That goes against my narrative I’m refusing to reference this L2M report.

Gilgeous-Alexander does not overtly jump towards Larsson to initiate the contact

The Party asked you to reject the evidence of your eyes

Gilgeous-Alexander does not overtly jump towards Larsson to initiate the contact

In what world is this statement in any way accurate? Of course that’s exactly what he did.

It is a downvote parade in this thread god damn lol.

I think that sort of play should be an offensive foul, but it’s consistently called a defensive foul so far or a no call. First time I’ve seen it called an offensive. It’s the consistency and how suspect refs can be that bothers me in general. Maybe I’m too schizo from my tinfoil hat but it’s hard to trust refs / the league with how in bed they are with gambling.

But tbh thunder fans probs a good thing to lose cause no way you can be outrebounded so the other team has 34 more shots and the team thinks it’s okay

I feel like they are gaslighting us because is it not clear that sga definitely veers into him? Like Larsson would not have contacted him if sga doesnt lean in. Unless there’s an angle i didn’t see.

Over/under 200 how many upvotes does this post gets

Oh, ok. Just take it off the rulebook then. Bro was leaning more than Michael Jackson in Smooth Criminal.

L2M feeling the pressure from Draft Kings

“Does not overtly jump towards Larsson to initiate the contact.” They think we don’t have eyes?

Lot of ppl have Thunder Derangement Syndrome?

Not the first time that the L2M has been blatantly wrong and it won’t be the last.

top five anime betrayal?

Now the league is just straight up gaslighting us. We all know what we saw. By the letter of the written and video rulebook, that was an offensive foul (as are MANY others that go uncalled every single game).

They were supposed to start cracking down on those type moves 4 years ago and that rule just got quietly buried and forgotten about. Enforce your fucking rules as they’re written or just take the rule out completely.

L2M report straight capped Larson was at the side of him and he jumps into him at the side pretending to act like thats his natural shooting motion

“Overtly” is the new marginal

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It was obviously a foul according to the rules right now. A lot of bullshit people don’t like really need the rules to change, in particular regarding what’s considered a “legal guarding position.”

Ever since Finch got tossed the new meta to deal with the difficult rules is to go crazy over every foul call even if it’s obviously correct and put the refs under pressure.

Really the league could have curbed things a little years ago but they wanted more scoring.

Wow, telling straight up lies in the face of video evidence really is fashionable in America right now, huh?

I watched it. SGA clearly jumps into him. Is the NBA really trying to gaslight us with the L2M?

We take those

The makeup calls over the next 2 months are gonna go crazy

theres no offensive fouls in ba sing se

Rulebook vs L2M is the new Magic vs Bird

L2M reports basically exist just to piss us all off now.

Once a week there’s a game decided by a single play where the league just goes “looks like we picked a whole bouquet of oopsie daisies on this one team!!! The other team should have won I guess, oh well 🤷”

[SGA] does not overtly jump towards Larsson to initiate the contact.

Did they watch the same video?

Well that’s textbook gaslighting 

It’s funny because the entire thread is literally hundreds of people attacking him and attempting to justify a clearly incorrect call.

Just another example of the group thinking and hive mind when it comes to SGA on here.

Boo hoo

Maybe this league sucks?

The rules as they’re enforced sure do. What would it take? SGA doing a Psycho Crusher into Larsson?

So they’re never making that call again. Great

I don’t want to live in a world where the “correct” call is a defensive foul on that play. The nba needs to fix this shit man

The one where he jumped sideways with his elbow out? wtf?

Oh no

anyways

Next time don’t waste your challenge before

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Refs grew a spine and the league rejected it.

Fuck Adam Silver.

The L2M has never been wrong before

There is a reason I barely watch the nba anymore.

You know the thunder fans are crying in their sub right now about this.

L2m remains a joke, apparently

In other news, the NBA is now an exhibition and not a sport. Globetrotters versus Generals but with more teams and fewer funny names. 

>does not overtly jump towards Larsson to initiate the contact

As if the NBA call these an offensive foul on a regular basis lmao

The nba and the refs try to be dumb I swear. If that’s what they see in this play then they really are lost.

Just in case we didn’t already know refs glaze the fuck out of SGA, they go and release this report just to inform everyone

I mean, I will admit that it was a natural shooting motion for SGA. Completely unnatural shooting motion for everyone else on the planet, but he in particular is allowed to do that because he does it on every play so therefore it’s his “natural” shooting motion

And a norm Powell backcourt violation

Lmao a 6 point swing in a 2 point loss in the last 2 minutes

Man this sub is so miserable

The tires were turned!

