Shai in the 4th Quarter tonight, 14 Points on 7/8FG and 0FTS
With this wild week Shai has had and having the most clutch points this whole season, is Shai a lock for the clutch player of the year award?
Clutch af in the 4th but the top thread tonight will be Jaylen Brown being salty.
Same guy that was struggling to hit shots all game and resorted to spear diving into the paint for free throws š
Nearly doubled up SGA’s attempts
I donāt think shai even attempted any free throws in the second half. He only attempted two is the last three quarters. He didnāt have a great whistle tonight. Brown did.
Its ridiculous. The Celtics shot more free throws than OKC and Brown himself shot nearly as many as our entire roster but people will instead complain about the obvious foul on Chet and act like the NBA and US government are behind a massive conspiracy to make OKC a dynasty
A conspiracy favoring the major market Oklahoma City Thunder
OKC market = Too big to fail
Literally can’t go tits up!
This is what makes Thunder “rigging” complaints hilarious.
Thunder are damn near the smallest market in the NBA and are only saved by the fact that they’ve had a whole bunch of top level stars for the past 15 years.
BUT they do have more IG followers than the Cowboys or the Yankees.
Relax , when reddit hate on you ,you are winning .
Who are you arguing with? š¤£
and that dude had 14 FTs today
As a fan of Vini and SGA, Iāve started blocking those accounts that post videos of them for the hopes of having comments hate on them. My feed is definitely much more quieter now though but Iāll rather it be that than be rage baited by them
The top thread about jb right now is him putting like a gallon of butter on his popcorn. Guess popcorn is also salty but it could have been saltier. Though I guess you’re right as that foul complaint is definitely going to pass it so it “will be” the top in thread. F.
I doubt it. I know as a Celtics fan I feel good about this matchup in June if it happens.
Itāll be fun. Pritchard is infuriatingly good.
One might say a TJ McConnell doppelgƤnger. lol.
This is some next level ragebait. I’m successfully baited, what an absurd comparison hahaha
TJ in the finals absolutely destroyed anyone OKC threw at him take it as a compliment lmao
Pritchard was ass today lol
Hes crazy because he will miss open looks and he went 3⁄4 on end of shot/quarter/game clock shots. Man is cracked at those scenarios
I feel good about this matchup if it happens. No Hartenstein allowed Boston a whole lotta second chance points to stay close
Weāve all been assuming the thunder get healthy when the playoffs come around but thereās a real possibility it doesnāt happen. A lot of key players missing games.
J dub is ready to go but they’re being cautious and hartenstien has a minor injury. They’re closer than you think
Thunder have been blessed by health for almost 3 years (when it matters). Eventually there will be a regression to the mean. Or no, MJ dynasty was weirdly healthy
We got a J to come back too, man. I feel more gooder about this matchup š¤
Celtics arent getting past the knicks
Both teams fully healthy would be a fun series
Okc is 4-1 over celtics since 2024 fwiw for this season [not much]
Dunno, if anythingh i like the matchup more than spurs or denver, boston is very good but i dont think it forces mismatch problems with size like those two do
Boston is about the only EC team that I’ll buy this statement from.
I have never seen a midrange so automatic since MJ.
heās so surgical late game with the middy itās ridiculous
Heās still getting betterā¦
his fg% is insane. Idk why people are soo fixated on his fts when his fg% is soo high on good volume. He’d be elite even if didn’t get any free throws.
sixth highest ts% in the league when everyone above him is a run and dunk center (other than jokic) while hes a guard who averages 30 points a game and creates most of his shots
Nearly 80% unassisted and leads unassisted FGs by a wide margin this year. Read on a thread in r/thunder that his unassisted field goal total this year is more than any player’s entire total outside of the top-17 guys in FGM. Unreal shot creation.
I mean Jokic is still a center. His efficiency as a guard is unprecedented.
Jokic doesnāt play like a normal center though, he actually has a lower expected shot percentage than SGA
shot difficulty
I would like to see how this is calculated tbh, I’m not a fan of expected statistics for single seasons but I’ll look more into it. If this is accurate though, holy shit Luka takes shit shots.
Luka takes a lot of 3s which have a lower percentage so it isnāt as bad as it looks as 3s are worth 50% more points
Yeah but according to that list, which I don’t fully trust tbh, he takes awful 3pt shots. You shouldn’t look at FG, that means nothing. It seems like Jokic takes basically the same quality 2pt shots as Shai, which is surprising, with worse quality 3 pointers.
