OKC’s offense is putrid without Shai

No matter what you think about the officiating or any players play style, I think we can all agree that Austin Rivers is absolutely terrible at his job

Fuck that was a closer game than I was expecting, Pistons are scary.

Unsuccessful hate watch

That’s it, I’m voting Bball Paul for All-NBA. That dude is a fuckin dog. Mad respect to that whole team.

Hilarious they call the Shai push-off to null the game winner. Like why not call that shit every time he does it then?

Disgusting watch ngl

OKC needing the refs and OT to beat the backup Pistons has me more excited for the playoffs than I could have ever imagined coming out of this game.

Pistons give up 27 FTs a game, SGA got 25 tonight

Notice the title of the post when the Pistons won was a reference to the Thunder G League team, but no reference to that this time…

Shai carryjob

25 FT attempts for Shai says everything you need to know

I’m sure this thread will be a safe space

The difference isn’t SGA’s calls. Superstar whistle isn’t anything new. He’s incredible and it’s no different than the calls Harden, Kobe or AI got.

What’s different is how little the refs call on OKC’s defense. All of y’all saw how both teams play defense tonight. We deserve to be #30 in fouls called. There’s no honest way OKC should only be #8.

Edit: their championship defense was #25. The years before that they were 19 and 24. I’m looking through other recent elite defenses and I’m not seeing anything like the jump from 25 to 8. Warriors, Bucks, Lakers, Celtics - they’re all fairly steady from year to year before, during and after their championships. Jumping 17 spots is crazy.

52% ft from the pistons…

That commentating sucked ass bro, can they just talk normally about the game and not push weird narratives lol

25 freethrow attempts has me sick.

I hate blaming the refs but this whole crew should get launched into the sun for that bullshit

Yet another game where Shai carries OKC’s offense. Still don’t know how people think OKC would be good without Shai. Say what you want about the defense, but this team is comfortably a bottom 5-10 offense without Shai. I really don’t think most of you fathom how much Shai carries OKC’s offense, He has had the worst offensive supporting cast out of the 4 MVP candidates this season. 

He had a great playmaking game despite only having 3 assists. Multiple hockey assists. Several times he’d drive in and have 3 players collapse on him, kept finding open shooters and they were missing wide open 3s like usual. It’s wild how inconsistent OKC’s shooters are given how open the looks are that Shai generates for them.

This game also showed how vital iHart is to OKC. They will not have playoff success if iHart isn’t healthy. There is no way they don’t resign him in the offseason. This team cannot fathom what a rebound is without him

It took SGA disgustingly flopping his way to 24 free throws to beat the Pistons bench (also without their 6th man) in overtime lol

Some are calling Bball Paul the greatest player of all time. Its me, I’m calling him that, I love Paul Reed

Scott Foster the goat at pissing everyone off

25 free throws is insane

Well, can’t be too mad. Took a healthy Thunder team to OT with the “power of friendship,” which is just my nickname for Paul Reed.

man i love watching FTA take 25 free throws

25 FT attempts for this “Superstar” lmao. Dude cannot live with a normal whistle let alone one that calls out his shoves and flops

Foster: (Blows his whistle)

The replay is shown

Commentator #2: That’s a tough call.

DETROIT NEVER DIES

WHAT A GAME

RON HOLLAND YOU WILL BE REMEMBERED IN OKC

Someone post the calls, I thought it isn’t about the number?

25 free throws to beat the pistons without 5 of there top 6

Completely unwatchable, thanks

I saw the game being close and checking it from time to time. 3 times that I checked, Shai’s at the fucking line. Biblical.

i said that OKC gets EVERYTHING THEIR WAY and that’s what happened today in the clutch: SGA got 6 seperate soft foul calls for falling, SGA got away with push offs, Williams DREW the charge which was fair, Williams fouled Sasser on the layup attempt and it was not called, Caruso got away with a foul on huerter got a steal because of that, and OKC come back from a 7 point defecit. Scott foster also gave the pistosn 0.6 seconds instead of 1 second. They got every call their way besides finally calling sga for that push off at the end of regular time. SGA also got that three-point foul in overtime that defenitely would be deemed incidental if Caruso or Wallace commited it.

