Raphael-dh

114 | 5 hours ago

Best to get it out the way, no?

No-Test6484 | Lakers

84 | 4 hours ago

It will reset in the playoffs. Also it doesn’t go away. For every 2 technicals he will be suspended 1 game.

moby323 | 76ers

61 | 4 hours ago

Plus it costs nothing to appeal (I assume)

Zestyclose-Phrase268

35 | 4 hours ago

There is no price the lakers wouldn’t pay to keep Luka on the field. They aren’t run by Nico

prettymuthafucka | Wizards

12 | an hour ago

They aren’t playing football either. What field

NearlyPerfect

11 | an hour ago

The field of life

Randysuchasavage

1 | 27 minutes ago

They want to their guy back on the pitch.

Zestyclose-Phrase268

-5 | an hour ago

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/field_1

Raphael-dh

3 | 4 hours ago

Ah gotcha, thanks for the info.

Skyz-AU | Lakers

2 | 41 minutes ago

Exactly, very unlikely he goes the rest of the season without one.

darti_me | Mavericks

-6 | an hour ago

They’re playing East’s #1. If they have any title aspirations they NEED to play Detroit at full power.

If they;re planning on getting a tech anyway the best time would’ve been the 3 game stretch vs the bottom 3 teams

JustGottaKeepTrying

9 | an hour ago

Do they award the title for full power games in March?

dont-YOLO-ragequit | Raptors

1 | 29 minutes ago

It’s a stress test + some chance at scouting the Pistons System + see how the Lakers system can handle top level defense.

On the other end Cade has been injuried/out and the Pistons have face the Wizards and Magic so results may vary.

alextheruby | DAL

1 | 23 minutes ago

You’re overthinking it

MrRacoon1991

69 | 5 hours ago

The first time I see a ref giving a tech for 2 guys talking to each other. really ridiculous.

and by the way, what they said to each other it is pretty common in every ex-jugoslavian sport match. they say that for every little thing, even when people are alone, out of the blue. don’t get fooled by the different cultural context

passtherock- | Hawks

44 | 4 hours ago

how tf did he even get to 15 techs in the first place? that’s not normal. you should be more concerned about that

Headlesshorsman02 | Thunder

28 | 4 hours ago

Because he lets no calls rile him up

NotNice4193 | Mavericks

-3 | an hour ago

imagine not getting calls right?

Goerj

16 | 4 hours ago

Luka has been a tech magnet ever since his 2nd year. that’s just part of his competitive nature. Euro basket is waaaaay more toxic than your average american basketball game

O_oh | Spurs

17 | 3 hours ago

Lets Make Americans Toxic Again

Single_Bar_1836 | Spurs

8 | an hour ago

That must be it. Bummer for him that he’s both got a more competitive nature than American players and that it manifests as stuff like “incessantly berating referees” instead of “trying hard on defense.”

CraigMammalton14 | Hawks

1 | 18 minutes ago

Lmao

Fragrant-Employer-60

-7 | 2 hours ago

Because he’s an immature man child who can’t handle when things don’t go his way, its really hard to watch Luka, shit gets old fast. He needs to grow up but doesn’t seem like it will ever happen at this point.

Tall_Toe_6184 | Nets

6 | 44 minutes ago

this would’ve done numbers a few weeks back

White_Travolta

4 | 34 minutes ago

Yea it’s so hard to watch someone consistently drop 30 points a game, and a lot of the times way more than that.

Fragrant-Employer-60

1 | 26 minutes ago

So because he scores a lot of points I’m not supposed to care about anything else? It’s just my opinion, I don’t like watching him play, he bitches about every single call it’s ridiculous.

preddevils6 | Grizzlies

22 | 3 hours ago

This isn’t the first time a ref has given a tech for two players talking shit. That happens regularly. Especially when the ref tells you to stop right before like happened last night

Wazflame

4 | 2 hours ago

fr lol, it doesn’t happen everyday but it’s definitely common

goatnxtinline | Lakers

-7 | 2 hours ago

That’s an oxymoron

Several_Hour_347

4 | an hour ago

Lmao go to a dictionary and then delete your comment

brianpaulandaya | Thunder

4 | an hour ago

Well at least now we know where the moron in oxymoron comes from

RBPrime

0 | an hour ago

I basically said this same thing in last night’s thread and got down voted to Hell lmao

This is an obvious double tech.

gerardguey | Bulls

13 | 5 hours ago

Luka has built a terrible reputation with the refs, remember when he got ejected for talking back to that ref in their last OKC game

Jokic complains to the refs just as much but his approach is more defferential and polite, like pleading with them. Luka just goes off on them lol, like bad cop good cop

soycameron | Trail Blazers

19 | 4 hours ago

Luka does it in a “mean” way and Jokic does it in a whiny bitch way lol (and I love Jokic)

Practical-Art5931 | Lakers

9 | 5 hours ago

He wasnt even talking to the ref, he was talking to someone in the crowds and the ref misunderstood it.

