[Highlight] SGA keeps his 20 point streak alive on the free throw
Lmao 🤣 he definitely wants to get that record, tbf who wouldn’t want to take a record off of wilt freaking chamberlain
No shame in that. Great team play by SGA tonight.
Yeah he was playmaking a lot more then anything the rockets basically went down the anybody but you route by sending at minimum 2 bodies at SGA at all times leaving the corners bare ass open up
Bro no bullshit if OKC could make open 3s regularly he would have had like 12 assists tonight lol. He was finding the open man consistently, shots just weren’t falling. Our 3 point % surprised me tonight
Yeah, he’s getting a lot of hate rn, but he was efficient and that 20 points still lead all scorers
Slugfest of a game
Exactly. Everyone here would do the exact same if they were in Shai’s shoes
Im still trying to get some of those 001s…
SGA played unselfish all night, looking to make the right play instead of worrying about his stats.
He got his 20 in garbage time, but he was obviously more focused on the win than making history, and that’s a big reason why the Thunder were able to win.
tbh he was getting doubled hard and had to pass out of them or split them so he turned it over a lot more than usual. not a great game but was still looking to make the right play
For real. His presence left tons of empty lanes for Dub, Chet, and Ajay. Ajay especially in the 4th.
OKC had all kinds of wide open 3s because of it too. They were too focused on SGA and rightfully so. I like it though because like someone else said, SGA will have to prepare for double teams come playoff time
Wilt stat padded in some games as well in garbage time
Assuming you’re being an ass, you really think he got 100 in a competitive game?
I dont think dudes being an ass. Shai very clearly stat padded this one. They could have left him out of the game. Would i have done the same shit? Absolutely. And everyone in here would do the same lol
I mean he stayed in like 1 minute after Ime pulled the starters? It wasn’t even that crazy.
He was brought back in for it though when he didnt need to be.
Not gonna lie
If my great grandparents hadn’t been malnourished growing up, they deadass could have grown to be 7’2 and dunking like wilt 😪
Wilt played every minute of garbage time. And also non garbage time.
Kept him in after Houston pulled the starters. These kinds of streaks need a little stat padding from time to time.
Literally every star statpads that’s why they are stars
All the top 1% commenters in r/nba do it consistently.
hell nah i’m ethical as shit
Karma merchant
farm raised comments
got ‘em
Lmao
Except the warriors, when Klay and Steph are hot they get pulled out, that’s why 14 3s is the record, and Klay and Stephs career high is not playing the 4th.
…that’s why they’re stars lol?
It wouldn’t be stat padding if his team wasn’t already up 20
If he was like some other players in LA he’d let people blow by him and not have to worry about subbing out
Are you fucking kidding me? It was literally 1 possession after rockets sat their guys down.
These type of threads really show you who watched and who didn’t. People will see this headline and think he didn’t facilitate out of double teams all night long. He only put up 11 shots, wasn’t forcing it and got his team a win. Didn’t even change up his subbing schedule when he was well short of the 20. So IMO yeah, you earned an extra 1 minute on the court after Houston pulled their starters.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Maybe just a little bit. 🤭
Only thing that matters. Called timeout to get him out of the game immediately lol
yall better write that down so yall can discredit him if he breaks the record
Big fat asterisk
Wilt Chamberlain, who always ethically and honorably got his points, would not stand for this
I’m calling the police
Only thing that matters
winning by 20 was pretty nice too
win merchant ( expect that time where he wasn’t)
LeBron level record stat-padding, fair enough.
I was sweating hoping bro got his 20 points.. I can sleep now 😮💨
I didn’t know whether to be happy to be beating Houston by 20 or sad because I was worried Mark would keep him out the rest of the game lol
This subreddit is cancer. Who cares how he kept his streak alive. They won the game and it’s not like he was chucking 20+ fga.
