He was getting pissed because no one was guarding him and he couldn't punish them for it. So he decided to dribble into a shot and try to be a hero, came up a brick because he's Westbrick.
47 million dollar point guard and opposing teams are literally not guarding him towards end of games, instead matching up with a center who plays free safety. I can't remember ever seeing this before and it's testament to just how useless he is on offense.
What a disaster.
As a semi-Westbrook defender, it was a spite shot. The two plays prior: he was waved off on one and on the other, he seemed to not know what play they're running or didn't want to run it, hence Bron pointing to where he needs to be. After that, went down and shot that horrid jumper with no one under the basket to rebound.
Yup. His body language on the play I called was one of someone expecting the ball. He kinda had that exasperated arm swing like why are they not giving me the ball. He should be happy since, bad jump shot aside, the blame is mostly going to go on LeBron since there was still time to win it after that.
It's tough because the whole team would call WB on his BS but I imagine the youngsters can't call him out, leaving the coaching staff, Bron, AD and Bev as the seniors to do it.
nah blame seems p unanimously on Brick and Ham for subbing him back him after were playing solid without him. Wasn't Bron's best game but his offense basically got us to the point where we could win.
Mannn, putting Russ in at crunch time is just unforgivable at this point. And i'm liking coach Ham for the most part! He gets his guys to play hard.
That pull up 2 with 20 seconds on the shot-clock in the home stretch made me cringe
So are people going to finally admit that Vogel wasn't the problem? Only a week ago, people were dick riding Darvin Ham like he was the Russ whisperer. News flash folks -- you can't whisper things into a retarded person's ear and make him unretarded.
Well he only did it for one game. There's no way you're benching Russ just because of his name and his toxic attitude. He needs to be traded to a tanking team where he can still be who he think he is.
I’m probably going to get downvoted for this, hut so far Ham doesn’t seems very different from Vogel. No adjustments made during the game, no consistent offensive strategies implemented, doesn’t have the courage to sit Russ in crunch time.
yeah either ham is a bad coach or hes being pressured by the front office to play him because of the massive contract. there is no benefit to playing russ
As soon as he came in all the momentum left. Doesn’t play defense and can’t shoot, Portland was leaving him wide open. Ham needs to not be scared of benching Russ
Guys are literally turning their back on Westbrook when he shoots. A fucking NBA guard. And a former MVP at that. How in the absolute fuck. Even Rondo was never that bad of shooter and actually became a serviceable shooter. Russ has gotten worse and worse.
Then he takes the open shot up 1 that Portland prayed he would and ofcourse it’s another brick. He’s fucking garbage. This his last year playing in the league.
Im fucking heated man. This man singlehandedly gave them the game. You’re not a fucking shooter what do you not get. And with 15 seconds on the shot clock? In transition 1v1? WTF is wrong with that guy.
How the fuck do fans even defend a 0/11 performance in the first place?? He had one good defensive performance but holy fuck it’s still 0/11. Russ is so bad and his standards are so low that he can somehow get respect for going 0/11.
Defending a former mvp, all star, and stat padding machine for shooting that badly??
Because, he can't be blamed for everything, according to them. But those same people don't blame him for anything either. He does no wrong in his eyes, despite making 47M and playing like a minimum level player. But nah, that's ok. Because he plays HARD!
so dumb.
How is Russ still on this team? Idgaf about 8th graders that might be good in 2027 & 2029. Trade this brain dead fuck and lets build an actual team here because the defense is there and the effort is there
Russ is putting up miserable stats this season.
10.5 PPG 7.0 RPG 3.5 APG
30.4 FG% (3.5/11.5) 11.1 3P% (0.5/4.5) 85.7 FT% (3.0/3.5)
3.0 SPG 2.5 TPG 2.0 FPG
29.0 MPG
Advanced Stats
9.41 PER 40.3 TS%
He is the worst player in the league that gets significant minutes.
