[Lowlight] Everyone tries to figure out why Devin Booker received a tech
lol Caruso calling for the tech. Guess it worked.
What’s new lol
I hate OKC so much
They’re somehow more unlikeable than the KD warriors, the same team that basically made the playoffs irrelevant for every team in the league for 3 straight years.
Warriors played incredible basketball, except Draymond, Steph was chill and likeable. Despite the “hardest road” KD was mostly just a quiet guy that hooped.
And even Draymond, for all his fouls and unnatural motions, had much more entertainment to it. Than whatever the fuck OKC does. Most of their plan is based around scum bball, if it would get them a win they wont hesitate to bait 50 fake fouls and shoot 100 FTs. Which is even more insanely frustration because they are clearly talented enough to win without that and they are the only team that has blackmail on refs like that.
Waiting for a Thunder fan to defend ts
Fr. Alex Caruso has been doing this since like 2019. This is his thing. How people liked him on the bulls is beyond me. He’s clearly very talented defensively but he’s always done this
It’s bizarre that anyone else other than the refs also thought it should be a T
What was the spread? Any prop bets on technicals? Or was Tony Brothers officiating?
Thunder ball. It’s terrible.
Thunder are obviously the best team in the league, it’s no shock they’re up 2-0 against the Suns…it’ll be no shock if they go back to back because they were the best team in the league. The problem I have is disparity of the calls they get vs their opponents. You can’t touch Shai but Dort gets to assault players with no call. Just be consistent.
You can’t touch Shai but Dort gets to assault players with no call.
And when Booker goes to shoot he gets rung up for an offensive foul for something that Shai gets multiple FTs per game.
He literally shot that perfect form too nothing irregular at all Caruso was just in his space. Thats 100% an and 1 If that’s Shai
It’s so bad that Laker fans are agreeing with Nuggets, Suns, and Spurs fans
Yep, OKC might have the most unlikable collection of players I’ve ever seen. Cocky, arrogant whiners.
Caruso is especially unlikable.
They play hard, physical defense and get away with it because the refs swallow their whistles. However if you so much breathe on one of their players it’s a foul.
And the few times a foul does get called on OKC, they have the nerve to whine about it.
Real Madrid type shit buts it’s Oklahoma lmao
Yes! Exactly! Yeah they’re good I won’t deny that, but they have the longest leash, softest whistles, and get away with all that hacking and some seriously dangerous antics. Opposing can’t even so much as sneeze on them before Thunder go to the line. Again, not saying they aren’t playing great, but they seemingly have an unfair advantage consistently that opposing teams don’t and that’s because of the guys in stripes.
That’s the correct take
You know it’s bad when Lakers fans are complaining about foul disparities.
I knew this reply was coming lol
For as dominant as that team is they’ll never get the same respect as top teams from other eras purely because of the ridiculously favorable whistle they get.
They’re playing 5 vs 8, teams go into games having to think about refs. Thats fucking bullshit, Thunder would not be a smooth back 2 back champion. You’re able to play with so much confidence and freely when you know you got a bailout in your back pocket.
This league fucking manufactures superstars. Deni was seen as a shitty pick until he started getting free throws, manufactured star as well.
Force of habit for him
Ref saw an OKC jersey do a tech motion and thought it was his uniform for a moment
Getting a tech for getting fouled lol
Not even that, getting a tech for keeping a ball in play
Literally tried to save the ball, technical. Did nothing, technical. Same thing with Draymond the other night, Book inbounded the ball - believe it or not, technical foul.
You know it’s bad when non Warriors fans are aguing in defense of Dray lmao
Literally right now is the only time I’ve been sympathetic to the draymond defense ™️
Adam Silver’s NBA
Imagine running a more corrupt league than David Stern.
jwill had such good defense getting in front hip checking him that they awarded SGA with free throws that’s what makes the nba great! /s
How much longer before your guys start trying to see if it’s possible to send an entire opposing team into Concussion Protocol?
They’re not my guys I’m not on the team just a fan lol
What?
NBA refs are a joke.
Feels like WWE where Silver wants to manufacture outrage because it’s more profitable than a competitive game free of this slop
Fix fix fix - this league is a joke. Pro Wrestlingesque. Tim Donaghy and Macho Man Savage. It’s “entertainment”
Adam silver encourages this behavior. Refs making these petty calls while ignoring obvious shit is steadily making the game unwatchable.
