[Highlight] Lu Dort shows off his natural shooting motion twice against the Spurs
Just play basketball. Fucking weirdo shit
Dude has been doing dumb shit like this since the bubble
The league passively encourages shit like this and it’s bastardizing the product.
Don’t contest 5 feet in front of a player in case you’re in their “landing area” but if you go to the side, they might just kick you anyway with no repercussion.
Same attitude with carrying, illegal screens, pushoffs, etc.
It’s because they think high scores and offense is what people want to see. To some degree that’s true. Not many of us want to go back to games with final scores in the 80s (I didn’t mind it). Unsurprisingly they’ve wildly over corrected and they’ve done it in a way the punishes teams for playing defense and also leads to an obscene number of free-throws making otherwise good games near unwatchable. Go back to the sweet spot of the lare 00s early 10s games averaging like 105. Flopping was still a thing people complained about, but you didn’t have players winning awards by making foul baiting their whole offensive game plan.
They know people don’t watch. And its true most dont so they can just say their favorite player is getting buckets. Idk how they think its a good long term strategy to have people not watch their sport
Why me watch 60 minute when 6 second clip do job? Neanderthals at 645 Fifth Avenue.
I mean it just keeps getting worse. I watched a knicks game on gotham and they made the screen small to put an ad around the game, not just during free throws, but live play.
I love ball i would watch multiple games a day of almost any team for years, now i just watch mostly heat games and games with friends and thats only because i like basketball so much i cant just stop. I honestly want to i cant keep supporting this garbage
I can’t STAND when they do that. I’m trying to watch the game that is literally being actively played, not a Michelob Ultra commercial. They play the commercial audio over the broadcast and everything.
I saw a game where they interviewed a celebrity during the game, so they did a split screen with the game on one side and the celebrity on the other. Then it had an ad box around the whole thing.
I was so disgusted that I just immediately turned it off and didn’t watch ball for a few days.
Owners are trying to kill the Golden Goose.
Which is doubly weird because they know that people don’t like to watch free throws and they’ve openly stated that too many free throws have a negative impact on their viewership.
Adam Silver said: “There’s a huge amount of our content that people essentially consume for free. This is very much a highlights-based sport, so Instagram, TikTok, Twitter [now X]… YouTube, another example that is advertising based that consumers can consume,” Silver said.
So they just want 15 second highlights. I don’t think there is much concern on ‘fixing’ the game as it is, because it generates a ton of highlights and clips for social media.
I don’t think that people want to see azillion free throws just because the number go up more
Yep. A lot of basketball fans aren’t really self-aware that they care more about scoring and highlights. Defense isn’t as exciting unless it’s a block party, or you got a player who’s really good at steals.
OKC fans tried gaslighting everyone saying SGA falls like this to save his ankles when really he was fishing for fouls with fake contact
Thunder fans defend him. A true b***h on each end of the floor. His flops are atrocious.
Flopping on one end, while fouling continuously on the other end. It’s a style of basketball at this point, one that OKC has mastered, where you play with and against the refs more than you do against the other team.
We point it out so much, and they must see it when they review games, but the refs seem to have all gotten together to decide that OKC just gets a ridiculous whistle. They could stop doing that and call them more evenly if they wanted, but they don’t.
I feel your frustration, and I haven’t even been robbed of a playoff series (yet) from it. Gross way to play and hope the NBA changes it’s approach.
Nothing more frustrating. Well, Lukas donkey reactions are up there.
Damn you Luka Garza
The worst part is Luka doesn’t need it. Dude is one of the 5 best players in the world and acts like that
He and Caruso just continuously slash peoples arms and then go down the other side of the floor and go flying at the slightest contact. Fucking Hartenstein started doing it since he’s been there too lol. I’ve had my gripes with SGA’s play style but he’s at least a baller in his own respects. Those 3 I have no respect for
I hate grown up Caillou so much man
The league wants their next dynasty, the nba is made and sold on them, and unfortunately they seem to have picked the thunder even know they don’t actually have the talent or ability like other true dynasties but the league is doing whatever it can to try and make it happen
I just want some speculation as to why. Like, what is the reason. It doesn’t even elevate to some conspiracy about being a big market team.
