Deni Advija despite the Loss: 11pts on 3⁄14, 5 Turnovers, and 0/7 from Three
I still think he is really talented but when he is not getting the whistle he wants he becomes so passive.
Jaden McDaniel’s defense certainly played a role tonight as well.
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Still second in the NBA in free throw attempts which is crazy to me.
How you create an all star. Call crazy fouls for them so the defense has to sag off. Now they’ve got plenty of space to operate like its a half speed scrimmage.
… I’m not even gonna say what I want to say
Then they’ve already won.
I fear they won before I was born
It was a Jewish dr
Have you watched him play? He generates rim pressure like crazy. I don’t even like the dude but the FT attempts sounds about right
“Generates rim pressure.”
You mean he runs at guys, throws his body at them and hopes to get a call?
Deni has a right to defend himself
A kid is looking outside a window!
Yeah but he’s like… technically moving in the vicinity of the rim so it’s real basketball or something!
I always hate these comments. Coaches at every level want guys who are fast strong and unafraid to attack the basket. Deni is relentless at getting to the paint. He is not flailing for calls or flopping
Ain’t he like third in drives while being tall and strong and fast?
I don’t get this drives narrative drives have the same correlation to free throws as field goal attempts why are people so focused on drives
“Have you watched him play? He generates rim pressure like crazy. I don’t even like the dude but the FT attempts sounds about right”
Yes I have watched him play he gets more free throws then he does because he does the same Jimmy bump move foul bait a lot he should keep doing it because it works but he is a foul baiter
Also leads the league in and ones to back that up
Ok foul baiter doesn’t= only depend on free throws
McDaniels absolutely clamped him
I’d say the entire Timberwolves.
You didn’t let him go 1-on-1, you always made sure Naz Reid or Gobert came to help.
Deni got fouled in the Blazers first possession by Edwards, and it seems the Timberwolves changed their defensive scheme about him right away.
The Denicide experience
The Denicide 💀💀💀
this actually made me chuckle… I am referring to him by this from now on
It’s too bad people just don’t understand how great he is, they should really just get educated……
this is a reference to what he said about how people need to get educated on what’s happening in the Middle East right?
bc even if he wasn’t also a shitty person his foul baiting is so annoying i would be stunned if anyone outside of Blazers fans said this unironically lol
Yes, I’m among his biggest haters
Don’t downvote this man he’s quoting the baby killer himself
I assumed the combination of such an insane statement with like a 10 period ellipses would be adequate, but there’s so many unironic cheerleaders of genocide on this site saying much more unhinged shit that I guess I shouldn’t be surprised
I guess take the downvotes as a small win in this case
Shai Gilgeous-Apartheid
Shai-sis
Jaden shut him down. I always try to remember that this wolves team had the second best rated defense 2 years ago.
best rated, we were far ahead of everyone else in terms of drating.
OKC just obliterated that from everyone’s mind last season.
Yeah, fuck OKC. They’re a flash in the pan. Fuck OKC. Bring back the sonics.
For what it’s worth, you guys got robbed by the Mavs in the WCF. They were also fun to watch when Luka and Kyrie on the court
‘Blazers fan coming in peace🤓 Fuck OKC and fuck my wife! Your guys always play with joy, take my updoot and reddit on!!’
People still don’t understand what “despite” means
I think it’s a joke referencing his recent good game “despite the loss”
“Despite the (blank)” is rapidly becoming almost as bad as “(Blank) with the huge 3 to cut the lead to (obscene number),” I’ve seen “despite the win” “despite the loss” “despite the triple double”
I feel like I see it used wrong all the time on here but that would make sense
It is a joke, it’s the point
It’s on porpoise
Whale if you really think about it
People still don’t understand what “sarcasm” means
Could have just said in
Without doubt Demi is the most free throw made player I’ve ever seen in my life.
Literally barrels head first into defenders and nothing else
what makes deni worse than every other guy who gets fouls is all those other guys have a plan b if they dont get fouls
This comment is Jimmy Butler erasure
Deni is seemingly following in his footsteps but for the longest time Jimmy was by far the most egregious example of a guy who only starts taking “regular” shots when the whistle has loosened up
Jimmy in his prime had the plan b of tough shot making (see both finals runs), drive and kick, etc.
That’s bs, prime Jimmy was absolutely elite especially in the playoffs
He leads the league in and ones
No he doesn’t.
Luka does.
He passes to bricklayers
Jaden had him clamped.
Deni Avdija may be a really bad person, but you can’t deny that he’s also a pretty bad basketball player
Jaden is Deni’s father
Deni is extremely over rated. His game depends on refs bailing him out. When he’s not getting the softest whistle in the game, he has no game.
Going to battle the back injury the rest of the season unfortunately. When he kept shooting short then had the wrap on it he was pretty much cooked.
When he don’t have the FTs his game is pretty garbage
Mr Buck Buck in shambles.
