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Brandon Ingram played less games than AD and lebron with no Zion and Carried rookies to the playoffs while lakes missed it yet lbj got all NBA over Ingram 😂
from the moment we got Russ i knew he wasn’t gonna fit. would’ve loved to see it work since he is a hof pg but you can’t force a square peg in a round hole
My biggest what if “Big 3” was when Gary Payton and Karl Malone joined the mid 2000s Lakers. I know it was technically more than 3 stars but Malone and Payton count for 0.5 stars each at that point in their careers cuz they were old 🤷🏽♂️
@@eaglewinnings8003 did you read my post. I called Payton and Malone 0.5 because they were basically washed at that point. 1 (Kobe)+1(Shaq)+0.5(Malone)+0.5(Payton)= 3
@@jayus2033 lol he is 100% but it's so sad watching kawhi and pg getting injuries and not being able to support the franchise when it can healthy very well get a chip.
@@BK22230 yes. The first two games against the suns kawhi was destroying them even without PG. If he hadn't been benched without PG we could have won easily and later when PG came back had been a major contender
I think pretty much everyone knew Westbrook was a bad fit to begin with on the Lakers. I don't think however that everyone expected for it to be THAT bad. But man, I really wanted it to work, personally. But it wasn't to be.
NAH, I saw lakers fan celebrating like they gonna won championship when Westbrook traded to Lakers. Just like when Lakers get new coach over and over again, I saw the saw narrative that they're gonna be a good because they had a good coach(Ham) now, but after a few games they want to fired the coach and had the balls to say that the previous coach(Vogel) is good but they are the one who also hated Vogel and wanted to be fired when he was the coach of the Lakers.
@@TheNorthie I mean it was the first few games, so of course you gotta give it a chance. I think the first red flag was when we blew that massive lead and lost against OKC, with that L being the Thunder's first win of the season lol
The Lakers Big 3 attempts were always torn apart by injuries. The Malone and Payton one was derailed by Malone's injury and he never got fully back to form. Prior to Malone going down the Lakers were 20-4 and cruising. The 2012 Lakers were derailed by Nash first getting bulldozed by Isaiah Thomas unnecessarily in the pre-season, and then getting his leg broken in a freak accident by Damian Lillard and then of course Kobe right at the end of the season. If Malone or Nash and by extension Kobe never go down with injury, both those Lakers big threes could have been successful and one of those still made the Finals albeit in a losing effort. So it was more so injuries that derailed them more so than the fits just 'not working'. A TRUE Superteam failure that doesn't have the injury excuse is the 2019 76ers. They had Joel Embiid, Jimmy Butler, Ben Simmons, Tobias Harris, JJ Redick. And they lost to Toronto in a 7 Game Series. And despite Ben Simmons always being a scapegoat of some kind, nobody talked about Embiid's 17 PPG performance on 37% Field Goal Percentage across that entire series. Particularly his 11 point game on 28% Field Goal where he shot the ball 7 times and the 76ers lost by 5.. but Joel escapes criticism for that series. But the 2019 76ers was an actual Superteam fail that had to do with players coming up short more so than injuries.
The 2013 Lakers are a really interesting case, as I do agree that they might have gone farther if they all could have stayed healthy. However, I don’t think Kobe and Dwight never really meshed all that well in their play styles, and as teammates. It’s well known that they had beef that season, and I think that would have been a factor that might have held them back in the playoffs.
Kobe said it best The goal was to win a championship," Bryant said. "It wasn't to win MVP or anything like that, it was to win a championship. So in that aspect, we failed."
To be fair to Charles, he said that he wouldn't have counted a championship like that. Not sure how much that means considering they lost, but it's there.
Sure, he says that now because they didn't win. Had they gone all the way, he would have hung onto that championship memory for dear life, especially since people always roast him about never winning one.
In the NBA to win it all you have to have a deep roster with good chemistry and defense having a team ot stars doesn't translate to that besides the early 2010s heat teams. And they still lost 2/4
The Los Angeles Clippers in the "Lob City" era were a very attractive team. It's such a shame that Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan didn't manage to win a championship with the Clippers.
