[Highlight] Jaylen Brown catches SGA with the pumpfake
You dare use my own spells against me?
Ngl it was perfectly executed as well. SGA just smiled cause he knew that was a great move, his move.
Edit: I like the push off. I do it every time I can’t get past someone lmao.
And the pump fake is no one’s move. It’s a pump fake. You learn it in elementary basketball.
Yeah, after, it showed him on the line during the FTs and he was smiling. You could tell he thought it was funny that Jaylen got him with his own move.
with the arm extension push off and everything.
Needs more traveling
DWade move you mean, I associate all of that fuckery with DWade
DWhistle
They don’t know how crazy Dwade used to get man, he was gettin calls with nobody around him
he really was sga before sga
Nah Kobe’s
People calling the pump fake, defender bites, jump into defender “SGAs move” makes me think they’ve never watched basketball before last season
Tbf with the age of some people here they may not have seen prime Kobe. I’d love a sub survey of when people started watching basketball.
Not justifying calling it “SGA’s move”. Although I feel that’s just a way of saying he does it the most of current stars.
i mean, it’s tons of guys kobe, dwade, paul pierce, dirk, joe johnson – it’s always been a big part of the game.
plenty of players have always done it and plenty of players do it now. jimmy butler, luka, derozan….i could keep going
Way too little herking and jerking for it to be like pierce. He had one of the most syncopated, strange body rhythms I’ve ever seen in basketball. Especially from that specific spot on the floor. It always looked so janky and weird to me, but was so so effective.
The Shai part is the push off into step back first
makes me think they’ve never watched basketball before last season
Most of the people here haven’t lmao
Given his love for Kobe, SGA likely got it from him
No one makes me bleed my own blood.
#NOBODY
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This genuinely made me chuckle lol
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch! I was there when it was written.
SGA couldn’t hide his smirk, like a proud father
Who shat my pants??
Was about to comment this lol
“That’s not basketball.” — Jaylen Brown, I thought
Can’t beat em? Join em.
And at least Jaylen genuinely shot the ball lol
The master baiter has himself been master-baited
No. Not the same. Jaylen actually tried to make a shot
But Doctor, I am Pagliacci!
Good joke. Everybody laughs. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.
What a film, honestly yeah its a bit full of itself but Watchmen was a great film.
You should read the source material.
Been putting it off for awhile but def need to
I will send you a digital copy if you’d like. It’s that good. If the movie feels full of itself the book feels so honest and real
I like the turn this comment section took.
Then you should watch the TV series.
The black-and-white flashback episode in the show is one of the single best hours of television I’ve seen in my life.
Watched it again the other day, loved it. The Dr Manhattan origin/transformation was my favourite part.
“alan moore hated it” reddit auto comment in 5….4…3…..
The movie? He never saw it cuz he’d boycotted films by then cuz of v for vendetta league and from hell
ALAN MOORE HATED IT
https://youtu.be/6Qt3WW5VdKs?si=N_MYPBbiF-d99WFW
Didn’t expect Band of Horses to pop up
I appreciate Jalen for trolling like that and I hate the Celtics. Give him the MVP👀
hahaha nice
Pip threw chairs so JB could pump
Lmao
My fucking buddy was just talking about this the other day!
I at least respect Shai’s reaction like, “aaah damn, you got me bro”
He’s such a chill guy lmao. Only immaculate vibes from him.
Hes chill, but he plays an ugly brand of basketball.
I don’t get this take at all he’s silky smooth
People don’t like foul baiting. It’s quite simple
You say this on a clip of JB foul baiting after a game where jb and jt foul bated way more than sga
Refs on another level of being trash this game.
Couldn’t agree more. The officiating was horrendous for both teams. Cherry picking certain calls inconsistently. That second half was probably one of the worse half of basketball I’ve watched in awhile because of the refs. And I say that not because my team played like shit the second half we likely would’ve lost either way with how bad we played but it would’ve been a lot better watching it if the refs weren’t idiots.
I’m saying this to a guy who says hes confused as to why people don’t like SGA’s style of basketball. Is there a reason other than foul baiting that fans often gripe his style of play?
He’s very much like harden where he alternates between some of the smoothest most impressive scoring I’ve ever seen and just manipulating the rules for ugly free throws.
I will say with SGA the ratio is a lot more of the smooth basketball than the grifting than it was for harden at his peak.
I say this with all due respect. If you don’t understand the take you probably don’t understand basketball.
I don’t appreciate that part of his game but yall act like that’s all he does. 90% of his game is just nice buckets bro
So many other stars flop and whine but none get as much flack as sga for some reason
It’s because he is currently on top of the mountain– likely b2b MVP, just won FMVP, etc
If OKC was just a mid-pack playoff team and SGA wasn’t in the mix for MVP, he’d barely catch any flak
Plus I think people get annoyed by the contrast of how often he gets the call vs the defensive style OKC employs– “can’t call them all” (so a call that goes for SGA may not get called the other way)
He plays ugly basketball but this is a clip of JB doing the same thing…and ant does the same thing.
