Anthony Edwards shot 0 free throws tonight in the Wolves win over the Lakers.
Although he was tackled and hacked multiple times tonight he shot 0 free throws. 26 shot attempts, bumped or hit on almost all of them.
He is driving 23x per game this series. He is only averaging 2FTA.
it’s obviously because of how well AD contests
Lakers fans see nothing wrong with this sentene
With what?
this sentene
sentene
Sentene
shrim.
skimbi
Got it thought I was trippin lol
Pantene - don’t hate me because I’m beautiful
Spelled it like that cause the refs can’t c
Well you spelt sentence wrong so there’s something there
Contest without foulling
Salute
GO HARD ON THEM DUDES
It was a helluva ball game
Lmaooo
Extremely high level comment that should be a first ballot /r/nba hall of famer but the biased mods won’t give it its just due
Sorry, the Lakers are too ethical to foul. It’s truly a tragedy how bad of a whistle Luka and the poor old Lakers get ☹️
Darvin Ham instilled his contest without foulling methods on the Lakers
SALUTE
It’s alright, refs will make up for it next game.
By getting him into foul trouble early.
You son of a gun, you had me in the first half
This is the part that’s driving me nuts. The NBA should not want a player like Ant to start slowing drives down so the fouls are more blatant.
The NBA doesn’t want Ant to be the face of the league
At the pace he’s going every player in 20 years will be a child of his, he’ll be the founding father of the league.
Get da abortion
Adam Silver would love nothing more than a Warriors Lakers series. Not shocked.
Really? Lakers, sure. But all they’d have to do in the Warriors series is simply call every foul on Steph and it’d be 20 points blowouts in a sweep lol.
They could also start calling all of Draymond’s bullshit if you wanna play that game lmao
Watch the games and then blab on
Beyond the pale that Warriors fans are going “whoa is me”
If you’re trying to sound smart you should at least use the right phrases
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It’s cause he’s so fast and strong and scary that there’s nobody at the rim when he gets there cause he scared them away, idiot
Its simple. The wolves are fouling, the Lakers aren’t.
Isn’t it super obvious? The league would never be more lenient with fouls on some players than others.
Exactly! And it’s also a complete coincidence that the most popular and profitable team in the league gets way more free throws than anyone else!
He’s getting the Steph treatment
But he shoot da 3 /s
He needs to be on the Lakers to get free throws. It’s part of the rules in the playoffs for the refs
Is that why the wolves have shot more free throws than the Lakers over the last 2 games?
adam silver called ant ain’t pick up
That’s what happens when you model your game to Steph Curry. You will get no calls despite driving
Ethical hoopage
He needs to go to the SGA school of acting
He could just take some lessons from his cousin on the team. You can definitely tell the Alexander’s work on their flopping together in the off-season, Nikeil really over sells it too. Doesn’t get the same whistle as SGA because he’s not a superstar, but he’s probably the most egregious actor on the Wolves
Or Jokic
Or Luka.. he definitely perfected that tummy cramp bit at Juilliard. Incredible performance 🎭
Edwards literally shoots more free throws per game.
Not this one?
Luka is on your fucking team lmao
Luka is worse than all of them
Pretty sure Jokic just adopted it out of frustration eventually. When they first started making the playoffs he never got any calls.
Nah, this Jokic thing being pushed by SGA & Embiid parasocials is weird af
Jokic certainly embellishes but no where near SGA or Embiid.
The fuck? We just watched Jokic have a hall of fame game of flopping in game 2 lmaoo SGA is not a 7 ft 300 lbs man flying from getting bumped by a point guard. Yall let him and Luka get away with murder when it comes to flopping, but call out SGA lol
“Jokic also flops and its excusable when he does it but i will shame sga and embid”
Bro it’s more like Jokic parasocials act like he’s the paragon of virtue, we have seen some ridiculous flops from him. I’m conviced most Jokic fans don’t even watch his games to see how dirty he can play
The difference is he didn’t use to play that way. That’s started in the past 2-3 seasons. Probably because the refs reward everyone who does it and if you can’t beat em join em.
Tf? Shai and Embiid have nothing to do with Jokic flopping y’all always do this weirdo shit.
Bro literally just go that thread from 2 days ago or whatever.
It’s all OKC fans, Philly fans, and Clipper fans.
That one game was so much vindication for those fan bases that they still won’t stop talking about it. It’s hilarious.
Edward’s doesn’t have an L in his full name so unfortunately he can’t flop like jokic, Luka ,SGA, Brunson, lebron etc
Poor guy is just a deadbeat dad
Not to defend him, but we also need to take into account how he was taken advantage by much older women whose main income was child support even before they met him. In the very least Ant made sure his kids have his money, many kids don’t even get that
Genghis khan got nothing on ant
FTA school
But lebrons closer
If these two teams meet this year Ant’s likeability will balloon while SGA will be the most hated man in America.
Only ethical hoops.
Send da Stats
hawl nawl cant call dis
Whole game was ethical on both sides. It was 20 FTs per team right? Unheard of.
Was fucking hilarious when he drove at the end of the game and they showed the replay and the commentary was just like “that was a good block” after the blatant body push from 2 different Lakers.
