berrytree198

2090 | 15 hours ago

Work smarter not harder

SchedulePhysical807 | Clippers

708 | 14 hours ago

Literal frauds. They also have the worst margin of defeat in the NBA. Yes, even worse than the Wizards. 18.9 to the wizards 18.4

dianeblackeatsass | Grizzlies

373 | 13 hours ago

Well no literal frauds would mean these aren’t the real Lakers and none of these stats should count

ilikekittens2018

127 | 13 hours ago

Lakers were swapped for skinwalkers during that bit were Luka was injured and AR took over. Obvious!

BiteyHorse | Warriors

1 | 6 hours ago

Count Doncic.

The_Vaike | Celtics

52 | 12 hours ago

The real Lakers were in Minnesota. LA barely has water, let alone lakes.

ashkpa | Timberwolves

31 | 11 hours ago

A Laker is actually what they call cargo ships built for the Great Lakes, which makes it even funnier. Both of LA’s teams are named after types of ships.

dougie_fresh121

2 | 4 hours ago

If nautical nonsense be something you wish…

Vindicare605 | Lakers

15 | 12 hours ago

Currently we have far too much water, it is coming from the sky and causing flooding in places.

Now if only we could keep this water so that when the drought starts back up we aren’t completely screwed, but what do I know?

nutsack133 | Spurs

1 | 6 hours ago

Man WTF is happening to LA with all these atmospheric rivers? I lived in Westwood and Santa Monica nine years back in Kobe’s prime and I think I saw a thunderstorm once, otherwise the only rain we ever got was slow all day drizzle if it was February.

cant_hold_me | Celtics [BOS] Derrick White

2 | 7 hours ago

“…and the Jazz moved to Utah, where they don’t allow music”

333jnm

1 | 6 hours ago

LA has plenty of water…it’s called the Pacific Ocean

nutsack133 | Spurs

1 | 6 hours ago

To be technical the real Celtics play in the Intuit Dome tbh

Independent_Win_9035

9 | 12 hours ago

literal means figurative up means down cat means dog it’s 2026 get with the times buddy

JMoon33 | NBA

261 | 12 hours ago

A literal fraud would be a team paying a player on the side.

BruinBound22 | Kings

78 | 9 hours ago

The guy actually had a Clippers flair lmao

YoMrPoPo | Spurs

36 | 11 hours ago

COOK

LovetheNBA23 | Lakers

18 | 6 hours ago

Gah damn, cooked his ass to the bone

runthepoint1 | Kings

8 | 7 hours ago

“Sheeeew meme”

Jascix90

95 | 12 hours ago

Clippers fans are the world renowned experts on frauds. Valid assessment.

exsisto | Lakers

50 | 12 hours ago

Clippers fans know all about literal fraud.

throwaway_clone | Mavericks

10 | 12 hours ago

Lakers be like me in 2k. Save scum in close games until you get the W

Temporary-Level-5410 | Lakers

6 | 8 hours ago

Good thing record is what determines wins not margin of defeat

lakerconvert

4 | 7 hours ago

CLIPPERS POVERTY BALL 🔥🔥🔥

HomePlastic

4 | 7 hours ago

They’re an excellent team in the clutch but they tend to give zero effort when they’re down 15-20 in the second half. That’s not being fraudulent, that’s just the type of team they are.

HelpOpening4996

2 | 7 hours ago

Given your banner i wont be throwing the word fraud around

ImpossibleHousing478

1 | 5 hours ago

Ah yes, “margin of defeat”, the stat that everybody that watches the NBA lives and dies by.

Man you are a salty ass ho lmaooo

TheKosherGenocide

1 | 4 hours ago

It’s a known fact that the Lakers are held up by the League and Refs.. The data doesn’t lie.

AlterWanabee | Lakers

1 | 3 hours ago

Looks at the flair

Yep. Known fraud checkers Clippers should know what a real fraud is.

xRadec | Slovenia

8 | 5 hours ago

Why win big when small win do trick?

dearth_karmic | Warriors

8 | 12 hours ago

Is ref ball smarter?

aureliano7

1240 | 14 hours ago

Lakers just need a +270 point victory and they’re right back in this

Jra805 | NBA

172 | 14 hours ago

Math checks out

Throwthisawayagainst

10 | 11 hours ago

#theydidthemath

throwawaymycareer93 | Warriors

43 | 13 hours ago

Incoming 270 point loss for Rockets.

forever87 | Philippines

8 | 12 hours ago

136* point loss (unless of course you want the rockets annihilated)

ntpbr1

16 | 13 hours ago

Well or I guess Houston to lose to the Nets this game by quite a lot of points to close the gap

Kay-Knox | Kings

2 | 12 hours ago

Lakers are signing Mats Wermelin to a 10-day.