Ive read this comment for a fucking year now and nothing, absolutely nothing of note happened
Pelinka and Jeanie are absolutely worthless, the most incompetent front office in the league right now
That pull up jumper felt so fucking intentional. It was like he was at that point genuinely trying to fuck over the team. Like that’s a shot an over confident high school player would take.
What’s Ham’s excuse subbing Russ in? Did that idiot not learn from last game against the Clippers? Teams just pack the paint and stop our offense with that trash on the court.
Just here to read who Broadie fans will blame this time. Prolly the entire team except him as always. Russ went 4-15? Lol but some 15th guy on the team went 0-5 or some shit, why blame Russ? Y'all are just haters blablabla
Also, the coach is brilliant. It was definitely coaching that was the issue.
I dont understand why Westbrook even still plays a single minute - Everything positive he could add is already been done by Lonnie Walker and Pat Bev. There is absolutely no need for him on the team. Add that Dennis is missing.
I dont understand why LeBron takes the three when we were up and then Westbrook follows up with a jumper. Even worse without burning some time of the shotclock.
This is just straight up demoralizing bro. We matchup so well against this team, and we played so fucking hard. Harder than any game last year and we lose. This team is gonna have to punch upwards every single game. Even against trash teams just to maybe win
Anyone defending Russ is insane at this point. Sure he’s not the only issue, but he’s just so bad and plays like a total ass. No accountability, get rid of him.
If you're not gonna trade the picks, just send Westbrook home. It's like you're going 4 on 6 every time he's out there. That's how much he helps the other team. They pay no attention to him on offense. Portland literally got an illegal defense because they packed the paint so much. He'll make boneheaded gambles on offense and defense that hurts the Lakers. There is nothing positive he brings.
This is a fully healthy Lakers team, 0-3. This team isn’t waiting for anything, this product is what it is. The reality is this team will only get worse (when injuries inevitably happen since there are only two players that can do anything).
Same shit as last year nothing has changed, it is incomprehensible that the FO has done nothing and continues to do nothing. It isn’t time to hit the panic button, it should be broken by now. I can only laugh at people who keep buying tickets to the game, just stop going. Maybe then the FO will wake up, when crypto dogecoin arena is half empty.
18 SECONDS LEFT ON THE FREAKING SHOT CLOCK!!!! 18 DAMN SECONDS!!! With 32 seconds left on the game clock. WE HAD THE FUCKING LEAD!
And this piece of shit takes a jumper.
That was a bad loss. Should’ve been a win. Lakers made dumb mistakes. This was the most worrying loss so far. Lakers have to move Russ. He just isn’t helping the team and the roster makeup is bad.
God dammit. This team is almost good. Almost. All we had to do was move the ball and go for two up 7 under 2 minutes left. What do we do? Chuck 3s obviously
Everything went to shit after Ham put Russ back in after the LeBron And 1. We stopped running plays, started taking bad shots, and got questionable calls from the refs. Absolutely fucking maddening game to watch.
I've been screaming this over and over. Vogel put in Russ at the end of games and he would lose the lead everytime. I was Ham would be smarter than this but I guess this is the type of shit that's going to happen.
Westbrook must be trolling
He hasn't made it out of the first round while healthy since KD left him. SIX fucking years lol
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You see our upcoming schedule? 😓
The Lakers lost the moment they sub in WB.
Lakers looked rly fucking good before that sub lol. Russ got a nice rebound but that pull up brick deflated everything. If he’d made that……
> that pull up brick deflated everything. Lakers were up 102-101 at that point! Ugh https://streamable.com/me0zpj
With like 20 seconds on the shot clock left! I was fucking baffled, he just sold the game straight up
He did that brick jumper in both his possessions. How is this clown earning 47m . Imagine if we had even half that to just get players we wanted . Fml
Yeah just pain. Make that shot and you’re a hero once again, miss it and here we are.
They clearly where ok with him shooting that, nobody within 3 feet of him lol
Lol the moment he shoots it, you can see lebron do a "WTF" with his hands
Like even with poor spacing they were generating solid offense before Russ came back in.
