Royce O’Neale: “I think if you’re gonna call it one way, you gotta call it both ways, or just let us play… It can’t be one-sided.”
This has been the most drawn out ref controversy I’ve seen in a while
I feel like it’s always tactical that if they raise a big enough stink they’ll get calls next game
That’s exactly what happened with the original Chris Finch stuff SGA got a Steph Curry level whistle for about the next 2-3 weeks before it went back to normal
Everyone credits finch with this but the night before he lost his shit SGA shot 6. Game before that, he had 4. Game before that he had 3.
Post finch he shot 7, 7, 8, 9. Finch didn’t do shit and if anything increased them. You guys are enthralled in narrative.
Why do you guys always think it’s about the amount of FTs? It’s about the amount of unfair calls.
Why do ya’ll always retreat to unfalsifiable vibes based arguments when confronted with actual facts that dispute your narrative?
Do they keep “unfair calls” stats?
Yes actually, it’s just not provided to everyone. I think teams are allowed to request judgements on specific calls.
All refs are graded on their calls as well.
Facts can be proven. He is just asking for your evidence not your tears.
I would welcome your attempt to quantify the change in the number of unfair calls post Finch comments.
Because one you can quantify. The other varies depending on feels, bias and allegiance.
And there it is. When you take out the actual numbers and just get mad on vibes.
I do appreciate the sports hate of it all. It went from everybody got put in line and SGA got less free throws to, well still fuck him anyway lol
This is hilarious, there is no way you watched 7 straight of our regular season games, you have no footing to call anything fair or unfair
Because it’s the amount of FTs that is quoted after every game
Probably because the comment I am replying to was about SGAs whistle and how it dropped to Curry levels. Thank you for demonstrating how Texas education is right behind ours.
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You’re asking for too much critical thinking from a Thunder fan
This is what we were saying. Like dude sga getting Gobert and Mcdaniels in foul trouble may not result in a foul but them having 2 quick fouls in the 1st is actually game changing.
It changes how the defenders approach SGA, and on the other side Caruso and Dort is mauling your star player without calls.
They straight up refuse to acknowledge this no matter how many times we have to explain it to them. Yes, the number of free throws is important and often times he gets a lot, but the slanted whistle on the other end is just as big of an issue.
Ok I’ll acknowledge it. Go look at the teams that get called for the most fouls in the league. OKC gets called for a ton of fuckin fouls. The fact that you see one or two bad ones that people lose their minds about doesn’t really mean shit. You’re still caught up in the narrative when the real issue is that OKC is just good, beats the shit out of teams and they have coaches, players, and fans crashing the fuck out and blaming it on refs when the real issue is that they’re just a really well put together team who tries hard.
Thunder are 19th in fouls per game so not really, and SGA has favorable whistle because even though the has an elite EFF package the refs don’t even it out by calling his push offs, and no everyone doesn’t get away with it Celtics just got called for 5 offensive fouls to start this game
No, I wouldn’t be upset if it was one or two bad calls. Also, what is your point about saying okc is just good? You’re arguing with a ghost on that point. Who tf said they weren’t? People are tired of watching shai bait for fouls and get them while their defense is allowed to be overly aggressive.
Actually you’re right, a majority of fans are all being fooled by some grand conspiracy to turn the masses against okc!!! Somebody call Bill Simmons he loved this kinda stuff!!
Don’t you go trying to bring logic and facts into this conversation
Its not about how much he shoots them. Its about what kind of calls hes getting and what the other team is getting
Buddy I’m responding to a specific comment about how much he shoots them lol
The comment you responded to doesn’t even have the words “free throws” nor does it cite an amount anywhere in it.
A Steph Curry whistle doesn’t just refer to how many hes shooting.
Hes referring to Curry getting fouled but not getting calls. As in what kind of fouls are and are not being called.
Hope this helps
You aren’t the guy I replied to so I don’t really care what you think he meant.
Cant help someone who wants to be stupid
They’re from Oklahoma City dude, I don’t think they have a choice
Thats true lol
This “It’s not ____, it’s _____” about SGA has to be ChatGPT at this point, y’all can’t help yourselves
If the primary defender gets called for two early ticky tack fouls that aren’t shooting fouls, is he shooting free throws? No. Does it impact the game? Yes.