Cold-Goose-2757 | Lakers

2 | 9 hours ago

If they re-sign Mozgov they could get it done in about 3 games.

GreenEggs-12 | Spurs

1 | 11 hours ago

Maybe the pacers can drop -135 to make it easier?

lexington59

1 | 5 hours ago

Lakers trading for booker as we speak for the 9k point free throw

Parallel-Quality

930 | 15 hours ago

Why stop there?

The Warriors, who are currently 8th in the West, are +73 to the Lakers -13.

Akipella | Warriors

436 | 15 hours ago

I like this stat but also dislike it

NotYourAverageMidget

212 | 14 hours ago

Warriors are just terrible in the clutch

GioVasari121 | Warriors

131 | 14 hours ago

Plus a bunch of blow out wins against tanking teams

Akipella | Warriors

16 | 14 hours ago

100%

Fluid-Poet-8911

1 | 8 hours ago

Hornets are finally good enough to suck in the clinch

heat_fan_ | Raptors

504 | 15 hours ago

Lakers defense is gonna be their downfall in the playoffs

pmurt007 | Lakers

251 | 14 hours ago

Our defense is hopefully Luka/AR/LeBron can do enough offensively to outscore the opponents lol. Other than that, we literally play zero defense. It’s free layups and open shots all night which is why when we lose, we lose bad esp on nights where the big 3 isn’t on offensively.

preddevils6 | Grizzlies

127 | 13 hours ago

Out scoring opponents works in the regular season when defenses aren’t locked in

NeverSober1900 | Rockets

42 | 11 hours ago

Ya this is what people mean when they say regular season teams. Like us last year. Teams can coast in the regular season and you can out-talent and out-effort teams in a way that won’t work in the playoffs

Drak_is_Right | Pacers

2 | 6 hours ago

I beg to differ

Granted our defense last season was ok. But effort was a huge part of why it was ok and not bad.

runthepoint1 | Kings

1 | 7 hours ago

I think it goes both ways too though in the recent modern era much much more than before. With a true 3-headed monster like AR/Luka/Lebron there is so much versatility between the 3 that they will all be able to occupy any role on the court as is necessary on offense.

It’s the role players’ play that concerns me, on both sides of the court. The Mavs around Luka all clicked at the right time. The Lakers’ other guy are sporadic right now.

xreddawgx | Lakers

1 | 4 hours ago

Tell that to the 07 Suns.

preddevils6 | Grizzlies

1 | 2 hours ago

The 06-07 ones that didn’t make the conference finals and finished 2nd in the regular season.

Or the 07-08 suns that lost in the first round.

They were great, but they are exactly the type of team I referenced.

Op3rat0rr | Lakers

40 | 12 hours ago

I viewed our team as ‘fun team-itis’ at the beginning of the season and that point stands. We are not built to challenge the NBA conference finals but we are still quite entertaining to watch. We still have LeBron, his SON, and a generational Luka Doncic who we got as a gift basically. Reaves who is playing his best basketball and elevating himself and Ayton who is finding new depths of his talent as well

William_Wang | Jazz

19 | 11 hours ago

lmao why so much emphasis on his son?

Op3rat0rr | Lakers

23 | 11 hours ago

Culturally it seems crazy to me

QuietRainyDay

21 | 11 hours ago

Bron I get, but Luka’s effort this season is very sad

He is the worst he’s ever been defensively IMO (the stats back that up- worst defensive +/-, worst defensive win share, worst defensive rating in years). The stats arent perfect but the eye test agrees with them.

I thought the idea was that he was getting back into shape, proving doubters, wrong, etc.

I see none of that tbh. On offense he has also become way too reliant on playing on the perimeter, shooting 3s, etc. instead of driving to the basket the way he used to (his average shot distance is highest its ever been…)

Not sure if he’s saving himself for the playoffs, but if he was getting into shape this year why does he need to be saving himself already? Just weird.