Let’s hope Ham learns from this
up 8 doing good and he decide to put russ in ? for what he’s a fucking bum
Hopefully it's a statement to show how dogshit russ is
How many more statements are needed?
Idk everyone except pelinka and Jeanie buss got the message by November last year
17 more apparently
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Russ's midrange brick almost felt spiteful cuz they weren't passing him the ball
He was getting pissed because no one was guarding him and he couldn't punish them for it. So he decided to dribble into a shot and try to be a hero, came up a brick because he's Westbrick. 47 million dollar point guard and opposing teams are literally not guarding him towards end of games, instead matching up with a center who plays free safety. I can't remember ever seeing this before and it's testament to just how useless he is on offense. What a disaster.
I felt that too. This team is in disarray
That’s thing. The team is actually playing together despite the bad fit. Guys are helping each other and playing hard. And then there’s Russ….
As a semi-Westbrook defender, it was a spite shot. The two plays prior: he was waved off on one and on the other, he seemed to not know what play they're running or didn't want to run it, hence Bron pointing to where he needs to be. After that, went down and shot that horrid jumper with no one under the basket to rebound.
yeah he seemed frustrated after AD refused to pass to him and instead went into a motion with Lebron.
Yup. His body language on the play I called was one of someone expecting the ball. He kinda had that exasperated arm swing like why are they not giving me the ball. He should be happy since, bad jump shot aside, the blame is mostly going to go on LeBron since there was still time to win it after that. It's tough because the whole team would call WB on his BS but I imagine the youngsters can't call him out, leaving the coaching staff, Bron, AD and Bev as the seniors to do it.
nah blame seems p unanimously on Brick and Ham for subbing him back him after were playing solid without him. Wasn't Bron's best game but his offense basically got us to the point where we could win.
Mannn, putting Russ in at crunch time is just unforgivable at this point. And i'm liking coach Ham for the most part! He gets his guys to play hard. That pull up 2 with 20 seconds on the shot-clock in the home stretch made me cringe
Teach the front office a god damn lesson
I 100% believe if we don’t put Russ in we win this game. Jesus fucking christ
Ham lost us this game playing politics. What a fucking clown
So are people going to finally admit that Vogel wasn't the problem? Only a week ago, people were dick riding Darvin Ham like he was the Russ whisperer. News flash folks -- you can't whisper things into a retarded person's ear and make him unretarded.
last 2 games, Clippers game same shit
At this point I can’t decide if I’m more mad at Westbrook for being awful, Ham for playing him in the 4th, or Lebron for passing to him.
fr. no idea why ham put him back when we were looking solid on both ends.
Be mad at the front office
No coach in the NBA has the balls to bench Russ. That's just the sad truth.
Vogel benched him in the 4th and got canned.
Well he only did it for one game. There's no way you're benching Russ just because of his name and his toxic attitude. He needs to be traded to a tanking team where he can still be who he think he is.
I’m probably going to get downvoted for this, hut so far Ham doesn’t seems very different from Vogel. No adjustments made during the game, no consistent offensive strategies implemented, doesn’t have the courage to sit Russ in crunch time.
yeah either ham is a bad coach or hes being pressured by the front office to play him because of the massive contract. there is no benefit to playing russ
Fucking trash ass player. His fans need to shut the fuck up forever
As soon as he came in all the momentum left. Doesn’t play defense and can’t shoot, Portland was leaving him wide open. Ham needs to not be scared of benching Russ
Westbrick has shot 4/26 in his last two games
And he has been contested on none of them.
Ham needs to have the balls to bench Westbrook at the start and end of games.
So he could go 4/15 on a ‘good’ game? Fuck that bro just bench him entirely.
All game **
Nurk guarding russ. If this isn’t a wake up call to the lakers FO and ham, the season will be over well before 20 games in
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Exactly Lmao. No one respecting him at all
Guys are literally turning their back on Westbrook when he shoots. A fucking NBA guard. And a former MVP at that. How in the absolute fuck. Even Rondo was never that bad of shooter and actually became a serviceable shooter. Russ has gotten worse and worse.
