[Highlight] Tempers flare as Castle puts the ball in Avdija’s chest after an and-one
Advija was fouling him from the momemt he crossed the half line. Weird refs didn’t call anything until he made the basket.
Yeah this is poor officiating. You’re taught from entry level ref jobs to call the fouls early when things get chippy to stop flareups like this.
You haven’t seen middle school girls AAU basketball then
Fuckin refs let kids roll around on the floor before calling a jump ball
Oh man, it’s not just middle school - it’s anything from NYS, to CYO and YMCA. It infuriates me because they refuse to call any push-off stuff yet they get mad when the resulting grab-ball for a jump ball gets chippy. It’s their own fuckin fault!
Right lol Doris kept saying the ball on the chest was too much, im like have you been watching this possession at all WTF lol
Yeah that’s just classic Doris, she gets one thing and just repeats it over and over, ignoring everything else and any context
Yep lol
Dani beat Stephon up for 20s straight but oooh don’t shove the ball at his chest!
C’mon man lmao
Are you saying there was a long stretch of aggressiveness and then people only looked at the reaction, ignoring the context and everything that came before to paint Avdija as the victim? Hmmm, reminds me of some other things…
Deni has a right to defend hinself
it’s his half of the court after all, just because it was castle’s half before is irrelevant - borders halves change
Mods about to delete this comment
tell em
I’m right with you brother
Also he doesnt shove it. He straight up places it, a little taunting. Wouldn’t be happening if you gave him his calls though, that gets players chirpy.
Yeah, it looked like taunting “you wanted the ball? There you go”
That’s how i saw it at least.
Result of sniffing her own farts for the last 2 decades
Her brain is well cooked man
Doris is so exhausting
r/nba deserves Doris after complaining about JVG and wanting him gone for years.
JVG was the goat commentator that wasn’t just another sound board and actually had a sense of humor
reddit and complaining goes hand and hand.
now i’m complaining about the complaining. what have we done
I liked JVG but Bill Walton will always be my GOAT.
I totally understand people that hated his style but it worked so well for me. Walton loved basketball and always had the perspective that this is all just a game we’re supposed to be having fun playing and watching.
I’ll never forget his weird, Larry David-esque second cousins comment.
I thought Doris got benched. I don’t understand why she’s back.
First round of the playoffs. There are more series than the broadcasters have regular announcing teams so they gotta call up the reserves. Sometimes you’ll see guys who all season are in studio panelists suddenly doing color commentary in the first round.
Let’s be honest though shes probably the worst national commentator in the last 25 years.
Not even close…she’s mid but gets shit on more often because she’s a woman.
She yaps a lot, but occasionally says something interesting or funny which is more than I can say for a majority of color commentators.
She said he should be t’d up twice. Stupid.
Sure, but that is the refs sucking for not calling the foul. You can understand exactly why he did and still be 1000% sure that what he did was not warranted and is actually never warranted.
It’s not thw worst thing I’ve ever seen someone do, kinda funny if we’re being honest about it, but we all know you can’t shove the basketball into the chest of an opponent, like ever.
I mean. Dani basically hacked Stephon the entire possession and gave a hard hack at the end and Dani is mad Castle shoved the ball at his chst?
Like WTF that makes no sense. “YEAH. I beat you up for 20 seconds straight but don’t shove the ball at me!”
Sorry that makes no sense lol
Fouled him 4 times and Castle still scored.
I knew Avdija was always kind of a loser but I didn’t know it was this bad
Portland have been getting away with physicality all game lol
That’s how they got their big lead first half, just watch what Jrue was doing to Wemby lmao and Wemby shot his first free throws in the 4th i think
This is very very common for steph.
Heck idk why the refs hate guys named steph tbh, they let dudes just hack the shit outta them.
Should’ve called a foul way earlier
Caruso wasn’t there to tell the refs what to do.
Yeah to be fair to them, how would they know what to call when Caruso and Draymond aren’t in the building?
*4 or 5 separate fouls
Deniyahu was fouling from the jump and should have been T’d up for the push
Bro fouled him multiple times, got still beat and then pissed that he gets clowned on. Fck that dude honestly
Yeah, exactly
Could have prevented the whole thing if they did too lol
There are so many scenarios where shit like this could easily be avoided if NBA officials were just competent lmao.