Lebron body slams him from behind and launches him half a foot forward then knocks away the already loose ball. The commentators: “A little push there but it was all ball”
I can actually hear Doris now
There were some questionable calls and non calls this game. Overall I’d say the series is hard to call right due to how physical both teams have been playing since start of game 2. Everyone’s basically shoving, pushing, grabbing, giving some sort of contact on every paint bucket. If they call it every time, fans are going to complain. If they try to toe the line to keep things managed, then there’s going to be misses on some things that aren’t clearly obvious.
Like game 2 could’ve had twice as many fouls called and it would’ve been accurate probably. Ant’s just suffering from lack of calls as a strong guy who drives hard. Lebron had a bad whistle for most of his career cuz of how damn strong he is and how hard he drives in
Lakers don’t foul.
Bron and Luka get fouled every drive to the paint.
Hacked every play!
Lakers fans will tell you Luka deserves 10x more fouls shots
Of course. How else do you explain his entire body looking like a crash test dummy?
Diabetes causes wounds to heal very slowly
AD never fouls
Darvin Hamas lives and hist contest without foulling mentality
Contest without fouling. Salute.
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Lmao. Now lakers fans want to use free throw differential.
Funny.
Wolves being +1 in FT attempts despite being +30 in the pain is ridiculous. Lakers fans citing FT differential aint it.
He got 200mil, he got 200mil, I got 200 mil and my ethics are bigger than your’s.
Damn right it’s bigger than yours I could teach ya, but I’d have to charge
His finishing at the rim has been pretty terrible all series but he’s also getting a bit more contact on those drives. Props to him today for not taking any possessions off to complain about calls.
Because Lakers were hacking him especially Lebron pushing him 4x this game at the back. That wide open layup was bad tho.
Bron had 0 fouls. Fucking king treatment from the refs. Annoying as fuck.
He’s had that nonsense his whole career. Doesn’t draw a lot of foul calls, but never gets called for charges or offensive fouls on one end, nor really physical defense on the other end - and his teammates usually get that gift on defense too.
Yeah so much of his youth was getting away with charging the lane. Not my GOAT.
Sad that no one will remember all this bs after it’s said and done; on a positive note all the LeBron glazers I met irl are either just trolling in good fun or not really people I care about
Hard to make shots when you’re getting fouled with no whistle
I was worried he was gonna get the T towards the end. But he was getting jobbed, today was rough.
The anti-Lebron
It’s disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.
Ant has been grabbed or bumped off balance a lot in this series while trying to score and he’s not getting to the line at all.
It’s just showing that the league’s reffing problem is broken.
Ant will yell and complain, but he doesn’t flop. If he just fell down on a lot of that contact, he might get 4-5 more free throws per game (even more in the playoffs). Because refs are taught to call contact that “impacts the play”.
Like, the best scorers almost all seize upon every opportunity for free point. Refs (and the league) are telling you to flop.
Not a very good take considering ant fell down on at least 3 shoves from behind this game.
You gotta put in the work to build up a reputation as “The World’s Strongest Man Who Can Be Knocked Over By A Gust Of Wind”
There’s a pretty clear contrast between falling down after a drive at full speed and genuinely trying to make the basket, and falling over because you’re driving to draw a foul
Ant tries to play through everything and never sells it. Then bitches at the refs (rightfully so, often) because he doesn’t get the calls most of his peers do
Why he lead the league in techs
Welcome to the Curry/Jokic experience. Enjoy your stay Ant!
Has been our experience for the past 2 playoff series against them. Thankfully another fanbase understands our pain now
2? I believe it was the game 2 Lakers Nuggets bubble series that made me think the NBA was the WWE equivalent. The refs even did a make up game and called everything the other the way the next game the calls were so disgustingly obvious. Lakers are a joke
NBA probably: Ant would be a much better player if he just randomly jumped sideways into his defenders more often. Face of the league even.
Bro is getting that Napheesa Collier Game 5 in NYC whistle
Rigged for commissioner favorite Julius Randle
They saw he used to play for the lakers and got confused and accidentally gave him some free throws
Wait, so he drives a lot and doesn’t shoot FTs? Isn’t that why people say SGA shoots a lot of FTs?
SGA flops and flails constantly. Ant goes hard
FGA = Flop Grifter Alexander
He does a lot of “Ayyy!” shouting but plays through the contact more often than exaggerating the contact for a foul
Edwards powers through the contact and yells. Shai exaggerates contact and flail sideways or head snap
Oh stop that disingenuous shit, SGA averages 8 on flops from both drives, middies shit even some 3s, Ant averages 6 on pretty much only drives. Everyone who watches games knows SGA is a flopper, stop the dickriding
Because it sucks to watch, which you would know if you actually watched games instead of box scores. But sure go off bruh
Agree to disagree then, don’t get me wrong I hate flopping, jumping into defenders, throwing the head back shit that’s more popular now as a concept, nothing specific against SGA as he’s far from the only one, he just has the talent to make it without that, which is why he and Embiid are such frustrating players to me
Great to see that he’s still ethical. I wonder how long its gonna take for him to join the darkside
Curry still hasn’t, doubt Ant will tbh
Dude it’s purely a coincidence lakers have the best FTA differential by like a thousand
Third year running.
