This One GIF Is the Perfect Embodiment of the Toronto Raptors’ Slumping Season

If you haven’t noticed, the Toronto Raptors are in a real bad way.

They’ve been in a month-long Gallopin’ Gertie-esque collapse, losing 11 of their last 15 games and plummeting to fifth place in the Eastern Conference standings. And while they acquired difference-making power forward Serge Ibaka Tuesday, news of the deal failed to spark the team against the Chicago Bulls later that night, as they suffered their 11th straight loss to their conference rivals. All of which is to say, Ibaka might not quite fully understand the big sizzling clusterfuck he’s about to walk into.

Well, dark times call for dank memes. And thankfully, the Internet has no shortage of those. Behold this cathartic masterwork of a GIF currently blowing up on the Toronto Raptors subreddit:

Let’s give Serge Ibaka a warm welcome

This brilliantly captures the shit-hits-fan despair we can only assume is being felt inside the Raptors’ locker room right now. For those of you who have never watched Community (i.e. Philistines), it’s a riff on the episode “Remedial Chaos Theory,” in which Jeff rolls a die to decide who will leave to get a pizza for the gang, and Abed realizes that by doing this, Jeff is creating six separate timelines. In each one, a different member leaves to grab the pizza. Troy’s (or in this case, Ibaka’s) timeline ends up being the darkest. When he races out to get the pizza, he shuts the front door very hard on his way out, the force of which sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic events. When he returns, Peirce (Norm Powell) is dying from a leg wound, Jeff (DeMar DeRozan) is on fire, and the whole gang is in headless chicken mode. Notice the Norwegian Troll doll (Dwayne Casey) watching it all unravel. This makes me chortle and weep at the same time.

Hopefully, now that Ibaka is here, the Raptors’ darkest timeline will soon be over. Ibaka, if you’re reading this, just remember: you’re our Troy now. SO PLEASE NEVER LEAVE US.