[Highlight] SGA pulls a smooth middy in the clutch to give him 38 and extend the Thunder’s lead to 6
How do guys hate on him?
They don’t know ball.
They dont watch basketball
Many people here don’t actually like watching basketball. They just like talking about it online.
Cause hes not on a bigger market team probably
They don’t actually like basketball yet want to comment nonsense here and then other morons join the circlejerk train
Because he is too good. Genuinely is so fun watching him.
He makes it look way too easy.
People hated Kobe so bad around 2010
To be fair, I think some people hated Kobe for…. other things
Trust me, if anythingh barely anyone ever mentioned kobe rape case back then compared to know
No one really talked about the rape case until after Kobe died, relatively. Don’t care what anyone on Reddit wants to revision, he was culturally everywhere and celebrated universally in life and in death. Only in the last few years has that conversation really been had.
they dont watch him play they only watch highlights. His flop the other night vs Portland got 7000 upvotes, what do you think this post is going it get lol
There’s a large oldhead/pro-Jokic contingent that doesn’t watch Thunder games and thinks this guy is simultaneously playing with ten All-Stars and flopping for 15 FTs a night
This is just purely off memory, but I felt like in 2023-24 he played the foul game a lot more (or at least was a lot less subtle with it), and since that was the Thunder’s breakout year it stuck in everyone’s heads. So now when a highlight hits the front page it just validates the hate cycle even though I feel like (again purely based on memory) now he doesn’t do the foul game much more than a lot of stars do. E.g. down the stretch tonight he only did it when Kuminga was blatantly handchecking him.
Because he’s capable of beautiful, pure basketball like this but chooses to spend half the game looking for the easy way out and hunting fouls.
It’s the fact that we all know he’s better than the foul-baiting antics that makes them so infuriating.
He could be one of the greatest to ever play the game.
Half the game? Man the narratives got to yo lmao
5% is closer to the real number
Because dumb fuck inbreds like you blatantly lie and only upvote shit that suits your narratives
Only this team will 1 clip every few games or so completely determine what people say apparently actually happens every single play and they know because they definitely watch the games lol. Shai will have like 1 bad sell job a month that gets clipped to death and everyone uses it like it’s a regular thing, then every highlight like this they act like it’s the only time it ever happens. This shit the past couple seasons feels like a psyop
My guy I know the game is late and you’re tired but you gotta relax jesus
Nah fuck that shit just gonna start calling out idiots whenever they pop up
No need to get ragebaited like this immediately after a win this is not making you happy lmao
Honestly why are you this vulgar and angry when you know SGA is a ref babied flopper? At least harden and laker fans embrace it
Jesus. Might be time to hit the sack dude.
I knew I’ll get downvoted and insulted for this but really think about my statement and ruminate on it. If pretty much every other fanbase thinks he hunts for fouls too much, why is that? Is it possible that you may have overlooked something? How can you empathize with them, rather than calling them “inbred”?
It’s not pretty much every other fanbase. Reddit just by nature has more haters than exist in real life, and the vast majority of the ones that complain the most are fans of other top teams in the West. Wonder why that is
Lmao “ruminate” on your dumb fuck statement, no shot you think your some truth seeker
I hope you learn more constructive ways to converse with people in the future 👍
half the game is crazy lol but idc. they’ll give him his respect in a few years once ppl understand what they’re watching
Knew it was good as soon as it left his hands lol
Never in doubt lmao
Well we tried
He’s automatic in the clutch
Best closer in the game
He’s literally in a different tier for pts per game in the clutch. https://www.nba.com/stats/players/clutch-traditional?dir=A&sort=PTS
Hes in a different tier for shooting in the 4th quarter. His last 4 games are 100% 80% 80% 75% hes missed literally 3 shots in the 4th the last 4 games (excluding the warriors)
We really got a Canadian MJ in the league and he’s the most hated player smh
Because this shit is awful. Even on this move, he did a push-off. Watch it again.
That’s unguardable. ISO defender can do nothing against it. You need your body to be in the position in order to contest, even the slightest push is completely disabling you to do anything.
With this ref bias and allowing for this shit, at this point even Wembanyama would have a problem guarding Shai.
Last OKC game against T-wolves, they basically accepted their fate on SGA scoring, because any action you take is a foul or And1. And it was awful to watch - Wolves are trying to score the basketball way, and on the other end they come to the terms that if SGA had the ball, it’s an automatic 2. As guarding him is actually worse, because of the and1s and free throws
dude is as silky as they come
Back to back MVPs in coming
MVP
Clutch Player of the Year, MVP, Scoring Champ and Finals MVP incoming
Luka probably has the scoring title. That offense is wild.
Idk if Shai keeps playing 4ths he’s gonna give him a run for his money
If Luka does get it, it will be bc he either shoots a million more shots than Shai or he sits out a ton of games or both
Post the dime to Cason Wallace
Easily the most clutch player in the league
Yo seriously what more do you need for him to do? Hes the clutchest player in the league
The Maestro!
When the game was OKC 106-107 GSW, OKC proceeded to go on a 18-5 run to close out the game in the last 5 minutes. Insane 🤯
Makes it look so easy MVP
Maestro
its over
Closer cold blooded
He’s the best player in the league
thats as easy as a free throw
For this game atleast, it might be easier than a freethrow
Damn Shai hit em with the too small. Don’t gotta do Oklahoma legend Buddy like that
Specially from OU, so that’s a plus.
Light work
this post would have got much more engagement if it was a bad call. yall be picking what you want to watch to fit your narrative
Can’t be calling Podz for a weaker push off and then ignoring that
You call that a push off? What?
It’s Shai he’s not allowed to touch anyone on offense and he can be touched by anyone on offense Don’t forget he can’t touch anyone on defense and he can be touched by anyone on defense
People don’t understand momentum lmao. Same energy as the people that watch slow motion replays in football and claim a player shoulda miraculously redirected mid-air when they’ve already begun the tackle and the offensive player slides or ducks his head.
Pods fully extended his arm which is why it was called. Shai is strong asf and it moves people, but his arm rarely extends fully
Podz is sorry asf
Don’t disagree on that at all lol