TwoTalentedBastidz | Lakers

1 | 4 hours ago

Have you watched the Lakers? The roster is garbage, including LeBron, and with AR out he has to carry

xtrawork

5 | 11 hours ago

Yeah, watching the highlights from last night’s game I was thinking how many dunks and points in the paint Detroit got against the Lakers was insane…

allkindsofgainzz_13 | Lakers

1 | 8 hours ago

Ah yes the Mike D’antoni strat. Gotta love it lol

botebote77

1 | 5 hours ago

and Redick isn’t helping. he knows defense is their weakness and his first thought is Rui Hachimura should be starting. he put Vando in the doghouse and just remembered he’s still in the roster like a couple weeks ago. when Gabe was healthy, he was their 6th man and starter whenever one of the starters is injured (except Ayton)

No-Test6484 | Lakers

167 | 15 hours ago

Team is ass. Walter’s probably sacks Pelinka by the offseason. Lakers have a lot of cap and a few firsts then to see if Walter’s can do anything

axecalibur | CHI

92 | 15 hours ago

Bye bye Lebron and Bronny.

No-Test6484 | Lakers

135 | 15 hours ago

They’d ask LeBron to take a massive pay cut or he’s gone. Bronny’s makes 2 mil and they’ll let him play out the contract as the 15th man. Good will is important in the league. The guy who might get screwed out of a job is Redick

yeahright17 | Thunder

65 | 13 hours ago

JJ would have zero trouble finding a new coaching job. He’s been really good.

jackloganoliver | Magic

19 | 13 hours ago

He can come to Orlando next season

buttharvest42069

5 | 12 hours ago

What is the measure of that? Usually it’s just wins, right? If the record goes south and he’s let go… what else do you measure? Playoff wins also factor but the team got beat 4-1 by the lower seed last year. I don’t mean it as a hot take, I just think public opinion about coaches feels random sometimes. Ty Lue enjoyed several years of “Actually he’s a great coach. He’s so disrespected because he’s actually good” and that’s finally starting to turn.

devotedhero | Wizards

29 | 11 hours ago

“lower seed” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, no? The Wolves had 1 less win.

Independent_Win_9035

15 | 12 hours ago

we’re on reddit

by default, none of us know what makes a good basketball coach

Laggo | TOR

9 | 12 hours ago

you can just safely ignore every redditors opinion on a head coach

Legitimate_Reward913 | Lakers

8 | 11 hours ago

If fans feel like you’re under performing, you’re a bad coach. If fans feel like you’re over performing, you’re a good coach. It’s extremely relative to what roster the coach has to work with.

JJ has done a good job at playing into the Laker’s strengths and I’d say the defensive issues shouldn’t be blamed on him as they’re more linked to roster construction than anything. So despite a losing playoff record, I’d say he’s a good coach.

dillpickles007 | Hawks

2 | 9 hours ago

Lue is a good coach and would get hired instantly if the Clippers fired him. The Reddit narrative isn’t really relevant lol

KaSacha | France

2 | 9 hours ago

Ty Lue is a good coach

notenglishwobbly | Celtics

1 | 9 hours ago

The guy can’t get his players to play basketball.

There is ONE key element more than others when you’re a coach. More than any other element)

You feel he’s a good coach because you heard someone mention on it on a random basketball show or on reddit. But not based on performance. But I guess that’s how Doc Rivers made his career so it can work.

Grand-Plantain-8596 | 76ers

14 | 13 hours ago

Is 25-30m good for old old Bron?

No-Test6484 | Lakers

9 | 12 hours ago

Probably 20 mil.

Jimm120 | Knicks

7 | 12 hours ago

way too low.

He’s still gonna be a 20ppg scorer and someone that’s good at passing

sirvey23 | Rockets

9 | 12 hours ago

But his ability to play high level defense is compromised. He oscillates from competent to a complete traffic cone at times. And this shouldn’t be a surprise the guy is 41!

Independent_Win_9035

8 | 12 hours ago

the even more fucked up part is he’s still the lakers’ most dependable and consistent defender, ouch

dev_vvvvv | Celtics

7 | 12 hours ago

Forbes says his net worth has grown from $1 billion to $1.3 billion between 2023 and 2025. So his NBA salary is only like ¹⁄₃ of his net worth growth (even less when you look at actual income and consider taxes and other spending).

$20 or $50 mil is also the equivalent of somebody worth $1 million arguing about being paid $15k or $38k. Obviously the extra money is nice, but for a year or two it’s not like it would hurt his financial situation.