I’m more invested in this streak than winning actual games
Ez statpad for my Canadian prince
Rockets, I think going five minutes without a field goal might’ve been a good way to stop this
Never in doubt
This thread really shows how many people don’t watch games, lol. Houston was triple teaming him, and he had several chances down the stretch to try to get some shots up and force something if he was focused on his scoring, he didn’t. He passed out and the rest of the team absolutely roasted Houston on open looks. SGA took 11 shots.
They stat watch and get all their nba knowledge from reddit and tiktok bro don’t even argue with em
phew, had me worried there. got doubled and tripled all night so scoring was a luxury for him tn
If Shai had one elite shooter on the roster he’d average 11 assists
He was obviously looking to keep the streak at the end there, but this game was actually close until the end (2 point lead at the start of the 4th) and he wasn’t forcing anything. Took what they gave him and played to win until after the game was locked up. He only had 11 FGA, this wasn’t a guy chucking to keep a streak.
Holy shit Jeff Green is still in the league?
I said the same thing when I saw him on the broadcast. Even before they said his name or showed a closeup of him I was like “Holy shit is that Uncle Jeff? He’s still playing??”
Wild
Jeff Green is 39?? Jesus
i’m glad ppl outside of the fanbase, opening their eyes to the bullshit ppl type in this lame ass subreddit… that hate sad asf
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Flair up nuggets fan
You could see him sigh in relief after mark called timeout lmao
I was so scared he wasn’t gonna get it tonight lmao let’s go
As long as they’re winning, I don’t see this as stat padding. It’s just a bonus for him so might as well try to keep that record.
Nasty crossover tho
As was the style at the time.
Got it with his signature shot too
20-point-streak-merchant
wouldn’t have it any other way
Greatest guard scorer ever? Only guy with a longer streak is Wilt
Michael Jordan won the scoring title in every year of his bulls career other than when he got injured in year 2, his rookie year, and the year he came back and played 17 games.
So not close to the greatest scorer ever.
Consistency is also important to factor in… MJ never had so many consecutive 20 point games.
Yes MJ legendary for his inconsistency - 7 scoring titles in a row. 2nd all time in most consecutive double digit scoring games. Never had lower than 15 points in a playoff game in 180 games played.
SGA’s streak is very impressive, but not close to the greatest scorer of all time.
So prophetic
legend
LOL. Of course.
Perfect.
Whew 😰
Ofc
Cool
Houston blitzed the ball screens on him all night and Shai didn’t force the issue. They were pretty successful at getting him off the ball tho and I wonder if the thunder will wind up seeing that more and more often this season.
I doubt it. It didn’t work for winning the game.
Yeah but the thunder role players actually shot well from 3 tn. A worse shooting performance and the game may look different
Part of that was they had a whole landing space of separation because the rockets were focusing too much on SGA
Poetic he kept it going with a garbage time FT.
Good
MVP
He was 16 points and then he was given 5 straight fts. Fucking unreal
Of course it came on a FT
I was stressing. Him getting that 20 was more entertaining than this game. lol
Free throw merchant
Why would he not care about the record tho?
Who wouldn’t want him to go for the record?
How fitting.
He’s now 15 games away from passing Wilt’s record.
Lakers fan relax
Yeah he should’ve been like your man and ice his team out in the first quarter by taking all the shots so he can frontload his points early
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good fawking own big bro🤣😭
Why you getting so pressed over a comment
I dont blame him this is r nbas version of chinese water drop torture..
One comment alone is whatever.. seeing the same thing semi consistently is bothersome. Seeing it in every post is gonna make someone crash out eventually lmao
Lebron never stat padded for TEN points
Maybe they shouldn’t have fouled the shit outta him hahah
I know the Lakers fan isn’t talking lol. Didn’t your boy score 34 points on 17 free throws not too long ago?
“We” need to stop celebrating cumulative streaks so this embarrassing shit can stop. Forces it multiple plays in a row then coach calling TO right after he hit 20 lmao
What’s embarrassing about the Thunder whopping the Rockets and sga keeping his streak alive?
it’s so easy to know which team you’re a fan of
The fans paid to watch him play, not sit on the bench