[Highlight] Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is fouled by Kris Murray (with replays)
do the refs realize basketball comes with physical contact? also what happened to the no flop rules?
edit - he literally bounces himself off, throws up a shot that has no chance of going in, and collapses onto hardwood. this is not the basketball I grew up loving š
edit 2 - “removed by moderator”. bro what??
edit 3 - back up now huh? mods really didn’t want this at the top of the sub for the next week šš
Refs keeps rewarding it so players will keep doing it
SGA is a pussy
And the idiots only say “MJ did it too!” shit sucks you suck SGA sucks
I stopped watching the NBA because of this
I have not watched a game all year because of it too. Don’t plan to. I still like to keep up with stats, but I just can’t watch
Defenders might as well actually foul
Maybe teams should start signing 2-3 guys to just give 6 real fouls, sort of how they did for Shaq.
“Zaza Pachulia has signed a 10-day contract…”
NOTHING EEEAAASYYYYY
That’s what I kept saying during the playoffs last season. The reffing is ridiculous. I couldn’t watch the Finals because it got so bad.
You mean you didnāt like watching Caruso straight up shoving jokic while sga flops like a salmon and gets the whistle every time?
You just donāt like basketball then
That’s why you need a guy like Dillon brooks. Keeps the other team honest by committing real fouls.
I just have to think at sometime SOMEONE will get pissed off enough to stomp on a hand or something after too many flails like that during a game
If they were consistent, it might still not a problem but contrast this with a Brown or Edwards drive to the rim and you get angry.
If Steph got this whistle he’d break the league
If Steph got one-tenth of this whistle, we’d have at least two more championships.
I mean Steph did break the league! Having said that, I agree!
Not only this… they tried to clarify the rule this year to try to get everybody on board with this being a foul. They could have just said nothing and collectively swallowed their whistles on plays like this, and hopefully it would become a self-correcting issue.
Or even better in my opinion, re-write the rule to say that the defender should be allowed a right to space while in motion too. Either defined as like.. straight line to the basket, or parallel to the offensive player’s initial motion. Could use some refinement idk, they don’t pay me to make that decision.
But they went out of their way to say that this type of contact should be illegal, which is crazy imo. Nobody wants to watch the SGA’s and Brunsons of the world become unguardable cuz of stuff like this.
Rules really doesn’t matter when it’s so non-specific at its core. Refs can just enforce it however they want with what they see as “marginal contact”
NBA is the next soccer.
A lot of thunder fans point to the fact that SGA doesn’t have the most fta/game to discount the foul baiting narrative. But he does this stuff on the regular and it forces defenders to be soft on him, which gives him an advantage and makes him look better when he’s not foul baiting.
He’s not the only one, but he’s one of the best at it. And it’s the worst part of the game right now.
embiid has had multiple games of this where he’d just get whatever midrange he wanted because his defender didn’t wanna get called for a tickytack foul
This is basically every player who for some reason gets a ton of FTs on jumpshots it’s a way bigger advantage than just getting calls on drives
Luka SGA Embiid Harden and Reaves are probably the top 5 of this in some order prime Harden being the most extreme because he drew a ton of fouls even on threes
Jimmy Butler
Embiid being injured and doing well in the Olympics has done a lot towards rehabilitating his image lol
That’s almost every player that avgs 8+ ftq
The same SGA that hasnāt had to play like 50% of 4th quarters this year, wonder if that make a differenceā¦ Any SGA fans who want to clear this up for me Iād appreciate it!
I watched this 3 times and each time is more hilarious than the previous one. Like he just threw the ball and himself and the whistle is immediately there to assist. Hilarious highlight.
NBA is unironically rigged. This is only called for SGA. “Only losers complain about fouls” mentality from the league office
If it was rigged, surely we’d have found a ref who was rigging games.
Scratch that. Surely there’d be a ref still reffing who made over 100 calls to the ref who got caught fixing games.
Damn it scratch that too.
Well they wouldn’t have that guy come in when a series needs extended right? Ahh damn it I got nothing.