Luka just takes awful shots all around.
his expected 3 point shot is only a couple percent lower than jokic and he takes more logo and contested 3s than jokic.
second lowest expected 3 is curry which makes sense and highest 3 is amen thompson who also makes sense as he is left wide open
They are looking for a reason to not like him. They will say his field goal percentage is so high because people arenāt allowed to guard him or itās a foul. At first I would speak up on it but trying not too cuz itās too draining. Just let them think whatever and enjoy watching greatness. We are watching one of the best guards of all time
The 2 aren’t mutually exclusive, though. All top players flop to an extent, but shai’s are just so egregious. Like eith luka and jokic i get why the refs makes the calls that they do, even though i don’t agree with it and think the rules have to change. With shai, i really don’t get it a lot of the time. That said, he’s still historically great, and still entertaining as hell nevertheless, his fluidity is off the charts
Nobody is looking for a reason to dislike him when he does shit like flop, foul bait and push off right in front of our eyes. It makes it easy to dislike him.
Another one spawns in right on cue
Prove to me I’m wrong then lol You can’t
Talk about case and point lol
Wemby flops more than SGA
He leads the league in field goals made and itās not even close, heās like 60 ahead of Luka whoās second
that’s exactly why people are fixated, cause he obviously doesn’t need to flop to still be a top contender and he does it like a fish on every play anyway
Except he doesnāt. Watch last nightās highlights of all his buckets, just for the sake of your own education. Get back to me with how many times he flopped.Ā
i’ve seen enough games of him kicking his feet out and dropping after every shot, i don’t need to watch the unique game of the bunch
You literally havenāt. Dude basically never kicks his feet out. Itās weird to just totally make shit up. You wouldnāt be so mad at the world if you just actually watched instead of listening to reddit incelsĀ
the dude falls over after any point of contact, you must be rage baiting
I mean, its because he’s so elite without the fts that its frustrating to see him hunt a foul instead of a legit shot attempt.
If you can cook, then let me see you cook.
Well he hunts a foul 2x across 120 possessions? So what? Most players do but only Shai gets hawkeyed for it.
Just as a fun fact based on the quick research I did RealGM tracked MJās midrange % at 51.1% from 91-93, Shai is shooting 52.9% this season as of a week ago which means itās even higher now lol
Shai is at 54.3% in midrange. He shoots 57%! across 10-19 feet.
NBA.com
This is Shaun Livingston erasureā¦
You haven’t watched Kawhi??
SGA is 56.5% vs Kawhi at 50.1% on mid range shots this season. Shai with significantly higher volume (400 vs 295 attempts).
Kawhi does feel like a damn basketball robot that never misses but SGA has been ridiculous.
Oh wow the guy that said HE HAD NEVER seen a midrange since MJ is talking about ONLY THIS season old ass Kawhi vs prime SGA? Y’all so defensive
name checks out
It felt like Dirk post ups. Those were automatic.
KD?
Per nerd sesh guys
In his last two games, Shai has 70 points & 24 assists on 79% TS.
Heās created 131 total points with 12 missed shots & four TOVs.
Heās hit four go-ahead shots in the last two mins.
Dude locked up the MVP over the last 2 games.
131 points created on 12 missed shots and 4 TOs is truly disgusting. These last two games were complete masterclasses in poise and ruthless efficiency
Yeah but did you see how many FTs he sh… Oh.
If someone only watched box scores that would be true.
Anybody that has actually watched a Thunder game knows defenders check out mentally trying to play against Shai and the refs by the end of the game.
Edit: of course the Thunder flair come out in force but disappear on the threads of clips of FTA and coaches and players complaining about it. Im not going back and forth, we all watch the game and its distasteful amd makes for bad TV
Man if your defenders are checking out mentally in a 2 point game against the #1 team in the land, IDK what to tell you other than they don’t deserve to win.
Maybe that’s why the Pistons have been sliding lately
It is what it is, 2 seasons of it will weigh on anybody. I think what gets them is that unlike the Harden experience, players know that whistle doesn’t go away in the postseason now
Tried to tell y’all that last season but people didn’t want to hear it. A team with a negative FT diff will benefit from whistles tightening, not suffer from it.
lol Iām loving the evolution of the excuse
The defenders are totally just disassociating out there bro
They’re just too sad
This is so ridiculous i honestly can’t tell if you are being sarcastic or not
As sarcastic as the coaches and players who say the same thing
NBA players, coaches, and team beat reporters famously never ever salty losers
They are saying they give up in the 4th quarter? Really? Ok buddy š
Youāre a fool if you think defenders guard sga the same way the would another player. They know he has the ultimate whistle so they are conditioned into giving him a lot of space. The only way to not give him free throws is to not even touch him.
I love how people are now coming up with this bullshit narrative since the statistics disprove the fantasies they have about Shais whistle
Are the coaches, media, and players living that same fantasy?