I would think he’d want to jump on another contender and try to get another ring with a really team friendly deal.

exsisto | Lakers

9 | 12 hours ago

LeBron will not be a Laker next season. He’s a defensive liability in the half court, and the Lakers will move on to tailor a defensive team that compliments Luka’s offensive skillset. JJ Redick has been great and has job security.

I expect the floor unit will look very different next season. Hopefully, Walters installs a pro FO over the offseason. Total organizational revamp.

potatosmasher12

6 | 9 hours ago

u guys realize that having LeBron retire as a laker and getting to sell his jersey FOREVER is worth more to them than one ring right lol? LeBron leaving is his decision alone. LeBron stays next year, AR is gone. Lakers go thru a rebuild once Bron retires. Which honestly probably isn’t next year I’m thinking he does it the year after.

d4videnk0 | Lakers

37 | 13 hours ago

It’s pretty obvious at this point. If the team is being built around Doncic they have no time to waste. The only way LeBron continues (if he doesn’t retire) is him cutting his salary in half and even then I’d say he goes on a farewell tour either on Cleveland or somehow teams up with Curry.

ThatGuyFromCanadia

1 | 8 hours ago

He’s gonna sign for the minimum with either the Thunder or the Spurs and knock the Lakers out of the playoffs the next 2 seasons on his way go winning rings 5&6

The Lakers are gonna be in a weird rebuild / retool phase for the next few years where they are never gonna be serious contenders but never gonna commit to tanking, lebron doesn’t wants to waste his time with a mess like that

sloecrush | 76ers

35 | 12 hours ago

lol “thanks for pulling off the most unbelievable trade in NBA history and securing us an international star to lead the franchise after LeBron’s retirement, you’re fired”

Jimm120 | Knicks

8 | 12 hours ago

honestly? I remember something said about coaches.

They’re hired to be fired.

Even if they’re good, if the team needs a “switch”, they’re fired.

sloecrush | 76ers

3 | 12 hours ago

Makes sense actually! I was pretty sad when the Eagles fired Andy Reid but it turned out to be good for both teams.

BBQ_HaX0r

5 | 11 hours ago

Pelinka isn’t elite, but he’s certainly much better than he gets credit for on Reddit. It’s not even about the Luka trade, he’s done about as well as can be expected filling out the roster, drafting, and handling all the Klutch stuff. He also won a title!

PrawnProwler | NBA

1 | an hour ago

His drafting and asset management is awful lol. Hasn’t hit a single MLE signing, iced out the Buss brothers in 2023 so he can miss on every 2nd rounder, and a myriad of bad trades made where he, for example gives up assets for 1 year rentals. Can’t even really give him credit for roster construction, he loved giving out player options for 2 year minimum contracts which ends up screwing them, and guys like Ayton and Smart came for Luka.

Rock3tDoge | Pistons

5 | 13 hours ago

They really just need to hold those picks and draft talent

lets_talk_basketball

5 | 12 hours ago

He’s gonna drop a bag on Bob Myers.

Pleasestoplyiiing

3 | 11 hours ago

I don’t mean this personally, but how did you get so dumb?

RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS | Lakers

3 | 11 hours ago

I mean despite the problems the team has the Luka trade was like the fleecing of the century so I’m not sure why they want to get rid of Pelinka.

throwaway__rnd

1 | 7 hours ago

That’s not how an apostrophe works…

TwoTalentedBastidz | Lakers

1 | 4 hours ago

We can only hope. Pelinka should’ve been fired years ago

Pikminious_Thrious | Lakers

11 | 13 hours ago

Pretty good chance they lose in playin if every game is competitive with this defense.

Only so many games Luka AR can go for 70 points to carry the rest of this roster

HHHogana | Lakers

7 | 13 hours ago

Our best defender is Marcus Smart on his good nights. No way JJ can coach Bron into defensive-oriented player like Wilt in 70s Lakers, even with Luka and Reaves. Not when he’s both even older and already sacrificed his rebounds.

ImAShaaaark | Supersonics

17 | 12 hours ago

No way JJ can coach Bron into defensive-oriented player like Wilt in 70s Lakers

Wilt was in his early to mid 30s, not early 40s. Plus, embarrassingly for the rest of the squad, he already looks like the best defensive player on the team with disturbing regularity.

His lack of defensive consistency is a problem, but not the problem. If the team had an otherwise competent defensive squad he’d be fine, playing on a good defense makes everyone seem more competent, just look at how much better Smart appeared when he was on that Celtics squad.