Linsanity was already falling before melo came back. Miami showed it and the rest of the league adjusted. Lin wasn’t a star, and was only a star during that stretch
The only ones I agree with are Brooklyn and the clippers aka lob city. I can't agree Westbrook and the Lakers because the Lakers failed Russ by not allowing him to who he's nature is. He's not a 3rd string yet the team most be build or molded around he's positive abilities
"Yeah! Let's build a team around an inefficient volume scorer, who needs the ball in his hands at all times to be effective, who turns the ball over constantly, and plays terrible defense" -Some dipshit
Lakers brought in Russ to help take the load off of an aging LeBron and an oft-injured Anthony Davis. Most people knew it wasn’t going to work out from the get-go based on the lack of shooting and perimeter defense. Think it absolutely counts as a failed super team since the Lakers management were too caught up in their own heads going star hunting instead of building a quality roster around Bron and AD. What ur saying is the team should’ve built Russ’ strengths which are transition offense and driving to the rim, two traits which require shooting and defense to build around.
I don’t see Lob City Clips as a fail-they were awesome to watch, DJ gave us one of the best poster dunks ever, J-Corssover broke ankles off the bench, and Tyga gave us a legendary remix to “Rack City”.
To me nothing will take the cake over OKC being up 3x1 against the 73-9 warrios with Russell, KD in their prime, with Steve Adams and Serge Ibaka in their roster and somehow still lost to the warrios.
You need 1 superstar, 2 max with the rest being very productive role players. MJ had Scottie then added Dennis, Harper and the rest of the guys knew that they weren’t the bus driver
If the Lakers were a big three, then the Clippers were too. They gained miserably as well since they lost in the first round. Let's not give them a pass like everyone does EVERY YEAR.
You make it sound like they didn't want to sign Caruso. The management wanted to but since Lebron already insisted on them getting Russ, they didn't have the cap to sign him. As you even said yourself, after getting Russ they couldn't even fill the team properly and it was a miracle they even got a team as strong as they did with vet min.
I'm sorry we gotta stop calling aging superstars past their prime coming together a big anything because it almost always ends in injury. Like the 04 Lakers
To be fair, most people wouldn't consider the current Bulls have a "big 3". No one in that "big 3" has that IT factor especially when the playoffs roll around.
@@mitchbrown6652all it takes is a quick google search on the exact device you used to make that comment to realize you're wrong. Too lazy to fact check yourself?😂
12:45 In my opinion, the reason why Westbrook failed in Lakers Big 3 is because he can't accept that he was the 3rd or 4th option of the team. He wants to be the main man of the team even though you already got LeBron and AD.
Absolutely no one considered Westbrook's arrival in LA as part of a "big 3". He had already become a journeyman at that point and was definitely no longer a star.
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Nets has a big chance to win ring because the big 3 click together but Irving drama is too much to handle. I hope the nets in the future win a championship.
The 2021-22 Lakers is the definition of a disaster. Terrible offense, horrible defense, and hilariously awful chemistry overall.
Don't forget injuries and drama, nothing about that team was good
@@jdelgado216what about Lebron
Brandon Ingram played less games than AD and lebron with no Zion and Carried rookies to the playoffs while lakes missed it yet lbj got all NBA over Ingram 😂
Yes the lakers of 2021 - 2022 did fail and everyone saw it coming
We all knew that that Lakers team wasn't gonna be good at all
No one saw it coming, just like no one saw the OKC 2018 Thunder failing. But after a few games, people backtracked.
@Real Ryte why cry?
No one saw it coming 💀💀💀
from the moment we got Russ i knew he wasn’t gonna fit. would’ve loved to see it work since he is a hof pg but you can’t force a square peg in a round hole
My biggest what if “Big 3” was when Gary Payton and Karl Malone joined the mid 2000s Lakers. I know it was technically more than 3 stars but Malone and Payton count for 0.5 stars each at that point in their careers cuz they were old 🤷🏽♂️
Kobe's ego ruined it for everyone, they then left to see if his ego could win titles, it didn't
@@adekunle4672 he did though
@@alexescutia4805 when he brought his ego down
Wouldn’t that be a “Big 4”? How is Payton, Malone, Kobe and Shaq a “Big 3?” Lol
@@eaglewinnings8003 did you read my post. I called Payton and Malone 0.5 because they were basically washed at that point.
1 (Kobe)+1(Shaq)+0.5(Malone)+0.5(Payton)= 3
the bench 3 of Kahwi, PG, Wall didn't last a season. It's a shame.
Russ is better trust
@@jayus2033 lol he is 100% but it's so sad watching kawhi and pg getting injuries and not being able to support the franchise when it can healthy very well get a chip.
I think if the clips were healthy the three big contenders would be the celtics, nuggs, and clips. They’re bench isn’t bad either
@@BK22230 yes. The first two games against the suns kawhi was destroying them even without PG. If he hadn't been benched without PG we could have won easily and later when PG came back had been a major contender
@@Shoyo_Edits Yea, also your the 3rd clips fan I’ve ever seen in my life. I like you just because you didn’t pick the lakers like everyone else did.