I seriously dont know if OKC fans are willfully blind or too stupid to understand this
What does that incredibly specific example have to do with SGA specifically, or the Thunder more broadly? You think getting opposing teams in foul trouble is something Daigneault invented? Did you just start watching basketball?
curry’s whistle is even better than shai’s.
No it hasn’t
It feels like every damn game in the entire playoffs has some ref drama.
You think this is bad? If the Lakers finish off the Rockets, just wait until the largest fan base in the world starts talking about this in the next round….
I actually hope it’s the Lakers. Easily the one team/fanbase that can’t claim to be on the wrong side of officiating. If they try and do this shit they’ll get laughed out of the sub
2 days between games does that, and I guess not a lot of drama in the other series up to this point.
Maximizing the complaining until Saturday.
Just saying what everyone’s been thinking since last year’s playoffs. Been true for two seasons now. Historic whistle.
As a neutral observer, I gotta say thunder flairs are like the sorest winners I’ve ever seen
And it always revolves around the thunder… I wonder why 🤔
The thunder are much better than most opponents and they need to do whatever they can to make up for the talent disadvantage
Shut the fuck up nobody was saying this shit when the celtic, bucks, nuggets, warriors won their ring
They was bitching about the warriors all the time lil bro how old are you 😂😂
The other teams weren’t ever at risk of making a dynasty so nobody gave a fuck about them. At least be honest, I hate OKC because I don’t like dynasties
They did say it with the warriors and none of those other teams were ever in OKC’s position that they are in now.
Are u dumb?
Are you?
You just compared the 2021 bucks to the current Thunder lol
I know Oklahoma got bad education, but you have to be a special kind of idiot to think the warriors had the same perception and officiating as the okc
Did Draymond green just disappear from ur mind or something
does Draymond green get hate for shooting free throws?
No, they really didnt, most players and coaches didnt say shit about illegal screens cuz the NBA let them play more physical defense and gave the Warriors less calls, or in simpler terms, they had counterplay, there isnt much counterplay when one team gets soft calls on offense and then gets to maul the other team with no call on defense
This entire framing so funny to me because you’re essentially saying OKC opponents all quit mentally.
“They can’t defend at the same level or they get called for fouls”. Somehow OKC doesn’t draw a ton of fouls though so you’re saying the other teams just give up on defending when they get called for fouls and OKC doesn’t.
This is what thunder fans don’t understand
If Dort can play his style of defense with the whistle he gets, SGA should also be refereed the same way on offense
So when Booker shoots more free throws than Shai, it’s not fair?
It has to be double the free throws of Shai, then it’s fair.
An Oklahoman who is poorly educated. Imagine!
Your opponents shoot free throws because your defense hacks them. Your team shoots free throws because they’re good at selling contact. Hope this helps
Oh yes, the classic.
“The team I don’t like fouls every time and their opponent never fouls, it’s unfair that they have similar results”
No, it’s specifically this Thunder team. There’s a reason countless players and coaches keep saying the same thing about them
It’s because they need to do anything they can to limit OKC’s advantage. It’s strategy.
The refs need to be addressed on a systemic level - especially in regard to certain teams. I’m glad there is some noise.
Besides the tech I really didn’t feel there was a crazy discrepancy between the two teams whistles. The Thunder got some soft calls, the suns got some soft calls, Thunder players got held off ball, suns players got held off ball, I’m surprised that this was the game that for some reason ticked off all the suns players. Hopefully they put up a more inspired performance in game 3.
So exhausted of ref discourse man
We all are. I wish the NBA was tired of this shit too but until proven otherwise, they likely don’t care
What do you want the NBA to do
The NBA already put rules in place to penalize players for embellishing and selling calls. And they just don’t use those rules at all.
Even if you don’t want to waste time calling out flops in game, it would be very easy to penalize guys for selling calls with a review process after the games.
They implemented the flopping tech rule, maybe calling it would be a good start. Holding the refs accountable for their incompetence or just being better at identifying when a player is trying to draw a foul.
