Zach LaVine on the Kings’ loss to the Lakers: “They’ve got some bad defenders on their team, but so do we, so they exploited them.”
“Some of us are bad defenders. I am one of them.”
Why is Zach Lavine wearing that hotdog suit?
He used to be a piece of shit.
Hair slicked WAAAYYYYY BACK.
white jeans, chicken spaghetti at chickalini’s
now he’s just a sloppy steak
He doesn’t know and he’s scared
Just openly saying some of your teammates suck is crazy
Lavine needs to restructure his contract and go play somewhere competitive if he’s gonna be openly upset about being on a bad team
I don’t think he really cares that much about being competitive anymore he’s just cashing checks atp
I’d be so curious if a guy who’s been going through the motions on bad teams for as long as he has would even be able to “flip the switch” into genuine competitive basketball even if he wanted to
I do think some guys do eventually when the checks and role start getting small enough. We’ve seen a couple of old vets have a resurgence on the bench of a good team to get one more contract and then decline again lol. THJ is the most recent one that comes to mind but that’s because he was on the Nuggets explicitly
He never has in his entire NBA career. I’d say his ceiling as a playoff contributor is MPJ at BEST which is either good or bad depending on his contract
Imagine playing for the Kings with the expectation of being competitive. I would hope he doesn’t care about it for his mental health tbh
He’s not mad. Just stating facts.
When has any player making near-max money ever done that?
Maybe not restructure, but Kyrie did when he got traded to Dallas. Disgruntled players rarely end up in more positive situations unless they have a come to Jesus with the man in the mirror.
Decent chance he gets bought out this season
They also only scored 100 in what world is that a bad defense?
Most of it came in garbage time too lol
Is the garbage time in the room with us? The last two shot attempts of the entire game were a Lavine blocked layup by someone named Lawson Lovering, and a Sabonis putback of that layup with 19 seconds left.
Maybe he was talking about himself being a bad defender?
Should create a burner account
But is it crazy if you play for the Kings.
No wonder the guy can’t stay on the team talks bad about his teammates that’s uncalled for
He had 6 turnovers by the way
“We are all trying to find the guy who did this”
55 (MIL) Sabonis 55 (MIL) Lavine 55 Burgers 55 Fries 55 Shakes
Lakers have some bad defenders but the kings are just straight up ass my guy
Without Luka, the lakers are maybe worse.
There is no maybe about it
Bro’s talking about himself
As bad as he was, Sabonis was worse
Vibes are immaculate
“Maybe we’re just both ass at this”
Chemistry -10
How he talking like he not one of them 😂
Zach has been in the league 12 years and never said anything this flagrant about his teammates. He for sure wants out of Sac.
Nobody is trading for that contact so I’d wager Kings buy him out within the next two months. They lose his cap slot but they gain nothing keeping Zach around at this point and seem to be losing chemistry with every loss.
Bruh we don’t care. Last year of his contract he knows he’s gone
And he’s one of the worst defenders with the least effort I’ve ever seen
Zach Lavine is not a winning player, definition of empty stats no calorie
Imagine having your top two cap hits be interchangeable in that sentence. Difference is, the other guy (Sabonis), is owed 27 percent of the Kings cap next season.
For all Sabonis’ flaws you cannot say he doesn’t give a shit. Dude is a work horse.
How could you expect him to care as long as he’s been on that team?
For his mental health alone, I hope he hasn’t cared about winning in awhile
Why would they do that? His contract is up this year.
Wait..
Zach Lavine has made over $300 million dollars..
& all he has to show for it is 2 All Star appearances & winning the Slam Dunk twice?!?
Sheesh!
He also probably has a nice car or fancy shoes or something.
So far, he’s made 29 million less in career earnings than Vince Carter and Tracy Mcgrady combined. I guess they only won one dunk contest to his two though.
They all got the same amount of chips
Bro tryna be Jaden Mcdaniels
Weird way to refer to yourself
He looks dead inside lol
What playing for sactown does to a mfkr…
Sweaty Ballsactown more like it
You would be too if you are playing for the Kings.
If he even attempted to play defense the guy would be a cornerstone player. Don’t feel bad for him
He looks defeated
Fitting for a Kings player.
How long has he played for the Kings?
How couldn’t you feel that way? For your mental health, you’d have to stop caring about winning. Or else you’d be miserable.
He never looked like cared about winning his whole career lol don’t put that on the kings
King Von once said ‘End Gun Violence
Did he? lol
I constantly remind myself that you can just stop talking. you don’t have to fill air and say something
Zach don’t hasn’t given a fuck in a while. Those checks cash every week though.
Where all looking for who coulda done this. I didn’t realize his self awareness was this low.
Zach “1st team all defense” lavine
Worst team all defense
You are one of them buddy
His career record is 257-440. You would think he would be better at losing by now?
Isn’t he just describing team sports?
No
Was acuffs defense bad today?
I thought it was actually good for his standards 😭
“Not you. You’re not allowed to say that!”
His buyout goin hit like a Mack Truck
Well, those were all words.