The problem is when Smart, Ayton and AARP LeBron coming off injury need to be the foundation of your defense.

ThinkThankThonk | Lakers

6 | 14 hours ago

It’s their downfall now - unless the season is being punted they better already be cooking something up.

anonssr

3 | 13 hours ago

Big if true

shake_this_feeling | Suns

2 | 11 hours ago

Playoffs?! Don’t talk about playoffs. You kidding me?! Playoffs?!

potatosmasher12

1 | 9 hours ago

Only fan base more delusional than ours LMAO

ositola | Lakers

1 | 12 hours ago

Repeat every year since the bubble

Aff_Reddit

1 | 8 hours ago

Once the Lakers finally drop Smart & Ayton and find a way to get Trae Young & Banchero everything will be fixed. They’ll still lose a ton but at least everyone will get to see consistent 300 point games.

dill1234 | Knicks

1 | 7 hours ago

Most obvious take I’ve ever seen on the internet

TwoTalentedBastidz | Lakers

1 | 4 hours ago

We’re not making the playoffs

OldManBrom | Lakers

1 | 3 hours ago

Lakers are a first round exit as currently constructed. I have tempered my expectations lol

WestVermicelli5697

287 | 15 hours ago

Do we need 5 daily posts about the Lakers differential lol

Frosty_Dimension5646 | Nuggets

359 | 15 hours ago

If they had the best differential, we’d have 10 posts a day about it so fuck it why not

aussiegoon

102 | 14 hours ago

Shit, LeBron hit ³⁄₁₀ from 3 in a blowout loss and I saw highlight posts of two of them!

Aftermathe | Timberwolves

54 | 14 hours ago

Lol this is actually a great point.

Akipella | Warriors

25 | 12 hours ago

It’s funny how many people refuse to acknowledge this. So what if Lakers bad stats/lowlights is posted a lot? These people must not be here when the Lakers are doing literally anything of good/noteworthy, because goodness does it become just 50 posts all about one team lol

copingthroughlife | 23

11 | 11 hours ago

Then people complain about the Lakers getting so much attention (good / bad)

What a cycle

heyguysitsxexeu | Raptors

9 | 7 hours ago

Browsing r/nba during Luka’s first games as a Laker was unbearable. You could basically watch entire Laker games through posts. If you can’t beat it, I too fully embrace “Lakers are shit” spam.

anonssr

95 | 13 hours ago

We can spice things up and bring Luka’s defense instead

EutaxySpy | Celtics

6 | 6 hours ago

I remember early in the season, when the Lakers were beating up on bottom feeder teams, we had random posts about Luka and Reaves interactions get like 5k upvotes LMAO. Shit was genuinely crazy to see and it was all over the front page, this downfall has been amazing to watch when reality finally caught up

anonssr

2 | 6 hours ago

I kept saying, having two dudes scoring that many points wasn’t a good thing. Because it wasn’t that they were going ballistic. They still won by like 5 points lol. Lakers really needed those bloated stats to get the w.

Repulsive-Throat5068 | Lakers

39 | 13 hours ago

This is the sub that complains there’s too much focus on the lakers btw lol

Shelter2828

6 | 13 hours ago

It’s the Lakers. This is how it’s been on r/nba forever

AshenSacrifice | Clippers

1 | 10 hours ago

I want more tbh

_Origin

271 | 14 hours ago

I mean they have an extra loss, probably lost by 270 that day.

sonpot | Rockets

1 | 18 minutes ago

After today add another +20 and a win to the rockets lol

enrickue | Rockets

85 | 13 hours ago

we have the most OT games this season and our record in those is 1-4

TheKeviKs | Spurs

87 | 13 hours ago

How are the Lakers even 20-11 ?

dearth_karmic | Warriors

60 | 12 hours ago

In clutch games they get to play 8 on 5. They’re record is 10-0.

lukewwilson | Lakers

159 | 12 hours ago

I always find it funny when a warriors fan complains about the Lakers whistle when they have Draymond

thisissami | BRK

3 | 6 hours ago

In fairness, they also have Steph, who has the worst superstar whistle I have ever seen in my life. He gets constantly pummeled every game and does NOT get the foul calls he should be getting.

Hopsalong | Nuggets

47 | 12 hours ago

ref ball is undefeated in close games

dearth_karmic | Warriors

25 | 12 hours ago

It’s crazy how people don’t see this. Even OKC is 13-3, and most teams have 6-11 clutch losses. ZERO losses makes no damn sense without the Laker Whistle.