They’re not a joke, they are a cohort of deliberately malicious bad actors. It’s an embarrassment to the sport
The NBA could be such an enjoyable and watchable product but people with money are allergic to doing things right.
Correct, forced me to stop watching.
might be the worst ref call ive ever seen lol
Tim Duncan got ejected for laughing on the bench, I don’t think anything will ever beat that.
Don’t forget that the ref in question asked Tim if he wanted to fight IN THE MIDDLE OF A GAME HE WAS OFFICIATING.
Which is hilarious for any number of reasons but most of all the fact that challenging a 7’ all world athlete to a fight when you’re an average human is a pretty stupid thing to do.
Joey. Fucking. Crawford.
Good riddance. Dude was a menace in the league, but had an extra special hatred for San Antonio. Fuck that guy.
Hey. Show some respect. HALL OF FAMER Joey Crawford.
Not even just an average human, dude straight up looked like Mr. Magoo
People think NBA players are just tall.
I met Damian Lillard at a function my wife put on, he showed up and spent a couple hours chatting with people. I name-dropped her and Dame said, “Oh that’s your wife! Go get her man!”
Dude was insanely classy. But oh, my fucking god. He looks tiny compared to NBA players but that dude is BEYOND jacked compared to average people. I’m in really good shape (well, I wasn’t then as I had plantar fasciitis) but I have friends who are in the gym 24⁄7, and Dame would have been way more muscular than any of them except one. He could have picked me up by my foot and slung me around. And meeting Tim in person, he’s like 2 echelons of human above Dame, and Joey Crawford, who I could absolutely ruin in a fight, challenged an apex human, while on the job. Just unreal. If you ever need evidence of the egos these refs carry around, that’s exhibit A.
Is this fresh pasta?
Not sure why I spent time doing this at midnight, but..
People think NFL players are just big.
I met Kelvin Benjamin at a function my wife put on, he showed up and spent a couple hours chatting by the food table. I name-dropped her and Kelvin said, “Oh that’s your wife! What’s food is she bringing out next?”
Dude was honestly pretty friendly. But oh, my fucking god. He looks big on TV but that dude is huge compared to average people. I’m in really bad shape (well, I wasn’t then as I didn’t have plantar fasciitis yet) but I have friends who can put away food 24⁄7, and Kelvin would have outpaced any of them except maybe one. He could have cleared my plate, grabbed a second, and still been asking what else was in the back.
And meeting Zion in person, he’s like two echelons of human above Kelvin, and Joey Crawford, who I could absolutely destroy in a hot dog eating contest, challenged an apex eater, while at the buffet. Just unreal. If you ever need evidence of the egos these guys carry around, that’s exhibit A.
That’s funny. I had a radically different experience with him at a grocery store yesterday. I told him how great it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
There’s still plenty of playoff games left and we’re off to quite a start with this shit.
That and Sheed staring at a ref
Idk that one was def soft but the refs justification is pretty hard to argue with. Sheed was def trying to intimidate him, and was asked to stop and didnt.
WACK! Get out!
Get away from me, Steve
D’lo got a tech for clapping while in street clothes. https://youtu.be/N6vsYCGzgrc?si=R_wcY8f3obae2tHA
There will always be this as the weakest tech ever handed out, but this entire game has been horribly called.
I mean, I wonder what the odds were on Duncan getting a tech that game?
At least Joey Crawford had to go to therapy and take anger management classes after that and was suspended from reffing that season I believe. I feel like all these refs need therapy and anger management.
The double tech earlier probably was but this is a close second. Top two worse techs ever and they’re in the same quarter.
while i think it was horrible as well, i can kinda understand the idea of trying to get brooks and dort to not start fighting
I’m pretty sure SGA, Dort, and Brooks are all really friendly from the team Canada stuff. I remember SGA and Brooks got into a little dustup over a ball at the beginning of the season and the refs tried to get between like there was a fight starting and both turned and immediately started assuring them that they’re just fucking around. It was really funny.
None of them were about to and Dort was just chilling. It’s not as bad, I get what you mean, but it’s genuinely a pathetic set of Ts too
You may be right, but it’s still really soft. Dort and Brooks are on team Canada together; I don’t they were going to escalate right there. Both seemed pretty calm
You ever see Tim Duncan get a tech for laughing on the bench?
I feel like this could have been said for several calls tonight lol, what a joke
The book jump shot over Caruso… and then they doubled down on the review
That was ridiculous
Oh boy we say this everytime okc plays. Just when u thought ref ball cant get more bad than what it is they top it up with a more ridiculous shit next game
The ref listened to Caruso who was campaigning for a tech. The refs love him it’s wild.
