[Highlight] Potential Flagrant Act By Gobert Towards Hartenstein
he could’ve been killed
Gobert almost touched him! The poor guy!
Shai’s whistle is rubbing off on his teammates
Gotta be encouraged by staff and teammates, right?
Definitely encouraged by the league it seems
It’s objectively the best way to win. You force the other teams players into foul trouble while still scoring your points. Until they change how the officiate this stuff, it’s only going to get more common.
I feel like it has been this way for a while now. One of the previous Olympics they were making fun of the US team because the World officials dont allow nearly as much traveling, or call dumb fouls like this.
Let us not forget 10 years ago when everyone added a little 8 foot kick to their jumper to try and draw fouls. Harden is a good player, but that move getting him to the line was one of his main draws back in the day.
Dort has had an insane whistle for years lol
This hit different about 5 years ago
They need to start wearing helmets for player safety now
Children are watching! What do we tell them?
Hope he can find a good plastic surgeon to reconstruct his face.
Hey, Gobert might have given him Covid
Banned Gobert for 50 games minimum
Such a blatant flop lmao
Doris refused to acknowledge during the review. I’d love to see her look for a new job because she is ass at this one.
“Does he get the tip of his nose?”
😂😂😂 throw that dangerous man out of the arena!
Temu Draymond lol
She clearly was calling Hartenstein a flopper without saying it.
She should’ve said it
people got upset when she called SGA a free throw merchant during last year’s playoffs
sounds like she can’t win
She was saying it like it was praise lmao
Why not just say it is the point.
At that point I honestly think the NBA tells them to not point it out
This! I would much rather listen to local team broadcasts than the national broadcast teams that refuse to see bad calls or criticize anything.
Which makes no sense. In soccer, refs are routinely blasted for bad calls and the broadcast is better for it.
I take it you don’t watch the premier league? They agree with bull shit calls all the fucking time.
Also they CLEARLY knew something was up for calling a tech for a live ball play (which isn’t allowed) but didn’t want to criticize the refs
Tirico seemed to be waiting for her to recognize it the whole review until he decided to call it like it was himself.
Edit- realized it was a different PBP guy but they’re so boring no one corrected me.
Doris effect?
Doris is fucking terrible
She is the reason I canceled my subscriptions, I’m not paying to listen to her
They should ask it at the post game interview. “Why did you flop like a bitch tonight?” Maybe it would just embarrass floppers into stopping.
Been overrated for decades now.
Dude shut the heck up buster OKC doesn’t flop checks written excuses in my notepad you’re just mad because SGA is MVP and unguardable and your team can’t handle the aura 6 7
“jUsT sToP fOuLiNg”
Lu Dort clotheslines someone without the ball in midair
“That’s just good defense”
watching Steph Castle get whistled for chest bumps while clamping players on defense and then watching what Thunder players manage to get away drives me insane
it’s like they’re allowed to play an entirely different brand of defense to everyone else
Your eyes do not deceive you. They are absolutely allowed to play a different brand. One where fouling is the norm.
You it call out and the OKC fans come out of the shadows and say you’re hating. The Nuggets really should’ve won game 7 last year. They’re literally impossible to play when they’re hacking you to pieces on one end and falling over at the slightest breeze on the other. And of course they’re allowed to play this way because the refs cover for them.
Thing is OKC is really good. I’m not sure why their fans care what the rest of us say. It’s good to be hated. But I just get tired of being told by the league how generationally great they are defensively. They get to hand check, hack, and push when other teams don’t. I just don’t see them being brilliant in scheme or positioning or anything. Guess I’m taking crazy hater pills.
The hand checking is insane, SGA can get a foul if someone breathes at him wrongly meanwhile Dort or Caruso gets away with just slapping your wrists
The nuggets series last year is the best example of this. Without caruso being allowed to play tae kwon do on the court jokic would’ve blown them out
Yeah, Caruso “locked” him up 🤣 I watched the whole game, and suddenly I understood why players always throw their arms up to plead with the refs.
Yup, we saw it in both the series against the Nuggets and the Wolves too. Dort and Caruso jumping all over guys, grabbing, shoving, etc. “Good, hard-nosed defense”, meanwhile opposing players get called for a foul for being in the same general vicinity as SGA and the boys when they jerk their own heads back or collapse without any meaningful contact.
Dort could run full speed into a small child and he’d still fall on his ass trying to fish for an illegal screen call.
built like Tarzan, plays like Jane
“LoOk, ThE FTA ArE AlMoSt ThE sAmE”
Yup that guy shouldn’t have been walking there good play by ethical hero Dort
You forgot the weird race argument Okc fans have been using this season.