Avdija gets away with a lot…
Deni has a right to defend himself
He was promised a championship a long time ago…
You got downvoted because they didn’t get the joke lmao
And further the NBA has a right to defend Deni against aggressors like the Spurs
he’s one of the biggest flop queens in the nba, totally fit’s with israel’s victim mentality
like genocide? fuck this guy
Not just that, Avdija clearly had a full wind up before the foul that was called. I’ve seen other plays have less wind up and the refs determined it was a wind up and a flagrant 1. They could’ve done that here too tbh, even just watching it live that had some intent
That’s not what these refs do.
Refs have to call the foul earlier
Refs have been god awful in the series..
Refs have been god awful*
Refs have been god*
ARAB
All Refs Are Bald
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They allowed all game this sort of physicality.
ok then that’s fine, it’s a playoff game, refs are trying to find a new level of physicality for it to be a foul
The issue is the refs were also calling blocking on the most minor amounts of contact on both sides. The refs don’t know what kind of game they want to call
Shots fired. No, like actually.
Okay karoline
She misspoke Leavitt alone already
Lmao 🤣
That’s it. I’m deceased.
There was no acting on this play though..
lololol
How could Jaden McDaniels do this?
I’ve seen enough…tech on booker.
I heard a clap…. flagrant 2 on Tatum and 5 game suspension.
Wemby clapped after he got a foul and I was legit worried he might get a Tatum clap tech.
He can’t keep getting away with this!
Jaden McDaniels, pioneer in instigating
Habitual line stepper
2 fts for shai
Amare and Diaw would’ve left the bench
Man, I’ll never get over that moment and suspension.
Most frustrating series in my lifetime
That was the same series where Nash had the vertical cut on his nose that they couldn’t stop bleeding so he missed the last minute of game 1
I hope stern is rotting in hell
Edit: id forgotten but donaghy specifically mentioned game 3 of this series as a game that he threw in favor of the spurs. Theres a youtube video of some of the awful calls he made to swing game 3
too soon
Deni has the right to defend himself!
The San Antonio Spurs are 3-5 years away from developing a Nuclear Bomb
T_T
From a basketball?
Edit: woosh to me fo’ sho’
They r joking cause he’s a genocide apologist.
Baseball yes, basketball no
Most emotion I’ve ever seen Castle show
Nah hes not there yet cuz the moment Tim Duncan smiles or chews a gum he gets a tech
He always shows emotion.
If I’m fouled five times in one possession and cook the guy anyway I’m gonna be pretty fired up
To be fair, in the past Sochan would have been up in Avdija’s face before Castle ever had the chance to react.
He was clearly in shock castle had the ability to retaliate give him a break he’s just a kid
I want to make a joke but I don’t want to get banned. See you guys in the circlejerk sub
It ain’t safe there either.
Texans be like “imagine supporting a fascist state”
Holy fucking shiiiiiiiiit
Nukes are two weeks away from having Steph
Deni just fouling 5 times on the possession. Castle did the right thing. Learn to play defense portland instead of just fouling every possession.
Fouling is both Deni’s offensive and defensive strategy
Yeah, that off arm of his every drive is getting annoying ngl
And it’s like, his only move.
Flail one arm while trying to get around a screen looking like one leg is shorter than the other, or drive into the paint and just yank the ball back and forth on offense. Then force up a shot.
Fighting at the end of games. So hot right now.
If I’m gonna watch my team lose in such disappointing fashion, the least they can do for me is throw a temper tantrum at the end and give me SOME entertainment /s
How was there no foul prior lol
Because NBA officiating is a joke.
Which, before he crossed half court, or as he crossed half court, or as he crossed the 3pt line, or the one when he was entering the lane, or maybe the foul just before the shot. Very few times a player can foul out in a single play, but here we are.
His name is not SGA. To be fair, SGA would have been flailing at the half court line, so Caruso would have told the ref to call a foul.
NBA is the biggest “hold me back” league in all of sports.
No way, baseball has guys run 100 meters from the bullpen to just stand there and jaw at each other
Baseball also has guys throwing punches though
Basketball never gets real fights
We just had the Hornets Pistons fight a month ago, where Moussa looked like he was going to put someone into a hospital and tried multiple times to do so.
Basketball doesn’t get real fights because the court is small and there’s instantly 50 people breaking it up at any sign of aggression, not because the players aren’t willing to fight.