Imagine pulling for a guy like Caruso. Just awful for the sport, embarrassing stuff.
The level of shame you have to be comfortable with, playing like he does is impressive
Aggie dork
of course he’s an aggie 😭
It feels like public perception of Caruso has shifted so much from his time on the Lakers in the bubble to now
He gets away with pushing and hacking players on defense and has the nerve to constantly whine about the refs on the rare occasions he gets called for very warranted fouls.
He was loved in Chicago
Yeah that brief window of DeRozan, Ball, Lavine, Caruso was pretty fun. Feels like 20 years ago :(
Because he plays for OKC
This is why the league can’t be taken that seriously
Refs ruin the league. Nothing can convince me otherwise. If there is an issue with the NBA, its reffing and players can’t seem to stay healthy. 1a and 1b.
I know I’m biased as all hell but every time I’m watching another game where I have no rooting interest it just looks like a different sport. What is and isn’t a foul is judged completely different from team to team or even game to game to the point I have no idea what anything means.
The only sport that even comes remotely close is watching what gets called against certain QB’s and not others in the NFL. Even that isn’t close to what the NBA puts out there, though.
Pretty much sums it up
Adam silver has absolutely destroyed the credibility of the NBA. It’s sad to see. League swings more towards the WWE end of competitive sport than actual non scripted competition. Silver is a ghoul
The moment they let Scott Foster stay a ref was the moment people shoulda realized this league will always have a black mark attached to it
shai getting the ft makes this so funny lolololol
This part cannot be overlooked lmfao
What silver wants
What silver needs
Seeing the FT before the call was comedic
Gotta find new ways to send him to the line
Booker is getting hoed this whole game, refs have hated him his whole career
It’s cuz he plays on the Suns.
I really want to say some snarky shit, but this tech is so fucking egregious I can’t not be empathetic for yall.
What’s crazy is if it was for book trying to save the ball, there’s so many examples of players straight up bulleting the ball at defenders to get an out of bounds call.
I am conflicted reading your comment. One the one hand it’s validating when even a Lakers fan is willing to agree with one of us but on the other hand I feel disgusted that I agree with one of you as well as angry to receive any pity or empathy from you./s
But on the real though fuck the refs.
Ultimately, we are both basketball fans and we both know this is the type of shit that kills the sport. Refs being dogshit breaking down barriers lmfao
Yeah I completely agree. Watching NBA basketball is just…. really frustrating nowadays. Like it’s gotten to the point that I’m enjoying watching the MLB more than the NBAost of the time.
the Suns
You ain’t wrong, since 1996 the Suns are 28th in the league in FT disparity @ -3,616 FTs lol. There are only 3 other teams with a worse whistle.
At this point Booker should just punt the ball into the stands. These refs fucking suck so much
Seriously. At what point does a coach just say screw in and take his team to locker room and call it a night?
These guys are professionals and not a bunch of quitters.
That being said, fans in phoenix should leave the stadium altogether if this shit happens again in Phoenix!
Didn’t mean in a quitting way but in a walk out protest way.
I think forfeiting a playoff game is probably at the bottom of the list of things coaches want to do
Even as a fan I do sometimes hope that a player or team will make a point to embarrass a ref for a horrific call.
Like hold the ball at half court calmly and say I’m not going to move the game forward until I’m forcibly escorted off the court.
I’ve always wanted a player to start handing the ball to the ref after a bad call but then throw it across the court into the tunnel or something lol
i can’t remember which game it was the post season already but the refs were calling literally every bump a foul. nba commentators love to say “that’s just playoff basketball” but no one tells the refs that apparently. the flopping shit has to stop on the playoff stage for the nba marketability at the very least. it’s so pathetic watching 6’8 230lb dudes throw themselves on the floor
This “sport” sucks now.
Just Jackie moon it
great product
I really can’t watch NBA as much as I used to. I’m surprised by some of my friends that still watch it almost nightly. Really painful sometimes.
tough to watch 80 3s and 60 free throws in a 2.5 hour product. Just not as fun anymore
Teams shoot less free throws now
No one’s gonna think that for as long as this version of the Thunder are a top team.