Let’s not get carried away now
I’ve carried. I’ve gone.
It’s the Canadian in him
That’s very true. Toronto mans aren’t as nice as us Westerners but they’re definitely more chill.
Hes hamiltonian
Hamilton mans*
You right
Imagine the hate if he got upset about it. R/nba would explode.
Yeah notice he doesn’t cry like a bitch…guy couldn’t be a member of r/nba
I wonder if people have an actual problem woth him and not just his game
Im sure some do cause it always goes too far but like hes just a chill guy who’s lowkey a try hard but who gaf
I think it’s just his game with the foul baiting, etc but every star does it. OKC is the incumbent champion, he’s the previous MVP and he’s single handedly made everyone’s team look silly
Takes a lot to get him to flip
Even signed my jersey after the game what a dude
Yeah he gets a lot of hate in this subreddit, but I appreciate his attitude towards the game.
MVP by transitive property
That’s disrespectful to Kobe. No class.
Watch Kevin Porter Jr do it now to honour Kobe
The Luka fanboys have been telling me that if you outplay Shai in a single game, you throw the odds out the window and get MVP on the spot.
Congrats JB!
I feel like it’s the Shai fanboys saying this whenever OKC plays Denver
Everyone sucks here :)
luka definitely has something to do with this post💯
Bro the refs are ruining this on both sides
It’s horrific
Chicanerous and deplorable
Churlish
First time watching the Thunder?
Yes, actually. This season at least.
Not even the Thunder’s fault, the refs are just doing bullshit, they aren’t consistently helping either side they’re just fucking it up
There were like 3 off-ball fouls not called in 1 possession in the second quarter lmao, refs really made this game hard to watch when its not shai or JB getting the ball
I always look for the twolves fan who think the refs gifted OKc a 4-1 blowout in the playoffs last year
Average timberwolves fan
I’ve watched every Thunder game this season. There hasn’t been officiating like this since December.
It’s funny man, a normal game for the thunder is when the refs let both teams play, thunder hack a lot but it doesn’t get called because basketball flows better when there isn’t a whistle every 30 seconds. But when the refs call the fouls as they actually happen, and the other team matches the hacking, “refs are terrible on both sides of the ball”. It’s just how it is now lol
Hitler vs Stalin
Lmfao
Which one is which?
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stalin 10⁄10 cmon now
This would feed families on the cj
Props to SGA for immediately knowing he’d fallen for it and given up the foul, and not trying to argue the call with the refs.
SGA doesn’t argue with Refs in general tbf
as the saying goes….don’t bite the hand that feeds ya
lol
he just hits them with the Jim-from-the-Office after every whistle
That’s smart of him
Jimmy did that too and got an egregiously favorable whistle
What is there to argue about? The don’t miss a thing when he’s got the ball.
But when he does his eyes practically pop out of his eyes, so funny cause he’s usually calm
Despite how bullshit his whistle is, you gotta give him credit for never arguing one way or another.
He doesn’t really argue with refs that often at all
Ain’t fun when the rabbit got the gun
Got him with the SGA push off too. Beautiful all around.
Tbf Brown pushes off just as much as SGA
He’s started doing it way more this year. Probably because it works
Think a bunch of players around the league been doing it more often. Shit, Reaves was spamming that shit in the beginning of the season lmao he’s toned it down now but still comes up every game.
I don’t blame players for doing it if it’s not called, same as flopping and foul baiting. It’s just annoying when they do it and then act like they’re more ethical than the other players who also do it
He’s just playing the meta game, all of the stars do it
Don’t blame him for it, if NBA allows it you hurt your team by not doing it
I was gonna mention that too. The push off is worse than the foul bait lean in. The lean in is lame but follows the rules as far as I understand them. The push off is illegal but just never gets called.
This used to be a foul. I have no idea why an offensive player can literally push off with a fully straight arm, but if the defense touches the shooter after the gather then it’s a defensive foul. Please make it make sense.
They called it on Jaylen twice in this game.
You just started watching basketball?
Refs really need to crack down on this next season. A full arm extension arm shove is just bullshit
Hoisted by his own petard.
What did you call him?
Wololo
Nah this was genuinely hilarious 🤣 he was skipping and everything
Beat the master at his own game lol
Free-throw-merchant’d the free throw merchant
Cook him my king
Well, well, how the turntables…
Why are people acting like this is some freethrow merchant ish? If you jump in the air, you are at the mercy of the offensive player. Defense 101. Do not jump on a fake.
