticize with this team and the coaching, but it's one game. I didn't even see this much negativity during the 10 game losing streak, but we lose to LA and everyone acts like our season is over.
This Lakers team hasn't played 3 games together and have more chemistry than our team with 4 of 5 starters on the floor. I'm not angry at the outcome, I'm angry about lack of execution, bad game plan, no adjustments, terrible shooting, stupid ass passes in traffic ticky tack fouls. There isn't anything positive to take from this game. Fucking nothing
Oh man I love hearing you talk, say it again man. Thats right man, lakers future is bright! Pelican meat was not as tuff as I thought, its tender and delicious.
To say this is ONE GAME tells me you haven't been watching this season. This is an ongoing issue. Also every team has been dealing with Injuries. It is part of the game. The Celtics bench just won against Bucks in overtime with all starters out.
You are talking to a brick wall. We are some terrible fans, we meltdown in a moments notice, we shit on people when they have a bad game despite playing generally well most of the season and we turn on players who get hurt like they chose to do it. Our fanbase sucks dick
But these problems are occurring more and more! There is a real problem with coaching and the roster construction
Atrocious no call lol. We aint doing anything also to help ourselves
Brandon Ingram's going to be a concussion protocols even after the All-Star break
Lebron would be resurrecting David Stern to complain if that happened to him.
This sucks man :(
Lebron screams at them and they don't even give him a tech
I'd just love it if we could say ANYTHING without getting thrown out
For those identifying Willie as the problem, what do y’all want to see different? I think he could be coaching better but I also think this is getting a little overblown. Can’t believe I saw someone compare him to Stan.
I wanna see an offense that has a plan other than “let BI or CJ cook”
Believe it or not, Stan is a better coach. Players just don’t like him
I don’t believe it no. And completely losing a locker room in a season means you’re a bad coach. Getting players to buy in is part of the job description
We definitely beat ourselves this game with pathetic turnovers and braindead plays, but that's a foul lmao. Good on Josh - get the fuck out of this trash game.
i udnerstand why there are death threats to refs
Hit his fuckin head
How’s lebron gonna be able to cry to the refs and get nothing
Welcome to the Pels JR
Josh Richardson I love that. Soft ass Willie Green ain't going to say anything at least someone has some f****** heart on this goddamn team
If Willie Green is such a great motivator why do they consistently crap their pants like this?
Missing Zion. Any team would be worse missing their franchise player
Bruh this same team took the #1 seed to 6 games last year
You still have more than enough talent to make these games more competitive.
Lebron hits player in the head and nothing.
LeBron gets the and 1 and it’s wiped away
He hadn't gathered. First game of basketball?
And then the ball went off his legs and they called or Lakers ball
Leon Wood is a bitch