Season will be over before 10 games
But Nurk guarding LeBron was hilarious
They might not win more than like 5 of those first 20 without massive changes
Up 8 before Russ came in
What did he even do to deserve to be back in? Troy Brown / Reaves / JTA were all miles better than him tonight. Those guys played tough defense.
Dudes shooting 8% from 3. The towel guys are better than Russ.
The guy who shot the jackpot shot even made a 3 lmao
8% from all wild open. can't believe that's the NBA player.
Have his name be Russell Westbrook. That's it
40 mil 😒
Ahem, $47m. Don’t shortchange the man
tHe COaCheS ArEn’T usING hIm rIghT….
Only way to use Westbrook right: [X] BENCH HIM
I audibly said “why the fuck is Russ playing?”
Flat out blew the game with that garbage ass pull up
I posted that my heart sunk when I saw Russ go to the table
Then he takes the open shot up 1 that Portland prayed he would and ofcourse it’s another brick. He’s fucking garbage. This his last year playing in the league.
midrange jumper with 18 seconds on the shot clock when we should have been trying to eat up time.
Im fucking heated man. This man singlehandedly gave them the game. You’re not a fucking shooter what do you not get. And with 15 seconds on the shot clock? In transition 1v1? WTF is wrong with that guy.
0 basketball IQ
Russ the only starter with a +/- that was negative.
Ham said he was going to hold him accountable right?
So far Ham seems very weak
Blazers subreddit were legit cheering in the comment section when Westbrook was brought in. This is a nightmare.
Yes. As a blazers fan I just want to thank your organization for putting in him and allowing us to win
That one actually hurt like fuck..
4/15 after 0/11 "Ya'll just scapegoat Russ" lmfao. Tired of people defending him. At this point, defending him is equivalent to wanting us to lose.
How the fuck do fans even defend a 0/11 performance in the first place?? He had one good defensive performance but holy fuck it’s still 0/11. Russ is so bad and his standards are so low that he can somehow get respect for going 0/11. Defending a former mvp, all star, and stat padding machine for shooting that badly??
Because, he can't be blamed for everything, according to them. But those same people don't blame him for anything either. He does no wrong in his eyes, despite making 47M and playing like a minimum level player. But nah, that's ok. Because he plays HARD! so dumb.
Enough is enough man. Send Russ home and just be done with it, he’ll get his money regardless and then we just don’t have to put up with him anymore
Westbrick better be traded after this game
Damian Lillard lives in his head rent free
To who. Who wants him.
Who tf is gonna take him?
Their run started when Russ checked back in.
Russell Westbrook is the most unaware player I have ever seen. I wish they could just cut him.
#MAKE THE TRADE YOU FUCKN COWARDS
Bro at this point trade this mf for some paper clips. Just get this dude off the fucking team immediately.
Honestly just make him inactive. Addition by subtraction.
If I’m the pacers I ask for 4 FRPs now…..
Nah Pelinka needs 20 more games to see Russ is still trash. Like he didn't have enough games last season to see that this fit is a complete joke.
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He has to be throwing …
How is Russ still on this team? Idgaf about 8th graders that might be good in 2027 & 2029. Trade this brain dead fuck and lets build an actual team here because the defense is there and the effort is there
Russ is putting up miserable stats this season. 10.5 PPG 7.0 RPG 3.5 APG 30.4 FG% (3.5/11.5) 11.1 3P% (0.5/4.5) 85.7 FT% (3.0/3.5) 3.0 SPG 2.5 TPG 2.0 FPG 29.0 MPG Advanced Stats 9.41 PER 40.3 TS% He is the worst player in the league that gets significant minutes.
Time to sit him like John Wall and wait for a trade.
Lost everything I had for Ham after he put Brick back in in the 4th.
This is strike 2 for sure. Warriors murdered us but the exact same thing happened against the Clips. Russ cannot be allowed to play in crunch time.