If only he knew it was a fake
I would simply just not fall for the pump fake
Built different
Next lesson, stop the other team from scoring
JB jumps into SGA for the foul if he jumped straight up like a normal jump shot probably would be no contact. I understand this is how it is called but doesn’t mean me or many others enjoy the game called that way and it wasn’t always called this way. Equivalent to throwing your leg out in some awkward way on a jumper to get a call.
It’s the exact same shit kobe used to do and mfs praised him for it because he was one of the only players to do it cause it was high iq now since everybody is smart it’s ruining the league
Yeah, it’s just not an enjoyable play to watch. It makes defenders less likely to contest shots too which is also not enjoyable to watch. Sure it’s technically the way the rule works but it’s so meh
The offensive player initiates contact. Which should never be a foul on the defender regardless of their position. If you go out of your way to make contact, it’s a foul on you.
Hope nba changes it, it would help the game soook much and the nba needs it.
Every superstar ever has made this move. There are things to clean up. This isnt even top 1000.
Lol and jumping into the defender is the natural shooting motion? He moved 1 foot closer to SGA than he wouldve ever been if he just shot this after the jump
You guys are complaining about something that NBA players have always done and has always been a foul. Pump fake. Jump. Lean in. Since time and memoriam.
Yeah and it sucked even then. Sucks even worse now. This isn’t basketball
I pretty please with a cherry on top implore you to use that same thought process when Shai is the one on offense
This is why you Thunder fans shouldn’t assume. I often say a lot of what people claim is foul baiting isnt in regards to Shai and other stars.
My entire reason for commenting was to reiterate a lot of people in this sub want to complain about fouls that are just straight up undisciplined defense.
Brown has had that shit on his mind for some time.
Mf was plotting since the last OKC vs Boston game.
Push off and foul bait, used bros whole bag against him😭
JBs push off is wild every time
SGA got a dose of his own medicine
Mega stiff arm into pump fake.
Hit him with The sga special
elbow to the neck
step on his foot
jump into him
elegant, ethical, MVP basketball
Little taste of his own medicine.
ok but i do gotta respect that shai respected it lmao
I must be mistaken, I thought that wasn’t basketball
Brown has completely gone to the dark side. He’s an absolute free throw merchant lately
It’s actually hilarious. Playing relatively ethically through ~55 games he was averaging 6.8 fta. Since the Spurs game he’s averaging almost 12 per game.
What makes it even more funny is that shai shoots 9 free throws a game which means he only gets 2 calls more one game and 1 call another game when they drive the exact same amount every time. It’s jus superstar whistle vs all star whistle
Pump fakes aren’t basketball now?? Notice how JB isn’t lying on the floor
Cant beat them, join them
its not - that pushoff should be called, but these days it wins people mvps./ crazy times
Honestly props to SGA for not throwing his hands up and barking to the refs or coach for a challenge like 90% of the league would do in this situation. Clearly respects that he got got
It’s pretty rare to see him complain to the refs outside of an initial reaction.
Game does in fact recognize game.
Ain’t no fun when the rabbit got the gun
thats my MVP
Everyone hates on SGA but his reaction is all acceptance and appreciation.
SGA in general doesn’t bitch and moan. Just usually gets back and hustles his ass on defense
SGA with the “motherfucker got me with my own move” smile afterwards.
That’s not basketball though, right? Isn’t that what Jaylen Brown said? What a horribly reffed game on both ends tonight… that 2nd half was a brutal watch
It isn’t. No matter who does it
We baitn’ out here
“That’s not basketball!”
I will die on the hill that this rule is stupid. Yeah, in this case it benefited the Cs, but who cares? It’s bad basketball. They need to fix this jumping on the defender dogsh*t.
I love this for sga
Taste of his own fucking medicine. nice
That’s not basketball
Notice how there’s no one bitching about push offs and foul baiting?
If JB had a MVP, they’d be saying the same thing. The hate comes from winning an MVP because everyone has their favorite player.
When Westbrook won it over 2018 Harden (who single handedly almost took down prime KD warriors), I definitely had a hate boner for Westbrook.
Out jerked the master baiter
This is the type of basketball the league rewards and they wonder why ratings and revenue are down lmfao
Ratings and revenue are up why would you make this up?🤣
This game ruled, whaddya mean?
Mirror Forced him all the way to the freethrow line.
The push off though
That forearm shiver that didn’t get overturned is some egregious ass shit.
good pump fake - shai shouldn’t have bit on that. not sure this is any kind of gotcha
nba basketball is stupid.
Can’t believe refs get baited by this shit
Hit him with his signature move😭
Lol i absolutely hate the calls in the NBA, offensive player jumps into the defender and yet its a defensive foul
Celtics dogged the Thunder and I was not expecting it
Fuck the Celtics but I was rooting for you guys, give him a taste of his own medicine
Cinema
Push off with the Right hand. I hate when SGA does it and hate when Brown does it here
SGA smiling made me laugh. Guy knew he got hit with a taste of his own medicine and was like “nice move JB you got me mfer”