It seems like the season just started yesterday, but amazingly we have reached the one-quarter mark of the 2015-16 NBA season. It has been a wild ride so far, with some teams exceeding expectations and others faltering to a disappointing start. While many focus on the positives, we can’t help but care about who hasn’t lived up to their expectations in this young season. Let’s take a look at the biggest disappointments of the season so far in the NBA.

New Orleans Pelicans

Yikes. What has happened in New Orleans? Yes, injuries have played some sort of a role in their 5-16 start to the season, but it has to go beyond that for a team that made the postseason last year. Their defense is giving up over 107 points per game and while the team has shown flashes of improvement, they haven’t quite put it together for new coach Alvin Gentry. Anthony Davis continues to improve, but his supporting cast just isn’t getting it done, and he certainly isn’t living up to the level that some (present company included) expected him to reach this year.

Washington Wizards

Speaking of supporting casts not getting it done, how important must Paul Pierce have been to the Wizards? This year’s version was supposed to feature a new, improved offense that highlighted John Wall’s strengths. Instead, the team looks slow and lost, and sits under .500 after being a broken wrist away from potentially making the Eastern Conference finals. Randy Wittman has already had to speak with Marcin Gortat about his role, and this team looks like it’s teetering on a breaking point. This certainly isn’t where the Wizards expected to be after such a successful campaign last year.

Milwaukee Bucks

I’ll be honest: I may have whiffed on my coach of the year pick in Jason Kidd. The Bucks are 9-13 and don’t look anything like the team that clawed its way into the playoffs. Michael Carter-Williams looks to have taken a step backwards, Khris Middleton isn’t earning that big contract he signed this past summer, and the Bucks are still learning how to play together. After Greg Monroe signed this offseason, the Bucks looked like a trendy team to make a deep playoff run. Now, however, they need to find themselves before they can ever crash the postseason party.

Kobe Bryant

Well, in the offseason I predicted that Kobe would retire before the year is over. If not for the reception he seems to want from every road game he plays this year, I think he would have hung it up already. Leave it to Kobe to tell his head coach during a game that he’s going to retire after the season ends. Now the Lakers basically have to let him do his thing one last time and sacrifice a potentially promising season full of developing young players. It’s disappointing all around, but especially for a man who once seemed to respect himself enough not to go out like this.