Mark Daigneault: “Lu acknowledged the play was unnecessary. I don’t think my (postgame) comments, if I’m being honest, helped. The timing of them was insensitive.”
He looks like a character out of peaky blinders that would turn on Thomas Shelby
Do what to Thomas Shelby
You heard them
TIL I’m Thomas Shelby
Did he stutter?
“Fook you jokic”
Tommy Shelby would never say such a thing to his number one fan
I always thought he looked like a Caucasian Antonio Banderas
FYI Caucasian is a misnomer. Caucasian people are from the Caucuses not white.
Steve Kerr would never
Rule 1 of the code: never diminish the sanctity of the code
Rule 2 of the code: never admit that your guy broke it.
Rule 3: you haven’t even seen it yet
Rule 4: “who the fuck is Kuminga?”
RULE 1 OF POPO’S TRAINING
Incredibly Kerr still hasn’t seen it
Kerr wouldn’t have seen it
Honestly good on him for walking it back, lot of people wouldn’t bother
Buttering up the refs so we can have the whistle in the postseason. That’s my coach /s
This is only about him hoping to protect Shai. If he continued to say that was a legitimate basketball play teams will take note and the come around isn’t projected at a glorified bench player like Dort.
He never said it was a legitimate basketball play
“They’re just great competitors” is pretty close to
No it’s not. Its just mark being his normal correct self. He owned up a mistake, thats all
“his normal correct self” is so annoying
He made a mistake and owned up to it. The fuck else do you want lmao
Because it’s the truth. He never engaged in this sort of stuff and he is pretty tame. He talked some bullshit and owned up to it
Could it be both?
Nobody was saying this shit about steph lol so weird
Boooo
Mark is pretty level-headed. I was shocked when he made the comment about expecting flagrants and what not.
This seems more on brand, and anyone sane knows that the leg move was indefensible, even if you truly believe the arguments about Jokic playing a little dirty.
It also doesn’t help that they did not show the replay of jokic getting tripped at the arena (which is wild), so anyone watching it in person was getting gaslit from the Jumbotron
Yeah I was there and had no clue what happened, I was up pretty high and no one around me knew why Lu was ejected
Heat of the moment, coach backed up his guy even if he knew he was wrong. I don’t really have much of a problem with it.
Yeah, same. Just shocked because there have been times I’ve wanted him to back our guys where he stayed quiet.
As someone who rlly doesn’t like okc. Him coming out with this statement is very mature and a stand up move. I really respect mark and think he’s a good coach and honestly backing up his player in the moment but coming back later and acknowledging it was wrong is something I’d love to see from my coach. Respect!!!
Yeah I mean regardless what you think of Jokic, there’s no possible justification of a trying to injure someone with a non-basketball play. I assume Daigenault was trying to back his players with that comment, but the point he was making didn’t even make sense (and was obviously terribly timing).
Look, it was a dumb play. Maybe deserved a flagrant 2. But saying he was trying to hurt him is a bit silly.
yeah after all hes only tried to hurt like 10 or 15 guys so far, definitely doesnt have a track record
What was he doing, then, if not trying to hurt him? What the fuck else are you trying to do away from the ball when you put your body weight directly into someone’s knee while they’re mid-stride?
Have you never played sports? He was just fucking with him. Hip checks happen all the time. This one was egregious but you can’t just say he was out to injure him. He didn’t put his whole body weight on his knee, Jesus.
Yeah, I’ve played a lot of sports, as well as coached. Everything you just said is wrong, and completely absent of knowledge of how human physiology works. That could have easily resulted in serious injury to Jokic ESPECIALLY considering it was already a sore knee.
Just because something could have happened doesn’t mean it was Dort’s intention for it to happen. That’s not how intention works. Let’s hope you’re not a lawyer.
Let’s hope you don’t work in any field that requires you to have education past high school.
I’m a knee doctor and Jokic will be fine. If Dort intended to hurt him, he’d be hurt.
https://streamable.com/3os9e9
God your players are pieces of shit.
It’s mostly dort and occasionally Caruso, I wouldn’t throw the whole team under the bus.
Honestly I talked too much shit about Draymond to defend dort. If I thought Draymond was dirty then so is dort.
anyone sane
some of your fellow okc fans must not be sane. some folks were going hard in the paint
Every fan has its nutcases. Heck, I’m insanely biased and irrational when we play. It happens.
A coach comes out and takes accountability for something he regrets saying and the comments predictably are dumping on him/saying he has an ulterior motive.
sigh
Well I already decided he’s a bad guy, so any new information must confirm my priors or it’s not worth anything to me. I’m smart btw.
Classic unfalsifiable narrative. If he dismisses it, he’s an asshole; if he owns up to it, he’s a disingenuous asshole. Some people just want to hate.
This is our political system and how everything in the world works btw
“I’d like to invite Coach Adelman to the March 20th taping of the Maury Povich show so we can really hash this one out for good.”
Getting harder to hate this team tbh. Respect the accountability, Dort’s a good enough player that he doesn’t need the gross hip checks.
Still think the comments saying Dort is worse than Draymond all-time were a holy overreaction but I do wish he just stops playing like a dumbass sometimes to really take on the accountability
Someone should remind him his defense on prime Harden as a rookie is what people recognized in his game in the first place
No one said that lmao
There is a whole post in this sub with several comments discussing exactly that
Draymond is emotional, Dort is calculated. I would argue Dort is indeed worse because he’s trying to cause maximum damage to the most valuable players, also in the most disgustingly sneaky ways. Draymond at least doesn’t have a plan going in, just gets angry and bullies smaller people, but at least he’s mostly overt about it.