I mean even they shoot less free throws than the average team use to shoot lol
Use to be my favorite. Nowadays you can’t go 10 seconds without someone getting fouled and the flow of the game just dies. Any time someone makes contact they’re calling a foul and 90% of the time it’s on the defense. It’s nauseating to watch. Doesn’t feel the same as it use to
Honestly imagine watching a sport where the outcome is directly influenced by refs blowing the whistle at their own discretion dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of times per game
Agreed. I love basketball, but god damn the NBA has become unlovable. If I wanted to watch a bunch of overpaid divas flop and bitch and moan I’d watch premier league.
*LaLiga
Been watching the Stanley cup playoffs a lot more lately and the difference is legitimately insane. I grew up with hockey but kind of forgot just how much more intense it is. The nba is becoming a joke with shit like this. Some games are great, some become unwatchable fast
But Doris totally makes up for it
Even Doris couldn’t explain this tech, she was speechless too
You know it’s bad if Doris is on our side
Yeah when OKCs biggest fan is shitting on the refs, you know it’s shit
It’s actually a skill in itself how you manage to give 3 Techs and all of them are pathetic
i genuinely have no idea what the call was here lmao
Playing against the Thunder
I think when he threw the ball it hit jwill in the head. Maybe the refs thought he did it on purpose, idk.
Nobody in their right mind thought that until Caruso started calling for a tech
Go figure the biggest bitch in the league keeps getting rewarded. Dude belongs in soccer
Yeah the refs honestly looked confused. They really fucked this one up.
thunder effect
Is this how some of y’all cope with getting this whistle?
It hit him in the arm after he got fouled…was trying to keep it in play.
Edit: how is dude getting upvotes lol ball was nowhere near hitting him in the head
It hit him in the bicep. I genuinely don’t understand how this could ever be mistaken for a head hit or called a technical
The replay clearly showed it hit his left arm
Isn’t it legit to try to save the ball by throwing it off another player?
Seen players like LeBron absolutely blast the ball into opponents to save the out of bounds 😂
not when you are playing the thunder i geuss.
It hit him in the shoulder 😂
The league is going to die because of the officiating lmfao
NFL is NFL
MLB is more fun to watch with shorter games, ABS, and guys like Ohtani
Hockey is fun as shit to watch
NBA has this bullshit night in and night out
The MLB has the ABS, which allowed players to completely embarass horrible umpires (Bucknor nearly had a stroker after he got called for ABS 8 times).
Hockey has the same crap in every playoff series. The refs admit they game manage more during the playoffs. They won’t call a team for anything if they are down two goals.
The Florida Panthers won cups basically daring the refs to call them for penalties. Sam Bennett won their team a cup by running two different starting g goalies and taking them out of the series.
It makes the NHL the worst playoffs to watch, it becomes a completely different game.
The “Believe it or not, free throws for SGA” is no longer a meme
and of course Caruso is lobbying the ref for the T like a snitch
Dude is pathetic, such loser behavior. Can’t root for shit like this.
They’re so unlikable it’s crazy, for a team that doesn’t have actual criminals/abusers on it they’re about as unlikable as you can get, just an awful watch. SGA pushes off every game like crazy and foul baits and gets a ton of FTs and then dort is absurdly dirty and he and Caruso in general get to beat up on teams but if the other team does the same shit on defense they get called for fouls left and right. No consistency at all when it comes to the reffing for okc games at all, that goes for nba reffing in general but it’s especially egregious for alot of okc games.
that offensive foul they Called on Book on his perfectly normal jumper was just shameful and then they doubled down on it on the challenge, 100% chance that’s an and 1 or a no call if it’s sga.
Dude out there like Randall at Recess with his dumbass notepad
I’m sorry but he deserved it. That was a disgusting act.
If Booker didn’t want to get called for the foul, he should have joined the Thunder, it’s clearly his fault.
This
You know what, this is a good one. Ill pay it
He should have clapped too 👏 👏 👏
Thunder fans upvoting you thinking you genuinely mean that 😂😂😂
Refs called a tech because Caruso & company stepped in to bitch to the ref about a nothingburger.
OKC’s meta strategy is to get into their opponents’ heads. They largely do this by “calling the cops” on every possible foul or tech, whether that’s asking for a tech, flopping, embellishing, or whatever. All while playing as physical defense as they can get away with…
Refs gotta stop buying the BS. OKC has no reason to ditch this meta strategy until the refs stop giving in.
At the same time, teams have to stop allowing OKC to bother them with the shenanigans. Teams that don’t crash out or otherwise disengage against OKC tend to do better than you’d expect based on W/L or reputation. Half that battle against OKC is just staying focused.