Haven’t heard that one yet, how stupid are we talking?
It’s pretty dumb: People only hate Shai because he is black and people love Luka because he is white and they apparently have the same play style lol.
essentially implying sga critics are racist and love jokic/luka bc they’re white
I am not a fan of Rudy, and there’s nothing here at all.
I’m a huge Rudy fan and I think he should be ashamed of himself. Definite foul. Please ignore my flair.
Okc in a nutshell
Change it to a technical on Hart ffs
These would stop so quickly if he got tossed for flopping. It’s ridiculous they let this happen. Especially when it’s slo mo and challenged
And yet OKC is still talked about as everyone’s favorite team
This is the NBA I love!
What happened to techs for flopping?? Because this is about as blatant as it gets
Honestly, they should suspend or at last severely fine for something this obvious. There’s no place for it in the game
Suspensions need to happen. Only way to get that shit out of the game.
Agreed. Fuck this bitch
It’s OKC, they are allowed to flop
people out here advocating for Flops resulting in suspensions… like we would see Shai on the court ever again if that was enforced
should be a fine for sure
I saw one last season I can’t remember the game though.
Shai rubbing off on his team
We were grinding the game to a halt for this?
The NBA can’t be wondering why viewership is dipping when a regular season game is being stopped so long to review stuff like this.
It should be an automatic ejection from the game for flops like this.
Well they reviewed it and gave gobert a tech so people will still do it.
Wait gobert got a tech for THIS? What nonsense is this tf
Yes they reviewed it and gave him a tech after they saw all the angles on the monitor. League is seriously impossible to watch.
Refs should be forced to do post game interviews. I wanna see how they spin this as a tech on gobert and not a flopping tech on Hartenstein
They gave their post game questions report and said they still agree with the tech. Nothing you can do if they just lie.
Seriously? They gave Gobert a technical foul for literally not touching him at all?
That’s outrageous.
The fucking refs in this game are the absolute worst
Yes. After an official review, they called it because gobert flailed in his direction. And then we challenged the call bc hartenstein fouled gobert grabbing his arm and got that but the tech stood. Fixed league
It’s crazy how good OKC is and the league thinks “you know what would be great? If we made them even better by giving them outrageous calls all the time.”
Still can’t believe that phantom foul in game 4 that would’ve had Indiana up 3-1 if they didn’t call it. Maybe they didn’t specifically want OKC to win the whole thing, but they sure as shit didn’t want them going down 3-1 and ending in 5. Pacers were robbed.
My viewership is 10% of what it used to be because they aren’t even subtle about the fixing.
It’s a joke the favoritism OKC gets. I’m hoping the terrible officiating or some betting scandals rock the league to cause a change
I knew all the players hated Gobert but the refs too?
What did this man do, it can’t just be because of the covid mic thing
All possible flop moments should be marked down and looked at after games by an independent body (they are often hard to catch on the fly cause these guys have gotten REALLY good at it), and then, if an egregious flop happened/purposeful flop at all is determined, they should be suspended. 1 game for 1st offense, scaling from there somehow with a system. Make it a massive issue, train it out of them. Going extreme and making it out-of-the-moment and detached, and CONSISTENT, is imo the only way to fix it long term.
We are filming everything with super high quality cameras, why not use it!
but then their MVP would never get to play
There’s a shit ton of players who would have to completely change their play style, and that’s GOOD. I don’t fault any player in the league for flopping, these guys are competing for hundreds of millions of dollars, and the league keeps showing them that they will reward flopping. They’d be IDIOTS to not do it. It’s not one dude, it’s systemic. The LEAGUE needs to change their approach dramatically or it will only get worse, as it should under the current system
Yea a fine or technical isn’t really enough. If it’s this blatant, go take an acting class, because you shouldn’t be in the game.
It also doesn’t help that the most dominant regular season team since the 2016 Warriors is painful to watch with their flopping and fouling
And if you say anything bad about the thunders flopping your comment gets removed quicker than if you say something bad about Israel
Nah, you’ll just get brigaded by thunder fans trying to point to FT differentials like it’s the end all be all of the conversation
Yup I’ve seen it. “Sure the Thunder drew 19 calls off of non calls and half of your guys aren’t playing because they’re in foul trouble, but you have more free throws!” Especially when most of them come at the end of the game when the bench is playing anyways 😂
you’ll just get brigaded by thunder fans
I can’t remember if they score as the 50th state in education or 49th, but it’s not surprising.
They showed it once saw how bad of a flop it was and then panned around the players standing around and the refs huddled around that tiny fucking screen. So asinine. I turned it off mid delay so they know.