Hopsalong | Nuggets

10 | 12 hours ago

Everyone sees it, but such a large percentage of fans are Lakers fans and they would rather win. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen the Lakers FT differential being fair argued and upvoted here, when it’s clearly out of line.

dearth_karmic | Warriors

5 | 12 hours ago

Imagine the suspense of rooting for your team in a close game and they somehow win every time. Must be weird loving free throws.

davey_mann | 76ers

56 | 10 hours ago

Won a lot of close games earlier in the season. Needed Reaves to play out of his mind to do it, though.

Victor_Wembanyama1 | Spurs

1 | 5 hours ago

They haven’t lost close games i believe

Celtic_Legend | Celtics

5 | 5 hours ago

The lakers just blow leads in the 4th on purpose. They build up 20 points leads with like 5 minutes left, play their run the clock down offense so they don’t score but they do waste 24seconds and then the game ends like 115-112. This is why they have so many “clutch” wins which is misleading because they werent ever really in danger of losing.

Doing this kills the +- chart

rawdfarva | Warriors

6 | 9 hours ago

refs

BeingMikeHunt | Knicks

55 | 14 hours ago

This is where sample sizes come in. The Lakers record will most likely tail off as the season goes on without consistently better play.

There’s no use in overanalyzing these trends now

ntpbr1

30 | 13 hours ago

It’s either that or they will start getting bigger deficit wins against bad teams and at the end of the season it will make sense. The schedule coming up seems to be somewhat ok

zeek215 | Lakers

4 | 11 hours ago

Never mind that it’s still somewhat early in the season, but we’ve had all sorts of different lineups with people being injured. With this roster we seem to lose bad when we lose, and win by not much.

Historical_Bell_167

1 | an hour ago

They’ve played 38% of the season. This is not early, they would have played half of the season by January 18.

fab_frog_disco

42 | 15 hours ago

Haven’t the Lakers literally not lost a clutch game yet?

When you’re the most clutch team in the league, you get things like this. They’ve won a lot of toss-up games.

On the nights where they look outmatched their lack of defense and ability to get a stop simply keeps them from coming back into games and makes it over pretty definitively

Snapphane88

6 | 15 hours ago

https://old.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1q0hd1g/lakers_continue_to_get_annihilated_in_their/

seddard | Lakers

39 | 11 hours ago

Another interesting stat is that 15% of all comments in the thread rn belong to the same Warriors nephew complaining about refs.

Background_Ant3973 | Greece

10 | 6 hours ago

If you’re talkin about death_karmic, that dude is legit a top 5 worst personI’ve encountered in entire hoops life online. Pretty sure it’s the same person as the account u/Produceher from a while back, if you remember that one as well. Just an absolutely deranged, single-minded poster.

PrawnProwler | NBA

1 | an hour ago

That’s wild cause I recognize both of them as chronic haters lmao. It’s pretty bad if you’re able to recognize users on Reddit of all places.

JShuttlesworth28 | Vancouver Grizzlies

26 | 14 hours ago

After they cook us these next two games they’ll be fine

scene_missing |

18 | 13 hours ago

When you have that patented Lakers Whistle ™️ you get juuuuust enough to win the close games. No point in the blowouts.

ClosPins

17 | 13 hours ago

This is the effect of having referees that cheat a little bit for you in every game…

Zachkah | CLE

16 | 13 hours ago

Win by 1 or 50, you still won. Lose by 1 or 50, you still lost. Margin of victory or defeat is irrelevant. It’s binary. W or L

livefreeordont | 76ers

13 | 12 hours ago

Supposedly it matters in predicting who the best teams are, better than straight up win/loss

zeek215 | Lakers

7 | 11 hours ago

I think seeing score differentials against the upper half of the league can be a useful stat to look deeper into how good or bad a team may be. For example, we are not a very good team despite our record, unless things change.

I wish there was an easy way to filter player and team stats to exclude the non playoff teams.

faithfuljohn | Raptors

2 | 4 hours ago

Win by 1 or 50, you still won. Lose by 1 or 50, you still lost. Margin of victory or defeat is irrelevant. It’s binary. W or L

half right. A W is a W sure. But point differential paints a picture of what might be happening.

Personally what this tells me that when the game is close they usually win. Whereas the Rockets either are having a good game and win or they are not and lose.