This goes for all teams. When the Celtics won the championship, everyone wanted to copy how they did it and now every team shoots more 3’s. If the league doesn’t get this under control, we’re gonna have every team trying to manipulate the refs and make every game turn into a free throw contest
The Thunder are middle of the pack in free throws per game though. How are they turning the league towards a “free throw contest”?
Disband OKC
Thank you for being honest
Said the quiet part out loud
Lol dawg it was maybe two or three truly bad calls in a game yall were getting bent over regardless. Get over it
And that’s coming from a dude who watched the entire game irl with a bunch of Nets fans in nyc. Nobody saw the ‘rigged’ shit yall r whining about, your reddit complaining is not real
You do know you choose to listen to/ read about it, right?
I choose to use this subreddit, I don’t choose to see everything that comes up on it
I’m finding myself agreeing with so many lakers fans since these playoffs started. Fuck OKC and the refs for that lmao
They’ve gotten destroyed twice and the Thunder have a single digit FT advantage. This 🤡 needs to sit.
When did whining about calls become not only accepted but applauded by some fans? It’s pathetic.
Why do fans always point to the FT discrepancy as if that’s in anyway a reliable indicator of fairness?
Why do yall never post clips from the 4k filmed game replays easily accessible online? Compile the missed calls against both teams post em here instead of bitching and whining about a problem you’re unwilling to prove, if there’s truly a huge discrepancy it’ll be demonstrated by that immediately
Luka is injured right now so someone had to fill his role of complaining after every play lol
Has Luka ever whined and gone crying to the media like this though? Maybe he has and I just don’t remember though…
He ABSOLUTELY complains a ton DURING the games directly to the refs.
Dude watch a game. The flopping is egregious and the calls are fucking ridiculous. It’s not fun to watch.
Pretending like this is a one team issue is funny though. Dillon Brooks snapped his head back on a few of his drives and got calls, Booker ran into his defenders and threw up a shot and got calls, Gillespe and Royce himself did the “chicken wing” push off multiple times, both teams are doing the same shit and getting rewarded for it so saying “call it both ways” just sounds like complaining for the sake of it.
LMFAO Devin Booker flops like crazy
In Game 2 Booker and Brooks both had egregious foul baiting that were as bad as anything SGA did and yet you don’t see that shit getting posted here. They both frequently do that pump fake and jump into the defender thing that D-Wade used to do.
If they weren’t wearing an okc jersey it doesn’t count here
Reddit is full of people astroturfing these posts to make you think it’s not an issue, even really it is. Best case is a team just walks off the floor one game
This is so funny considering the flops, crying, and push offs that the suns have gotten away with this series
Next time a reporter asks him about it, should he say that Reddit’s tired of ref discourse?
Lost both games by an average of 25 but everyone whining about refs lmao you could grab 3 phoenix fans as the referee staff and you’d still lose
The whining is getting so old
Chris Finch did it one time and now every team just says the same shit after every game against OKC like the game was won by 2 free throws and they weren’t blown out lmao
Way easier to blame the whistle than admit you just got ran off the floor.
if you’re still whining about the officiating days later you’ve completely lost. no heart
I think they know they lost but are preparing the rest of the league for this bs. I love basketball man. This team bores me to death. Slows the game down and it’s bad for the league. Yeah acting is a skill but it’s like soccer flops. People make fun of it.
More boring than the old Spurs lmao. Plus the fans are the equivalent of Lakers and Cowboys fans now.
Holy shit don’t turn the ball over 20+ times and it may be a single digit game. Crying to the media is such a loser mentality
They are need the Chris finch special where now were only going to get 5 fouls a game while they get 20 plus.
This is getting insane man
1⁄3 of their roster and their fucking owner, after two games that weren’t close. Insane isn’t the word I’d use. Fucking sad more like.
The owner specifically said they would have lost anyways but it doesn’t change what he said.
The Booker technical was obviously and absurdly ridiculous and I’ve even seen a lot of OKC fans agree with that. Like your own player was somehow able to convince the refs to give a T for it, that alone is absurd.
I don’t think a lot of Suns fans think they be up 2-0 or even 1-1 if the whistle was more even, but it doesn’t make it any less frustrating to watch their team get hosed when they are already the weaker team.
