Here are the worst cases of superstar implosion and the biggest big 3's that failed miserably. Follow Nonstop Instagram: / nonstop TikTok: / nonstop Twitter: / nonstop Imagery supplied by Getty Images
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
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 😂
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
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
@@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
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
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 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.
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.
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.
@@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?😂
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.
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
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.
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
No way this man said since the Celtics championship 😭 I wouldn’t call that a big three compared to 2000,2002 lakers or spurs. The Celtics got lucky as hell battling the lakers for championship smh get out with that
We’re the lakers a big 3 tho? They had shaq and Kobe but I don’t think there was a #3. They added Karl Malone and Gary but that was Malones last year where he got like 4 points per game and Gary wasn’t doing much better
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.
