Yeah that shit is loose lmao 🤣

At least once a game he takes the ball up the court, tries to drive, and gets stripped or loses the ball.

Like Alicia Keys trying to convince herself she’s not an Alto.

Don’t let the man run a fastbreak.

Those Mechagodzilla handles.

Bro really think he KD lol

Everytime he dribbles the ball, a basketball court closes. 

This is the worst it’s ever gonna be which should terrify all of us.

The Holmosapian

That’s some Bambi shit

they make my butthole clinch tightly never the less 

and yet it’s 1-1. I am not gonna be comfortable with a lead until we’ve won 4 games

I can’t believe you would torture yourself by even watching their shitty ass halftime show.

in the post game he literally just said “we didn’t know SGA would be this good”

god dammit please get him off my tv

The highlight for me was definitely Aaron Wiggins (This is my first time venturing into the NBA woods and the only thing I can say that he is the real deal)

He had a not so great game before the winner

The thing that bothered me is people saying “only box score watchers say Haliburton played bad game 1, his impact isn’t shown there”

I’ve seen many games where he has a huge impact without scoring many points throughout the game, Game 1 wasn’t one of them. His playmaking was notably worse than normal and that continued today.

You kind of have to be consistent to be labeled a superstar.

OKC did this to Jokic and Ant

Where they just have games where they are uninvolved

I think Hali is a great basketball player and one of the best game dictators in the league, but in terms of pure scoring ability my impression thru two games is that he’s a solid option for three quarters and just goes super saiyan in the fourth. He went from invisible for most of the game to prime Steph levels of shotmaking the second the fourth quarter started.

Haliburton to Siakam after Game 2:

“Let’s get greedy. We didn’t even play well.”

He was pretty much nonexistent tonight and that is why he is not a superstar. Too many games like these ones where his impact is just not there from the start.

He’s just incredibly inconsistent

I took a look at the box score and thought that he didn’t even play that bad, but his impact on the game was almost non-existent

I think one time he got IHart on a switch but didn’t attack, was strange.

4th quarter runs kinda require you to be within closing distance. Nobody on the pacers was scoring well in the first 3 quarters. Hali and Siakam being under 20 is not a good look.

idk, Pacers game 1 really stopped those runs though. They made so many clutch 3s to interrupt the OKC runs in the 3rd quarter.

This game, they managed to do that for a while tbh, but eventually they just kinda ran out of time.

OKC was also a fair amount better on the fast break today. Half the TOs, 4 more points off turnovers.

Okc has had the lead 99% of these games.

This shit is looking like a 6 game series at best.

Wiggins really was the game changer, teams kept switching leads and Wiggins 3s really helped OKC put some distance

I’m happy the series is tied

I wanted a close match up

Did they? Jdub still cold on shooting and Chet laziness in the 1st half on 3 pt close outs. They did better but still not close to where they can be

SGA averaging 36 points in the finals, mostly off midranges too it’s wild

He’s such a good scorer

Having one of the best guard seasons in the 21 century. When all is said and done, win or lose, wonder how it will be compared to say 2016 Curry, 2019 Harden, 08 Kobe and Wade, 01 Iverson

Edit: Add 08 CP3 in there

17 points, but 12 were in the 4th quarter when the game was pretty much over already.

Games like this are why people say he’s overrated. Ability is obviously there, but just too inconsistent. No more gaslighting when people say he isn’t after a few good games. Not when he’s called a superstar.

He had a couple of mid range makes tonight that Indy played fantastic defense on and they were lasers. Straight in, no kissing

can’t spell surgical without SGA I’ll show myself out

He is a joy to watch. Reminds me of prime Kawhi. Just has a beautiful mid-range shot.

Any time he went mid range and threw the ball up, felt like it was always going in.

Maryland legend 🐢

Dude was scorching hot from 3

#GREATEST A. WIGGINS IN BASKETBALL HISTORY

caruso really does do all the little things doesnt he

Caruso is so good man. Trading Giddey for him is really not talked about enough.

They are cheapening the pinnacle of our sport and fuck them for it

Really sucked when they cut from SGA and SVP talking basketball to having Stephen a back on screen talking about whether or not Tyrese Haliburton is a fucking superstar. Goddamn, I wish they would give it a rest.

Such a dramatic difference between TNT and ESPN.

In game 1, Siakam was called for a foul after Dort ran into him and fell: clip gets posted here, 3K upvotes.

In this game, Dort was called for a foul after Nembhard ran into him and fell — wasn’t even posted lol.

I’ve started referring to shit like that game thread as “Human slop.” So generic and derivative you can spot it a mile away. Angry children who took low quality memes as input and is shitting out garbage over and over.

It’s crazy

Makes no sense. The Pacers flop even worse than Shai. Nesmith’s legs go parallel to the floor every time he shoots. Ridiculous how that isn’t called an offensive foul. 

Crazy how routinely I see comments in our game threads this playoffs straight up calling for teams to intentionally injure SGA.

Someone in the third quarter complained after we got our 12th ft of the quarter and said it was hilarious we had 12 fts, and then a min later the pacers were shooting their 13th ft lol. I thought it was so funny

That third quarter was vintage Zarba. What was it? 28 free throws in that quarter alone?

The crazy thing to me was the difference in halves. First quarter, both teams were allowed to play physically then in the second half everything was a foul.

Worst official in the sport I hate his guts

Thibs might give him a run for his money but only cuz he’s perpetually squinting

He was awesome last game too, it was just overshadowed by that Nembhard three at the end. Even then that was a case of good defense vs. great offense, but highlights are highlights and criticism for that is just part of being a superstar.

People tried to mention it in the MVP debate and were usually met with downvotes.

Jokic doesn’t play defense and that why he didn’t win MVP. Let’s push the narrative. Basketball is a 2 way sport.

A chunk of the Hali stuff is on him and is obviously an ongoing issue with him, however the coaching staff has done very little to help him get some cleaner looks process wise until the game was already decided. I liked what they were doing a lot when he had that spurt. Build off that film for game 3 and they’re in good shape.

I swear to God it felt like they were gonna come back the entire second half even though we kept a pretty solid 20 point lead

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If they keep it up…it’ll make Game 1 feel more weirder in retrospect lol

Demonic defense vs Satanic shotmaking, the series

R Jokic 9 11 too.

r Canada’s 12 25

In the 4th he was like “shit, if we actually end up winning and my series stats are down because of this game I won’t get this MVP either” so he did a bit of stat padding

It’s so forced. Just one year ago everyone thought OKC was the definition of team-building/team play. Now they’re Evil Empire Pats x 10

People said Edwards was too passive last series. If every star struggles against okc, maybe okc is just really hard to play against

Dub was good defensively but offensively missed again. Really need him to step up.

truly elite stat padding performance he was trash this game

Fakest stat line ive ever seen.

He had 7 4 and 3 today.

Literally, if that blatant goaltend was against the Pacers it would’ve had 5k upvotes

honestly, they have shot pretty poorly the entire playoffs, i cant tell if its the immaturity or shrinking in the moment. they shot so much better in the regular season

This sub at least switches when OKC wins, r/nbatalk is just permanently on fire.

Both of the top posts about Game 7 of the Nuggets OKC series and Game 5 of the Wolves OKC series were Jokic praise posts, even though Jokic wasn’t in one of the series.