F the occupying entity
“They got *insert name here*, but we got JADEN MCDANIELS”
He’s going to give himself whiplash one of these days trying to get a foul call. Can’t respect his style
interesting, i think he isnt talented and only gets points because the free throws he gets
All star
You don’t say “despite the loss” when it was a bad performance
Jaden mcdaniels
man ass when he doesnt get his foul calls
Bum
Jaden was on one tonight
He faced the best shutdown defender in the league in Jaden McDaniels.
It happens, he’ll learn.
Props to Jaden, he’s an insane defender, really ridiculous how versatile he can defend and be an overall pest.
This guy is ass. For what his beliefs are the nba didn’t penalize him the way Kyrie was tasked to do side quest. Surreal.
Not even a lick of player Kyrie is.
DESPITE?!
This guy should be thanking the lord every day that Kawhi was unofficially ineligible for an All-Star reserve spot
Who is the most hated player on /r/nba, Deni Advija, Danny Wolf, Damontas Sabonis, Ben Saraf, or Amar’e Stoudemire?
Yikes..
Talentless hack
I think you nailed it. His game is to dependent on foul baiting. Like Trey Ypung Deni doesn’t just draw fouls, drawing a foul is frequently his goal.
He’s really one of the worst players in the NBA so overrated. Complete Trash.
Talentless piece of shit
MVP MVP
Man it’s wild how much hate this up and coming player who just made his first all star team gets, people acting like he’s a seasoned veteran getting clamped up year after year, some people even celebrating when he gets injured.
He is up and coming for sure, but he has also played for 6 seasons in the nba and 4 more in Israel. 10 years as a pro is a seasoned veteran
He’s a veteran for sure by basketball standards I was more alluding to perennial 30 year old all star guy and didn’t word it right.
Yeah, because he’s Israeli.
That performance was Gaza
Is actually insane how much the entire Reddit community someone watches a collective zero games from portland but hates Deni because of his ethnicity and legal responsibility from his country.
He had no legal responsibility. He had an athletic exemption but decided to serve in the defense forces anyway
He is hated for his loyalty to a regime. Is that wrong? Maybe, you can decide for yourself. But it’s not specific to one country. Plenty of Russian athletes get the same criticism.
When do Russian athletes get the same criticism?
I mean it’s a Google search. The exemption didn’t mean he didn’t have to serve, you are being intentionally vague using that definition.
Idk how you differentiate when folks are born into circumstances like that. Presumably his entire family , everything he’s known disagrees with your world view.
I don’t agree with his politics either, but it doesn’t negate the obsession in this sub with him.
There are teenagers in jail in Israel for choosing not to serve. No one is going to hate them because of where they were born. You always have a choice, contributing to genocide and a decades-long regime of ethnic supremacy is never something you HAVE to do. You always have agency.
It’s easy to ask people halfway across the world to go to prison to take a stand meanwhile the US funds that very same country and none of us have to sacrifice anything
Not supporting Israel at all btw
Yeah, none of us have to sacrifice, but again, many of us make the choice to. Many students across the country last year were expelled, suspended, and disciplined from their schools for protesting and taking stands against their tax dollars and their educational institutions being implicated in genocide. Stop making excuses. If you don’t like what’s going on you can play a role in the fight for it to stop. You have agency.
idk what point your trying to make
anyone that wants the Israelis not to join the army
also do not want the US government funding Isreal.
Well yeah but we are shitting on Deni who did not have to serve. Those teenagers who would get thrown in jail are not who I’m gonna harp on
This is all I’m saying like be a multi millionaire or rot in prison; don’t tell me anyone is not taking the former
there is a difference between disagreeing with someone’s politics, and them actively contributing to an apartheid regime (and, when enlisting, being proud to join the israeli defence forces) and continuing to support said regime once it escalated to genocide.
whether or not to bomb a children’s hospital is not a “difference in politics”. it is a difference in whether or not you value human life. i do. deni avdija, through his continued support of the israeli defence forces, does not.
if he doesn’t want people to hate him for contributing to genocide, he shouldn’t contribute to and support a genocide.
I just hate him because MrBuckBuck loves him so much
nah its actually wholly deserved anyone in any country is capable of criticizing their government.
for example: the Canadian govt is responsible for native american children being murdered.
its not hard. He chose not to take the objectively right side and backs his genocidal government.
You trying to make the two issues equivalent is actually fucking insane
You fail to even comprehend the difference in repercussions.
You aren’t living on the same planet as any rational thinker in this conversation because you have shown you have zero ability to articulate nuance.
I have no idea what you’re talking about. I’m not part of the culture? 🥺
I just don’t like how many free throws he gets. Why are you assuming anything here is about his identity?
Look at the comments. I’m not even defending him as a person, I just think the hate is insane.
People are only responding like that cause you brought up the politics to begin with. If you make people think about the bad stuff then people are gonna respond to that