Coaches want to get every call. Finchās always whines and should focus on his team making the playoffs. Mike brown whined and didnāt use a challenge. A lot of coaches give Shai props. Media does it for clicks. Most players respect Shai greatness. A few players come up with excuses cuz they are getting fried.
Have players actually said that they check out because they know they canāt stop Shai? Thatās a soft mentality
bro is still salty that Shai BAKED the pistons last yr
Oh my god.
See through and salty.
If you genuinely think professional athletes think like this during a game i dont know what to tell you.
Played with some in my life and they are all the most irrationally confident and insanely competitive people you will ever meet, that thought just doesnt exist to a guy like that.
Jesus christ the Thunder fans replying to you have cooked brains.
Unanimous MVP
idk about unanimous MVP bro
Stop it. It should be unanimous. This man has been head and shoulders above everyone this season
Jokic was leading the MVP race before the month-long injury. He was legitimately having a better season than his 2024-2025 season which was fucking crazy. Shai is also having a better season than his previous season and is most certainly the MVP, but lets not be dishonest.
No he wasn’t. SGA was the betting odds favorite the day before Jokic went down with his injury.
He’s been the frontrunner all season.
Am I going crazy or are you just another Thunder fan? They had multiple MVP lead changes between the two of them before the injuries. Y’all don’t remember that Jokic was averaging a 30 point triple double on 70% TS before he got injured? You really don’t think that’s comparable to Shai?
You’re changing your argument now.
You said that Jokic was leading the MVP race before he went down with injury.
He was not.
He had made a resurgence due to a couple of huge games, and SGA had lost multiple games to the Spurs and everyone was second-guessing the Thunder.
So the odds were very close.
But SGA was still the betting favorite even after his poor stretch and Jokic’s strong stretch were factored in.
Brother you have one source from a fox sports odds on a random ass website that says Shai is the front runner. If you do a simple Google search, you’ll see many other odds websites that says Jokic was leading the MVP race multiple times, but that’s besides the point. The main overall argument of the oc was that it would be unanimous for Shai, when it shouldn’t be.
Who do you think should get a first place vote to win the MVP at the end of the season other than SGA?
Keep in mind that Jokic is almost certainly not going to be eligible for the award.
Below is an article with a graph that shows mvp odds throughout the season. Jokic was close to Shai for a few days but never ahead of him. Jokic is awesome so nothing against him but Shai has been the favorite the entire year but it was close in the beginning of December.
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/2026-nba-mvp-odds-favorites-165600141.html
barring an injury why not
A unanimous MVP is really fucking hard to get. It’s not about Shai, or Jokic, or Wemby, or any other player. It’s about the voters.
Thereās time left. Heās been doing some convincing stuff lately.
Who else even compares?
Who compared to 2013 LeBron? Who compared to 2000 Shaq? Who compared to 1988 Jordan?
This isn’t about someone comparing. If that was the case, Curry would have been far from the first one to ever do it. It’s about the fact that unanimous MVPs simply don’t happen
30/20/10.
I think Wemby deserves a few first place votes but that’s about it.
Luka and Jokic’s teams won way fewer games and arguably played worse.
Jokics team is worse huh? Interesting take to have this evening lmao
You got downvoted for saying Wemby deserves some votes lol Thunder fans are weird.
Went from 2016 Curry at the start of the season to ā08 Kobe towards the end lmao
[removed]
Kobe stans in a nutshell. Shoehorn him into every convo.
To who
If I say more like 91 MJ that should answer your question.
08 Kobe is disrespectful to Shai now. His advanced metrics is similar to 1991 MJ and 2013 Lebron and we are talking about 08 Kobe. It’s probably not even Kobe’s top 3 seasons (I have 03, 06 and 07 higher)
Ant was the favorite most of the season I believe but Shai definitely has caught him at this point
Shai is -240 right now
Whatās Ant?
I would still give it to Ant if SGA is winning MVP. ‘Clutch Player’ can basically be the intercontinental belt of the NBA.
No give it to the guy who actually deserves it
I think Ant being at 64% EFG to SGAs 56% EFG in the clutch is reason enough.
I know we only remember the last five days on Reddit, but Ant has hit several go-ahead shots and game winners this season, too.Ā
So Ant right? Shai has been great in the Clutch but Anthony edwards has been in a whole fucking different level. Yea SGA would be CPOY, but Ant is just better than him in the clutch. Get off of Shai’s Dick bro
It was largely Shai in the beginning stretch when he made a bunch of clutch shots then ant passed him
This will be buried cause people would rather hate
itās impossible to get upvotes with pro SGA content LMAO
Yes
CPOY and MVP him
And lock for MVP
MVP, CPOTY, BITW.