And historically, the better a team is, the large the average margin of victory. And like all stats, it needs context to give it value.

defiantcross | Suns

16 | 13 hours ago

Clearly the lakers lost that one extra game by 270 points

Guardsred70

9 | 15 hours ago

In our defense (no pun intended), we had the recent birthday boy return a few weeks ago and become a massive negative in every single lineup.

bryan49

32 | 14 hours ago

I’m very sorry that you’ve had to endure having one of the greatest players of all time on your team. That’s the risk the Lakers signed up for when they gave him a contract into his 40s

yeeeeeteth | Suns

28 | 14 hours ago

Me when LeBron motherfucking James is on my team

luffy565

4 | 12 hours ago

You are clueless, LAL were being dogged by the best teams way before Bron returned, its not his fault Doncic shooting fall off a cliff and Reaves is injured. You all whiners don’t deserve LeBron.

Guardsred70

4 | 11 hours ago

Wanna trade for The Great Bron? Or you wanna sign him in June? What’s your package to trade? We will accept expiring salaries.

luffy565

8 | 11 hours ago

Who is we, you part of the Lakers FO now ?

Guardsred70

1 | 11 hours ago

No…obviously. But you won’t even say what team you are a fan of. Cmon….what trade do you wish your team would make to save Lebron from mean Lakers fans?

luffy565

4 | 10 hours ago

I am from Europe, I follow players and teams I like, but how does the team I am fan of matter anyway, if you are watching LAL games (I do) team got plenty of problems singling out Bron is crazy.

flaming_burrito_ | Lakers

5 | 12 hours ago

To be fair, Luka hasn’t been playing as well as he did to start the season lately, and Austin has been injured, so I think only judging LeBrons performance in those games where a bunch of our players have been out is not fair. Plus he was coming back after a pretty longer recovery, so naturally his first 10 or so games will be bad for his standards.

Guardsred70

2 | 11 hours ago

I think Luka just realized that this season is an aberration. The difference between a great season from Luka and a bad season from Luka is probably a second round loss. It doesn’t even make sense to worry about fitting Lebron in since he won’t be a Laker next year.

flaming_burrito_ | Lakers

6 | 11 hours ago

No, he’s too competitive for that. He seems like he has a nagging calf injury and has slowed down a bit, plus he has a new baby. We just can’t keep playing him 40 minutes a game or he’s gonna get run into the ground

Guardsred70

3 | 11 hours ago

Actually….the new baby is a real thing. I forgot about that. I mentioned this to someone a few weeks ago when people were talking about Mahomes: He has three kids under the age of 5. It blew my mind how people were like “That’s his wife’s job” or “He can just hire people to play with his kids. He’s rich!”

I mean, only assholes palm their kids entirely off on their wife or hired help.

lol….i know my performance at work suffered after I became a father.

KUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUZ | Lakers

9 | 10 hours ago

close clutch wins, belt to ass losses

Classic_Dingo_5363

10 | 9 hours ago

Considering this

Lakers shoot 28.7 free throws a game. Opponents average roughly 22.9 free throws a game against them.

Houston shoots 25.2 FTA Opponents average 23.1 FTA

Luka Doncic 11.8 FTA (#1 in NBA) Austin Reaves 8.6 FTA (#5 in NBA)

Kevin Durant 6.4 FTA (#21 in NBA) Sengun averages 6.3 FTA (#23 in NBA)

D3struct_oh | Rockets

8 | 13 hours ago

Nobody cares about differentials when it comes to the Lakers.

Lebron had the worst differentials ever for an all nba guy, and still got 2nd team in 24-25.

He’ll have the same diffs if not worse after this season, and this sub will still call him an mvp candidate somehow.

lets_talk_basketball

3 | 12 hours ago

Good thing this isn’t soccer where aggregate scores matter.

Raj2324 | LAL

3 | 9 hours ago

Makes sense. Watch the games and you’ll see why.

When we are losing, we give up and lose badly.

When we are winning, we let the foot off the gas and the other team comes back but haven’t gotten burned yet.

damnumalone

1 | 7 hours ago

Holy shit - someone who actually made a sensible comment and seems to watch the games.

And I only had to scroll for 5 minutes to get there

life_is_a_burner | Lakers

2 | 13 hours ago

I think a third of those came against us in Christmas.

dearth_karmic | Warriors

3 | 13 hours ago

And the Warriors have a point differential of +73 and a record of 18-16.