I fully gave up when SGA got the phantom call in game 4 to prevent them going down 3-1 while also letting them foul every possession on defense. The nba is not a serious sports league. It’s entertainment. It’s more blatant than even football and soccer.
They used to be Kobe fouls. Then DWade got these fouls in his first finals run. Superstar guards will get these types of calls
Wardell Stephen Curry II enters the chat
Unless youāre Ant
bring back hand checking
What do you mean bring back? OKC hand checks everyone already dont they?
Crazy comparing this clip to the one of the “good defense” by J-dub and SGA earlier.
That’s what pisses me off the most about this. If it was as simple as “he got the call here, it’ll even up at the other” I don’t think people would complain as much but it’s not that way at all.
I would laugh right in their face if someone did this in a pickup game. Clown shit
If it’s call your own fouls and you call this, you might not walk out of the gym.
Some players you can run straight into no issue. Wrap your arms around them, throw your shoulder into them, etc no whistle.
Some you breath a bit too heavy and youre watching 2 free throws again
Theyāre told to do that
Watching Luka and Reaves has been worse than SGA this year but I just hate all floppers with such a passion. Dishonorable mention to sengun and Brunson
Those two do the same thing as SGA. But people will tell you that Luka deserves more fts which is insane.
Please ban this bullshit. I donāt want to see this in the game.
Like upon replay review, you give SGA a technical for acting and the opponent gets the ball and a FT. Easy.
For real. The league needs to step tf up and penalize this shit.
Ladies and Gentlemen, your 2025 MVP!!!
Seriously if word got out they were doing this, ratings would soar - at least at first. I don’t get why they’d let shit like this slide.
they canāt catch them all in real time. should be a one game suspension after the fact
Also a good idea
Don’t we already have a flopping rule? Look how great that’s going…
Meanwhile Ant is getting the shit kicked out of him in the game right now and is getting T’d up for calling it out
Yeah not even a Wolves fan but he drives to the rim and the whole team jumps at him with no foul
Yeah KAT gets mauled basically every game
Imagine watching both of these on the same team, you’d understand Twolves fans frustration with the nba and officiating.
He might have the worst whistle in the league
I fucking hate that shit, we watch similar happen to Cade every game and he pretty much always gets T’d up for talking to the ref.Ā Meanwhile we watch opponents get right in the ref’s face and yell and they get nothing.Ā Cade actually got smacked across the head on a layup attempt and they called a tech on him and nothing on the defender.
Silver just wondering why ratings are down and canāt think of anything
Last year’s Finals was the first one I just haven’t watched in awhile. OKC is great but atrocious to watch.
I was rooting for every team that wasn’t the Thunder in the West after the Lakers didn’t make it. It was absolutely a slog watching SGA shoot minimum 10 free throws a game.
Giannis won’t get a whistle for getting assaulted and mugged in the paint, but this gets called? Enough is enough.
If this is what’s getting called, I’m surprised SGA isn’t getting mugged by teams looking for their money worth
I like Giannis a lot but he could be fouled out of the game on offensive fouls nearly every game if they held him to the same standard as the rest of the league
Call me salty but Pacers would have won last season if not for these dumb flop calls. Thunder can maul you and they don’t get foul. You blow of them and they call foul on you.
We got screwed in game 4 so NBA could have more finals games
I will hate Scott Foster forever due to game 4. I only went to one pacer game this season so far and it that smarmy piece of shit officiating vs the Pistons and Pacers should’ve definitely won that game too. Eff Scott Foster. I’m more salty about game 4 than game 7 (imagine if we didn’t even need game 7 and still had Haliburton). It can be pinned to Scott Foster being an absolute disgrace game 4.
Youāre not salty youāre right. Iām a pacers fan too but Iām a good basketball fan first. The thunder donāt play good basketball
The NBA didnāt change the rules when Hardenās was abusing them for 8 straight seasons, and even when they did it took a full season to start seeing a little enforcement.
Iām not expecting any change anytime soon. Thatās not how Adam Silver does things.
What a violent act
Brutal
The entire Portland team should be executed for this tbh.
