Most agonizing thing to watch as a fan.

[coolcono]

My Timberwolves just got Gobert, so I am hoping this will remedy the problem.
I hate watching 3 point shooting teams getting the offensive rebound then getting another attempt a three.

[kobe_vs_jordan]

2011 Lakers vs Mavs. Blew 4th quarter of every game. Then game 4 massacre

[Yuri Vaultin]

Dwayne Casey coaching the Raptors and stubbornly or stupidly never making obvious adjustments. Dude would run the same plays with the same predictable results. Each time he'd expect against the odds that plays would work. He basically did the coaching equivalent of betting on the Generals against the Globetrotters every single post season.

2 minutes left in a blow out is when he'd make an adjustment. So happy it's not my problem now.

[wade44]

4th quarter blown leads. Especially when it becomes a pattern

[LSWF]

KAT not getting back on defense when he doesn't get the whistle.

[JimmyPlopper]

Anytime someone acts tired. Also anytime someone blames teammates instead of taking personal accountability

[TheHartBreakKid]

2011 Lakers vs Mavs. Blew 4th quarter of every game. Then game 4 massacre

Definitely up there.

A few others come to mind during my time as a Laker fan:


Honorable Mentions:
-04 vs the Pistons was brutal in terms of purely getting outplayed
-08 vs the Celtics game 6 when it comes to pure embarrassment
My Pick:
2013 vs the Spurs- the fact that Kobe had torn his Achilles, Nash was hurt, and Dwight had one foot out of the door while getting swept was devastating. Atleast for the other options there was some hope for "maybe next year". The 2013 playoffs was just bleak. Probably the most hopeless I've ever felt as a fan.

[Duffman100]

Post Vince Carter Toronto Raptors.

[ken6199]

Your team is down by 3. Opponent player jacks up an early clock contested 3 to ice the game then act like a boss where he could have made a more guaranteed 2 and milked more clock. His celebration is all over the social media. Nah, you just made a "I got nothing to lose but everything to win" shot with zero pressure.

[BenoUdrihFTL]

2011 Finals wondering if this was gonna be the game when LeBron would wake the fk up

This past postseason wondering if this was gonna be the game when we finally snap out of our 3pt funk. Miami went from leading the NBA in 3pt accuracy during the RS (38%) to completely falling off a cliff in the PS (31%) and ultimately losing Gm7 of the ECF by 4 points in a game where we shot 6 of 30 (20%) from 3

[mastermixer]

The Clippers

[audiosway]

2011 Lakers vs Mavs. Blew 4th quarter of every game. Then game 4 massacre

Unfortunately for you being a Mavs fan I was on the other side of that game. Sorry bud.

[Egg Nog]

2011 Lakers vs Mavs. Blew 4th quarter of every game. Then game 4 massacre

Truly a beautiful thing to watch.

[sp6r=underrated]

2013 vs the Spurs- the fact that Kobe had torn his Achilles, Nash was hurt, and Dwight had one foot out of the door while getting swept was devastating. Atleast for the other options there was some hope for "maybe next year". The 2013 playoffs was just bleak. Probably the most hopeless I've ever felt as a fan.

I'd say for the Lakers proud history (best of any franchise in NBA history), outside of Magic's HIV diagnosis, this was the low. Because as you said there wasn't any upside. And the bleak projection turned out to be correct for 2014-2018.

[sp6r=underrated]

The most agagonizing games came in my youth: 1993 ECF Game 5, 1994 NBA Finals Game 7.

This is going to be a weird pick but the games that most frusturated came in 2006. The Knicks were fully in their wilderness period but they had hit a hot stretch winning a bunch of games in a row. Then Brown started messing with the rotation and the team completely imploded.

The 2015 Knicks were worse but this was when I realized NY had huge long-term issues.

[Karate Diop]

The Nets.

[ORLMagicGirl15]

When the offensive player make any type of wild shot looking for a foul.

Every end of the bench player that becomes Michael Jordan agains the Magic. If a player is going to have a career night, it will be against Orlando.

Also, for whatever reason, whatever a player never done or the lowest % they have every done it, they will do it against us. For instance, Ben Simmons made a “3” against us on December 31, 2020. The last regular season 3 he made before that was December 7, 2019.

[LAL1947]

An injury to a key player on your team during a playoff game has to be tops?

There are lot of things that just annoy the crap out of me though.

1) scrubs taking a low % shot when their teammates aren't in position to get back on defense. that goes double if it's a shot the player is not good at.
2) players arguing with the referee... instead of getting back on defense.
3) centers who celebrate a simple dunk after someone else has done all the work getting them the ball and leaving them with little to do... giving an extra flourish while on the rim, or holding on to it for longer than needed, or yelling and puffing their chests as if they did something great... instead of getting back on defense.
4) indecisive scrubs not making a quick and timely pass to another player who has worked hard to create space to receive the pass... then committing a turnover trying a harder, stupider pass than the original easy one they should've made.
5) serial floppers, like Marcus Smart and Kyle Lowry.
6) referees who try to make the game about them.
7) referees who wear their pants real high.
8) scrubs with dreads, i.e., the types who are more worried about how they look sitting on the bench than about winning. we had an abundance of those on the lakers this past year.
9) the Euro-3-step and Gianni-4-step.
10) players who constantly lick their lips trying to look like playas... instead of focusing on winning. the NBA's #1 lip-licker, Chris Webber, ended up winning diddly squat. why would anyone want to emulate that, lol.

I could go on but I'll stop at 10.

[zeebneeb]

Dwayne Casey coaching the Raptors and stubbornly or stupidly never making obvious adjustments. Dude would run the same plays with the same predictable results. Each time he'd expect against the odds that plays would work. He basically did the coaching equivalent of betting on the Generals against the Globetrotters every single post season.

2 minutes left in a blow out is when he'd make an adjustment. So happy it's not my problem now.

This is legendary. As a Pistons fan, I completely understand. Casey is an excellent development coach, but is appalling at X's & O's.

Infuriating.

[Beethoven]

Seeing the Lakers lose a game. Or a member of the Lakers getting injured.
Nothing else is agonizing.