The biggest standout of that is the Lakers being 10-0 in clutch games. Miles better than any other team. That only makes sense if you consider how easy it is for the refs to pick winners in close games. The only way you’re beating the Lakers is if you blow them out.

devotedhero | Wizards

12 | 11 hours ago

You can also actually watch basketball and realize that a bunch of these games are games that the Lakers were already leading by 15+ until they started taking their foot off the gas and the game suddenly got close

dearth_karmic | Warriors

2 | 11 hours ago

The Warriors have done the exact same thing. Except they lost most of those games. Must be nice to just turn it back on and never lose at 10-0.

Prestigious-Layer719

2 | 12 hours ago

Lmao everyday is a chance to post the Lakers point differential

f2pgenocide

2 | 11 hours ago

feels good laykuhs will never win a ring again (never say never maybe the next 40 years ringless is good too)

ernyc3777 | Knicks

2 | 8 hours ago

Smh. What people don’t realize is that one extra loss the Lakers lost by 270 points so that’s skewing the data tremendously.
/s

831loc

2 | 8 hours ago

Rockets gonna lose by 270 in their next game to even it out.

IcyTie9

2 | 13 hours ago

from all the complaining you hear about lakers being dogshit you would think their record is like 5-30 or something (i do think they getting spanked in playoffs tho)

Relatively_Cool | Lakers

8 | 13 hours ago

The problem isn’t that they’re 20-11 now, it’s that they started 14-4 and are now 20-11

WinterCareful8525

1 | 13 hours ago

Clutch

FrailAndBedazzled | Celtics

1 | 12 hours ago

The Lakers are a lottery team propped up by officiating CMV

outsidehere | Lakers

1 | 12 hours ago

Luka Doncic baby

Smokee_Robinson | Nets

1 | 12 hours ago

And yall bought into that?

Dependent-Cup3759

1 | 11 hours ago

I’m reminded of the 2022 Minnesota Vikings.

13-4 record with a -3 point differential.

Ok_Resort_419

1 | 11 hours ago

Makes sense. They’re all offense no defense and have players who step up in crunch time. Lost is a lost, doesn’t matter if you lose by 1 or 50. Now this likely indicates theyre not a team to be scared of in the playoffs. Good chance they’re a 1st rd bounce

orangesodazz | Nuggets

1 | 9 hours ago

FRAUD ALERT

Possible-Activity16 | Mavericks

1 | 6 hours ago

Refs carrying lakers nothing new

kyosukedei

1 | 5 hours ago

Even when LBJ retires or w/e and Luka & Reeves back-court about to score 60-70 pts a night, but give up 100-110 pts. Unless they get like 4-5 quick athletic wings that can defend and reb (so like not like Rui)… which they aren’t cause they haven’t for 6 years.

Everyone go all in on the Spurs! (RIP my Bulls)

Cool-Letterhead-413

1 | 4 hours ago

Lakers need to make some big changes, or they’ll waste lebrons last season

TwoTalentedBastidz | Lakers

1 | 4 hours ago

Its because all our losses are blow outs

Mdgt_Pope

1 | 4 hours ago

When they lose they lose by a lot, easy answer.

ant-farm-keyboard | Rockets

1 | 2 hours ago

Why score many point when one do trick?

Total-Psychology-928

1 | an hour ago

Without additional context, the way i see it is that the Lakers are a not so good team that’s good in the clutch and the Rockets are a great team that’s good are bad in the clutch. Whether there’s any truth to this, someone with more time and effort can figure out

MankBaby | Rockets

1 | an hour ago

Been kind of an odd year for the Rockets. Their wins are by an average of 16.7 points (15 of 21 by at least 14 points). Their only wins by fewer than 7 points are against the Magic (+4 in OT), Warriors (+4), and Clippers (+2).

On the flip side, they rarely get blown out. They’ve had just three losses that weren’t particularly close: Spurs (-11), Mavs (-13), and Clippers (-20). Here are the others:

1 point loss to the Thunder (2OT)
4 point loss to the Pistons
3 point loss to the Nuggets
8 point loss to the Jazz (worth noting that this was a 3 point game with under 40 seconds left)
3 point loss to the Nuggets (OT)
5 point loss to the Pelicans (OT)
1 point loss to the Kings (OT)

On any given night, you can expect them to either destroy their opponent without breaking a sweat, or to lose in heartbreaking fashion. Not a whole lot in between.

The Lakers record is (20-11) and they have a -13 Point Differential. The Rockets record is (20-10) and they have a +257 Point Differential.