They weren’t hosed is the reality. Dort had a tech that was just as blatantly stupid in the same game that received 0% percent of the attention Bookers did, both were rescinded. For all the soft calls the Thunder got, there’s compilations of the soft whistle that led to Bookers 10 FTs. It just wasn’t the officiating catastophe that everyone is making it into, and yet the response is like a thousand september elevenths from y’all.
Look man, you can argue with everyone all you want but when the entire nba other than thunder fans are saying the whistle is bullshit I strongly recommend you take a step back and have a look at your bias.
I was watching this game as a neutral and OKC definitely seemed to get a more favourable whistle. It’s really not that hard to see
This appeal to the crowd that y’all keep doing, in 2026, when the vast majority of the world regularly and loudly believes absolutely the dumbest, wrongest shit – yeah, that’s not a good argument.
And this “as a neutral” is a laughable stretch. It’s not that hard to see that your confirmation bias gets triggered for one set of whistles and not the other.
Ok sounds good bro. We can all agree to just take Thunder fans’ word that the whistle is completely fair for them and their opponents. You’ve convinced me.
Like the lu Dort technical being rescinded as some evidence in your favour is absolutely hilarious. That was a double technical on brooks as well, which offset each other and no blood lost during the game for either team, and brooks was rescinded as well, so of course it wasn’t going to be talked about the same as booker’s technical. You basically proved my point here so thank you.
“Oh my god, it was a double tech so it deserves to not get talked about, but Bookers tech that resulted in 1 point should be the focus of the entire basketball world for 36 hours straight!”
But you’re not biased at all, right?
Just top to bottom terrible arguments from the jump from you and most everyone like you all over NBA social media. Get your shit together guys, because there will be games where the Thunder get an actual biased whistle going forward, and you’re not gonna have any way to put into words why its unfair because you used them up on this bullshit.
Yes? Why would a double technical that goes against both teams be used as a reason to say that one team got an advantage over the other, and why would anyone care to discuss something that didn’t effect either team? They were both treated exactly the same. Why would we bother talking about that? Are you implying that Brooks deserved the technical when Dort didn’t?
Focus of the entire basketball world? It was the focus on this particular series. There are lots of other things people are discussing right now because you know, it’s the playoffs?
No I’m not biased. I’ve done a pretty reasonable job explaining to you why a double technical that didn’t effect either team at the time is not going to be talked about as much as as a technical charged against one team when it was blatant that it shouldn’t have been called, but for some reason you seem to think that because a technical only leads to one point nobody should ever talk about incorrect calls or technical fouls.
You guys are going to win the series, it’s all going to be ok. You don’t need to get so butthurt over getting unfair calls.
Why? Watch the play. It didn’t deserve a tech for either, but Dort literally did nothing, while Brooks initiates all the contact. You likely don’t remember that because you only know the video of the tech for Booker, which got thousands of upvotes, along with his hissy fit presser. If anything, objectively a foul should’ve been called on Brooks, but instead we got what we got.
Did it, or the tech on Booker, effect the outcome of the game? No. Like you said, their owner admitted as such. So why are we still talking about the officiating? Why all this whinging? And why are you, specifically, pretending to have no bone to pick with the Thunder and officiating?
Game 2 was no different whistle-wise than any other playoff game. Both teams likely had a few calls to complain about, and we all saw the stupid tech call. You could replace okc in that game with any other playoff team and we’d have exactly 0 discourse about calls/refs/fouls outside the tech. - not an OKC fan.
Well they getting their ass whooped and fooled by their wins over us in the regular season. Teams that beat us in the reg season are in for rude awakening, we play different in the playoffs.
I think its less that and more that guys that normally get shit on for this kind of sore loser talk are seeing it rewarded in the media and on socials specifically when it’s directed at us. It seems to be infecting the rest of the league writ large cause holy shit a lot of other series are having some whiney post game pressers in a way I don’t remember it being until recently.
Man Im so tired of hearing about the refs.
I really am.
It’s every sport. Ive never been one to criticize the officials, I think it’s just a lazy excuse most of the time. Everybody gets screwed. Play through it and get over it. Every post game presser is just -
“Uhhh….so X Team got to the line 20 times, and we only went twice…so yah, something isn’t right here, this is unacceptable.”