I actually don’t think they have it anymore or if they do it’s not as ridiculously skewed as the last couple of years
Edit because I hate mfers who make up stats (it’s Milwaukee btw): https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask?q=largest+fta-opponent+fta+this+season
They do, and it’s still ridiculously high. Only team to average more than 5 free throws over what the other team gets - and they’ve still got that this season.
A couple other teams getting closer doesn’t make it better.
Never mind you were just lying
Crazy how people can just make up stats and a narrative and run with it
https://sports.betmgm.com/en/blog/nba/nba-free-throw-differential-bm23/#:~:text=The%20Milwaukee%20Bucks%20finished%20the,Nuggets%20finished%20third%20at%20%2B2.5.
Looks like it dropped a good bit from how it was three months ago.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NBATalk/comments/1hp7egt/free_throw_differential_by_team_for_the_last_3/
And I checked - those other two seasons are correct.
Here you go for anyone interested in the truth:
https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask?q=largest+fta-opponent+fta+this+season
Lying mf
Free range, grass fed, organic buckets.
Ethical basketball
So what you’re saying is he also didn’t miss a single free throw either?
I remember the past couple years where Lakers flairs kept saying they had such a large FT discrepancy is because AD/Lebron lived in the paint.
Ant been living in the paint all series and has been getting no calls.
Maybe AD but the hate fantasy of LeBron getting calls & living at the line is comical. Go look at his career FTA per game over the last 20 years. For a guy who made a living driving into the paint really doesn’t average that many FT’s per game.
Lakers have literally shot less ft 2⁄3 games lol
After trade deadline lakers had an even ft discrepancy…
He actually tries to make the shots. He’s not driving with the intention of getting fouled.
Yep. Over the last two seasons, he drew 459 shooting fouls on 2pt attempts, and 124 of them were and-1s. So he’s finishing through contact at 27%.
The lakers are obviously contesting w/o foulling
You losers would rather watch head snappin Brunson and FTA than an ethical hooper with real talAnt
talAnt.. Wolves fans have been especially cringe these past Lakers games lol
You guys tried to make Bodega KAT a thing lol
“hE sHouLd jUsT dRivE MoRe”
Don’t you know? Lakers are the most magical team ever because they never foul.
They just let players get past them rather than risk the foul, and if they do touch them it’s completely incidental and not a foul, and if it’s harder than that the refs are calling it loose both ways, and if they’re not it’s still justified because of this thing the other team does so much, and if the other team doesn’t do that thing you’re lying.
Classy player. More players need to use him as a role model
Maybe the fan with the whistle should have called a few coils for him.
My man
Lebron with zero fouls tonight lol
But the wolves shot one more free throw so the refs were clearly unbiased.
Just don’t pay attention to the point that the Lakers were hanging on our players all game but they got a light whistle.
(Don’t) get da calls
shocker
Second game lakers less fta and more fouls…
“how tough am i? i had 29 points tonight”
“so?”
“*without any FT’s*”
“uhh right this way, sorry to keep ya waitin’”
They wanted their pet LeBron to win.
Wolves have also successfully challenged 4 calls in a row now
His jersey is not purple and gold.
two golden goose teams needs to be in the semis and one in the conference finals
Average experience playing against the lakers
Nothing to see here folks, just the nba working as intended
That’s lowk gangsta
The part you’re missing here is that AD drives defenders to the paint to the three throw line and exposes offenses which is why LA has such a great net free throw differential. You’re just not paying attention, AD is driving this
He probably never got fouled once not even one time
Luka played 0 defense tonight in the Wolves win over the Lakers.
Playoffs don’t expect ANY calls. It’s nearly prison rules. No blood no foul
Did you by chance forget the lakers are really good at contesting without fouling?
Opening play. Two wolves on the floor, no call. Lol.
Reaves only got 2 free throws. No guards can get to the line apparently
ethical
You guys complain about free throw shooting way too much.
The steph curry game for ant man.
Obviously a typo there, you mean bumped or hit on zero of them…. Hence no attempts.
Contest without fouling!!
I watched most of the game. He took 10 threes. I thought it was fine.
Timberwolf fans complaining about shooting more free throws than the Lakers while literally blowing a whistle in the crowd to cheat and disrupt the game.
Stay classy guys.
Yep we all love to blow our whistles at the game! Our secret email group is currently working on new ways to cheat, we’re considering bringing glue back
I get you’re being sarcastic, but this isn’t some wild theory. This is something the PA announcer at the arena had to address.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1k84mvu/a_timberwolves_fan_blew_a_whistle_to_confuse/
https://athlonsports.com/nba/los-angeles-lakers/timberwolves-threaten-luka-doncic-complaint-game-3
I’m aware. The joke is you’re lumping an entire fan base in with a single fan.
Maybe if he shot less 3s he would’ve got a whistle?
They just contest w//o fouling
Yeah, you guys lie about that crap as easily as Trump does about everything.
It’s that easy gang.