Absolutely treasonous
How dare an upstanding citizen from the glorious 51st state be treated in this manner
Should’ve been reviewed for a possible flagrant foul
Crazy how people still say the league babies its stars when there wasnāt even an ejection for this
flagrant foul penalty 8!
A DISGUSTING ACT
I thought of adding it in the title, but I didn’t want to feel biased
People still BET in this league…lol
This is a joke
A fool and his money
What do you mean, just bet on OKC lol
oh yeah, everyone line up and bet \(2000 on okc to make \)100 back baby woooooo.
Free money
Thunder can NFL tackle you on defense but if you breathe near Shai it’s a foul. Nba really is a shit product because of this bullshit lmfao
I mean this game is a free throw party for both team
Yeah Portland have been honestly getting more hilarious calls than OKC this game lol Deni is going to be the new SGA where there’s way more attention on his FTs when Portland finish their rebuild
Whistle has been absurdly loose all around it’s one of those games
I fear peopleās agenda > stats
I see people increasingly saying that it’s a terrible product and the NBA is just a highlight sport now and I’m really starting to believe it more and more.
This shit is unwatchable.
Im not an SGA defender by any means but Dani get free throws too on most of his drives in this game.
Doesnt change the video we all just saw…Ā
Definitely a natural shooting motion
OKC fans will defend this still
Most negative karma in this sub comes from OKC fans downvoting anyone who mentions Shai’s flopping. They’re zealots at this point.
They are straight flooding the Deni triple double post right now to complain about his FTs. They are steadily climbing the ranking of fan bases that are the worst to interact with on the sub.
In slow motion you can really see just how masterful his flopping technique is. This level of baiting is actually pretty impressive honestly
Found Dorisās burner
who has the highest fta in the league again?
does anybody actually watch these games?
look at all these fouls and tell me which one isn’t a foul
etc etc. the cope never stops. this shit is awful to watch.
EDIT:
If it isn’t obvious, I am saying the shit in the clip and the foul baiting is awful to watch.
The quotes are some of the many I’ve seen from OKC fans defending this garbage.
Its gross basketball going for the foul over the basket.
I could forgive a ref on the opposite side, in a bad position thinking he got bumped. Yeah it’d be a bad call, but I can see where they might make that mistake. But there’s no angle where that looks like he was in the act of shooting, and not hurling the ball to get FTs. And you have time to decide that. Calling the foul is a split second decision, deciding if it’s shooting or not has a lot more time behind it.
This shit genuinely pisses me off. This guy is way too good to have to resort to this bullshit. Iād be humiliated to have to defend this night-after-night.Ā
20 years ago this would have been a comedy movie about when a soccer player accidentally joins the basketball team. Itās crazy how he still has fans who defend him.
LOL, I play in a 40+ indoor soccer league and some of these idiots throw themselves around like this. I have seen them hurt themselves doing it and I don’t feel bad if the whistle gets blown on me. Offense initiating contact should negate equal or else force from defense
There really needs to be a penalty for these type of flops. Either a fine after the game or a deferred technical.
there was meant to be lol. flopping techs and fines are only given out when the league feels like it
that honestly gives off the vibe that the nba can call certain calls based on who benefits, it takes away the legitimacy and credibility of a player when they have to rely on such manufactured plays.
You should be able to review this or challenge this and if it looks like a flop, you get 2 technical free throws.
I’m sick of watching dudes foul bait and not actually make basketball moves/plays whilst other dudes are getting hacked and still get no call because they’re trying to play basketball
This is egregious
Shai Egregious Alexander
Shit itās ridiculous. I canāt defend this shit anymore, itās hideous
Fuck itās embarrassing.
You don’t get it, it’s A LEGENDARY TEAM WITH EPIC SKILLS OF WINNING
Can any Thunder fan actually explain this to me. Like you watch this and think yea that is a legit basketball foul.