It’s every sport.
This is it for me. If you follow multiple sports, especially if you engage in online communities, you realise that literally every professional sport in the world has the worst refs you could ever have calling their games.
Suddenly you realise that people just make excuses for shit they don’t understand and want their quick validation, because no one will ever disagree with you because it’s become sports nature to hate refs no matter what.
Whining about refs automatically makes me assume you’re lazy or unintelligent.
I think I saw more complaints hit the front page of the NFL subreddit about blatantly correct calls this season than I did for incorrect calls.
Everything that goes my way is skill and everything that goes the other way is bullshit
Social media just made it worse. People dont want refs to follow the rule book. They want them to let the game be as entertaining as possible. Funny thing is that even if they “let them play” through some situations, if its called then everyone starts whining about being consistent for both sides.
It’s your choice. You literally choose to listen to it
Such a lazy thing to say. “Scroll past it”. Like I have a choice to not see it. There are hundreds of posts a day about this, doesn’t it ever get old?… I do like basketball, just not this aspect of it. More basketball talk, less ref talk.
We don’t want to make the game about the refs, yet we talk about them an awful lot lol.
To the players - Less complaining about missed calls, more Basketball. You’re going to get missed calls every single game and unless it’s something super egregious that actually affects the game, then nobody wants to hear about it. Nobody wants to see you complaining.
Scroll on past, “lazy take” lol yeah okay buddy.
Put down Reddit and do something else
Find another subreddit
Go take a nap lol. Fucking goof.
It’s not about the discrepancies of the calls. It’s what is being called. As in why is is it a foul this way but the same exact scenario happens on the other end and it’s not a foul? That’s what the discourse is about. Consistency of what the calls being made are. You can’t blame the players if things like this happen and you try to get an explanation and there isn’t one and you’re playing for a chip. Come on man it’s not as easy as “play through it and get over it”
Good thing it hasn’t been one-sided!
Oh my god are we still doing this?
They complained before the series started, after game 1, after game 2, and again today. Like holy shit they’ve been whining for a fucking week straight and there’s been what? 4 bad calls in OKC’s favor? (And a few in PHX’s favor but yall ignore that lol).
Are we gonna do this shit for the next two months?
Thunder have been getting BS calls for a while now. Don’t act like this shit is new when everyone has had a turn complaining about how OKC gets officiated. Especially not even halfway in the first round, OKC is already on sum bs. OKC has good players and yet they choose to play like this smh
Nah not really. You could run this same stupid foul baiting campaign against half the teams in the league. If we hyper focused on every single bad or borderline call for any single team for a year+ we’d see the exact same kinds of things. But we don’t bc nobody has a vested interest in proving that Jamal Murray grifts for fouls or that the Magic sometimes get away with fouling or whatever.
This whole thing started bc SGA was a threat to win MVP last year and “shoots a lot of FTs” was the easiest thing to try and use to tear him down in the MVP convos.
And then from there it’s morphed into this weird amorphous vibes-based claim that OKC gets completely different refs on both ends from the other 29 teams despite none of the stats or film breakdowns ever being able to identify any concrete proof.
Until OKC drops from being number one in fouls given, meaning they get the most calls in their favor, I’m going to keep saying they get help from the refs. Let both teams actually play defense, not just one. I’m looking at the charts and watching the games, and it’s obvious when teams play against OKC. They’ve got talent on both ends of the floor, yet they still choose to play in the worst way possible.
Look at the charts a bit harder inbred, Orlando is first in fouls against, OKC is ninth. Over the last 3 years combined okc is 26th lmao did you think no one else would bother to look at the chart?
I’m talking about them being 24th in fouls committed and 1st in fouls given. That’s what I’m talking about that has me already second-guessing this team. And then there’s the eye test where everyone saw how dumb officiating has been in these past two games. That’s why it’s a heavily talked-about topic after every game with this damn flopping ass team
Are you illiterate they are 9th in fouls given
Brother, are you fucking dumb?
