[Anthony Edwards] on Chris Finch’s ejection: “I’m fuckin with that. I’m fuckin with that. Yeah, that’s my dawg.”
One of the local reporters said he was also saying that he would help cover Finchys fine haha
not the fine but the fees to bring relatively fairer whistles
The fee for an opportunity to openly insult the refs, just a shame the profits go to the same league that enables them
insult the refsshit whistles
I think fines go to charity. Maybe not all of em
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. They definitely go to charity. Half of them go to the NBA, which then distributes them to NBA Cares, and half go to the players association, which donates them via the NBPA Foundation.
Dont play. I’m sure Ant would make 50 million a year if he was doing something else.
Its business and entertainment. Thats it. Its not life and death. Its multi millionaires making money for billionaires
So you can buy a better whistle.
Surprised more coaches don’t do that.
“Go upgrade your Fox 40 old man!”
I’m surprised a local reporter can afford that
He probably can’t, which is why Finch is helping him cover it
Think he means Ant was saying that and it was relayed by a local reporter
That’s the joke big fella
“Clutches pronouns”
Can’t afford to “help”?
I feel like Finch has gotten himself ejected a few times now and each time, the team said they loved him for it.
Dude knows how to make the ejection worth it.
Yeah, it hasn’t been often but when he does it he gets his money worth haha
I feel like shit like this gets the guys to actually want to be coached by him which is probably the hardest part of being an nba coach.
I’ve always just assumed performative outrage and ejections are a part of the coaching game. Not saying all of these across the league are neccessarily performative, but I think a lot of them are. Keeps the locker room on your side.
The veins in Finch’s face were pretty convincing though
Ant has been extremely supportive of Finch, you could tell from the first season of Starting Five.
Yeah, he loves Finch and even more important he lets Finch coach him hard which then lets that happen with the rest of the team as well.
You know which one thats awesome
Comments here are weird. Finch went to bat for Ant arguing on his behalf getting no-fouls. Ant is saying it was cool he did that.
This is being posted very late, all the adults are asleep
nephew, there haven’t been adults on this sub for 10+ years
Bro I’m 42, wtf r u talking about
middle age nephewism, a case more common everyday
Classic Reddit straw-man where someone makes a claim and instead of accepting that others have opinions or statements we don’t agree with they’re clearly children because I’m an adult and don’t agree with that opinion. Head assery, no clue what the initial comment in the chain is insinuating this is cool because Finch didn’t back down, no need to analyze lmao
a straw man is when you create an argument that no one said in order to attack it rather than defending your position or addressing the original topic.
it’s most commonly employed when you are taking a position that is socially frowned upon or controversial. By supplying an easy to attack argument (the straw-man) you then eviscerate that argument rather than the common sensical objection to your controversial take.
I think you are just complaining for the sake of complaining since you replied to a guy who said what age he is and I’m not sure what point you want to make - but at least we can all come away from this with a better sense of what the straw-man fallacy is.
The point is Redditors love bringing up age to act oh so intelligent, pretty easy to gather.
Thanks for the correction, sorry you couldn’t comprehend the rest out of the need to only be right.
Start checking users accounts. I’m starting to find that the “users” with the dumbest comments are accounts that have been created within the last month and are most likely bots
And hide their history
Had a guy tell me he hides his Reddit history to “protect himself from the deep state”
I hide my history because then you chronically online reddit users have to actually argue my point instead of changing the subject to anonymous reddit accounts like anyone gives af
That’s your right. It’s also the right of people to not engage with hidden post history folks because they can’t tell if you’re discussing in good faith vs. trolling.
If you can’t argue against someone without changing the subject to their anonymous reddit account, you already lost and you’re a bum. Man up and ditch the subject changes
If you have no post history, I’m going to assume that it’s because you’re a troll and having your posts visible would give that away. I’m just not going to engage with anyone that is very likely not genuinely arguing a logical point that they believe.
I’m just not going to engage
Yet here you are
I fully believe anyone like that who goes through someone’s entire reddit account history, or tries to and gets mad that they can’t, clearly has a mental disorder. Like this is Reddit, we’re talking about basketball on an anonymous website. It’s not that deep.
Or what if we just don’t make posts and just make comments? Like if you automatically click on every persons reddit profile the second you want to engage with them you’re probably just an insecure weirdo in real life. It’s really not that deep. We’re on an anonymous website talking sports bro.