This is on top of the fact that SGA doesn’t miss in the clutch. How do you beat this team fairly?

Box office poison.

Man, as good as he is, SGA is unwatchable… getting the benefit of the doubt every time you fall down is so infuriating to watch

SGA does that offensive foul every gane

Nothing but respect for the Pistons in this game. Coming in missing most of their players and doing as well as they did tonight was spectacular to watch

Scott foster had a fucking game, man.

I can’t see OKC winning chip if they don’t figure out their offense man, Shai is the only one generating points.

GUYS I THINK SHAI MIGHT NEED TO WEAR DIFFERENT SHOES BECAUSE HE KEEPS FALLING. THANK GOD HE HAS THAT NEVER DIE MENTALITY.

Players dapping each other up after the game , recognizing that they get paid multi million dollars to play a game . Meanwhile fans on forums bitching and moaning at each other . Comical shit really .

r/nba ain’t gonna like this

There’s just no way people can enjoy watching Shai

He flails and flops everytime he gets touched

Reffing was so bad it has me feeling sorry for Pistons fans. Disgusting the way OKC is officiated

Came pretty damn close to winning with our bench squad and Ausar.

Not my MVP. Disgusting basketball

If this is how close the game is without our starters, i like our chances when everyones playing

Who are these announcers in NBC? Why do they hate SGA so much? Would be understandable if they were Detroit’s color commentators lol WTH was that

#25

So when we beat the hospital thunder it’s the “okc blue” but when the thunder beat the hospital pistons it’s “sga 47 bomb!!!!!”

You people are miserable lmao. This guy is inevitable in the 4th and the only thing posted is fouls. It’s like another version of Kobe before our eyes.

Scott Foster player of the game

From 4 min in the 4th through OT was 6 hours and 43 min

That was honestly embarrassing, this season mark daigneault is one of the worst coach in the league and i wish i was joking

Also it’s funny when people say that this team would still be first seed without sga lmao he’s the clear mvp

SGA is effecient cause everytime he misses, it is a foul, the field goal is not counted and he gets free throws. Like I feel bad for the pistons man, they had this game in the bag and then SGA just fell down and they called those BS.

SGA more free throws than the entire Pistons team combined. Another Mark Dag classic

I’m glad tonight’s officiating was so blatant. A lot of fans of East teams don’t fully realize what’s been happening with officiating SGA + OKC’s defense. Completely different standards for what constitutes a foul depending on whether SGA has the ball or not. It decides games, as it did tonight.

I hate when sga gets this many free throws. Not because I personally detest it, but because every major nba sub is going to be crying for the next three days and clog up my feed.

Disgusting basketball and atrocious officiating. I’m sorry Pistons fans.

Pistons are going to devour the rest of the east and will be waiting at the top. Great game by that squad they had out there.

I’m sure I’ll get flamed for saying this but do people really like watching Shai push off into faking a fade away into jumping into a defender man

He had 6 more free throws than shot attempts man do people really enjoy this

Shai is so good, yet so hard to watch. Felt bad for the Detroit bros on this one their squad put up a great fight.

25 FTA

Okc are Shai merchants just send a triple team in the playoffs and watch the others brick

feels like more of a win for detroit than us. ugly game

Shai had more FTs than the entire Detroit team

Horrendously officiated game

we win if we shoot a lil better from the line. not really impressed with okc. I see the spurs beating them. Wouldn’t even be shocked if its in 5 or a sweep

Hell of as game other than than SGA jacking himself off in the postgame interview. Proud of the guys. They played with the same extra pair of nuts that OKC played with when they sat their entire starting lineup against us in Detroit.

SGA with 47 points in 41 minutes on 25 FTAs; Wemby with 41 points in 31 minutes on 4 FTA

GG Storm Lords.

Combustion Boys will get you next time.

Shai really had 1 less free throw than the Knicks yesterday and today had 2 more free throws than the Pistons 😭😭

Refs calling him for a push off after watching him do the EXACT thing countless times for the last 5 years was extremely unserious too.

Sometimes the NBA feels less like a competitive sport and more like a reality show.