[Highlight] Shai scores 15th straight OKC point despite perfect defense by Anthony Edwards
91st consecutive 20+ point game
How many till wilt again?
I believe 130+. Shai could potentially surpass him this season; would be the perfect way to cap off another MVP campaign
Nah theres one or two more to tie one wilts and wilt has another onr thats 130+ i think
This doesn’t make much sense
Wilt is number 1 & number 2 lol
Thank you, idk what that dude was saying 😂 now i get it
Wilt holds longest consecutive streak of 126.
Wilt holds the second longest streak with 92, which Shai is currently trying to surpass
Makes sense to me.
“I believe 130+. Shai could potentially pass him this season”
“Nah there’s one or two more to tie one wilts and wilt has another onr that’s 130+ I think”
Yeah. He literally said it was 130+. Nobody was talking about second place.
Wilt really was a “the only one who can beat me is me” kinda guy huh.
He had one 20+ streak, it stopped, then he had another. It’s not complicated
“one or two more to tie one wilts and wilt has another onr that’s 130+”
I’m sorry but I didn’t understand that he was talking about wilt’s other streak of 92 or whatever games. Just couldn’t follow “to tie one wilts and wilt”
Not your fault, Americans hate punctuation.
Also, insane stats btw. Wilt is an all time goated player.
Nah theres three durants that onr or six duncan before wilts 130+ i think.
Durant not even top 3 its wilt wilt Oscar who sga already passed
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not happening Jokic is winning it all 😂😂😂😂
“Everything I do is consistent”
What was Ant supposed to do there? That was perfect defense.
Shai is just unstoppable.
Ant straight up poked the ball out and still lost the possession
must be so demoralizing
Good offense beats good defense almost every time in this league
Great offence beats good defence in this league.
There’s a very select number of guards who could score that bucket given that defence,
I wasn’t gonna quibble about the spectrum of “good”. This one was a perfect bucket against perfect defense.
lol does it win championships though?
He’s an offensive machine, plain and simple.
Ant stopped moving his feet after he poked the ball out. He should have stepped with Shai when he spun.
I’m guessing he expected Donte to pick up the ball
“Good defense, better offence” - Mark Jackson
Donte should have stayed on him for the double cuz he probably didn’t have a good pass and the clock is running out.
UFC style and poke his eyes.
Pretty fitting that Doris is blabbing during the entire sequence.
that’s what I thought. call the actual game sheesh, crazy stuff happening and she’s going on about god knows what
She just always talks two sentences too fucking long
She always has to fit LeBron into every conversation hahaha
Honestly pathetic how far she has fallen off and allowed to keep calling high profile games.
I saw the clip without audio and got a half chub. Watched it again with audio on and my shit shriveled up. Doris is a very talented announcer 🫠🥴
The entire sequence is 6 seconds long brotha
She is so knowledgeable, but holly shit her voice is like a sand paper for my ears.
Yeah her knowledge of Jason Tatums smile is off the charts
This won’t get any upvotes but it’s beautiful
Edit: didn’t age well, stop bugging me
Yeah the hartenstein flop will get more upvotes than this for sure
The comments on that thread are actually so pathetic. Acting like every team in the NBA doesn’t have these egregious flops every once and a while. Going by the flairs on that thread, it seems like a ton of sore loser Nuggets and Wolves fans just spouting as much BS as possible about the Thunder.
Also Gobert got the tech because he actually swung his arm in an unnatural motion behind his body to attempt to hit ihart. Obviously hart sold it, but Gobert did attempt to hit him. The ball was 12+ ft up in the air so he obviously wasn’t going for that.
Not even “attempt”. He did hit him. If you got cracked on the nose unexpectedly your head would fly back in exactly the same way.
Acting like every team in the NBA doesn’t gave these egregious flops every once and a while
I said this exact thing in that thread and got downvoted lmaooo
Nuggets and Wolves
Usual stuff then
It’s about 4x right now. Don’t see the Gobert murdering Caruso highlight on the front page either.