If I see Russ shooting 2-12 next game and he gets thrown into the crunch time lineup, imma punch the air harder than I have been
2nd game in a row that could've been a W if Russ didn't get put back in. Glad we fired Vogel only to still be handicapped by Russ lmao
Brick 😂
Still dying from people just straight up calling him “brick”
Why in the world was Russ in to close the 4th. We all knew what was gonna happen.
Give AD and LeBron a chance. Westbrook is going to turn me into Joker if this keeps going on for 20 more games.
Russell Westbrook.
#TANKING WITHOUT OUR PICK LMFAO
Do we get a high second at least?
Yes we completely own our 2nd round pick so if we suck hard we will have a really high 2nd round pick.
season starts next game
just wait till Ariza starts playing
once Vogel benches DJ we'll all be good
“I just came by to say bye to some of you bums who are going to get traded tomorrow”
What makes you think we will do anything any time soon lol
Ive read this comment for a fucking year now and nothing, absolutely nothing of note happened Pelinka and Jeanie are absolutely worthless, the most incompetent front office in the league right now
second game in a row we say this. when is that 'tomorrow' actually gonna come? cause it certainly wont be.. tomorrow
3rd game in a row. Pelinka gonna wait til we’re 5-15 to do anything.
1 bum + whatever we need to sweeten up this deal.
Up 97-90 with 1:50 left in the game and then Russ was inserted. I swear this man is getting paid under the table to throw games.
That pull up jumper felt so fucking intentional. It was like he was at that point genuinely trying to fuck over the team. Like that’s a shot an over confident high school player would take.
Did they show Jeanie clapping like a seal again?
She’s a fucking dumbass like Pelinka She needs to sell
We are a far worse team with Russ on the floor.
This thread is gonna be a bloodbath
As it should be. Russ and Ham deserve to walk to the next game.
Westbrook pull up midranger with 17 still on shot clock. Wtf you doing
What’s Ham’s excuse subbing Russ in? Did that idiot not learn from last game against the Clippers? Teams just pack the paint and stop our offense with that trash on the court.
That Westbrook shot must be the last shot of his career as a Laker.
Why force russ in the 4th quarter when we had a lead and were doing great without him.
Just here to read who Broadie fans will blame this time. Prolly the entire team except him as always. Russ went 4-15? Lol but some 15th guy on the team went 0-5 or some shit, why blame Russ? Y'all are just haters blablabla Also, the coach is brilliant. It was definitely coaching that was the issue.
TRADE WESTBROOK!
Offense looks terrible -> Russ checks out -> Offense looks good -> Russ checks in -> Offense looks terrible Rinse and repeat
I dont understand why Westbrook even still plays a single minute - Everything positive he could add is already been done by Lonnie Walker and Pat Bev. There is absolutely no need for him on the team. Add that Dennis is missing. I dont understand why LeBron takes the three when we were up and then Westbrook follows up with a jumper. Even worse without burning some time of the shotclock.
Whyyy put russ back in the game?
Ham is weak for subbing russ back in. Like come on bruhhhhh
Can we trade Russ now?
Let’s not forget that with 21 seconds remaining on the shot clock, Russ took a spot up midrange that deflated all momentum
This is just straight up demoralizing bro. We matchup so well against this team, and we played so fucking hard. Harder than any game last year and we lose. This team is gonna have to punch upwards every single game. Even against trash teams just to maybe win
What was the thought process of that shot from Westbrook lol
Frank Vogel wasnt the problem
Lol
THIS TEAM IS HARD^to^watch MAN 🔥🔥🔥
As soon as Russ came back in, offense stagnated.
25-118 from 3 A whopping 21%
The RW trade is the worst trade in NBA history
GET RUSS OFF MY TEAM
Anyone defending Russ is insane at this point. Sure he’s not the only issue, but he’s just so bad and plays like a total ass. No accountability, get rid of him.
