16 points on 2 FGM is a masterpiece 

2-12 with 16 points is genuinely an amazing line lol yikes

My fellow Blazer fans will eat me alive for this but I agree. It’s a style of basketball that’s trendy and not fun to watch. Every time Deni has the ball he drives, makes an angry face, and gets contact.

Like clockwork.

It’s annoying how the commentators seem to encourage it as well.

Candace kept saying how he was “looking to get back to the free throw line,” like that’s a good thing.

This shit would have 3k upvotes by now if it were Shai or Luka

He flails into the defender and then throws the ball at the rim . Corner store harden

 getting bailed out 

Clippers know a thing or 2 about this lmao

He’s not usually this bad with the flopping, but yeah, there are times when his game consists of drive straight at the paint and hope for a foul. 

I like to watch him drive, but when his touch is off and he’s just missing stuff and getting to the line it’s awful to watch. Bro needs to work on his touch.

He is an IDF piece of shit, what did you expect

He is everything people say SGA is. Awful to watch

The free throws are promised to him.

Don’t love watching it but if it’s effective they’ll keep doing it. Officiating needs an overhaul

Scoot and Timelord are more ethical and better vibes for sure.

Yahu Ball

Not really a fan of the guy but I mean the dude’s tooth got chipped lol. Not like he doesn’t get hit

Yes the style is spreading because it’s so effective, drive flail and fall, get FTs

More people need to think about if their opinions are worth sharing before hitting post

I honestly don’t think he’s flopping at all. His drives are actually to score, and he is getting fouled.

Ol’ IDFTA

The game of basketball is all about free throws now

Booker was right

this dude literally perma drives every time and gets the foul for some reason, it’s boring as hell to watch, if he becomes an actual star, he’ll be among the most hated.

sga and luka are all time skilled at least and it’s part of their game, with advija it’s his entire game it feels like

How many more of this same exact fuckin post do we need… I am sure it’s all genuine and because of his playstyle.

Can’t really blame him when the officials reward that style of play.

He was promised those points 3000 years ago.

He’s good at getting a half step on the defender but then it’s just violently throw his arms around or jump directly into the defenders chest and get FTs

It’s disgusting all the crying about Shai but he’s not near this bad. Fake all star and better not make all nba. Inefficient free throw hunter

Unethical hooping.

It’s just Giannis ball without the extra freaky length/dunking

you can bet on having how many free throws tho

brother you’re not even taking into account that he has NO left hand, if teams sit on his right hand he cant even shoot going to the left. the fact that he can get his shit off with one hand makes all the antics a lil more annoying imo

Inwould change one thing from this post and thats to put a dis at the start

There are 4 horsemen of the modern era of foul baiters and you listed 3 of them

I was just talking to my brother about this. All the worst parts of euro style bball in one guy

Ticks me off. Scottie Barnes could get elbowed in the face and not get a free throw out of it.

Just look up where he’s from

Thought he looked awesome in G1, G2 and the play-in after seeing him do this in the regular season a lot… thought maybe the playoffs force him to be the best version of himself. Nooope.

Why are you mad? Those fouls were promised to him 3000 years ago.

Tall Ginobili

Why respectfully? Fuck this mf

When he doesn’t get the call he makes the stupidest face.

Shame Goon loading

He’s an IDF soldier, everything is disgusting about him

Fuck him. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Just so annoying to watch him just drive in and go for the foul every time, it seems his performance is tied to whether the refs are on his side or not, and him being a bad person definitely doesn’t help his case.

For a first tine all star he gets wistle like his a hall of famer. Ugly to watch

I haven’t seen Deni.

What kind of flopper is he?

1. The kind that exaggerates contact when playing an attacking get to the rim style?

2. The kind that trying to game the refs via, running into players, rip thru moves, unnatural Z-line to basket to generate contact while ignoring direct lanes to.

3. The star that abuses the ref’s whistle? you know that kinda that will hit you and then get you made so you retaliate. The kinda that will use offarm push offs and run into you when hey caused you to go offbalance.