It got deleted for some reason
Gotta push the narrative lmao
I’m gonna guess this will get 10% of the upvotes the hartenstein flop after getting clipped on the nose will get
crybabies gonna cry lol
username doesn’t check out lol
Fr this be peak basketball for some of us
It’s at the top of the sub lol. Wtf
Unguardable
Ant literally did more than expected by poking out the ball. Still scored
Ant had that ridiculous stepback over Hartenstein that probably only had an inch of clearance. Great shotmaking all around
Bruh wtf was that shit
Very Kobe-esque. Not many players make you say “wtf man” like that.
Funny enough, I was thinking the same thing when Ant was making his 3s and keeping it close the whole 4th.
Every team has a duty to let the Clippers go .500 this year. You cannot let OKC get a lottery pick it’ll be untenable for everyone else.
They could potentially have three depending on how the clippers 76ers and jazz seasons go as of right now it looks like two but depending on Philadelphia it could be three
Unfortunately I think sixers may end up giving us another lottery pick
I don’t think any of these 3 picks will be high % lottery picks, but idk watching Dallas jump from 12, anything could happen. I think the Clippers will be 10-11 seed at worst, Jazz will make it to the top 8 so they won’t give their pick, and I think the Sixers in this East will manage to get into the playoffs. I expect like pick 10 and 17 or something for OKC
Plus the Rockets swap, which for a defending champion and insane set of picks to be making.
At this point Presti could do the reverse of what he did to get here, and start actually selling the picks for young guys who have a few years before getting paid, and deal out guys on expiring contracts, with huge extensions/FA coming up.
Sixers are only just hanging onto a play-in spot right now. Both Jazz & Clippers are out of the play-in atm (obviously a very long road ahead still).
Yes but I think the Jazz will do anything they can to tank, and they have some solid pieces but not exactly a situation where they can’t lose games, they’ll definitely get a top 8 selection imo, Ainges will make sure of it even if they look good. Clippers, I think they have some talent that will win them some of these games, and I don’t see them having like a super high draft odds with Pacers, Wizards, Hornets, Nets in the East, and Pels, Kings, Jazz, maybe Dallas, maybe Memphis with this Ja situation. They’ll have the 9th or 10th best odds at best. Sixers will just get in somehow imo
I don’t think any of these 3 picks will be high % lottery picks
Combining the odds, that is a pretty good chance of a top 4 pick.
I can promise you, no matter how badly these teams do, the lottery will be rigged. Utah is top 8 protected, so even if their record doesn’t end up at that level their pick will magically fall into that range.
Just to save me looking it up, how did OKC get a Jazz first rounder?
You smell that? that’s fear right there boys
He’s the closest thing to Kobe in the nba
bag culture like this shouldn’t be praised. this is reminiscent of Kobe/Jordan playstyle
I prefer my players to be more classy, fundamental and score on 2 dribbles or less with no unnecessary flash like Tim Duncan
this killed me 😭😭
I prefer my players to iso for 20 seconds and then lob grenades like its the Somme offensive.
The Jeff Teague special
Have you tried watching the Hornets?
My first live nba game was Melo Knicks vs. Kemba Walker Bobcats
It was beautiful
Was that at the garden like 2013 and Knicks lost?
Honestly maybe? It was near this time of the year but it was at the garden + knicks lost
Yeah I was there for my first ever game too from the land far far away and then a few days later I went again and they played Houston and I think melo had 45 and Harden 35 Great times. Maybe we were sitting next to each other.
this fucking game hahaha
Melo 10⁄28 my goat
Crazy that was both our first games hahaha, we got fucked
He’s going to end up better than Kobe
As a player, he is better, but when people look at all-time rankings, it’s going to be difficult to top Kobe because of his 5 rings and the 20 years he put into the game, which means he has a ton of all-nba, all-star teams, etc.
If SGA wins 3 rings as a #1 option, it’ll probably be a discussion since Kobe got 3 of his with Shaq.
Honestly don’t care to put too much stock into rings, they’re primarily a team achievement. Kobe has more rings than Bron and they’re in different tiers as players and on the list. A lot of his All NBA, Defensive and All star selections on the back end of his career were based on his reputation so idk how much you really wanna put stock into them.
Yeah that’s something that’ll be lost to history. Kobe had like a dozen all defense selections, and over half of those were purely based on reputation.
Watching him stack those up felt like getting actively gaslit.
The love and respect he received always felt disproportionate to who he was as a player and as a person.
It’s widely understood that his all-defense selections (which IMO are not that impressive for anyone because actually good defenders get snubbed all the time) towards the end were based on reputation of when he was younger.