3:57 The 3-1 blown lead was actually in 2015, not 2014. In 2014 they choked against the Thunder.
Casual spotted...
It was the Spurs**
@@theblackmamba8686 What are you talking about? Clippers lost to Thunder in 2014 in 6 and then lost to Rockets in 2015 WCSF in 7.
I think pretty much everyone knew Westbrook was a bad fit to begin with on the Lakers. I don't think however that everyone expected for it to be THAT bad.
But man, I really wanted it to work, personally. But it wasn't to be.
It was mostly injuries tbh. Both AD and LeBron had multiple injuries that year
Facts
It felt like people ignored it until the first few games. Then it was blatantly obvious to everyone this wasn’t gonna work.
NAH, I saw lakers fan celebrating like they gonna won championship when Westbrook traded to Lakers.
Just like when Lakers get new coach over and over again, I saw the saw narrative that they're gonna be a good because they had a good coach(Ham) now, but after a few games they want to fired the coach and had the balls to say that the previous coach(Vogel) is good but they are the one who also hated Vogel and wanted to be fired when he was the coach of the Lakers.
@@TheNorthie I mean it was the first few games, so of course you gotta give it a chance.
I think the first red flag was when we blew that massive lead and lost against OKC, with that L being the Thunder's first win of the season lol
Correction: the 2011 vetoed Laker trade would not give Kobe a big three. Pau Gasol would have been traded to the Rockets, as it was a 3-team trade
But D12 will come in his best season which is 2011.
The Lakers Big 3 attempts were always torn apart by injuries. The Malone and Payton one was derailed by Malone's injury and he never got fully back to form. Prior to Malone going down the Lakers were 20-4 and cruising. The 2012 Lakers were derailed by Nash first getting bulldozed by Isaiah Thomas unnecessarily in the pre-season, and then getting his leg broken in a freak accident by Damian Lillard and then of course Kobe right at the end of the season. If Malone or Nash and by extension Kobe never go down with injury, both those Lakers big threes could have been successful and one of those still made the Finals albeit in a losing effort. So it was more so injuries that derailed them more so than the fits just 'not working'.
A TRUE Superteam failure that doesn't have the injury excuse is the 2019 76ers. They had Joel Embiid, Jimmy Butler, Ben Simmons, Tobias Harris, JJ Redick. And they lost to Toronto in a 7 Game Series. And despite Ben Simmons always being a scapegoat of some kind, nobody talked about Embiid's 17 PPG performance on 37% Field Goal Percentage across that entire series. Particularly his 11 point game on 28% Field Goal where he shot the ball 7 times and the 76ers lost by 5.. but Joel escapes criticism for that series. But the 2019 76ers was an actual Superteam fail that had to do with players coming up short more so than injuries.
The 2013 Lakers are a really interesting case, as I do agree that they might have gone farther if they all could have stayed healthy. However, I don’t think Kobe and Dwight never really meshed all that well in their play styles, and as teammates. It’s well known that they had beef that season, and I think that would have been a factor that might have held them back in the playoffs.
The 2004 and 2013 Lakers were Big 4's not Big 3's
2004 Shaq, Kobe, Malone, Payton
2013 Kobe, Dwight, Nash, Gasol
This is so well edited, love how you edited this and flowed all the Big 3s together
As a nets fan for so many years, it hurts every time you show the video of k d's toe. I was there in person and I'm about to cry again.
It's not they would have won the next series, I don't get why people treat that like such a big deal.
@@charlottecorday8494 You think we would've lost to Atlanta? Are you stupid or what where you from
The Nets Fell Apart 💀
Twice 😂🤣💀
ok?
Kobe said it best
The goal was to win a championship," Bryant said. "It wasn't to win MVP or anything like that, it was to win a championship. So in that aspect, we failed."
If Kyrie aint go down in the first round against bucks aint no doubt that the nets would have won the title that year
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I think your right despite how good Milwaukee was the big 3 of kd harden and kyrie they would have won the title
To be fair to Charles, he said that he wouldn't have counted a championship like that. Not sure how much that means considering they lost, but it's there.
Sure, he says that now because they didn't win. Had they gone all the way, he would have hung onto that championship memory for dear life, especially since people always roast him about never winning one.