His ability to get up tough shots is incredible, and it looks effortless. Its a disservice to not have sga as the best player in the league especially when factoring in his effort on the defensive end of the ball
Jaylen āthatās not basketballā Brown had 14 free throw attempts.
Granted, Dort was absolutely fouling him. But still, itās āyou reach, I teachā both ways. š¤·
He was truly unstoppable 1 v 1. No one could do anything I wish they would have sent the double
Shai “Touche” Alexander
He has singlehandedly won CPOTY in 4 games
Brown took 14 FTs, okc as team took 17.. Bostons shooting from 3 evened out and thatās how okc won the game. Shai has locked up the mvp and clutch poy at this point
If our 3p shooting wouldve evened out it wouldve been a blow out.
SGA breaks an all time record and goes 7⁄8 in the 4th quarter with 0 FT meanwhile the top post this week will be about jaylen brown crying about sga while he attempts 15 FT
He’s almost a lock for MVP at this point. Unreal execution in the clutch. Although, interesting that he didn’t want that matchup against JB to win the game.
He made the right play and almost always does. No ego ball, just wins
didnāt someone start coming up for the double and he passed in the corner for a Caruso brick?
The double was coming.
I assumed it was because the double was coming but I’m not sure
Trust me, if they didnāt send a double, he wouldāve gamed it
Every time he pulls up for a middy it’s just automatic. What a player.
He has been no doubt the most clutch player for at least 2 years. His mid range is automatic
clutch player of the year?
My mvp
Can we all admit that this is the best point guard of all time yet or not?
If we’re talking greatness then he needs to do a whole bunch more winning in the post-season
LMFAO
Saying SGA > Steph in the all time PG rankings is batshit insane and has to be a troll
Shai is a better scorer and defender. Probably tied in playmaking. Iām not sure there is much of a debate at all. If we are being realistic.
Thunder fans are so delusional
I mean. Stop making us look delusional. Shai is a better defender and mid range shooter. Maybe a better finisher around the rim. But prime stephs 3 point shooting is so overwhelming. Shai could pass him if he continues his career trajectory but I wouldn’t give it to him right now.
Hilarious
Brother, not even top 2. SGA is going to have to keep this up for awhile and also win a lot more before you can throw around these claims.
MVP
Most dangerout guy in 4th quarter
Never seen a mfer dissect a team like that in those last 4 minutes. If they double itās either an open 3 or he still makes it lmao.
Demon
I understand why this wonāt be seen because Florida State almost knocked off Duke. Florida State was dangerous in their second half. But Shai blew up and has been perfect. The Celtics are another fascinating story. Potential 1 seed without their star. Ewig effect?
Best prime since LeBron
Nope, great player though
People are starting to understand, and I am still in awe of how unbelievable it is watching him walk down three dudes and cash in their face.. EVERYTIME
Bag work
Ethical?Ā
I love how this is so rare/noteworthy that someone had to post about it lmao
Shai is the GOAT, don’t @ me.
O no ā¦ commissioner calling it on for next game to make sure sga gets his free throw attempts ā¦
Easy to score when they aren’t allowed to touch you.
You forgot to add “and multiple push offs” lmfaoooo
Hey so if it doesnāt get called, then itās not a push off and the points still count. Hope this helps!
Thanks for the useless comment! Also remember, we own your team! :D
Remind me again who the defending nba champions are?
Oh I know. Enjoy it cause we next.
Just know, you don’t have to blindly defend SGA for everything. Its okay to say he does some stupid shit like flop and push off. It won’t kill you.
Hey so you donāt know what a push off is which is why you say that. As long as you donāt extend your arm all the way, itās perfectly legal and everyone in the league is able to do it. Watch all of his āpush offsā and youāll see that he RARELY ever extends his arm all the way. He always keeps his elbow bent.
And no btw. Yāall are a second round exit. Itās going to be us vs Minny once again in the wcf.
Just because the refs are dumbshits doesnt mean it isnt a push off lmao he abuses it more than anyone and it definitely is a push off. If you dont agree then you are blind.Ā
Also, address the flopping and foul baiting too. Cause he does that shit ALMOST EVERY TIME HE HAS THE BALL.
Oh yeah cause Minny is playing sooooo good rn lmfao You better pray you dont see us in the playoffs lol
Yes because every single ref in the league is wrong haha. Itās a rule. Dont get mad at me because you donāt understand the rules hahaha. I promise you Iām not worried about yall in the playoffs. Minnesota said the same thing last year and we know how that went. But hey. Yall made the playoffs for the first time in like 7 years! Congrats!
They beat OKC in the regular season and now they āownā them. Clowns. Watch them spit out all kinds of excuses once they lose in the playoffs.
If the spurs lose before facing okc and the thunder repeat, I’m fully ready for the “asterisk because they didn’t face us” narrative.