By post history, I meant posts and comments. Your account is 13 days old and you’ve commented enough to have over 7k karma. I’ve seen a double digit number of comments from you in just the threads from this game. You insulting someone else as “chronically online reddit user” is comical. No one goes from never using the site to commenting that frequently, so either your old account was too recognizable as a troll or you got banned.
Now, I’m going to follow my own rule and stop engaging with someone who is obviously here just to spam and troll.
I don’t really care what you think big dawg
Well you clearly do since you keep responding, and you probably feel called out and defensive because I explained the exact type of person you are.
Again, if you need to go through someone’s entire comment history to gain irrelevant ammunition in an argument, then you’re not only a coward but you’re a bum and can’t debate. And you’re not even debating in good faith. So man up or shut up, chump.
Mf skipped the ethos day of writing class
Very MN sports fan behavior.
“Wow this guy doesn’t let people go through his reddit history in order to get ammunition in an argument they’re losing! What a Minnesota fan!”
Like that really sounded smart in your head? I know it’s past 3pm so you’re probably hammered, but come on Wisconsin education system. Do better
I’m not saying it can’t be bots, but as a mod of a sports sub, there is a long-running trend of people creating burner accounts to stir the pot. Sometimes it’s just losers with more time than sense.
Yea this is good perspective. Hard to decipher between the two but it’s fairly obvious it’s one or the other.
Yeah but this is the future, maybe those losers are making bots based on their personalities!
I have definitely seen people outsourcing their trash talk to chatgpt lol
Yep. The bots are all over threads, too.
The bloated gambling bosses don’t like when their refs are questioned.
With some of the super cringe unaware bs I’ve have been observing in these threads this is more than likely the case..
They haven’t learned the circlejerk yet, shame to them for the outside opinion
The comments seem fine as I am writing this. But yeah I loved seeing Finch back up his team as a neutral, I think that guy is great at man management and knows how to get the guys fired up.
Obviously on the flipside of that, they lose this game, and suddenly the narrative would be “Finch should not have abandoned his team like that, they lost because of him”. But I genuinely think shit like this can help players a lot unless it happens a lot. Ime does it a lot in Houston
Totally agree. It looks amazing because it worked, but if the wolves ended up losing Finch throwing a tantrum would have been taken much more negatively
I don’t think we lose a lot by not having Finch on the court during games. That’s not even a shot at him, I like Finch - in-game stuff is just not what he does best as a coach.
They were not when I first got here lol. Waking up today they look a lot better now, thankfully.
send da fuckin video
Get a ejection lol
hell nawl cant get a foul
erection
man u cant force a ethical game in da world
Anthony Edwards be like..
The final “I’m fuckin with that” like he’s summing up his answer is so funny
Like he was ending a 5 paragraph essay. “In conclusion, I’m fucking with that.’
LMFAO that’s legit how he said it too
“Some people aren’t fucking with that when their coach gets suspended. In this essay I will establish why I am fucking with that by demonstrating that coach is my dawg and thus I am fucking with that.”
100% I mean he’s just restating his thesis from his introduction, in which he presents that he is, in fact, ‘fuckin with that’
Intro: I’m fuckin with that
Body: I’m fuckin with that
Conclusion: I’m fuckin with that
A well formed response. Back to you Mr Toastmaster.
He’s our Iverson.
I’m dead asf
I kind of wanted Nori to get ejected too and somehow have Joe Ingles coach for the rest of the game.
Jingles would’ve had the refs offering him the whistle then. Too damn charismatic
You got jingled
Joe ingles is the biggest trash talker on the entire team, bro would’ve been sitting next to Finch in one possession
LOL
He’s impregnating this
Hell nawl cant’d do dis
Not a chance. He’ll actually help pay for this.
No flair bots
You’re hilarious bro we haven’t heard that one every day for 3 years. Did you come up with that yourself?
Can yall come up with new joke? 🌽🏀
That is the only joke you can really make about Ant tbh
Well that just makes it low hanging fruit which goes back around to get a new joke.
Redditors have the same 3 jokes and spam them under every Ant post. Yall aren’t comedians bro, wrap it up
Send da jokes
Send da jokes on video
Bring ya ass
Bots.