Ngl I feel like censoring your curse words on reddit is a bigger bitch move lol
What the f*** did you just say about me?
Ill have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals
You like to live life dangerously I see
It’s weird, but definitely not a bigger bitch move than trying to injure someone in a basketball game lol
This mf is a dirty player, dude has injured a bunch of guys on his “effort” plays
Only person I’ve actually seen get called for flopping.
Yeah Dort is so weird. He is an even more annoying version of draymond and chris paul. A few years back i wouldn’t have even thought it would be possible to find someone more annoying than them but here we are.
Easy. He’s not in Dray’s league yet. I love an anti Thunder circlejerk but let’s not be crazy here.
The difference is that the ENTIRE thunder team plays bully ball defense and “touch me and I go flying” offense. iHart routinely acts like he gets shot out of a cannon and chet embellishes every single time he makes contact with someone.
Exactly, pussy ass shit.
The refs reward this bullshit.
Idk about the first one but the second one I believe they actually called him for an offensive foul
Thank you for this, that shit was egregious.
I just stopped caring wheather they do it cause in reality the league allows it to happen just like with the excessive FTs.
The 5k fines were never going to stop multi millionaires from using it to win important games & get star players out of games from fouls.
Legendary players are adding it to their game cause it doesn’t get punished. Seems like only us fans dont like it, players and the league are okay with it.
The game now is mostly offensive. Legit defenders are barely able to show their skills now cause theres absolutely no contact allowed.
Dirt plays football.
Embarrassing
Fuck Lu Dort
Lu Dort related player injuries, Kyrie, Paul George, Ja morant, James Harden, punching peoples groins in Derek Lively AND Gafford, repeatedly going after Doncics knee trying to reinjure him, tripping people 5 times a game, pushing OKC players to other team while in shooting motion, flopping on screen 5 times a game, injured Brandon Ingram, twice. Going after MPJ injured shoulder. I’m sure these are all unintentional. Feel free to add anyone I missed Im sure I missed a lot.
I don’t know why the league lets a role player injure their marquee stars. How the hell don’t you crack down on this when his messing with your money?
Because okc is the “in” team right now.
Silver’s response to the NFL artificially manufacturing the Chiefs
I’m surprised it took this long for Mahomes to be seriously injured with his fake sliding or pretending to run out of bounds then scrambling for more yards while defenders aren’t allowed to touch him. I’m not at all happy that he’s hurt, but he was playing with fire after pissing off defenders for so many years.
How did the NFL artificially manufacture the Chiefs?
Man FUCK okc
Yeah fuck them. All my homies hate OKC.
Are they? On social media it seems like everyone hates them. Not in a ‘they’re so good you hate them’ way either
Shai is the least liked MVP level superstar I think I’ve ever seen. And I’m a Kentucky fan so I have a soft spot for him, but I see so few people ever hyping him up it’s always comments about free throws and him being cringe or something
You didn’t see any (or at least much much less) of that about Steph or Luka so it’s not just cause he’s good
Absolutely! He’s flopping on screens by running into the screener’s knee, risking injuring them. One of the dirtiest players in the league. It pisses me off seeing how he’s allowed to continue doing this shit.
I remember being at the game that he injured BI. Was so angry
They called an offensive foul on BI too cuz Dort’s face grazed BI’s elbow on a normal jump shot. If it was Dort’s hand it’s a defensive foul is it not?
Dort is legit stepping up to Draymond levels these days.
He’s more calculated and controlled about it though. Which is kinda scary and weird
How do u land twice
Man tryna hit the splits
Trying to injure the spurs
when you wanna trip an airborne player
That’s actually dangerous. Any kind of intentional foul play that risks injuring someone is disgusting behavior. Doesn’t matter what team you support, this is the kind of sht everyone should be calling out.
Yep. That could cause a nasty ankle injury if someone stepped on him
Could easily end up with knee to knee contact knocking someone out for the season too when you make wild moves like that.
