[Highlight] SGA with clutch shots after clutch shots to keep the thunder lead
I love that any sort of flop or questionable call involving SGA gets thousands of upvotes here, but any of his tough buckets and elite shot creation/midrange game gets nothing lmao. The dude is a walking bucket who is incredibly clutch, but apparently he just sucks and only scores at the line.
Deni shot 23 (!!) FT this game, but they’re all deserved apparently.
Oh no:( whats Shai gonna do without his upvotes?
Every SGA post is flooded with people complaining that he isn’t popular enough. More upvotes on those comments than anyone saying something negative. It’s all in your head
No one is getting hype watching any star players pushing off to hit middies— it’s just not that exciting… whether it’s Shai, Tatum, PG13, etc.
Maybe the most celebrated shot of the most famous player of all time is literally a push off LMAO (MJ vs Russell). It’s been happening for decades to various degrees. Nothing new under the sun brother
People are just hate watching at this point. Everything good he does gets ignored in general and every minor instance of a questionable call/non call sticks with them more because they’re looking for it. All is too broad a stroke but I’m sure you could pick most any high volume player and find similar things if the majority sub reddit was on the case
He literally pushed off with his elbow in this clip why would anyone gas this clip.
Maybe it’s because people are sick of getting Shai pushed on us? Maybe it’s because he earned his rep for flopping because every time he gets a stiff breeze on his arm he falls to the ground and gets free throws for it? His skill is undeniable, but that makes the flops even more egregious. He doesn’t need to flop
SGA clearly pushes off with his right arm on this play
If you seriously want that called, stop watching basketball forever. How lame can you dorks possibly get
Was at the game, this was an egregious push off. Tell your boy to (or I guess the league and refs) to learn how to legally create a shot. Crazy how you’re saying we should just accept bullshit lmao
Almost every superstar in the league taking 20+ shots a game would be called multiple times every game if they start calling minor push offs like that.
I mean it’s nice when defenders can’t touch or breathe on him either so theoretically it’s easier for him to get buckets. Defenders have to play more off of him because they don’t want to foul him in the clutch.
He buckles his head on a drive at the freaking halfcourt line bumping into the defender, then leans his shoulder on a drive to create space where the defender has no choice but give him space.
watch Nembhard defending him in the Finals and realize how wrong you are
Ok then compare Nembhard and Nesmith to Dort and Caruso, and see what they each get away with (like literally shoving players away from a loose ball) and get back to me
Shhhh people don’t understand this point.
I mean, that’s an offensive foul, easy to score when you can just shove your defender out of the way.
What? Bigs do it all the time
Their lord and savior throws elbows and pushes all the time when he’s trying to post up lol
Literally
Who? Giannis? Luka? Jokic?
Jokic
All of them. Especially giannis
“You had a great game” Shai really of that Kobe ilk. He’s the next of the lineage imo
People really calling this guy a free throw merchant?
A guy who’s hitting tough, ethical buckets in the clutch to will his team to victory?
He tried to get a shooting foul on an obvious blocking foul so the whole game doesn’t count now
Yeah that post gonna get 10k likes from people who dont watch basketball
Bro it’s the Luka and Jokic fans
I fully expected it to be one of the clips where SGA initiates the contact with a bump (while the defender isn’t in position) but no, the defender fully moved into Shai as he was driving.
it’s insane lol. someone posted the jokic flops against eubanks and all the comments were just laughing and defending his actions. night and day difference
bro what are you talking about? that play was horrendous, and this play is good. both can be true.
Its one play in an entire game dude???
Yes agreed. He is a great player and made many more great plays than horrendous flop / foul-bait plays, as he does. I still don’t like seeing any egregious flopping / foul-baiting, and I wish the NBA penalized it like they said they would at one point. Maybe that makes me grouchy idk
Idk who the fuck downvote you, nothing you say is controversial.
The point is one play proliferates all over the net(already on all the bball subs and twitter) skewing the narrative heavily. Meanwhile these posts get a fraction of a fraction.
…he was ice in the clutch, but that was not a foul lol. Blocking or otherwise. SGA lurching sideways into a defender and pushing himself backwards off the defender is not a blocking foul.
It looked a lot more like direct path honestly, he doesn’t hurt himself into the defender but I’d have to watch another angle
There were 2 replays shown, one was behind him kinda low and it looks legit maybe but there was an overhead from above the basket and he clearly goes sideways into the defender changing direction and it is not towards the basket. They showed that replay between his 2 free throws, definitely not a foul.
Mods deleted the clip though, so I can’t link it.
I wouldn’t call it obvious (could easily be a foul or a no-call depending on the day and the ref crew), but that isn’t the egregious part imo. That would be giving him FTs for it. He wasn’t even remotely close to gathering when the contact was made.
