YMMV / Game of Zones

• Growing the Beard: In Season 4, when the animation improved and more episodes of greater length came out.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The episode where the Trail Blazers make fun of DeMarcus Cousins for joining the Warriors was released a few days after he was taken out of the playoffs after suffering a left quad injury.
  • The Season 6 Finale has Pat Beverley trying to recruit Kevin Durant to House Clippers; it was released around Game 3 of the Finals while Durant was nursing a calf injury. In Game 5, Durant played 11 minutes in the first half before rupturing his tendon, making his return in Season 7 questionable. House Warriors needed all of his 11 points that day, though even then it merely prolonged the series by one battle. Additionally, the other Warrior who appeared in the episode, Klay Thompson, had a great Game 6 before tearing his ACL, which effectively ended Golden State's championship run.
  • A few jokes can be considered this in the wake of Kobe Bryant's death via a helicopter crash:
    • From "The Purple Retirement": Dwight Howard gifting Kobe with a stuffed animal for his daughter before snidely remarking that he'll grow old and irrelevant, considering that he was only 41 when he was killed with one of his daughters. Additionally, Dwight and Kobe reportedly buried the hatchet shortly before his passing, to the point where Dwight wanted Kobe to make an appearance in his Dunk Contest routine.
    • Also from "The Purple Retirement" was Michael Jordan leaving a letter to Kobe saying he always saw himself as Kobe's older brother, which he pretty much said in his statement on Kobe's death.
    • The ending of "The King's LAnding", where it's revealed that Kobe leads a group of anti-LeBron fanatics, considering his final tweet was congratulating LeBron on passing him on the all-time scoring list.
  • Eric Bledsoe's Rousing Speech in 6-8 about how he was glad to be on House Bucks became this following the 2020-21 season when, after another flame-out in previous year's playoffs (with critics singling out Bledsoe's poor performance in particular), the Bucks ditched Bledsoe and traded him to the Pelicans (a much worse off, lottery-bound team) for Jrue Holiday and went on to win the NBA Championship that season. And the team Bledsoe said he was happy to no longer be part of, House Suns? They had a dramatic turnaround of their own that season, becoming the best team in the West and meeting the Bucks in the NBA Finals, after likewise making an upgrade at point guard with Chris Paul.
    • It got worse for Bledsoe. After the Pelicans traded him away after the following season, they made the playoffs the next year.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • House Bucks gets one in the Season 6 finale, when, despite losing their conference, they rally together as a house with one Rousing Speech after another, and cheer on Giannis Antetokounmpo as the new King in the East.^note Helped by the fact that he was declared League MVP a few weeks later.
  • After an episode where the Kobedicians harass LeBron as he is arriving in Los Angeles, the man himself^note Note that this episode came after Kobe's untimely death; the episode is dedicated to him comes up to LeBron in "The Long Episode" to encourage LeBron as he prepares for his battle against the Dream Team, telling LeBron to "move the game forward" and that "you are my legacy". It's especially poignant after Kobe secretly led the Kobedicians against LeBron.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: Episode 6-3 ends with Lowry hoping that DeRozan's sacrifice wasn't in vain, before Kawhi Leonard appears before him. Sure enough, Kawhi helped the Raptors win their first championship that season.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The first episode starts out with Kevin Love talking to Steph Curry, lamenting how they're doomed to wallow in mediocrity forever. Both of them would go on to win championships, with Curry in particular playing an important role in the Warriors dynasty.
  • In the Season 4 finale, D'Angelo Russell tells Magic that he wants to "become [part of] a dynasty", before Magic tells him that he won't part of the Lakers dynasty. In the 2019 offseason, he was traded to the Warriors, who had just made their fifth consecutive Finals appearance^note though considering the departure of Durant and Klay's injury, "dynasty" might be a bit nebulous.
  • As Pat Beverley was arriving to speak with Kevin Durant in 6-8, Kyrie Irving had finished his own proposal for him and KD to "rule the World, from edge to edge." Apparently, KD was more pleased with Kyrie's proposal, as the twain teamed up in Brooklyn, the next season. Then again, Beverley was able to get his own... monster offscreen. Also...
  • The start of Episode 5-8 had Paul George headed out of Okla'homa in a Lakers tunic. His words to Russell Westbrook held true one year later when he actually left.^note Carmelo Anthony, who "comforted" Westbrook in that scene, was the one to leave OKC after Season 5, albeit to Houston. What's hilarious is that he joined House Clippers instead.
    Russ, in my years, I've come to accept that I will lose in the playoffs no matter where I go. But Los Angeles has a beach.
  • In episode 6-6 LeBron mocks the Washington Wizards by sarcastically asking Who wouldn't want to play with Dwight Howard? A few months later DeMarcus Cousins tore his ACL in preseason and the Lakers acquired Howard to replace him.
• Squick: James Harden's Kendall Jenner disguise was partly made from his pubes.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The plot point of the Kobedicians jeering LeBron set up in "The King's LAnding" egged on by Kobe himself seemed ripe for a "Collapse of House Lakers" plot that actually unfolded in the real NBA. References during Season 6 proper to such events? A Throwaway Line during the Credits of the Season Finale:^note An episode otherwise focused on predictions. Also, LeBron being willing to sacrifice his team in 6-5 doesn't count; he wanted to restore the "Showtime" of Lord Johnson's era.
  LeBron: [W]here did Magic [Johnson] go? He was supposed to be here.

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