This sub sucks so hard a lot of the times lol
maybe he shoulda wrapped it up
Comedy police over here
Hey if your team had any good players you’d get tired of it too
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I’d win a playoff series before you start talking about poverty little buddy 💀
I’m not denying the boat. You’re pretending you got off
I mean my comment was a joke and you’re the one getting upset about it 🤣 at least when we were trash we could take it
…says the guy instant downvoting every one of my replies. Seems like you are upset 😂
I like how he gets interviews from the chair lol
And the shirts always off
We’re all Chris Finch now until Adam fuckin Silver gets the blatant OKC officiating under control
One of the better officiated OKC games I have seen. OKC fans are likely upset about the 47 free throws because they are way too used to be rewarded for the “they can’t call everything” brand of defence that they often get away with.
Seems like the ejection worked and they called a better game afterwards.
They called it well in the spurs game too. This team isn’t as dominant if they don’t have the refs.
Chris Finch-the hero we needed.
It absolutely worked. Reminds me of the game 2 years ago where Malone ran out on the court against us in the middle of a play to rip into the refs. They called a MUCH tighter game after that.
Agree. Finally a fairly called game to prevent Thunder from their typical cheating
Correct, OKC were not allowed to maul on defence last night in the name of “physicality” as they often are.
It’s the dumbest thing to allow players to get away with fouls in the name of physicality because they always do it and have reputations as good defenders so they get leeway other players don’t. “That’s just Dort and Caruso’s style, we can’t call all the fouls”.
Exactly, has nothing to do with Thunder being stacked with all NBA defensive candidates. The reputations of the OKC defenders is not based on merit. Must be that the refs are all biased for Thunder every game, all season!
Dray’s reputation is based on merit, and he is afforded more leeway to be physical. The Thunder happen to have like 4 of those guys. Why should you get more leeway to be physical because you are a good defender?
Imagine a pitcher in baseball where close balls got called strikes because he has a reputation as an accurate pitcher.
It seems like you’re trying to suggest good defenders are only as good as the “leeway” they get rather than giving them credit for being actual good defenders
I am suggesting good defenders are very good, but good physical defenders often get more leeway from officials, that other players aren’t afforded.
There is nothing worse than watching Dray’s “good physical defence” with the small player bonus grab and hack your big, and then watch a fingertip on someone’s back be whistled the next possession.
All NBA defensive candidates? According to who, Stevie wonder?
Maybe those players get high praise because they can hack the opposing players in the head? Just a thought
Finch has done wonders on your fan base
Your team has 1 single ring in the entire history of your franchise and needed the best whistle of all time and an Achilles tear to barely squeak by a game 7 to get it, and you’re acting like a cowboys fan.
Nice straw man argument. What you’re suggesting is completely false. I’ve said nothing along those lines. I’m just arguing against the fake ref bias narrative. That’s it
Bro has no idea what a straw man is. I’m arguing with a level 1 pointless reddit argument skeleton
Ah yes. Nothing says “legitimate defense” like guarding the best player/center on planet earth with a short 2 guard. Because that makes all kinds of fucking sense.
Can we qualify this by stating that Caruso is and has been one of the best defenders in the league or are we rolling with yet another dishonest debate angle? It was a unique strategy which worked.
It’s so strange how pretty much everyone in the league except for Thunder fans universally agree that Caruso got away with murder in that game 7. Yes, it was a unique strategy that only worked because of Caruso’s “small defender” and “good defender” perks that allowed the officials to simply ignore him clinging to Jokic like a kid hanging onto his dad’s arms.
Classic thunderfan. If someone points out something so obvious a child could understand it, they’re being dishonest.
Just a league full of 29 teams with dishonest fans and mysteriously the one you root for are the only “true” “honest” fans. Sounds very realistic and not at all like an ego problem you collectively have.
I’m not going to suggest the Thunder have never had a game in which they received more favorable calls. However, to suggest it’s a regular occurrence and/or that the nba refs have some agenda for OKC is delusional. I’m sorry, but this is the rational take. I know I’m wasting my time arguing with a sea of salty opponents and casuals who rely on farmed clips/narratives but more power to you if you feel like upvotes on this subreddit help support your case
It wouldn’t be a thunderfan response without accusing the fanbases of 29 other teams of being casuals.
I’ve been watching ball before y’all even thought about having a team, so kindly go soak your head with that bullshit.
Just play the same way then you’ll win a championship. It’s really that easy.
Eloquent
He’s as graceful with words as he is on the court.
Do we need a Cicero when, at the end of the day, we’re asking someone to talk about a game of basketball?
Smart move by Finch tbh. You want your superstar knowing you have his back in the trenches.
