[Highlight] De’Aaron Fox beautiful spin move fade away has Austin Reaves looking for a map
WHERE ARE YOU GOING
GET THAT MAN A MAP
GET THAT MAN A MANNNNUAL
WHAT ARE YOUUUU DOIN’
HA HA-Aa-aa
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE MAP IS LOST!?
get me a nap please
OHMYGOSH
SPLASH!
HIT EM’ WITH THE SHOT. CLOCK. CHEEEEESE.
SHOTCLOCKCHEEESE?!?!
WHERE YOU GOIN CITY BOY?
With your long face
lakers defense = first round exit
They struggle badly if the refs aren’t bailing them out. They need the free throws to survive because their transition defense is probably the worst in the league
At least LA has another team with great transition defense at least.
Right ?
Right guys ?
I’m gonna go cry a little
They have Luka and Reaves getting significant minutes… They were never going to be a good team defensively. That much was clear.
I think they can def beat any team not name OKC, Denver, Houston, Minnesota, San Antonio.
But if the match up with any of those teams it’ll be rough.
Is this a joke? You basically just named the entire western conference bro 🤣🤣
They basically have to be the 2 seed
To get out of 1st round but after that theyre toast
nda hope its a fun adventure or somethin but like where you even headed
They’re doing the Lebron retirement tour, can’t really blame them. They’ll be better next year when they can use that money for someone who will play and fits better with Luka.
Yup, Bron was an ugly -16 in this
I know. I never said to the contrary.
tbh in a 7 game series, i think even the lesser teams in the conference could be exploit the defense enough to pull off an upset.
ppl forget they didn’t just get first-rounded last year. they only won a single game.
Yeah but that was against the Wolves who were really really good. Prob 3rd best team in the league. And Luka this year in LA looks way better than last year in LA.
If they can’t fix their defense, they’ll collapse despite HCA again
lol
I disagree we can’t beat the last 3 but as of now I would not favor us vs Houston. Spurs also seem like a bad matchup but I’m observing still.
Edit: would like remind the reactionary people we already beat them last month when they and Wemby and Castle while we only had Luka so I’m not overreacting to one bad loss.
The matchup will be even worse if Wemby plays
Wasn’t an issue when we beat them last month while he was healthy and we only had Luka among our big 3.
So nope, not overreacting to one game. I see the potential match-up issues but I am still going to wait and see.
lol we didn’t have Fox nor Harper.
We didn’t have Harper or Fox those are HUGE misses. I think Spurs in 6, but Lakers have to fix the defense. Still, long way to go in the season.
i think the warriors got em if healthy
Nah I think Luka is the X factor in that series. It’ll be close though.
i think the defensive gulf will be the x factor. the warriors have either the #2 or #3 defense at the moment, and the lakers look incredibly rough on that end, especially on the perimeter, which is where the warriors will burn you. the warriors also seem to figure out their offense by the end of the season more often than not. i think they’ll look a lot better by playoff time than they do now, and i think they’ll be a bad matchup for the lakers now that AD is gone.
Luka time and time again has shown that doesn’t matter against him in the playoffs.
when you glance at the box score, yeah, luka and many other superstars will put up good or great stats against even top defenses. but basketball is 5v5, and luka dropping 40 isn’t going to make the lakers defense good. teams with shit defenses almost never do well in the playoffs, even if their best player is going off
Luka is an all time facilitator lmao what is this take
for sure, luka is an amazing passer. not sure what that has to do with the huge difference in team defense. you can literally look at luka’s last series against the warriors in 2022. luka went off, the warriors cooked up the mavs perimeter defenders, and won in 5 games despite luka having a good series.
obviously very different teams now, but the point stands that a transcendent offensive player isn’t erasing poor defense. and i think the lakers defense this year is worse than the 2022 mavs.
Lakers beat the Spurs earlier in the year with no Lebron FYI
Also beat the Wolves
** lakers beat the spurs earlier this year in a game with 84 free throws that wemby and castle fouled out of and fox and harper were injured
And the Lakers best defensive starter was out. I mean Reaves and Austin are elite at getting to the FT line
I know this sub hates it, but that’s a reality
Huh? Lakers got destroyed by the Wolves in the first round
They did. They also just got smacked here with no Wemby and Lebron was in.
Just told my dad this. I got downvoted to hell in the pre season for calling out our bs. Anyone who knows ball knows this ain’t winning shit.
People love to take about the numbers but be fucking for real is their best defenders really rui hachimura, old ass Marcus smart? You simply can’t run a lineup of 2 bad defenders with and old ass LeBron and a middle of the pack rim protector. This offense will slow down in the playoffs.
They ain’t even making it to the first round.
Man gave up.
SVG: “This isn’t bad defense by Reeves” as the clip shows him giving up on the play lol.