Dammn Kobe at 34 makes Lebron at 38 look younger lol
Lmbbfao
LJ looks 50
Lmao I remember when people had avenger memes about the Lakers with Dwight and Nash, hilarious how that turned out
In the NBA to win it all you have to have a deep roster with good chemistry and defense having a team ot stars doesn't translate to that besides the early 2010s heat teams. And they still lost 2/4
the nuggets proved this the most
*He could barely walk" 😂😭 i am still laughing
How do you “break” an Achilles?
This bout to be lit 🔥
The Los Angeles Clippers in the "Lob City" era were a very attractive team.
It's such a shame that Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan didn't manage to win a championship with the Clippers.
overrated
Bulls players need a year without injuries they didn’t get a chance and I can’t believe this big 3 collapsed like this
Great video 👏👏
I am a HUGE Rockets fan, I think, what if the CP3 trade to lakers happened, that means Pau Gasol would have been on the rockets
2:50 Lebron ain’t never weighed 280 😂😂😂
You haven't seen him in 2012 ??? He was like a fucken tnk going at you
He was up there. He bulked up in Miami
Jeremy Lin is a guy I wanted to see what he could be if he was given the chance to be a star at NY
Linsanity was already falling before melo came back. Miami showed it and the rest of the league adjusted. Lin wasn’t a star, and was only a star during that stretch
Hey hey woah woah...giannas just said "there are no failures in sports" this video is just documenting the steps that were taken
Love it ❤
0:38 Kobe wasn’t 38 in 2012 me and Kobe was the same age and I was 34
I was genuinely thinking the exact same song 3:04
I think everyone saw the nets with that locker room chemistry
The nets are like the bills of the nba
The only ones I agree with are Brooklyn and the clippers aka lob city. I can't agree Westbrook and the Lakers because the Lakers failed Russ by not allowing him to who he's nature is. He's not a 3rd string yet the team most be build or molded around he's positive abilities
"Yeah! Let's build a team around an inefficient volume scorer, who needs the ball in his hands at all times to be effective, who turns the ball over constantly, and plays terrible defense"
-Some dipshit
Lakers brought in Russ to help take the load off of an aging LeBron and an oft-injured Anthony Davis. Most people knew it wasn’t going to work out from the get-go based on the lack of shooting and perimeter defense. Think it absolutely counts as a failed super team since the Lakers management were too caught up in their own heads going star hunting instead of building a quality roster around Bron and AD. What ur saying is the team should’ve built Russ’ strengths which are transition offense and driving to the rim, two traits which require shooting and defense to build around.
Nah the Hindenburg line was out of pocket 😂 12:44
I feel like the OKC Big 3 of Russ, PG, & Melo should’ve been thumbnail.
Dope video
LeBron also missed it in 2019 tho
He was injured
@@briaunbellows2251 but still played majority of the season
This guy is ruthless 😂
Great vid! Good work and keep it up. I'd give ya a raise if I could
What’s the instrumental that starts at 9:30 when he’s talkin bout the Knicks. It’s so fire
Markkanen-Alen-Mobley, the Clevelands Cavs big 3s was a revulution. Markkanen has kept it going in Utah Jazz.
I don’t see Lob City Clips as a fail-they were awesome to watch, DJ gave us one of the best poster dunks ever, J-Corssover broke ankles off the bench, and Tyga gave us a legendary remix to “Rack City”.
To me nothing will take the cake over OKC being up 3x1 against the 73-9 warrios with Russell, KD in their prime, with Steve Adams and Serge Ibaka in their roster and somehow still lost to the warrios.
New vid let’s go
I remember all this bro especially seeING AD ON THE BENCH SO YEA MAN
4:25 bro just referenced the modern commercials of BK (Burger King) 💀💀💀💀💀
Seeing Garnett in a Nets jersey is so weird lol
13:03 LeBron missed the playoffs in the 2018-19 season
Is it only me but the editing becomes better after every vedio
The villains in James Bond movies roast is crazy 💀
You need 1 superstar, 2 max with the rest being very productive role players. MJ had Scottie then added Dennis, Harper and the rest of the guys knew that they weren’t the bus driver
If the Lakers were a big three, then the Clippers were too. They gained miserably as well since they lost in the first round. Let's not give them a pass like everyone does EVERY YEAR.
If we get another round of Lakers and the Heat I will cream my pants
You cannot call the 2017 Thunder a big 3. Melo was past his prime at this point.
4:25
BK Have it your way
You Rule!