But Kobe was 15x all-nba and earned every single one of them
A lot of his All NBA, Defensive and All star selections on the back end of his career were based on his reputation
Name one year he was named all-nba on reputation instead of merit… I’ll wait (forever) lol y’all clowns just say anything 🤡 the fact this has upvotes is concerning
He made All NBA 1st in 2013 over Russ and Harden who had better seasons. He should’ve been 2nd team at best.
What are you talking about? In 12-13 Kobe averaged more points, more rebounds, and shot better from the field than both Harden and Westbrook. He also finished 5th in MVP voting, while Harden finished 8th and Westbrook 9th. No one then thought harden and Russ were having better seasons, which is why Kobe was 1st team and top five in MVP voting, while harden and Russ barely made the top 10. You’re just making shit up, the revisionist history people create to discredit never ceases to amaze me
better than Kobe lmao
insane recency bias
As a player, he is better,
LMAOOO you people are unreal. Holy shit I swear I need to consistently remind myself that 95% of this sub never saw prime kobe play.
Average nba Redditor lmao
Lmaoooo
Impossible. Too late a start. If Curry still isn’t better than Kobe in all time rankings (he’s not) it’s impossible for Shai. He’s had 2 great seasons at age 27.
Not to mention injuries are always a possibility.
Curry clears Kobe comfortably lol
Says the bootywizard who’s never had any ass.
Curry clears Kobe regardless
You lost all credibility by saying “comfortably” here. No one who knows basketball would say this.
Kobe has 11x First Team All NBA selections and 9x All Defensive First Team selections, compared to Curry’s 4x and 0x. But let me guess… “hE cHaNgEd tHe gAMe” as if that’s some sort of metric. Lol.
My god you kids have some of the worst takes of any basketball circles. Lol.
Its comfortable
Curry changed the game, Kobe is just Great Value Michael Jordan
Sorry to break your heart but Steph is over Kobe
That guy with 4x All NBA First Team and 0x All Defensive First Team selection is better than the one with 11x and 9x, respectively? Lol.
Only because it pushes your agenda. Sorry to break it to you, curry’s career peak is only half as long as Kobe’s.
Lakers fan sucking Kobes dick criticising someone else for pushing an agenda. Seems legit.
He’s far more efficient than Kobe ever was. .610 career Ts%. Kobe hit .600…0 times. Shai is at a ridiculous .670 this year. Same story when you look at their eFG%..
Shai is just a better scorer, full stop.
While it’s true that Kobe never reached efficiency of this caliber, even relative to league average, we shouldn’t forget this season’s league-average true shooting is 58.3%. Kobe had a true shooting of 58% in the 2007 season, in which the league-average true shooting was 54.3%.
SGA’s relative TS% (+15%) this season is comparable to Dirk’s relative TS% in 2007 (+12%).
EDIT: To consider the insanity of Jokic’s efficiency, his relative TS% (+25%) this season is comparable to Nash’s relative TS% in 2007 (+21%).
Nash would be so good in this era
I don’t think most people realize just how good he would be if he played today.
I think most redditors think he’s better than he is.
This is a really disingenuous comparison and I love Shai
Brah, you people cannot STAND seeing any Kobe praise. It’s unreal, LMAO.
The types of shots that Shai is making hasn’t really been seen this regularly since Kobe. Anyone who watched Kobe from 2000 - 2013 will tell you this.
I watched Kobe. I think he’s overrated, sue me!
(He was also a rapist, so yeah, I’m not a fan of him at all)
Kobe didn’t flop like a fish
Well boys I believe we might be looking at the best positioned franchise in sports history
Bro has never heard of Formula 1 Turbo-Hybrid Era Mercedes :D
You’re not wrong
Porsche literally since the birth of racing street cars lol
I still remember the w11 taking corners at 300+km/h before the fia banned auto-steer.
Fun times.
I was a Merc hater during that time, but as en engineer, my jaw hit the floor so hard when I watched a video explaining in slo-Mo that technology.
Wasnt that the DAS system?
Too good to fail !!!