This was my take too—ankles are bad but knee on knee contact and landing on a knee awkwardly are both on the table here. Needs to be dealt with strongly
If reckless close outs can be upgraded to flagrants, reckless whatever this is should be too.
The league should review games and fine players who do this shit. Easy win for Silver. Get this nonsense out of the game
But you got OKC fans here defending it, saying to cry about it. You can be a fan and still criticize if it is wrong. Especially if it can lead to someone getting hurt.
Brother I heard OKC fans complaining about the spurs foul baiting after the last 2 games, if you can believe it.
Considering there was a highly upvoted post saying what a pathetic unlikable flopper Wemby is in the /r/Thunder subreddit after the NBA Cup game, yes I can believe it lol
Granted, it’s not like there aren’t a lot of reasonable Thunder fans, but I got a good laugh out of that one
I’m all for trash talk between fans, but making fun of wemby for flopping in the final when he learned the same day that a family member passed away, and he still played… This is exactly why everyone hate OKC fans.
Btw those are the same ppl who think that chet, who seems to enjoy defending layups with his face, is better than wemby. 👍
Honestly if he does this to me I’m landing on his leg lol, dirty bitch
Massive loser playstyle
Unethical basketball
Ultra processed, artificial dyes, nitrate full, high fructose ball.
Almost like robbing a bank and stealing a blue phat. Earn GP like the rest of us!
according to OKC fans though Lu Dirt’s incidents are purely incidental 😭😭😭
“He just shoots that way”
I remember the okc dallas threads lol
someone in this post just replied with that you can’t make ts up 🥀🥀
I was losing my mind watching this guy vs the Mavs in 2024, all series long he was trying to clearly reinjure Luka who was already hobbling, playing like a football player while flopping on the defense end. Like I still vividly remember when he tried to flop on a screen vs Kyrie and Luka and Kyrie both did the same “hands what the fuck is this” emote or when Luka hit PJ for the corner 3 and Dort flopped and Luka just kept telling the ref to T him up motioning it and the ref going “shake head..no no”.
OKC fans tried to convince me he wasn’t flopping or fouling tho. If he defended SGA the way he did Luka he would fouled out every game by the 2nd quarter..
“b-b-but draymond greeeeen”
This is as dangerous as deliberately jumping into a shooter’s landing space. Should be fined
Exactly. If not allowing the shooter to land is a foul/flagrant then the defender has allowed to land somewhere too.
And Dort is also known to do the “step forward” move after his jump shot, so he puts his foot into the defenders landing space.
How is anyone supposed to block a shot if the defender can’t even land within a 3 foot circumference of the shooter anymore? Might as well just leave 3 point shooters wide open. NBA needs to fix this.
Honestly feel like Dort is the worst flopper in the league. He doesn’t get the same volume as a lot of the other guys, but he makes his touches count.
He gets bonus points for his flopping on both sides of the court too. Most guys can only dream of that kind of 2-way flopping talent
I’ve never seen a player flop so much in my life on defense, the guy hasn’t tried to go around a screen without flopping in years lmao
For someone who fouls so shamelessly when he’s playing defense, his flopping looks twice as egregious
Yea part of it is his build. Dude is stocky and strong af so when he flops it looks comically obvious especially compared to when he plays actual defense and can be a brick wall at times lol
what were the calls they made for these? i didn’t see these until now how disgusting
First one was a foul called on the spurs but overturned to a no call on replay. 2nd one was an offensive foul on Dort.
First one I can actually see how it looks like a defensive foul in realtime but very clearly not on replay, second one might be the most blatant leg kickout I’ve ever seen
Second one should be a flagrant lmao
All fun and games playing like this until someones star player gets injured from this shit
Lu Dirt has a list of players hes injured that is way, way too long. He’s previously injured Ja, Brandon Ingram, Harden, PG, and Embiid to name a few. Between insane leg kicks and closing out on the legs of an airborne player hes gotta be one of the most dangerous players in the league.
