The overreaction in this sub tells me we’re mostly composed of teen fans, and also trolls.

People need to consider a lot of factors about last night’s game that we shouldn’t be upset about at all.

#1 We played the current NBA championship team that is already in mid season form. For a team with new personnel keeping up with them in the beginning of the second half is encouraging!

#2 Our championship team in 2020 got blown out by the clippers too their first game, so I wouldn’t take yesterdays L as an intimidating foreshadow of this team

#3 It’s Game 1…. I’m sure management and staff had this marked as a scheduled loss and were not going to risk Bron and AD to go hard and get injured. Denver was playing very fast so the opportunity cost of this win was too high to risk a possibility of injury

#4 I’m confident this team will pick up a lot of wins this season. We will definitely fare up against Phoenix with our size difference and their ball dominant style of play, and the rest of the league. The nuggets are a bad matchup to us, but we have a whole season to figure it out

Go Lakers and enjoy the season folks. Give it a few games before our role players shine. The fact that y’all expected everyone to go for 20+ points last night is seriously unrealistic expectations