( im trying to jinx them )
It’s okay. I’m sorry that you’re a Knicks fan
SGA is the best midrange player in the NBA. And it’s not really close
You’re not wrong, but he also has the green light to shoot as many as he wants (for obvious reasons) lotta other players are told to stick to the open three or layup
more players would have the green light if they were as good as shai
This kinda sound like the curry conversation from 10 years ago
there are a lot of analogous discussion points with curry for shai.
This is the same with every midrange scorer since the 3pt era though
Its a star type of shot, roleplayers cant take these
The only roleplayer who can take every midrange they want is probably Hachimura
And more players have the green light than ever to jack up 3s lol. And Shai decided to work on his game in the mid range.
Unwatchable
No skill, just baits refs.
This is why NBA viewership is down. Adam Silver enables this. Flops like a fish!
hilarious how yall sit here and put on a joke about us for thinking this on his highlights. If this was actually how he played every possession, 90% of us saying this would stop talking. But hey keep on diluting the quality of your narrative as we see how fallacious you are
Boo hoo
You’re being downvoted by paid actors cos what you said was 100% true.
SGA only scored 15 straight because he’s a good basketball player.
Skill merchant
I want to see all the wolves fans tonight saying thunder only 18-1 bc they haven’t played anyone good 😂
Tbf as a thunder fan this gave me a heart attack… wtf was Chet doing all game besides the 3 at the end..
Still haven’t.
Toughest match ups are in practice 😂
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People in the future: “FTA, he cant win with refs help and dirty dort and flopper hart haha Lukic better”
“He’s not that good he’s only getting fg’s because people are scared to touch him.”
Why would the refs do this?
Gambling, or something.
Shai does not care if he has space. He will get his regardless. Must be so demoralizing
This is so weird I thought you weren’t allowed to get that close to Shai? That’s what everyone in this sub keeps telling me, I don’t get it….
okc fans echo chamber coping in here
annoying
Unguardable people tend to be
This is bad offense from OKC. Why was everyone locked up?
If you just follow basketball in social media you’ll think ant is so much ahead of SGA but it’s the other way around.
SGA stil boring though but he’s so effective like James Harden with steroids
#UNWATCHABLE
i only watch him cause of midrange game but all dat flopping shit please
Jesus
Oh he’s just so slippery af
MVP 2x
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lol he’s not the only player in the nba that is on a list with wilt.
But he’s the only one in the NBA who is close to this record
Another MVP season loading? I think Jokic is even better this year and so is Luka. Will be fun to watch.
a few more of these tough shot highlights and i’m gonna start believing he’s the next kobe
That’s got to be disheartening for Ahrniny Edwards.
Wtf is even this !!! God damn this dude’s midrange is on a different level.
MJ 2.0 this dude is nice
The only thing stopping OKC to repeat this season is an injury of SGA lol
And they have a chance for 2 top 10 pick next year too lmao
Yeeshus
This kid is really going to end up one of the great ones.
Being a great defender in the nba must fucking suck.
Play perfect defense for 24 seconds only for your opponent to hit a ridiculous shot
Most of the time when someone says perfect defense, it’s an exaggeration.
This is legitimately an exceptional defensive effort by Ant.
that’s just luck
Come on lol
It’s no somber shuffle/trebuchet like Joker it’s a perfect system with Shai, he has space to get to his spot or he gets the foul call
SGA has so many Kobe like traits. The guy is amazing!
If it were perfect he wouldn’t have scored so it in fact was not perfect
Okc makes me want to watch euroball
That’s my goat
Horrible product to watch. Just so boring. Look at the flopping motion when he jumps backwards
/s
If he wasn’t Canadian they would be hailing him as the new MJ. Y’all not ready for that convo though.
Bro’s cucking the whole league.
Surely OKC is the only fandom that tends to gloss over the less savory parts of their best players play style
I’m surprised there was no whistle on that play. He obviously was hacked. 17 fts? Lol!!!!
6 FTs due to intentional fouls, 3 due to techs. You wouldn’t know, because you are just a boxscoring hater
Pity he’s a flopper, he would get mad respect otherwise
Racists still try and say jokic should be mvp with a horrible rec 😂😂😂
I don’t think it’s racism, I think people like a weirdo and they love the whole “silly guy with horses” thing. So despite being an amazing player, they’ll also add their attachment personality stuff to him. It’s like anytime an athlete likes anime suddenly everyone can’t get enough of how “different” he is.