Literally one is the sneakiest dirtiest players in the league
I still hate that Zaza stole from every fan the opportunity to watch an all time great series with KD Warriors and Kawhi Spurs
It’s basically a trip
Didn’t they implement a “flopping” call? These should both be flopping, verging on flagrant
First one is even more blatant to me lol, he waits like 3 seconds
It’s more for me the second one the Spurs defender was so far away there that Dort had to do a gymnastics split to make contact
This might be the most blatant one, but I am not sure for funniest Aaron Gordon getting called for a foul for getting kicked in the balls in the finals can ever be topped.
That’s an instant flagrant if you’re KAT on the twolves 😤 saw that shit too many times
And he was never that egregious
I’m surprised they got it right. Well, maybe two offensive fouls but close enough lol
they both deserve fines
if im not mistaken the spurs had to challenge the foul so the refs could review it right?
Yes, the “foul” against Wemby was challenged and they overturned it.
Should be a flagrant foul for tripping. If they make the penalties more severe, players will stop, that simple
The world is healing
Both should have been flagrant 1 calls on Dort. He does this shit constantly.
First one was initially called a defensive foul, review overturned it to a no call.
Second was called offensive foul.
It was strange because the first one was more egregious to me because he landed then repositioned his feet
I think the refs called the second solely because the first one went to review and was overturned
Only way to get the refs to do their job is to force them to show you their work
i hate Lu Dork with a passion man, arguably the most shameless player on the thunder
I lost all respect for this man last playoffs when he undercut Ja Morant. I gave him the benefit of the doubt when he was diving onto Luka’s knee and swung his arm on Gafford’s dick but I genuinely believe this man has bad intentions against his peers when things aren’t going their way.
i hate dort but i genuine think he just stumbled and ja did a stupid ass jump
If any Thunder fan ever complain about the “ethical basketball” quote, refer them to this post
They made an entire post in their sub about it after the knicks cup finals win. Talk about rent free. For being the defending champs their fans are fucking losers.
Most people would be losers too if they had to live in Oklahoma LMAO.
I saw one calling Wemby a pathetic, unlikable flopper because of a play where he got hit in the head that game. Got a 60 day ban for trying to point out he literally had a red mark on his forehead when he was shooting free throws for it.
Even then, people still responded saying “he didn’t grab the right spot on his head” and “his head was clearly just grazed, didn’t get hit hard enough to justify his reaction”
Bc they have to live in Oklahoma lol a state known for being last in education lol
Hence why OKC will never get my respect
People wonder why no one likes watching OKC. One of the worst winning teams to watch in a good while
He’s gonna break his leg doing this dumb shit
Or someone’s going to roll their ankle trying to avoid his stuck out leg or landing on said stuck out leg.
Happened to Ingram last year
He would deserve it, honestly
Don’t promise us justice
Deserved tbh
I hope he breaks something first before he injures another player, he’s dirty
Don’t threaten me with a good time
They should make this a flagrant 1
Nope flagrant 2 kick them out immediately. Trying to hurt players and deceive refs. Instant disqualification
Literally we if you are caught trying to deceive refs just remove them from the game or suspension. It will shut things down
Fuck lu dort. Dirt mf has actually been getting reffed the last few games and it’s beautiful.
God bless finchy
If it’s a flagrant to step in someone’s landing zone, tripping a contesting player sideways has to be flagrant as well.
Literally non basketball play
His natural landing space stretches all the way back to OKC
OKC are the biggest bitch team in the league but their fans will always rush on reddit to defend this
Born and raised Tulsan here. So I say this as someone surrounded by Thunder fans. There are too many corny mfs in the OKC fan base. It doesn’t surprise me at all they see nothing wrong with the brand of ball the Thunder play. Don’t get me wrong there are people who just hold their nose and enjoy the wins but there are a TON of corny asses out there defending this shit because they completely ignored the NBA pre 2012.
how can a team be so unlikeable
WTF there are real people defending this shit? It’s the opposite of a defender planting a foot on shooter’s landing
Should be technicals. But Adam silver is a coward and wouldn’t ever want to make basketball a better product.