OKC isn’t even in the top half of the league in fouls lol
Me when I lie:
Another OKC fan coming in hot to defend their team
Brother you replied to me, lmao
I dead ass thought it was another OKC fanboy getting in on this
Doesn’t matter though, not like OKC is going to suddenly start losing because refs give them less of a whistle.
Beat them. If you can’t, that’s on you. Have your team owner petition the league to investigate OKC, do it. I guarantee you, OKC’s fans and players couldn’t care less about that. They don’t play to win due to fouls, they would be setting records in fouls if that was really their scheme.
Their plan is to simply play aggressive and physical, but disciplined defense and then use that defense to transition into offense. It has been their MO since 23-24 when they finally got their feet wet in the playoffs. Nobody was complaining back then about their whistle or how unfair they were to play against. Why? Because they weren’t a threat to be declared the dominant team of the 2020s until now.
Now that Oklahoma is actually a threat to run a professional sport league for the foreseeable future? Now its all hands on deck to fashion a narrative or find a narrative that fits the idea that “this CAN’T happen so it must be due to some unfair advantage!”.
No different than so many conspiracy theorists. You can’t take the time to actually think for yourselves and instead rely on comfortable narratives that fit the goal of what you want instead.
It’s sad, and I hope that so many people out there that are biting at this narrative bait will one day realize just how much time they had wasted and how little impact it ever really had.
Get your bullshit ass AI response outta here, MF
Why would you assume that it’s AI? ~~; There’s nothing in that comment that even hints that it’s AI other than you probably associating its length and my typical (look at my comment history) spacing between points.
At least respond with something that shows your own cognitive functionality if you’re going to casually insult mine based on assumptions.
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I guess you’re just trying to ragebait by making claims with no proof, and you’re just… wrong.
Mind telling the rest of us how you’re so keenly aware of my use of AI? :) I’d like to hear it if you do know, you can even send me a private message if you’d rather talk things over in that way.
Otherwise, if you’re just going to keep calling my comments AI without actually saying why you think it’s AI, I’ll just assume you’re trying to make a weak attempt to get me to shut up or something like that.
Discredit by accusations, learning from Trump I guess. Society really does seem to have regressed a lot since 10 years ago. ~~;
Nah, I’m not dealing with your AI nonsense. Which I already told you, so why are you still responding with more AI garbage
It’s amazing how refs are not only biased, but they’re always biased against your team.
I want to see a player or coach come out after a game and say “man, the refs gave us a huge advantage tonight, it’s like it was 8 on 5.”
Like I get Booker being upset because his technical made no sense, but come on man. They’re just coming up with any excuse now because they’re getting walloped.
Ummmmm I think both teams shot nearly identical free throws 😂😂😂😂
It’s the no calls on hacks and possesion calls on flops that fuel OKC
If run the tape back each games “missed” calls don’t differ that much. They really don’t. It’s only exaggerated if it was a tough loss or close win.
Oh my lord I’d understand if the two teams were on an even playing field but you really aren’t man but I get why Phoenix are doing this they know this they want any advantage they can get
bitch
moan
repeat
thunder in 4
Constant victim mentality is so fucking boring.
It’s tough being an inbred Oklahoman with nothing to live for there huh😭💔🥀
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We were supposed to win 30 games this season according to Vegas. Yall are the defending champs.
The fact that ya’ll got Caruso begging for techs when Book is saving a dead ball and Chet acting like he’s getting shot with a sniper rifle anytime Colin Gillespie is near him is down right embarrassing.
I’d hope OKC would be cool to just play fucking basketball instead of whatever the fuck we’ve been watching so far. People are sick of it.
I know I’m biased as a Thunder fan but it wasn’t even that bad. The only calls that I thought were down right bad was the tech on booker and offensive foul on booker (agaisnt Carus). Both team were playing physical abd were allowed to play physical.
Loser mentality. Not the 20+ turnovers or just the actual ass whoppin on the court. No no, it’s someone else’s fault you lost by 50+ in 2 games.
It’s a tactical move to try and sway refs, don’t blame them at all for pulling that card. It won’t work, and there’s long compilations from game 2 already posted on this app of Phoenix getting a bunch of phantom calls too so it’s also untrue, but I don’t blame them for trying it. Anything helps in this situation.