Reaves briefly makes contact to Fox’s waist as he enters his shooting motion. He’s ‘giving up’ on the play to avoid getting called for a foul on a shot he can’t contest.
Watch his right ankle. It gives and he almost falls. Did not give up.
Good spot. Either way, he knows he’s cooked at that moment and just tries to avoid fouling.
Yeah I hate the Lakers but it looked like he stumbled. Can’t throw yourself at a shooter at that point.
It was a hell of a move by Fox. Still wasn’t bad defense.
Great defense by reaves?? Wtf u talking about Stan
He was glazing the Lakers all game, felt like I had it on their local broadcast.
The lakers announcers would not glaze reaves for what he did here
That’s crazy haha people were in the Lakers sub complaining that SVG was biased against us yesterday. I thought he did pretty well both ways, people just get defensive when he puts in more effort describing everything.
I would love to hear what examples were brought up, I usually don’t observe such bias from national broadcasters outside of Doris and in this instance, Stan so it’s not like I was seeking it out.
This was far from the most egregious example. Keldon got smacked in the face and SVG accused him of acting (when Keldon consistently never fucking flops), then when slow mo showed him getting hit SVG doubled down and said Keldon wanted an acting award since he was in Hollywood. In near proximity Luka got hit in the face and SVG said something to the effect of “oh yeah Luka has a right to be very upset there”. A lot of other instances of Spurs fouls saying “that’s the right call” vs similar contact Lakers fouls saying “I’m not seeing much there”.
Obviously both our sides have our own biases but even the neutral fans were bringing up how bad Stan’s Laker bias seemed (but I’m sure some Laker fans will say “that’s because everyone hates us”)😂
A lot of them were mad for calling Luka out when SVG was just talking about effort and transition defense, something that JJ should be talking to him about today. The comments are mostly defending Stan but there were a decent amount of upvotes and people upset in there lol.
I tried showing you the thread in our sub but we can’t send those links 😔
It was a pic of SVG and the title “hater” lmao
Ah no worries re: showing me the post. But to me that’s not an observation of anti-Laker bias, even homer local broadcasters (and fans themselves) will slam their own team when they’re not seeing adequate effort.
Oh for sure, I’m not saying he’s wrong here. I just thought it was funny that people on both sides felt he was doing their team dirty.
Yeah except the Lakers broadcast is even less biased. Those 2 are goated
I actually switched streams after halftime to one that had the Lakers homer announcers and they were so much better. Not nearly as obnoxious as SVG and they were calling guys out for not getting back on D, etc.
Our announcers do not glaze our players at all. They are one of the most fair and unbiased in the business.
To clarify I didn’t mean it to sound like the lakers broadcasters specifically are like that (I can see how it sounded that way). I’m talking about watching most games on league pass when you get the inevitable home broadcasters (kings, warriors etc) that are over the top/shameless with the bias. That’s what Stan sounded like.
He got his glasses from a Harry Potter costume
“This isn’t bad defense” does not equal “Great defense by Reaves”
Exactly. Stan usually has decent takes and this one isnt bad either. Austin didn’t do anything “wrong” or “bad”, just got beat by better offense.
Reaves beats Fox to the spot twice; and on the third move is when Fox creates separation. Great quickness is describing Fox; Nominative Determinism strikes again.
Shoutout to the Van Gundy brothers. Stan is the first head coach of my team (in my fandom timeline lol)
He is maybe as bad of a glazer as was Burke.
buttery smooth
Stan is washed. Get him out the booth
It’s really sad how, just as we’re entering a new era of superstardom and incredibly skilled offenses, everything surrounding that is arguably at the worst it has ever been in the NBA right now.
Officiating: Absolute hot-garbage dogwater tier. Made worse under the new specter of gambling on everything. Superstar calls, some teams get heavily favored, certain players are allowed to play tackle basketball while others get rung up for touch fouls.
Oh yeah, ads: Pervasive and being displayed on TV WHILE THE GAME IS HAPPENING
Injuries: Also arguably worse that at any point in the NBA’s history. Although you could say this is due to intensity, it still sucks.
Announcers: So, so bad. So many of them are not even passionate about the game and would rather ramble about things that have nothing to do with basketball, or they get stuck on a single call/random play and talk about it for 20 minutes. Partial, boring, and not paying attention to the sport. Give me Bill fucking Walton any day over these guys because at least he made it obvious he was watching and involved in the league.
The NBA is lucky the players are good because the rest of their product has taken a complete nosedive.
Does anybody else love the prime pre post team? They actually talk basketball.
And form a ****ing wall (to keep him away from it).
Not even an attempt to contest man I’m sick
The slomo does NOT do justice. That move was so fast in real time
That was really slow reaction time. He has no anticipation on defense either. Just flailing his arms around.
Tbf I think he has 4⁄5 fouls here and Fox is pretty decent
Fox breaks my brain.