I remember an OKC challenge that didn’t go our way and the opposing team missed their free throws. OKC fans were commenting “ball don’t lie” or some noise like that and there were SO many people just hammering them because “the ref reviewed it so it must be right.” I wonder where those people are tonight.

I mean yeah it was completely inconsistent with the way that play had been officiated for years now, but whatever

Stupid ref reviewed a good call. No change to outcome, SGA was acting like Trey Young 2022 in that moment.

I personally don’t care. The rule is wrong and it detracts from the game.

lol

Thunder fans are easily the biggest whiners among fanbases in the league. If they could complain directly in front of league officials, they probably would.

How is it not overt?

I used to pray for days like this

The NBA wants to pump the OKC Cowfuckers up and make us think they’re a dynasty. They turned SGA from a decent player to an unstoppable superstar. Fuck that dude

I don’t feel like there was a good enough camera angle to capture how far to the right SGA may have jumped to get the contact. I was watching it live and assumed the foul would be on the defender. I was shocked to see the call. Larsson really tried to fly by to his left to avoid contact. SGA clearly leaned a little right to ensure the contact. But was it egregious enough to call? I’m not really sure.

NBA straight up lying again lol. SGA literally leaned and jumped to his right instead of jumping up and forward. They’re literally gaslighting us

NBA is a scam

NBA L2M report is not really trustworthy. Among other things they need to add a way of indicating that a particular call is close enough that it is up to ref’s judgement among other things, since there are times that two almost identical plays are called different ways in different games and the L2M report backs up both, which makes it inconsistent, and thus untrustworthy.

There are calls that are deemed to be judgement calls where if it was under review it would stand as called on the court no matter how it was called, the L2M report should reflect this, not just say a controversial call was absolutely correct like it does in a lot of cases

The NBA needs to incorporate the External review process like the nfl is doing. Let the seecockus refs pause the game and change a call if it’s wrong. 2 challenges for about 5 wrong calls a game is absurd

Calls going in favor of SGA: 1000+
Calls going against SGA: 1

I hate the NBA because they don’t even know their own rules. What’s a foul? What’s a travel? What’s a gather step? What’s an illegal screen? What’s a back court violation? Etc etc. They literally have video examples of calls on their site that get ignored EVERY SINGLE GAME.

Shocker

L2M - We accidentally didn’t call that bullshit for once our bad let us go get our kneepads okc xoxo

womp womp

Oh well. Guess Daigneault shouldn’t have wasted his challenge earlier. Refs miss calls, happens to every team, if sga had just tried to get a regular shot instead of trying to foul bait he probably makes it and the thunder win.

lol they just know how annoying okc fans will be with this info. That’s why they did it

“Sorry sga that was a mistake from the rookie,dont worry keep doing it we’ve got your back”

NBA fans complain about rules, but they never take into account all the rules pertaining to the said incident. There are rules for offense and defense, the minute Larson jump he is no longer in a “LEGAL GUARDING POSITION”. The moment he jumped towards Shai it is considered “RECKLESS MOVEMENT”. In both circumstances he is in violation of rules to play proper defense and is at a disadvantage because majority of calls will favor the offensive player. I’ve had discussions with people before and they still think that the NBA is wrong when it’s “THEIR RULES”, which really baffles my mind.

I’m not even mad about the loss (shit happens, we lost for all sorts of other reasons too), but this thread is a hilarious window into how tilted the online nba fandom has gotten about anything SGA.

Nothing on Chet getting hit in the face on the last rebound ?

Honestly, person at fault here coach Daigneault for wasting the challenge earlier. Whatever tho, learn and grow 

The offensive foul call.

I got plenty of unjustified hate for the title, but it was totally worth it.

Yea tbh I was more slighted by the backcourt violation. Thought the offensive foul was iffy, but the backcourt was obvious.

Before anyone jumps on us, yea the refs missed Ajay’s backcourt vs the Rockets, that doesn’t mean we should be punished for that. We didn’t benefit from that violation as we won comfortably, the Heat arguably won the game off of it.

R/nba sees something against their narrative - down voted into oblivion.

We don’t care what the l2m says. The standard on the bullshit shai does has been messed up for a long time now. So of course the l2m claims it “wasn’t a foul”

some degenerates never played ball🤣🤣 man if you leave your feet as a defender you’re at the mercy of the shooter!!!! it’s basketball man🤣

Hilarious looking at that thread last night and seeing the top 50 comments calling it an obvious foul and an easy call lmaooooo