Just stfu already. You’re getting your ass beat regardless. Not bc of refs
Utter clown shit and victim mentality. How about focus on not being down by 30 in by the 4th quarter.
How about this? Quit crying about officiating and just try to win the fucking game. They’re so much better than you. They could probably spot you 15 points a game to start the game and still wax your ass
Every Superstar gets calls. Does he bait for fouls sure, but he’s still a fucking awesome player about to win his second MVP in a row
Joker flops MJ flopped Magic flopped
I could go on. There’s probably not one great player all the time that doesn’t try to bait for fouls
Bitch about the reffing in Cancun next weekend all you want.
If my team is constantly complaining about the refs, I’m finding a new team.
I think there are a few more favorable calls given to the Thunder in some games. Sometimes it is egregious and weird, and the team also does whatever they can within the rules of the game to win each time out. It definitely doesn’t always go their way, and sometimes they get screwed just like everyone else. I prefer games to be called as consistently as possible, but I also don’t think it usually makes much of a difference to the outcome of their games. They are a legitimately good team, and other than Lugentz losing the plot once, they are just trying to win within the rules or letting it be called as interpreted by the officials, and they’re good at it. The rest is completely up to the league.
Now let’s go get some chicken and enjoy some basketball.
“It’s my turn to karma farm!”
Brother forgot which team they’re playing against
You are on the suns man, this will never happen. See 2021 finals
Everyone on here not seeing this as a issue is delusional, but I guess that’s the NBA subreddit for you. The reffing has been gettng worse and worse every season and particularly this one and it’s not just one team either. So yeah NBA players should be calling this shit out, they’re the best ones to get the message out and make it known.
If you want to sit back and watch this product of basketball be my guest, but I find it disgusting and a disgrace to the sport.
Dude answers a question and everyone in the comments gets butthurt
Gitgud.
wdym royce, they didn’t call ur push off just like they didn’t for sga, seems fair to me
Refs want it the one way… but it’s the other way.
Can’t believe there are people being mad at a guy who is asking to be reffed neutrally lmao
So what if they were going to lose any way, its supposed a neutral sport.
They called out the ref. What gas NBA done so far?
Why would they still need the biased calls if they’re really that good? Let the teams battle it out..
People In here heated like Royce wasn’t asked the question, and someone went out of their way to post it here lmao
It’s crazy that all he’s asking for is consistency
Man if there’s a game where we actually do get a really unfair whistle, y’all are gonna January 6th the Paycom center
SGA might be the most hated player that I’ve ever seen from just an on-court perspective lol
People hated Decision LeBron and Warriors KD the most but nobody doubted their talent they just called them weak players who were getting cheap rings
With SGA a ton of fans unironically talk like he’s an average player propped up by the league
You couldn’t be more wrong. Everyone thinks he good enough to put up the same numbers without all the flailing and foul baiting, that’s the problem. He’s good enough to NOT play like this but chooses to anyway. Not sure what you’re on about people thinking he’s average.
It’s that OKC education and victim mindset for yah.
Uh, I think the player that literally used to be referred to as Hitler (Harden) for his playstyle was slightly more hated.
He’s not though.
Yeah man refs are why you guys keep losing
Should still call the game the right way regardless of the teams talent level. It’s called integrity of the game. Do you somehow have an issue with that?
Act like the players can control the questions that they’re asked. Kick rocks ya turd
Funny how every fan base agrees the officiating is skewed except the thunder
Most thunder fans think the calls have been dog shit, but crying about bad calls when you’re getting blown out by 20 every night is baby behavior. The suns have lost by 48 points total, and the free throw discrepancy is 8. Like just be real.
Why would you all think the reffing is dog shit? Or do you not like getting an advantage?
I mean, people want this to be true cause everyone hates OKC.
Reality is, Suns are close to equal when it comes to FT hunting and being aggressive.
I get it though, when you have Oso as a rim protector you need less fouls called to be competitive.
I mean yeah, you’re all desperate to have the champ knocked off. Sports 101
Because they’re sore losers 🤡
Get gud, sore losers
Adorable
Suck my nuts, losers!