Also what ever happened to the flop rule? I haven’t see an exaggeration that bad since the last time I watched a Lakers game.
“An obvious blocking foul” bro he had a WHISPER of contact on that drive and threw himself to the ground and tossed the ball towards the baseline and got free throws for it. PLEASE.
He pushed off clearly in the above video with his right arm, no?
Are you talking about twitter users or something? Or just IRL? Or can you link to someone calling him a free throw merchant haha
The only thing I see people complaining about is people complaining but I never see people complaining and just about it. If you get me
Unstoppable
Thats what happens when you can shove defenders off you with your free arm
Cry some more
How is stating a fact crying? He builds space by shoving the defender out of the way, theres no way to stop that
Nearly every nba player that consistently drives shoves the defender to create space. The only reason you are crying about it now and about sga is because he is putting bta every team he is facing. Your fat Slovenian or Serbian will be ok without you running defense for them.
Yeah, they are all committing fouls, some do so more egregiously than others, and this ones pretty egregious.
Am neither a fan of Luka or Jokic, just dont like fugly basketball.
Because what you’re saying is emotionally motivated
facts are emotionally motivated now?
You can’t handle the fact that he pushes off clearly all the time
Let me guess. because the refs and only letting him do it and no one else right?
I just think it’s egregious and bad for the game. Not going to mince words, his style of play is terrible for the game of basketball. And his copycats grow by the day, yes.
See how you sound emotional now?
I think you don’t have any facts to point to so you can only hope to point out emotion as a flaw. It’s not at all effective. But yeah carry on.
This not even gonna get 500 likes but that dumbass flop video did
This sub cannot hide its agenda, no matter how much it denies it.
Is hating flopping an unpopular opinion
Hating on it equally amongst players is tho. 1000 likes in 30 minutes for a SGA flop clip, find me a Jokic and Luka equivalent from this sub. 👍
I’m an equal opportunity hater when it comes to floppers. Reaves and Luka have easily been the worst this year but they all fucking suck
Fair enough for you, unfortunately most of this sub doesn’t hold the same perspective.
Watching floppers win gets old, hating on floppers never gets old
Just look at the difference in reaction to Reaves having 50 points on 22 FTA in regular time, and SGA having 54 points on 26 FTA in double OT.
The SGA posts were all about how it sucked to watch him play, basketball terrorism, all he does is flop.
Reaves had almost the entire front page full of posts sucking him off, it literally turned into the Lakers sub for 2 days.
JoKKKic cult hiding from this thread
Look at the push off in the clip above.
easily CPOY
Agreed in theory but the question is will the Thunder be in enough clutch minutes for him to even build that case (not sure how voters even take volume into account for that award)
The Trail Blazers commentator said this on the broadcast:
Shai makes 53% of our entire team’s clutch time points, which is defined by points scored in the final 5 minutes.
He said Shai has over 70 clutch time points before tonight (couldn’t remember exactly how many), and nobody else in the league has more than 60. He said if you add up the clutch points for the Blazers top 3 scorers, it would only be 79 points. So Shai is scoring essentially 3 players worth of clutch time points, while only playing in roughly half of our 4th quarters this year so far.
It’s not even a competition currently. SGA is by far the current CPOY head-runner
Wow. Yeah in that case then it’s likely no-contest
It’s so weird how /u/MrBuckBuck with his Blazers flair hasn’t posted any of these clutch SGA shots, but he was quick to post a flop and missed layup by SGA.
It’s… really not that weird at all? Fans are fans of the team/person they support, not the other way around. Call me crazy, but I dont think you’ll find many fans going around posting highlights of their team getting whooped. Maybe I’m wrong or missing something, is this guy an all time hater or troll, whats up with the username callout? Usually that reserved for widely hated folk that are somewhat well known by the community. Dude just seems like a Deni truther and a Blazers fan
He’s not widely hated, but he’s been the most prolific highlight poster on this sub for a few years. Definitely not weird for him to make homer posts about his own team though lol. He’s a human being after all.
Not only homer posts, but anti-okc posts. He even got banned for it at one point.
Ahhh now it makes sense, I dont keep track of usernames like that usually. But I can definitely see what you’re saying, if theres a well known poster that’s bound to get some high interaction posts near the top of a media platform then I’d get pissed too if I felt they were pushing a particular narrative/agenda and being disingenuous, especially against my favorite team/player, just like anyone would with biased media talking heads. Crazy how individual subreddits are developing their own small ecosystem of influencers and posters, nowhere is safe from commercialization man
He always posts stuff that makes OKC look bad. He even got banned for it at one point. I appreciate that he posts highlights, but it’s annoying that one of the most prolific posters on the sub is very anti-okc. So yeah, I’m calling him out.