We can’t just let guys be out there tripping dudes. Injuries are serious shit and hitting the court is how you get hurt. Of course the league has shown they are completely incapable of handling foul-baiting behavior.
imho this should have been flagrant 1 because you can injure someone with that shit
This Thunder team are a group of floppers weak ninja shit.
man you wanna say the n word so bad. “ninja shit” lmao
So tired of this OKC play style
Everyone is sick of SGA’s antics (rightfully so) but it distracts from Dort who is the most unethical flopper in the league.
Marcus Smart flop academy valedictorian
The same D-bag that injured Luka last year with the same bullshit maneuver
Refs encouraged him by blowing that whistle… he’ll do it again… and some people will think it’s good defense…(I’m talking about how he plays in general)
Him and Caruso are both the worst…
Sometimes it’s embarrassing being a Thunder fan…. Man you can’t even defend this shit.
This shit is why your team wins. Rampant shithousery on both ends. Ugly, unethical stuff that makes your team miserable to watch.
It’s a farce.
I honestly can’t stand the Thunder.
I hate whenever he does this shit. It’s so unnecessary and stupid
NFL LB playing basketball
Funniest part is he plays like that and does all this shit then when he trips over his own teammate’s foot the refs immediately stop the game and review Stewart who was 5 feet away for a hostile act. Dude can play physical but don’t you dare even think about being physical back.
These are supposed to be incidental right
If I’m Lu Dort and I know the refs are letting me get away with murder on defense why not try some shit on offense lol
Crickets from Thunder fandom.
What can you say to this? They are hiding.
dirtiest disgusting player in nba history
Should be flagrants man you can hurt someone on an intentional trip like that
I was waiting for someone to post this. Complete chicken shit
This type of shit is so lame man. That’s a grown ass man doing that
Dort did it wrong, NSM means you have to kick the guy in the balls
someone should have stepped on his ankle
Just OKC shit.
Putting other players health at risk
When I have to shout down trading/signing this fuckin clown on the Lakers sub, this is why.
I can’t root for this shit. He legitimately wants to hurt other players.
Good job OP I was hoping someone would post these.
This should be a flagrant on Dort
Thunder fans will see this and think people are just hating.
OKC are loosers. Dirty flopping foul baiters. The OKC fans are the dumbest fans in history of all sports.
“Just leave OKC alone!” 😭
You don’t hate OKC enough
Fuck Lu Dirt.
The Thunder are a bunch of foul baiters and floppers. If Dort ain’t out there playing American Football on defense, he is flopping on offense.
Chris Paul definitely taught him this
Built like a linebacker but he falls over when the wind blows on offense 🤣
Fuck OKC and their flopping ass hoe shit
Tripping another player to injure them. I believe that’s asking for an ass whooping.
This should be investigated and the league should take action (verbal warning) These are dangerous actions as he is trying to clip the defender.
Dort is lucky he has FTA on his team cause it takes attention away from just how much of a little bitch he is
Fuck the thunder! They’ve been doing this garbage for like 4-5 years. Their whole team is overrated as fuck. A whole team of James hardens on one end and Lawrence Taylor’s on the other
I fucking loathe this trash.
That last one is fucking ridiculous lol.
That needs to be a flagrant 1.
Shouldn’t that be a tripping foul on him
Okc fans watch this than wonder why people hate this unwatchable team
Honestly lost so much disrespect for him. Dirty player. Somehow gets away with it.
Classic case of an overly aggressive defense-first player whose offensive abilities have peaked and are starting to degrade
They need to make these 2 shots and the ball for the defense.
Only way to start disincentivizing
All the OKC fans are here trying to do damage control but it is too late. Today they will lose to the Spurs for the third straight time in a week! We will never see them here again. We will finally have peace!
I can’t stand this flopping clown, especially since he loves being physical when he’s on defense
These should be flagrant fouls. If stepping under the shooter is a flagrant, these should be too
He shoulda been called for a foul on the first one
Refs really allowing OKC to get away with whatever they want.
Honestly, they should suspend him for this shit. it’s pathetic.