MrRacoon1991

3 | 4 hours ago

from the video it looks like Goga and Luka were trash talking each other and the ref gave a tech to both, which is idiotic from the ref stand point. never seen a tech given for trash talking

Practical-Art5931 | Lakers

9 | 4 hours ago

I was referring to last year’s tech that he got during the OKC game.

MrRacoon1991

1 | 4 hours ago

my bad

Gekthegecko | BOS

1 | 34 minutes ago

No worries, it’s hard to keep track of which tech was being discussed given just how many he has

notagainrly

-3 | 4 hours ago

It’s the 15 previous techs that are the real problem. I love Luka but dude…stfu and keep balling.

Phenomenal2313 | Raptors

9 | 4 hours ago

Jokic is sorta that student who needs to pass a certain subject , so he’s more polite ( its pretty much fake ) to try and plead his case for another chance or a reversal of decision .

Doncic is that exchange student we know that will literally curse out a lunchlady for giving you the wrong drink

Basically , Jokic will plead as politely as possible , Doncic will probably say fuck you in 4 different languages

Halfonion | 76ers

2 | an hour ago

Either way that shits not good for the game.

MrRacoon1991

6 | 5 hours ago

I really like Luka, but you cannot receive 16 techs, everytime for stupid talking to refs. that is is main game weakness

PSi_Terran | Slovenia

3 | an hour ago

This is the first time he’s got 16. Well he technically got 16 before and it got rescinded.

trimble197

2 | an hour ago

Luka got a tech for talking to a fan this or last season too

igby1

1 | 36 minutes ago

Yeah Jokic does the dinner-plate-hands pleading that has a certain charm to it.

Hovi_Bryant | Pistons

3 | 2 hours ago

Huh? It happens? It’s a means to de-escalate a potential altercation between players. It doesn’t have to involve physical contact.

GunSlingrrr | Pelicans

2 | 4 hours ago

I wonder if the ref understands what they are saying. Both are seems shock when they got tech.

MrRacoon1991

3 | 4 hours ago

I doubt, if you don’t know someone from or lived in an ex-Jugoslavian country, you have 0 chance of understanding that

FosterFl1910

1 | an hour ago

Refs gotta have Google Translate out there for techs.

slightlyslappy

2 | 2 hours ago

Lmao whine more. Luka shouldn’t haven’t got all the other stupid techs he fully deserves

Whine whine whine Lukas NBA

Maleficent-Slip8354

1 | 30 minutes ago

You seem to be quite good at whining too

MrRacoon1991

-1 | 2 hours ago

I really feel for people like you who has to wake up every day and just being stupid, without knowing it

Halfonion | 76ers

4 | an hour ago

Luka’s bullshit isn’t good for the NBA. The sport will die if everyone has his baby boy mentality.

slightlyslappy

2 | 2 hours ago

I’m here waiting for your brilliant whine that explains why I’m stupid

Luka will have five more techs by the time you finish

Cap_Silly

1 | an hour ago

Is it the i di u pichku thing?

IcedKofe

1 | 13 minutes ago

Karens complain for like pretty much the most trivial inconveniences there is. I think of today’s NBA refs like that.

OpeDefinitely | Pacers

27 | 4 hours ago

lmfao, Goga Bitadze & Luka getting into it. extremely predictable

jjjuuubbbsss | Celtics

7 | 2 hours ago

Magic really said they ain’t leaving empty-handed

bobqzzi

16 | 5 hours ago

Incredible player- just amazing. Also, manbaby who can’t control his emotions on court or keep his potty mouth closed. The Lord giveth, the lord taketh away.

jayy962

1 | 23 minutes ago

He’s really the most different on/off personality in the game. He seems so nice off the court and is a complete menace when he’s on the court

TexasRoadhead | Nuggets

14 | 4 hours ago

I would understand if they rescind the tech but damn 16 techs this season?

HotCom12 | Lakers

5 | 5 hours ago

Why would they appeal though? I don’t think they get it anways because apparently Luka also said some bad words but even if they win it he’ll just be a tech away from getting suspended again when we’ll need him more to close out the season

jefe_hook

14 | 5 hours ago

Because it’s a cumulative thing.

NBA players are suspended for one game upon accumulating 16 technical fouls during the regular season. After the 16th foul, a one-game suspension is triggered for every two additional technicals (18, 20, 22, etc.)