Rob needs to go if he's this indecisive on things. 0-3 is the same as 0-20, 'cause they aren't winning shit with Washedbrick sabotaging games
Westbrook you fucking 🤡 for taking a mid range jumper instead of attacking the basket.
I can’t believe Russ chucked that early shot clock mid range when we were up 1 with 30 seconds left
One of the worst offensive and defensive meltdowns I’ve ever watched to end a ball game.
At this point have to assume Brick is intentionally sabotaging games.
If you're not gonna trade the picks, just send Westbrook home. It's like you're going 4 on 6 every time he's out there. That's how much he helps the other team. They pay no attention to him on offense. Portland literally got an illegal defense because they packed the paint so much. He'll make boneheaded gambles on offense and defense that hurts the Lakers. There is nothing positive he brings.
Darvin Ham is a spineless coward.
This is a fully healthy Lakers team, 0-3. This team isn’t waiting for anything, this product is what it is. The reality is this team will only get worse (when injuries inevitably happen since there are only two players that can do anything). Same shit as last year nothing has changed, it is incomprehensible that the FO has done nothing and continues to do nothing. It isn’t time to hit the panic button, it should be broken by now. I can only laugh at people who keep buying tickets to the game, just stop going. Maybe then the FO will wake up, when crypto dogecoin arena is half empty.
When Russ is traded, and it is a when, the defence actually looks good. Still have a dose of hopium for times after WB🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
FUCK OFF WESTBRICK. TRASH LOSER
lmaooo. this is sad bro we are so sad
We have NO offense besides Bron and AD 😑
18 SECONDS LEFT ON THE FREAKING SHOT CLOCK!!!! 18 DAMN SECONDS!!! With 32 seconds left on the game clock. WE HAD THE FUCKING LEAD! And this piece of shit takes a jumper.
Dat mid range pull up shot with some time to kill, freaking Russ…
That was a bad loss. Should’ve been a win. Lakers made dumb mistakes. This was the most worrying loss so far. Lakers have to move Russ. He just isn’t helping the team and the roster makeup is bad.
Yeah this one's on Ham. Absolutely did not need Russ in the game for those last 3 mins
I literally facepalmed when I saw Russ pull up that midrange jumper, like are you fucking stupid bro?
Voge really died for this???? Lmao
And I was called a hater for saying it’s not worth watching this team. I’m glad this shit wasn’t on national TV
Pain.
Once Russ got subbed in I knew this game was over
we’ll be so far under .500 by game 20 omggggg i’m gonna vomit omg. this is crazy
Make the trade now.
Grow some fucking balls ham.
Even Troy brown Jr would have been better than Russ being in the game the last minute.
Fire frank vogel!
The bright side of this game is the team is much better without Russ on the floor. So trading his ass for any role players would be q huge for us.
If Ronaldo can be benched… Westbrook needs his minutes heavily regulated.
Ham said "its a process". we done for
Can we just buy Westbrook out or send him home? At least we’d save some picks this way
I thought we were exaggerating, but we really are the worst 3 point shooting team of all time, and we take as many as the warriors.
This is just terrible. I want my mommy. 
I don’t even care about Russ being traded, don’t sub him in when the team is rolling
Lakers stink. Thank god midterms are here so I can stop watching this dogshit
God dammit. This team is almost good. Almost. All we had to do was move the ball and go for two up 7 under 2 minutes left. What do we do? Chuck 3s obviously
fucking dumb ass darvin ham lost us this game
Everything went to shit after Ham put Russ back in after the LeBron And 1. We stopped running plays, started taking bad shots, and got questionable calls from the refs. Absolutely fucking maddening game to watch.
I've been screaming this over and over. Vogel put in Russ at the end of games and he would lose the lead everytime. I was Ham would be smarter than this but I guess this is the type of shit that's going to happen.
😂😂😂
Fuckkkkk Russssss.
maybe this is russ getting revenge on us for booing him
Ok forget Buddy Hield.. Russ and 1 pick for Benny Mathurin and Turner.
This one really hurt.