That’s actually a great description lmfao
Not many people seemed to notice it,, but they did this in the finals last year. Whenever there was a hard foul, Hartenstein would come over and pretend to start a fight, so the refs would intervene and review and possibly upgrade it to a flagrant.
Or when he took a blatant dive after getting in someone’s face, like in game 4
Bitchmade plays
That’s so fucking awful. That’s not a tech he tried to save the ball
Glad some of you are still sane
Caruso lame as fuck for that
shit like this is why the NBA is getting so hard to watch. they just gift okc shit and they expect the audience to not get tired of it i don’t understand
It’s so stop start, the end of games is basically unwatchable
Trying to watch an NBA playoff game after the amazing product the NHL puts on in the playoffs is genuinely impossible
I’ve stopped watching and only come to threads to see people bitching about all the things that made me stop watching 😂😂
The NBA is not a serious league
Lmao I just said this above before seeing your comment:
Last year, I watched every thunder game after game 60 till the finals with growing disgust. Now it’s literally the only game I turn off lol like absolutely cannot stand being rage baited with the officiating and it’s the only way nba will care that it’s a crappy product.
OKC asked the refs to give him one what is hard to understand here?
We all knew OKC has this series in the bag but having the ref on their side with the soft ass calls is making this sht unwatchable
Suns are already fighting an uphill battle and these refs really said hold my beer
Fucking wild but I’m 0% surprised.
refs just making shit up lmao
wonder why every team that plays OKC all complain about the reffing
what the actual fuck was this call. It was so bad no one could figure out who it was on.
SGA at free throw line
Thunder whistle is godly. Thanks Adam Silver for this shit fucking product
What was the tech out there????????
Him saving the ball while out of balance????????
So therefore all the hustle plays for the past year should also be a tech???
What the actual fuck???
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Delusional SGA Fans trying to find a reason for the tech.
So Caruso can just ask for a tech and the refs are like yes that’s right tech on book?
Standard okc ref ball. The refs will get them another championship as instructed.
I had to turn it off and I’m not even a Suns fan.
The NBA is such a bad product it’s insane. Just free throw merchants now
I’m sure we’re going to get a clear and reasonable explanation soon ^ha^ha ^^^right ^^^guys ^^^ihatethis
OKC more protected than patty mahomes. Fuckin embarrassing
Got a tech for being in a suns jersey in OKC.
As an outsider watching NBA every year, I can objectively say that NBA looks like they’re protecting OKC more than anyone. Don’t know why, maybe it’s because they’re the trading/drafting success story as an organization and they can keep promoting that story.
Or, the NBA referees are just the dumbest officials in the world in any sports. Seriously, this is getting stupid in a way that I actually stopped watching the game halftime, because it’s back and forth flopping and weird calls. Pistons vs Magic was like 10x more physical and the refs just let them play.
OKC games are literally unwatchable. It’s fucking pathetic.
Caruso told the ref to give him a tech, so they obliged.
OKC are the fakest champs we’ve seen in a long, long time.
Should have been Pacers in six, and Haliburton would have been healthy to defend.
But dumbass Silver had to get Foster to extend a series that was checks notes supposed to be a sweep when the favorites were in danger of going down 3-1.
And why? Because the team that plays the ugliest and easily most hated brand of basketball couldn’t be made to look bad for some reason?
And the team with the most insanely magical playoff run we may have ever seen winning would have cost the gambling partners way too much on long shot payouts.
Fuck OKC, fuck the NBA, fuck Adam Silver, fuck Scott Foster, and fuck the sports books.
Bunch of suspicious techs this game
Can we get euro league guys to come ref every Thunder game please
Fucking insane how hard the refs are looking after okc
Genuinely what the fuck
Again here come the Thunder fans to tell you you’re a bad person for bringing this shit up
SGA and/or the Thunder in general has to have legitimate compromising material on Adam Silver or the NBA at large
What the fuck?
Caruso’s up there with Dillon Brooks for me.
Absolute trash player.
People had warmed up to SGA and the comments on his highlights during the regular season were pretty tame, but I knew that once the playoffs came around again, the hate would ramp up.
And rightfully so! I feel like OKC fans can’t even excuse this away. This is embarrassing for the league. Silver is so focused on fixing tanking, well how about you focus more on the embarrassing showcase and favoritism from your refs. Sometimes it legit makes you wonder if these games are rigged with how they get called at times. I highly doubt that but in terms of optics it’s definitely not good.
I’ve been on this planet for three decades and I legitimately can’t remember a team that got such favorable situational calls.