HotCom12 | Lakers

-9 | 5 hours ago

Yeah but do you just want to get the suspension over with now against an injured Pistons team or dangle the sword heading into the playoffs?

awntawn | Lakers

19 | 5 hours ago

The technical count resets in the playoffs

jefe_hook

5 | 5 hours ago

You want to delay the 16th technical fouls as late as possible. Otherwise Luka would get suspended one game after every two additional technical fouls.

OpeDefinitely | Pacers

8 | 4 hours ago

I just realized that the NBA technical foul repeat offender system is almost exactly how the drivers license points system works for suspensions in Indiana.

20 points in 2 years = 1 month suspension. Every 2 points in addition to the 20 is another 1 month suspension.

Darnell2070 | United States

1 | 5 hours ago

Why not appeal if there is a chance that you could get it? Are there limits to how many techs you can appeal?

Either way Luka or Goga are lying, so I wouldn’t just take Goga’s word like you seem to be doing.

Maleficent-Slip8354

1 | 27 minutes ago

Why wouldn’t they? It is an avenue available to them & if there’s a chance to get rescinded, might as well try. It probably won’t but they don’t lose anything by appealing

CarmeloCurryTowns | Celtics

6 | 4 hours ago

They should not rescind it. Guys get double techs for trash talking all the time if they are warned beforehand and it sounds like he earned this one. He’s gonna get another one before the playoffs anyway.

Western-Election-997 | Lakers

-12 | 4 hours ago

It wil be rescinded.

Not-JustinTV

10 | 4 hours ago

He needs a suspension for all the complaining he does

alfi_k | Mavericks

3 | 5 hours ago

Appealing did work a few times when he was a Mav but usually he stops collecting techs in the play offs anyway.

Goerj

0 | 4 hours ago

it doesn’t. i believe he got kicked off a playoff game due to a double tech

alfi_k | Mavericks

2 | 3 hours ago

well that is true but I meant the max techs keeeping him from even starting a play off game

Maleficent-Slip8354

1 | 26 minutes ago

I think this is great for Luka. Take a break

Sensitive-Pool-7563

1 | 8 minutes ago

Luka is so soft

Thouispure69 | Spurs

-4 | an hour ago

Well well well if it isn’t the consequence of a season worth of whinging.

Just take the rest bro. It’ll help in playoffs.

Strange-Effort1305

-4 | 2 hours ago

He could just behave like a man and stop sobbing his way through life.

Baker_TD_Maker | Thunder

-5 | 4 hours ago

I’m prolly gonna catch some shit for this but I hope his tech sticks because he should probably be at 30 already. Luka, and Draymond, get more benefit of the doubt when it comes to bitching at the refs than anyone else in the league. Like full on harassment levels of bitching.

LegEqual6512 | Lakers

8 | 4 hours ago

if you think luka does the same thing as draymond you need to watch the nba more

Baker_TD_Maker | Thunder

-7 | 4 hours ago

The reasons why they bitch at the refs couldn’t be any more different. That I agree with.

But I think you’re just being a homer for Luka if you don’t think he doesn’t absolutely go batshit against the refs every couple of games. Same with Draymond. It’s crazy how abusive they are towards the ref and how if literally any other player did they’d be T’d up immediately.

paddiction | SAS

-7 | 2 hours ago

Luka was just talking normal trash and Goga clearly escalated by saying “I will fuck your whole family.” If this was on the street we would be throwing hands. I don’t blame Luka. Tech should be rescinded.

Btotherianx

4 | an hour ago

You have no idea what they said.

DropKnowledge69

1 | 28 minutes ago

Looks to me like he has some idea rather than no idea.

Could be wrong but it’s an idea nonetheless.

blubblu

1 | 9 minutes ago

They both told each other to fuck each others mothers

Luka’s just ended in a suspension so he’s just surprised Pikachu right now

TwoTalentedBastidz | Lakers

-8 | 5 hours ago

This is an easy call. It will be rescinded. Guys were just chatting shit, should’ve never been a tech, dumbass ref.

BogleDick | Iran

-11 | 5 hours ago

The tech was soft but Luka comes off as a bitch here. I can’t imagine. Ring a grown man and whining to the media about mean words said by another player on the court. Handle it like a man. Typical LA culture must be rubbing off on him

notagainrly

14 | 4 hours ago

Hmmm. Your comment doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

Resident_Durian_478 | Spurs

0 | 3 hours ago

He was like this when he was in Texas

The Los Angeles Lakers are appealing to the NBA to rescind Luka Doncic’s 16th technical foul which will otherwise result in a one-game suspension.