Nope it’s a flop. Can’t defend this one
This one!? You must be one funny summabitchā¦ š
Def a flop but this whole game was called soft as hell, deni had 23 ft’s smh
Deni drives hard every time (leads the league in drives) and continues to go up towards the basket every time heās fouled. Which is why he lead the league last year in and-1s (edit: after the all-star break) He doesnāt get his first bump and start flailing away from the basket like heās been shot
Lou Dort can tackle and maul your number one scorer you stand near shai on offense you are fucked
The league wants to make shai the next LeBron for some reason but no one cares. That reputation is built by the player not the league
No one has filled lebrons shoe to be the next Jordan or LeBron in terms of star caliber player and sell ability they are trying to force fucking shai to be that guy on us by making sure heās basicly coddled along
Lol if you think Thunder fans can take the blinders off for this stuff
That’s a foul - Thunder fans
This is the reason scoring is so high in the modern league
Defensive scheme is better than ever but offensive players can fully innate all contact and still have the foul called on the defender
This leads to defensive players not being able to actually defend since getting to the line is essentially the most efficient offense outside of an open dunk or layup
All it takes is one bump off your path or just run into a center as a guard and youāll get a foul call
Also efficiency. Lots of players getting bailed out from rubbish shots by whistles.
Lol he initiated all the contact and caused his own fall
Eventually one of these guys is gonna get hurt flinging himself across the court like this
Basically why Embiid is done now. Dude was falling down hard many times a game with that massive body (some flops some legit fouls). Harden/Shai/Luka/Brunson/any guards that fall/flop a lot can get away with it for a bit longer thanks to not being 300 pounds.
Oh Iāve definitely cringed watching him do that. Heās way too huge to be doing that nonsense
HIGHEST UNASSISTED SHOT SELECTION IN THE LEAGUE WHAT A GOAT
Unassisted cause they donāt count ref assists
Kris has to realize you aren’t allowed to defend SGA, you have to just let him dribble past you
Low-key, that’s exactly what Kris did…
Still not enough
Ya like SGA is good but when you allow this to happen you are literally not allowed to defend him and he gets easy looks. Itās dumb af Silver needs to grow a pair and stop this. Itās not fun to watch itād be easy to fix if they actually ever enforced the rules.
This is the new āface of the leagueā weāre so cookedā¦.
Manufactured superstar
I genuinely donāt think anyone outside of Thunder fans should even remotely enjoy watching him. I think he has the ugliest game of any top player in the whole league. Just an absolutely shameless way to play basketball and NO ONE ELSE GETS THIS WHISTLE? Why did refs decide that he was the chosen one here?Ā
But he has soo much auraaa
Outside of the obvious Lakers and Celtics teams, I don’t think I’ve ever seen NBA fans as a whole just openly hate a team like the Thunder. They’re anti-fun to watch and to play against when Dort can fucking powerbomb the ball handler with no call* and then you get plays like this on the other end.
*yes, I know the game was called ticky-tack both ways tonight, that doesn’t change the fact that this is a nightly thing for the Thunder
Mods are pussies
Looks like one of the mods is in on the OKC agenda
lmao for real why is this clip deleted? there’s nothing wrong with his post and it followed all the rules! this is exactly the kind of shit why i created my account name. mods are such douchebags
If this was ANY other player, this clip stays up. There are so many flopping ‘highlights’ and defensive lowlight agenda posts that hit the front page regularly. but this one was over the line apparently… interesting
it’s totally cheap and obviously biased. there is not a single reasonable argument for why this post was deleted with thousands of upvotes and hundreds of comments. Just deleting history in order to uphold a narratives. People with power to dictate public discourse in a PUBLIC forum should have standards. They are in control of what hundreds of thousands of viewers will see and interact with. It’s a blatant abuse of power.
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
He will never be highly rated as long as he plays like this, and rightly so. Curry, LeBron, KD, all might have flopped a bit but they are all aesthetically very pleasing to watch. Never in my life have I heard of someone watching “Shai” highlights
These are shai highlights, and we are rage watching them rn… I hate myself too
Shai highlights are him doing the same exact push off middy. Its clean but aint nobody watching a compilation of only that.
Bro wtf u talking about Curry been getting mauled his whole career without calls.