It’s half of the so called “stars” in the league do this bushleague shite

He was promised those fouls apparently

You wouldn’t said what you said in the play in game vs phoenix

Tbh I didn’t really care for advija but since I saw his PPG take a leap I’ve watched a few of his games and I’m actually really impressed

He gets Downhill a lot. And you’re going to have to foul him with the force and speed he’s driving the ball with

Super impressed by his game.

Seems like this might be a hot take, but at least deni is trying to get to the rim

Fta flopping around 10 ft from the basket feels worse

Only reasons I find myself not being upset the wizards let him go - his game is horrible to watch and i would have a zionist idf soldier as the star of my team. would feel icky to cheer for him

Unfortunately this isn’t about the players anymore, the league needs to make massive adjustments and reward this play less. When I stopped gambling, watching the games got really hard to do players seeking fouls, it was awful as a neutral.

Honestly, Deni should be a 6th man not the main piece on a team.

Blazers ain’t going anywhere with this current setup.

He’s just like Shai. The reason he’s not as frustrating to watch though is that there isn’t a huge discrepancy between how he’s reffed and how the Blazers defense is reffed. When the Blazers foul, they get called for it.

OKC and Shai are so disgusting to watch because you’re not allowed any physicality towards Shai, but they’re allowed to play football or rugby and just maul people on the other end.

So even if he averages 1 or 2 more FTA per game, I find Shai to be the more frustrating to watch.

P.s. fuck Adam Silver for only caring about the marketability of certain players and not an overall, unbiased product. Scott Foster should have been jailed right beside Tim Donaghy. Not only did he walk, he’s still do the league’s dirty business. OKC vs Denver last year. OKC vs Indy last year. Call in Foster to save OKC.

There are 1 or 2 players on avg on each team that plays this way.

I said it in all the OKC Portland match ups, he shot so poorly that his scoring was helped by free throws. When he misses, he just looks to draw contact by sprinting full speed into players.

He played a lot of soccer growing up. Makes sense

Is this a younger audience thing? I sometimes feel like I’ve lost my mind when I see posts like these. Attempting to draw contact has really always been a thing. It’s hard to find the older footage, but it’s out there if you’re truly curious.

Some nights it’ll look ugly, like tonight when the guy misses a lot of bunnies, but it really is up to the defenders to anticipate and adjust to it. There were many instances tonight where Avdija was looking to bait a foul on the drive, but the defender gave him nothing and the possession died.

Fakes and deception are part of the competition, and we watch the NBA to see the best competitors in the world.

If the NBA playoffs had a round of Avdija vs Sengun, it might bankrupt them with the lack of viewership.

It’s funny everyone complaining about the free throws but you never see compilation videos of the fouls he’s getting. And that’s because he’s actually getting fouled and that would destroy the narrative.

Respectfully, I don’t really take anyone opinion of this dude seriously here when half this sub was saying he flopped AFTER the broadcast showed him missing half a tooth from an elbow.

There were some baity moves last night, but no one wants to talk about the refs absolutely swallowing their whistle on contact in the second half last night or the first two games of series, where he was only at the line five times. Castle does the same head snap shit SGA does btw.

Basketball and real life terrorist

Fuck israel

The foul line was promised to hi… gets blown up by a drone

As soon as bro gets inside the paint a whistle gets called.

You mean plays like I know they do. You said it yourself, his shotmaking isn’t the same level. People aren’t as vocal about players they care less about. The players at the top of the game have more pull over the direction of the league. As soon as people saw Steph winning they tried to play more like that. They saw stretch bigs win and they did that. They saw Harden win mvp flopping from zero contact and realized they could do the same.

Hate on, haters.

WE GOT KIDS WATCHING

Dawg I feel the same way with Sengun. Like bro doesn’t even try for the and 1s. Just flails

Zoomers slowly realizing players just want to win and free throws are the easiest ways to score points