Yeah man he totally didn’t mean to kick Steven adams in the nuts twice in the same playoff series 💀
He totally meant to do it, but you’re missing the point. Draymond throws tantrums and hits people in the moment, while Dort intentionally tries to injure people in an almost premeditated way. Sliding a foot in someone’s landing space or aiming to take out someone’s knee is completely different than getting mad and throwing hands.
Nah, Draymond is intentional in a ton of his dirty shit, lots of it is very calculated. Just, he is also a raging dick that has the emotional control of a teenager so when he loses control he goes way further.
So stomping someone on the chest or choking them is better if you did it cause you were emotional, got it
Lmao I’m not commenting on dort/draymond specifically but tbh a lot of crimes are treated worse if someone is calculated vs doing it in the heat of passion (e.g. premeditated or not)
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Fans of the team the controversial player plays on dont see him in the same light as fans of other teams?
Well color me shocked!
I agree, but I also don’t think you’re giving Dort enough credit for his career
My comment had no bearing on his career
My point is that the only people who ever are in the corner of a player who does what Dort does are the fans of the team said player is on.
Yeah, fair
As a Nuggets fan I was pissed about his postgame comments, but you have to give it to him for owning that. Steve Kerr could take some notes.
As someone who doesn’t like okc, this is very respectable. He stood up for his player in the moment, then came back and acknowledged it was wrong. This is what you want to see from a coach. As much as I don’t like okc, I’ve always thought mark is a stand up guy.
Accountability merchants
What is this in reference to?
Dort tripping Jokic in the last nuggets - thunder game
Oh. Lmao. Kind of late isnt it?
They’re playing again tonight so I imagine this is just a response to a reporter at the pregame press conferences?
WAIT THEY ARE PLAYING AGAIN TONIGHT??? I ALMOST MISSED IT DAMN THANKS RANDOM REDDITOR
Starts in like 50 mins bro
omg i didnt know they’re playing again tonight. im going to tune it for sure
Cracks me up when people act like these clickbait quotes are unprompted.
I wonder if the fans who were so adamant on Reddit that it wasn’t a dirty play will reconsider now that even Dort it saying it was
blah blah blah, fuck this guy and FUCK LU DORT.
Mark is a stand up guy so I’m not surprised he took the chance to clean this one up. Presti has built a team of guys with incredible character and that’s why we’re successful. Dort admittedly is the one who just can’t seem to help himself sometimes
Still. Fuck Lu Dort.
Lots of whiny Thunder fans in here. Objectively Lu Dort is a dirty player. Case closed.
Yes that’s right, Mr. Bean
That’s a funny way of saying “I’m a clown”
He’ll be sure to send you a fruit basket
Let’s see how MF react to this statement. Surely it won’t cause an uproar for a game that was played a week ago
I don’t like him any better than Dort.
From some of the comments you’ve left in this sub I don’t think you like basketball at all. Just the drama that accompanies it
This guy fucking sucks and his persona is indicative to the degradation of basketball discourse on the internet
There are a lot of people on bball subs that are only in it for the drama and the memes lol, and they’re typically pretty easy to spot
Thanks for letting us know
OKC has Cobra Kai written all over it. Daigneault probably told Dort to sweep the leg. Team is full of grifters, including the coach.
I’m not a martial arts expert but isn’t sweeping the leg a pretty standard move in karate?
Do you not get the movie context? Daniel was fighting on a bad leg because of a dirty move and the sensei tells the fighter to sweep the leg because he knows that his best chance at winning…even if entirely unsportsmanlike.
Oh. Never seen the movie, only watched the Netflix series.
Sweep the leg comes from the 80s OG.
No question that he drills them on flopping.
So because it’s Jokic everyone has to apologize gtfoh
Nah people straight up took his statement out of context. Mark never said Lu was faultless, in fact he’s called out Lu for being too reckless in the past. His only point was if J-Will or Caruso got tripped in the same manner, he’s expecting a flagrant 2 to be called as well.
“tripped in the same manner” is quite the undersell
Saying what he said obviously was in defence of what Dort did, and wrong. Deignault acknowledges that and soft apologises here, which is great. Accepting you are wrong is the sign of a good man. Nothing noble about standing your ground if that ground is rotten.
Saying what he said obviously was in defence of what Dort did, and wrong.
My only point is Mark never said Lu was faultless, I think the statement got blown way out of proportion & wildly misinterpreted
You think Mark is wrong when he says it was poorly timed and insensitive?
Of course not, it isn’t mutually exclusive.
Then what are you saying nah to?
I don’t personally believe it was insensitive or poorly timed but clearly most people do, so by consensus Mark is correct
So you do think Mark is wrong about his own comments.
I mean if he wants to apologize for it that’s up to him. Just didn’t seem like a huge deal to me
Coach and Lu are both apologising pretty thoroughly for 2 guys on a team of dirty hitmen
Is that what youre hearing? Because what I heard is he acknowledged what he and dort did was wrong, but nowhere in there was an apology.
Anything short of “I’m sowwy” ain’t good enough, imho.
Well you said they apologized and they didn’t. Stop moving the goal post.
I didn’t even realize I said that. My bad dawg.
Amazing what 100k people calling you a douche bag will do.