We also have the Pistons vs Timberwolves fight and the Warriors vs Minnesota headlock lol
To be fair, Thiago Splitter was the one that pulled Deni back, and he’s fucking huge.
Damn I was watching this at work at Portland was up 17 at the half. What happened?
Defense
And Wemby stopped chucking shots and moved the ball like they have been doing all season.
Idk if I’d say he was chucking. He didn’t look like himself because he’s getting back into rhythm
Wemby woke the fuck up in the second half. Think he had 5 blocks and several on consecutive possessions.
Also, Castle just locked Deni the fuck up. Hence his crashout.
Area 51 destroyed them in the 3rd and 4th Quarters and then Fox took over.
Spurs defense stepped up, Portland didn’t adjust and couldn’t make a bucket. Also spurs offense was great
Wemby stopped pretending to be a guard
They were hot, and then they were not
didnt expect this from castle lol
Usually calm but 5 uncalled fouls before a final hack would get to the calmest
I’ll allow it.
I think we’ll see more of this from Castle
castle aura farming too
Funniest thing to me is jerami grant having to begrudgingly break this up
Vassell laughing his ass off throughout the whole ordeal was also funny.
jerami grant would rather be doing literally anything else than be on a basketball court
This ain’t shit but playoff ball
Which part? All of those hack ass fouls Deni was serving up from 80 feet?
Refs fault. They should have called the first two fouls.
That’s like 4 fouls on deni on that play alone lol
Honestly this is on the refs. Players will go as far as the refs let them. A couple of quick calls and Deni would’ve been a lot more careful.
What’s wrong with giving the ball to the guy who fouled him multiple times on the possession trying to steal it?
Little Deni can only bark from a distance or push people when they aren’t looking when it’s someone his size
I certainly got not liking Avdija as a person but I don’t see how this one is on him lol
If you shove the ball at someone like Castle does I think every player would react this way
It wasn’t okay but that was pretty reckless defense.
Refs needed to call the foul 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 seconds earlier.
Castle didn’t even shove the ball into him he placed it on chest
Avdija is so fucking soft
Goddam I love Castle.
I dunno, the “ball to chest” didn’t seem that serious
Castle got a fan in me after doing this
Bro don’t go there, Area 51 has a lot better weapons to protect themselves …
Advija is so shit lol
Castle was just kindly handing the ball to him
He was giving him back the promised ball.
I support Castle pushing that flopper
I got a homie that played against Castle when he was at UConn during March Madness and he said Steph talked mad shit to literally anyone that would hear it, including his teammates. Fuck Deni, Steph can talk some shit after turning a 17 point deficit into a 20 point lead
That sounds so odd because I’m not sure we know how Steph sounds
Dude just outed his friend as a telepath.
Beat his ass Castle
There probably is not a player I like any less than Avdija, good shit Castle lmao
Avdija was promised the ball a million years ago, so Castle gave it to him
People who have never played sports just want everyone to take blatant disrespect without any retaliation at all
Don’t do anything, get called a punk and your opponent continues to antagonize you. Show some resistance and you get called a baby or worse.
And this situation is gonna be even worse just because of where this guy was born. Who cares. Social media is so cringe sometimes
So to be clear, you’re saying Castle was right to not tolerate the blatant disrespect and fouling by standing up for himself?
Yes, and now take it one step further. Castle can do what he did, and then deni can retaliate.
Jaden can layup the ball with 3 seconds left in a clear win if he wants to be disrespectful, and jokic can respond.
Is that making sense? These are grown men in a contact sport playing each other every other day.
Time to get a Castle jersey
I love playoff basketball
i gotta say, i 100x prefer this to the flopping i see in other games
Castle bouta be having a big target on his back
Love that move from Castle. We need more spunk like that.
Absolute gangster shit by Castle lol
I know people hate Avdija but this is really nothing. Guys got chippy, that’s all.
If I speak I will be in trouble
Castle had right to defend himself
If the refs called the 20 blown foul calls earlier that wouldn’t have happened.
Avdija honestly deserved that. Only saw this clip, but comes off as a chump. He fouled him multiple times during that possession, including a massive wind-up that was clearly intended to hurt Castle, and still gets beat. However, I’m not sure why the referees let it get to that point. It was a massive failure on their part.
Good, fuck Avdija
Avdija is such a fucking punk bitch. He has one good season and he fucking thinks he’s somebody.