Yeah lol he’s definitely the most ethical superstar ever
Good lord this kid is 100% bitch made.
Man Ant getting hacked gets no calls. And SGA gets a little to no contact gets calls. š
Watching this game against the spurs and he’s getting no calls. I guess he’s too strong and can play through contact. Ant is going to have to throw his head back and/or flop to get calls unfortunately
He even got a tech this game
In the OKC/MIN game last week, there was a sequence where Jaden McDaniels got a foul for literally just watching Shai flop and the like two minutes later Caruso straight up body slammed Ant and there was no call.
Refs love OKC
Tread carefully guys. OKC fans gonna start spam posting Jokic defensive lowlights again if u keep this up
I just watched this get removed for no reason.
This is why this sport is behind baseball. While they did things to improve the watching aspect of it the nba is an absolute farce with officiating
Yup, I really want to get into basketball and actually watch the games, but the product is so shit that I can’t bring myself to make it through a full one.
It’s drive, foul, fta. commercial. missed 3, missed 3, made 3, foul, fta. commercial. ad infinitum.
And near the end of the game, when it should be at it’s most exciting. It’s just hacking each other and free throws.
I can make fucking free throws. I don’t want to watch NBA players taking them.
when people say “man yall are hating on SGA for no reason”, this sort of clip has dozens, if not hundreds of exact same replicas.
No actual fan of basketball enjoys watching this. it’s just not fun at all. it doesn’t make you feel good inside and excited when you watch this
Notice how Thunder bots are never in these type of threads ššš
Whoās a fan of this kind of basketball? This makes the games unwatchable. Yes, OKC is doing something special right now but I canāt bring myself to watch the games when this team and SGA is the only one getting calls like this every game.
Thats why people fucking hate this guy
Why they hate the NBA
My chubby Serbian could never
Neither would my freaky Greek boi
S tier shai highlight
shai fans will watch this and tell you he is the best guard since jordan
“Unanimous MVP” they try to tell me
Whatās a foul against SGA and what Dort is allowed to do arenāt the same sport
I can’t get behind this. Love Shai, love my team, but there’s no place in the game for this. This ain’t basketball.
Shit is ruining the game. Enough already
I wonder what the year will be when a player swings on a ref
man okc fans are delusional
this is why luka, giannis, and jokic are still better
Pathetic mods.
š¤£ and people saying Micheal Jordan won’t average 40 in this era. He would have a field day.
Why are we deleting a post with 3000 upvotes and 1000 comments? What are these mods on
When this is the standard of refereeing, Shai is right to take advantage of it.
I’m just jealous I can’t have this for me.
The problem is the thunder then get away with going hard on defense themselves, its a double standard
Makes me want to not be a fan :/. I love basketball, but this and the absurd grabbing in the playoffs just ruin it.
Game shouldnāt be remotely about who is more āskilledā at involving the refs, or making it so rough itās dumb.
There isn’t enough talk about how these calls help a player shoot better from the field as well. If a player can’t be anywhere near you without a foul being called, it’s much easier to take and make a shot.
It’s like back in the day when players defended Harden with their hands behind their back. It’s not just the free throws, it makes it so much easier to score as well.
He flopped the entire NBA Cup game at Utah on November 21st. The Jazz fans eventually started booing him relentlessly. It was not a good look for refs to keep calling fouls just because he fell on the floor, especially after not getting touched at all.
Is the foul in the room with us?
Jokic lost his 4th MVP to this……
Why was this removed lol
Sick league
Oh, the humanity! My (theoretical) kids saw this!
The “Shai Push”
This shit is unwatchable lol
some people actually believe that this mf right there is better than jokic and luka ong š
Why the hell was this removed mods?
Because they are pathetic
Fuck OKC
Adam silver masterpiece
OKC fans will gaslight us somehow
Thunder fans reaaaaal quiet in this thread huh
In case you were still wondering thunder fans, this is why you have haters
This is not a foul
Portland has had dozen calls go their way
This is a terribly called game all along
Why remove this one mods? What rule does it violate?
un-watchable garbage