It also evened out the game. Refs were more hesitant to give okc their usual whistle
Big brain move by finch to get get ejected early so he wouldn’t coach the team into yet another 4th quarter loss
Many people are saying this
This hurts
No, it doesn’t.
Finch my get the pass from Ant
For context, the missed call was egregious if you saw the replay
Both the one on ant and the one on Randle lol
Ant is so genuine, says what he means and means what he says.
Every single fan in the NBA is fuckin with that.
Enough with the fuckin ref ball.
We all want ant to take that next step and be that guy… no reason he couldn’t be in that mvp class
If he got Shai’s whistle he’d average 35.
With that logic If the timberwolves focused on playing more physical defense instead of complaining to refs every single matchup they’d be just as good as OKC
No, because if you play OKC defense, you’re fouling out on every other team except OKC lmao
That’s the entire issue
He’s our dog with this cause.
As long as one of us knocks OKC out, I’m good.
Okc and a Joe Hendry fan no surprise
One of the most brilliant orators of our times.
You just created 100 Chris Finches
From your lips to God’s ears.
How is it theoretically possible to possess so much charisma?
Antman is a walking bar and legendary phrase generator.
Tbf, he fucks a lot regardless of what Finch is doing
IN THIS HOUSE CHRISTOPHER FINCH IS A HERO
Yep.
I know He the type that would get down with his hommies no questions asked
I fuck wit dat, yuh!
Finch is gangsta
That’s my dawg. Thats my twin.
Ant we’re live
mah favorite movie, Matilda
The one time you want a star player to hate his coach…
#ChrisFinchSucks
Is that positive or negative?
Are you stupid, or like 90?
in my experience from growing up in a super white area and hearing dialogue like this all my life, this is just racism.
Agree. (33 white as fuck male lol) didn’t want to accuse anyone of being racist before figuring out if they’re just stupid first
Im not American, Idk what hes saying. You guys are so weird with this race shit
Everyone doesnt just know everything, you have to ask questions about things you dont know
fuck off
OP is legitimately asking a question
that I know
Do you not speak English? It’s pretty clear what he’s saying.
Unless you’re just a racist troll.
No, English is not my mother language, and especially American slang. So no, I honestly have no idea what he means
Ant is basically saying Finch is cool for standing up for him like that and he appreciates it
Do you understand slang expressions from all over the world? It may have been an honest question from his part.
It might have, but probably not. Google translate exists, don’t play dumb
Apparently I am racist for not speaking native American English (Not even from US).
To your point, I have heard the expression “fucking with you” as in pulling a prank, not sure this is the correct meaning here.
(But seriously, what was racist about asking translation?)
What language do you speak? May help with getting a translation.
Fuck is a weird word that can mean many things contextually.
“I am fucking with you (or him or her, etc.)” will mean that you are messing with someone or joking with them.
“I fuck with you” means you stand with something or support that person.
For objects, ideals, or concepts, both “I am (or I’m) fucking with that” and “I fuck with that” mean that you think whatever it is is great. You support it.
Some people may misunderstand, as a general racist thing to say from some native American English speaker to others is to say “translate that for me” even to more universal statements, as if to imply that black people are speaking some other language just for using cultural slang.
This is Reddit, majority of posters are clowns. You said nothing racist
The word “translate” comes off very offensive in this context. Maybe a more nuanced question would be better. Also, you seem to be doing fine defending yourself, surprisingly
Google translate doesn’t provide context for slang
Fuck with your own damn business. Sounding like you had his baby..
I wish I could have his baby
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See now you name-calling. With the Minimal effort I put into this man’s personal life, Im under impression he made a 1 time payment and is paid in full.. You seem very invested in this man’s day to day so if I’m wrong and the actual mother is not able to support the child bc of his negligence than Im on the wrong side of this argument… If Youre just running with an old headline than thats your business. Happy holidays
he made a 1 time payment and is paid in full
That’s not how child support works lol
He did though…
Nope. That’s not how child support works and was also a rumor that was never actually proven (since that’s not how child support works)
No that was a fake internet rumor. He pays regular child support. Well, it’s probably a lot higher than average, but it wasn’t a one time payment or anything.
You right-sorry for the name calling. Got caught up with your response. My bad. No I don’t folllw his every move. But nothing tells me he’s done the one and done, when it’s supposedly 4 kids and 4 women. It’s a pattern. I’m sick of people dogging other nba players and this guy gets propped up like he should be the face of the nba.