It's horrible how they forced people to take that poison
even worse how this guy tried to shame him for not doing it
@@JustChristianBlack I know, I was enjoying the video up until that point
You make it sound like they didn't want to sign Caruso. The management wanted to but since Lebron already insisted on them getting Russ, they didn't have the cap to sign him. As you even said yourself, after getting Russ they couldn't even fill the team properly and it was a miracle they even got a team as strong as they did with vet min.
Carmelo Anthony Needs TO BE NBA RIGHT NOW
yes 👏
Can you make how good was Patrick Ewing the man who carried the Knicks🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I Thought NBA Big 3 could Build a Superteam Like Always be the Best but still things Could not Work Together as Team and Failed as a Superteam.
Here I am clicking on this video thinking he meant "big man threes that failed miserably"
Forgot to mention 2017 Bulls when they had Butler, Wade and Rondo
aint no way
That bulls team would’ve went far in the playoffs if Lonzo didn’t get hurt 💔
Nah they were 2nd rounders at best.
Steven A hairline myyyyyy goodness 😭😭
Chuck was played with the houston trade. He didnt ask to go to the rockets. Suns let him go
for the clippers i dont think that its Chris DeAndre ore Blake i think that it was doc rivers
Carmelo was not in his prime when he was in OKC lol
the nets shouldve won the title in 2021 but injury is what stopped them.
I dont understand how Carmello has become 10 times all star, his plus minus cant be good. And his shooting was inconsistent
Clippers big 3 only worked in NBA 2k, they're really annoying in that game in hof difficultly.
you should do how good was Michael Jordan ACTUALLY
It’s a shame some of these players never won a ring.
I'm sorry we gotta stop calling aging superstars past their prime coming together a big anything because it almost always ends in injury. Like the 04 Lakers
old geezers for the Lakers is crazy i respect your opinion immensely but in my eyes these guys are great because they are in the NBA
To be fair, most people wouldn't consider the current Bulls have a "big 3". No one in that "big 3" has that IT factor especially when the playoffs roll around.
They're a medium 3 lol.
He didnt mention the 04 Lakers and 19 Sixers
if you cant win a title with carmleo anthony tyson chandler linsanity and a'mare stoudamire that is just absurd
Bron need PG scoring machine like Kyrie Irving
Bruh Dallas aint letting go 😂😂
3:58 that happened in 2015, not 2014
Lol Lebron has never been 280. You crazy for that
He was indeed 280
In 2012 LeBron was 285 lbs at his heaviest
Came into the league at 18 and was 240
@@trackspeed1 Damn bruh you spend more time in lebrons bathroom than Savannah does
@@mitchbrown6652all it takes is a quick google search on the exact device you used to make that comment to realize you're wrong. Too lazy to fact check yourself?😂
12:45 In my opinion, the reason why Westbrook failed in Lakers Big 3 is because he can't accept that he was the 3rd or 4th option of the team. He wants to be the main man of the team even though you already got LeBron and AD.
Why the title about Yao ming
13:03 Actually he also missed the playoffs in 2019 too.
In the NBA rule book it says a player who is injured and his team misses the playoffs, that doesn't count as a missed playoff for a player
@@DarrynPeterson44 except it says online that he missed the playoffs and he played most of the season
That lakers team with Kobe doesn’t count. Everyone was hurt.
The Knicks are finally coming back to life as an organization after we got Mello'd years ago. :-P lol
Big 3 is going to be a Huge Success in NBA if they played with 3 balls
Absolutely no one considered Westbrook's arrival in LA as part of a "big 3". He had already become a journeyman at that point and was definitely no longer a star.
No one lmao. Sure buddy.
Clipps choked in 2015.
It is the bucks who forced a game 7, not the nets.
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You kept saying all star while showing Lanzo Ball 😅
Nets has a big chance to win ring because the big 3 click together but Irving drama is too much to handle. I hope the nets in the future win a championship.
*Alright, the best storyteller of this channel is back."*
People give 2022 Lakers and Kobe’s lakers all the smoke but nobody is giving KD’s nets ANY SMOKE
Calling tht bulls team a real big 3 is a stretch
Westbrook's chemistry with lebron and AD was the worst ever
Taco fall is a big 3 all in 1 guy
Since the 08 boston celtics big 3’s are the holy grail of every GM? Are you sure?
It worked for Miami with LeBron, DWade and Bosh.
@@shauncameron8390 what i mean is big 3’s are common in the league waaaaaayy before the 08 celtics
Can a you make a story about giannis
small children in the school yard is outrageous
Now, add the Suns with Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, and Bradley Beal.
3:58
That was 2015.