Look at his last couple steps. He was off balance when he stepped with his right foot. He was moving towards the rim and Fox was already elevating. Even an athletic freak couldn’t have contested the shot at that point, let alone AR. Was it great D in the first place? Well, no. AR has slow feet.
Ya that’s just an elite move. Only an elite defender is recovering enough there to even get a slight contest on the shot.
After the whistle dried up, he lost his mojo
Such a wild take. That’s no hands defense Stan
Stan was stanning hard for the lakers last night. Nauseating commentary.
He claimed Keldon was inspired by Hollywood to start acting after LeBron fouled him when you could clearly see the skin on his face moving due to LeBron getting a finger on him as he swiped.
And then when one of them yelled, “here we go!” in anticipation of a LeBron dunk before he turned it over 🤣
It was one of the most biased announcing jobs I’ve heard in a long time
For better or for worse I laughed a lot last night.
Mods removed this when it got posted last night. I guess there were too many people in the comments talking shit about Bron’s mid dunk being on the front page 500 times from every angle, and we can’t have that
Mods don’t like any anti-Lakers content but will leave up 100 Lakers post on the front page. The r/nba mods are equivalent to the NBA referees for how grimey they are.
The Spurs looked phenomenal last night.
That’s why I dont understand why everyone wants us to trade for Giannis. We have a solid group going rn, at least lets see what happens
I’m having a weird issue where every video posted on this sub is the Grayson Allen traveling no call
Me too, thought I was tripping
I can’t tell if everyone is in on the bit haha
For me it’s the Rich Paul podcast video, what is this?
Update your app
Update your app. I had the same issue but it was a derrick queen interview
Me doing this at max pace would probably be at around the speed of this video
Would roll my own ankles fr
That Kings exit was a disaster but at least De’Aaron gets to finally compete forreal in his career. I miss him but I kinda hate him.
people saying he gived up on the play must’ve never have played basketball. In real time this move by Fox was so fast Reaves just couldn’t react in time and had to stop himself from falling. Great move by Fox
Give that guy a maapppp….wheeeree are youuuu going?
Cooked em
GIVE THAT MANNNN A MANUAL
I hate you so much, Vivek 😪
You can’t win in the NBA at a high level when your 2 best players are no shows on defense. Luka showed horrific hustle last night and Castle cooked him like a suburban housewife’s casserole. Luka’s transition defense is limited by how fast the official he is currently complaining to can run.
If your team defense is such to the point that you’re committing elder abuse by having the 40 year old hustle more than the guys in their prime…
Reeves is a terrible defender and always will be
I wouldve dropped the ball on that left hand dribble so fast. Outta bounds
Austin was like “F This I’m done”
If you sag off…
All NBA defense.
If this was a Reaves highlight, it would have been posted last night and had 10k likes by now.
That shit was smooth lol
And this white man shoots 17 free throws a game btw. Can’t even run like a normal functional athlete, yet the refs award him.
Very few people can guard this man
Lefty shooters man
AR15: Faces him up the whole time.
Redditors: LMAO HE WENT TO BULGARIA WTF YOU CLOWN LMAO furiously jerks to Lakers losing
COOKAGE
not that craY tbh
Just like lebron making a mediocre dunk after elbowing kornet in the neck but look at the top of of the page 🤷🏻♂️
He is 41 with arthritis and one of the greatest players of all time in 20+ years in the nba?
Fouling a dude to get a dunk, screaming like a cornball and then disappearing the rest of the game with his team to lose a cup game on home court is not impressive sorry lol
Nice
Gotta say: didn’t know he was a lefty lol
We relied too heavily on AD.
People were talking about this man before the season like he was three years out of his prime
this is yalls white savior?
Lots of casuals who never really balled in the comment trashing the defense without good context
It wasn’t great defense obviously but that’s also a shot you “live with”
Allow me to explain, if you’re Austin Reaves you’re trying to not get beat baseline on the drive because there won’t be help D. Also that’s Fox’s game ( getting the rim) and he’s lightning fast, hence why Reaves is not even playing to cover the midrange fadeaway until he shows he can hit it with consistency
Smart ball player here
Yeah, but he isn’t contesting the shot. I am fine with getting posterize and scored on but he have to make them shoot harder shot and being contested.
I feel like you don’t see the spin fade that much anymore, only a few players really use it well. Beautiful shot by Fox.
Fox was an amazing pick up for them bro
MIP and DPOTY contender right there.
“This isn’t bad defense by Reaves” 🧍🏻♂️
The glaze that Stan van gundy was giving Austin reaves last night was insane
Yup, I’m working on that ASAP. Getting added to the bag.
Travel!!!
This was better than the LeBron dunk
Art
he’s like that🦊
If Lakers make 2nd round Ref-Ball will have to work overtime smh
Smooth!
Not many defenders can stay with DFox. Austin Reaves is not one of them.
COOKED