That’s how you do it. Practically every game has a 5-minute long review sequence for something that should’ve have been decided in no more than 30 seconds.
If they’d review it and then eject the flopper I’d be okay with it. Embarrassing how they have zero issue with players manipulating the refs into turning the game to shit.
This is it right here. The refs can’t see everything at once. They see a flailing limb and a dude go down and they almost certainly will want to look at it, and rightfully so. The issue is that once they see how laughable this was, it should be a BIG ass fine and imo some free throws for the opposing team. Nip this shit right now.
Even watching box score is unbearable. You’re staring at Real and wondering “WTF is happening on the court the timer hasn’t moved in like 5 minutes” and then you realized you don’t really want to know
yesterdays Lakers-Clippers game was ridiculous with a whistle every other play and multiple reviews
Yesterday’s game made me question if I even like the NBA
Bro, I started counting the number of times Luka looked at the ref after a play. Stopped counting/watching at 14.
The NBA has been slowly becoming a chore to watch for about ten years. The viewing experience is complete ass.
Watched the last couple minutes of a college game the other day and for the whole duration of like 5 intentional fouls with free throws and a couple time outs, they didn’t do one commercial break, they just plowed on through to the end of the game, if there was enough of a pause they’d show a replay. It was so refreshing.
Pathetic call
This is OKC’s brand of basketball, and Silver has done nothing but enable them. Truly disgraceful to the game
Coruso looking so shocked when he’s actually getting called for all his bs hacking was comical
They get to play physical defense and flop on both sides of the court.
I noticed that in the last blazers game. Foul called on Caruso = about a min or two of camera angles of him gawking at the arena display, we finally see the replay and it’s a blatant foul.
It’s the reason I hardly watch the NBA anymore. The flopping is enraging.
Whole league is making 3-4 more FTs this year because people are copying OKC’s foul baiting and fouling playstyle.
Nesmith never used to flop but I swear he watched Lu Dort film bc he started flopping while going through screens in the playoffs last year
Needs to be fined for this one.
Suspended. These guys make so much money that a fine isn’t even an annoyance. Let their tans start suffering.
Embarrassing he did it in general
Seeing a lack of thunder flairs in here, defend this you cowards
Good flop, got us a tech.
Can’t hate honesty
Need to work on your hate game 👿
Philly level of hate I can’t not do
Minny is too nice, you guys will never reach us
Double edge sword, but I respect it
Thanks for acknowledging the only reason your team is any good is flopping like fish out of water
Tbf they’d be a great team without shit like this as well. They’re absolutely loaded.
what sucks is they dont need to do this. they’re fucking nuts good and they play hyper physical but still flop like crazy when their physicality is matched.
Gross. You need to go to the mega church off the freeway tomorrow and pray that hartenstein is okay
7⁄10 flop, could have yelled more on his way down.
Now this is what I expect from the coaches meeting
Flopenstein
jUsT dOnT FoUL tHeM
[Highlight] Potential Flop By Hartenstein
Actual flop, not potential.
Award winning flop actually.
BS like this has to stop.
Getting caught flopping should be an automatic tech
Something this blatant should be a 1 game suspension. I’m not even kidding, stuff like this ruins the game.
I agree with ya.
Shit pissed me off.
Typical thunder game
Play super physical defense then flop when they are barely touched (or not touched at all)
The entire team has perfected the sga fake whiplash move
Yeah everyone acts like it’s just SGA people get pissy about. It’s literally how their defense is officiated against other teams and then how they get calls on offense. Dort would foul out all the time on another team same with Curoso. It has made me not wanna watch games anymore honestly, it’s sickening.
It’s not even necessarily that Dort would foul out on any other team. It’s that the Thunder have really figured out that referees have a subconscious bias to try to even out foul calls, so the more fouls they call on you the more and more they’ll let you get away with because they feel like the calls need to end up somewhat even by the end of the game.
If the actual reality is that 1 team commits 50 fouls in a game and the other commits 5, no ref crew would ever have the balls to actually call it that way. Instead they’ll probably call 25 on this first team and 15 on the other team. That’s pretty much what happens with OKC. Then their fans point out they have a negative free throw differential even though actually fair refereeing would have the differential being 4 or 5 times larger.
Hit the nail on the fuckin head.
This was a vague notion in my head after having watched several full Thunder games this year, but you spelled out exactly what had been bothering me. This is exactly what happened in the Nuggets and Pacers series last playoffs, in my mind.
some player on the Celtics said this offseason how OKC gets away with a lot of physicality on defense that other teams aren’t allowed to do
Denver has a guy playing defense like Dort right now, it’s Spencer Jones. He started the last few games (due to injuries) and went to the bench <2 min in a game due to fouls. He often fouls out in like 20 min of play. He’s literally just doing what Dort does on defense.