Ahhh now it makes sense, I dont keep track of usernames like that usually. But I can definitely see what you’re saying, if theres a well known poster that’s bound to get some high interaction posts near the top of a media platform then I’d get pissed too if I felt they were pushing a particular narrative/agenda and being disingenuous, especially against my favorite team/player, just like anyone would with biased media talking heads. But also it’s kinda crazy how individual subreddits are developing their own small ecosystem of influencers and posters that are able to control the flow of information in a certain way, nowhere is safe from commercialization man
He’s also a hardcore Zionist
Cissoko flop nowhere to be found
That was insanely bad acting
it’s all about the narrative my friend.
SGA is a free throw merchant and he relied on 20+ FT’s to get us over the line tonight /s
Insane tough shot making to end the game
It’s so ironic how this sub will go up in flames about one questionable sga call, but then silent for every other flop in the league. They love to act like it’s just a Thunder problem
That happens when you make it to the finals and win a chip doing it. If the lakers win a ring doing the same shit they’ll get hate for it too
Yeah there must be some grand conspiracy against the Oklahoma City Thunder it’s not possible that there’s any logical reason for people thinking SGA is some sort of foul baiter
name another player who can hit shots like this
i understood that reference
Someone shot 23 free throws this game and it wasn’t SGA…
He really does shove off with his arm on most jumpers, doesn’t he? Someone pointed that out and I can’t stop seeing it.
Same. I just read it that too and on the first clip I see it’s a middy after a forearm to the ribs
pretty much every time, yeah.
Doc called it the “Shai shove” when referring to Brunson and now I can’t just can’t get it outta my head lmaooo
He’s reffed differently from almost anyone else in the league, yet this whole thread is full of OKC fans crying about how he’s unfairly hated lol
People are perpetually mad in this sub.
His midrange game is so nasty
Clippers really traded third best SG of all time + JDub + top 5 pick for Pandemic P
Kawhi really fucked himself and the league
19 rebounds is insane
What a season he’s having jesus
Push off on this one was absolutely diabolical
This dude might end up as the second best guard of all time when its said and done
Him Him Him
I only see one clutch shot.
I get the glaze, but he literally pushed off.
Easy to hit shots when defenders scared to get close to you
Saying this bs while one guy got 23 free throws
Yeah and since defenders aren t actually more scared to him than other stars in the league we can both agree that this is not easy.
I’m so glad I have the thinking comprehension beyond a single-celled organism.
If they are scared how is he still getting ft and we only have one replay of an egregious call?
Can’t touch him or he’ll take a dive. AND he’s allowed to throw that chicken wing out to creat separation… Go it.
he makes tough shots, but also, like players can’t even touch him without fouling. it gives an advantage when they’re trying to follow him and he can just stop on a dime.
Camara touched him twice in this video alone, he was getting hammered all night, it’s crazy how some of y’all say bs without even watching
Obviously if he has u beat u can’t illegally make any contact with him, what’s the problem with that?
Luka does it worse
Had to bring up Luka? Na, they do it differently. Luka looks to create contact more often, but Shai mostly gets a better whistle on softer contact. So you can argue that Luka does it worse because contact is a bigger part of his game, but shai gets away with his push off so I just think it’s different (although he got one called on him early this game).
It really is a skill though, I only get annoyed when it seems like it isn’t called the same on both sides. The draw foul has always been a skill mastered by elite scoring guards. Harden just did it OD and hacked the rulebook so now everyone is sensitive to it.
You’re totally right, Luka is a free throw merchant
I’m just messing around tho, I actually like Luka but I had to hear it for the last two years every single time I entered a thread about SGA so I’m gonna bring it up every chance I get
People hating on them and arguing about free throws are wack though. They are so good
Well then they shouldn’t hate on SGA by that logic
Yeah, I agree! But you’re playing into it for no reason except to drag Luka down. They are laughably good at basketball and play some of the most impressive brands of basketball (and my preferred brand). Shitting on them just makes the conversation descend into trolling and toxicity
I hope you had this same energy defending SGA last year as you do for someone who’s doing it way worse than he did
I don’t get into this stuff that much, but I’ve defended Shai in a near identical way when he was brought up to defend Luka ftas lol. I feel like I see it more now than ever, and I just don’t like that fans create some bs free throw war between them. They are 2 of my favorite players and every time I go to a thread to support one I always see the other getting dragged for no reason. To me, they are by far the two most entertaining players to watch: like honestly their on ball creation is top 10 of all time and they are having the same prime and from the same draft. That is so rare and all fans do is talk free throws lol
I was definitely arguing against Jokic fans hating on Shai in the playoffs. His off ball flopping vs the clips and thunder was easily more egregious than Shai drawing fouls. I was hating on Embiid and Harden, but my issue recently has only been inconsistency with refs; I’m not blaming players for being good at drawing fouls.
It would give him an advantage if player couldn’t touch him without fouling but since this is obviously not true no advantage to be found here.