I don’t hate Doris Burke, but what the hell are you doing Doris
She is awful. So happy she is finally being phased out. I swear she is not watching the games she is commentating.
I got league pass this year and the best thing is you can switch commentators so now I’m learning Spanish while watching NBA, at least the commentators are actually hyped about the games
I watched the lakers clippers game in Spanish last night. Those dudes were so hype. I didn’t know what they were saying but I could feel what they were saying
Ordered to not criticize parts of the NBA lol.
I hate listening to her. She spent about 80% of this game just glazing the everliving donut out of SGA.
Like I get it, he’s good and you’re absolutely enthralled with him, doesn’t mean I need to hear you say “how good is SGA” 462 times in one game.
Whatever. I don’t care what people say, I can’t fucking stand listening to her. Like listening to a mumbly radio station making boring observations no one wants to here. She says the most obvious shit or is just flat out wrong half the time.
That’s crazy that they withheld the technical 😂 it should be a reverse technical for the flop.
Remember when they said they were penalizing flopping? Yeah I forgot
These egregious flops need to be punished w fines
Fines won’t do anything, players usually don’t even notice. Need a game suspension.
SGA to the line, shooting two.
Make it 3 for the aura we have to pretend he has
The thunder are so unlikeable lmao
It’s actually pretty nuts how they went from this exciting, young and hungry rebuilding team trying to prove something to what they are now in just a handful of years, lol.
Lopsided reffing will do that real quick lol
Sniper in the building
There’s no room in the game for this. Jail time for gobert
Big dudes flopping has always been so nasty to me man. Get your big ass off the ground dude.
And the Oscar goes to …
Oscar is for good acting I believe
Razzy it is
God I hate OKC
What do you mean Thunder players are being shameless bitches again
Refs should be able to call that a tech on hartenstein. Get flopping out.
Can’t stand watching OKC games bc of shit like this
This is why I have a hard time rooting for OKC.
IHART has always been a flopper. Makes it pretty funny when he acts like an enforcer
Have to love it when the biggest guys on the court do all the flopping lol
It’s like engrained into the Thunder dna
This product is absolute dog shit and I think a lot of people lie to themselves to pretend it’s good.
OKC fans… This is why we can’t stand you and your pampered privileged team
This is what Draymond was trying to prevent.
Is this behavior mandated by daigneault or something? How are they all like this lol
OKC plays the game AND the refs very well. Like it or not (I dont like it) it is a part of the game and all respect to OKC they seems to have figured it out. As a Denver fan Jokic always seems to have a bad whistle I would love it if our coaching team figures it out how to defend as aggressively as OKC AND get calls on very soft touches on our offensive end.
Isaiah Hartenstein is simultaneously flat on his ass every five minutes but also the first one to run in to escalate common fouls
This is how you ruin basketball for everyone. Fans and players included
This the typa shit that you have an end of bench guy who knows how to shoulder check a dude for
If you wanna act like you got shot like this over nothing, then let’s see how you act when you really get hit.
OKC is so lame lmao
They’re making shit up - you can’t call a tech for contact when the ball is live.
Something needs to be done about this shit. All reviewable
From the outside looking in, Oklahoma has no shame. Are you not embarrassed by how your team plays and how your state is ran? Ridiculous
Hope he makes a full recovery
And no flop called. Thunder gonna Thunder.
This is why basketball it’s getting more unwatchable every day
He should be embarrassed
It’s what the Thunder do. Destroying basketball one flop after another. The NBA rewards them and encourages it.
Shai’s impact on this Thunder roster is unbelievable
I thought we had flopping rules? I guess it’s the same crappy DPI rules tv nfl tried for like 4 games
They’re being coached to do this lmao. Mickey Mouse league
Clearly it’s what they are taught, believe in and will try to do. Classless culture.
Suspend floppers. I get it. You won’t be able to do that even if you know they are faking if there is contact.
This shit though? One game suspension and the next time you do it it escalates to two games until finally you go to jail for 6 months
That’s a Shai he pulled there
Grown ass man smh
All this acting in the year of our lord 2025
Not overturning the call. But after review, we will literally not call fouls towards him for the rest of the game. Your move!
Unreal floppenstein
how dare he attempts to touch an OKC player!!! tech!!!
Immediate 2 game suspension. Double it every time they do it after within same season. It’ll solve the issue immediately. I’m talking extremely obvious non foul flops like this.
OKC would never
Holy crap, he could have died!
Shai is such a veteran, still teaching teammates 🥲
OKC play bitch ball and we all know it