SGA in the 1st round: 34/4/8 on 55/31/90 shooting (67.8% TS)
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SGA beats the first round troll allegations as OKC cruise to the second round
best in the world
Should be no question atp
Don’t tell Bill Simmons
Deep in the recesses of your soul you know
So funny for Zach to just shut him down. Like no, I really think it’s SGA
Bill Simmons be like: 🥺
Best in the world because checks note HIS TEAM (don’t forgot game one where he shit 5⁄18 and his team still won by 35 points) beat a suns team that was expected to win 30 season game. Also pathetic name, considering Luka is 1-0 against SGA in the playoffs lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/NBATalk/comments/1lu27w5/but_luka_beat_sga_in_the_playoffs/
Cool sick post, who won that playoff series? Who was double and tripled team every possession?
1-0 Luka.
Right.. lol… weren’t you just talking about how SGA has a better team? Looks like Luka only won because his team was better. Don’t fry your brain thinking too hard about that one.
Rings 1-0 SGA, MVP 2-0 SGA. Luka will go down as the most overrated player of all time.
Good job looking at useless box score and not actually watched the game. Luka got triple teamed which left his teammates wide open every single possession. They had no answer for him. And that’s why they got whipped.
Team achievement, only won a ring because his lucky ass went against the bum ass pacers and barely won In 7 and that’s only cuz pacers star got an Achilles tear in game 7 when he made 9 points in 6 mins 😂😂. MVP at this point is another team achievement narrative (both MVPs robbing Jokic).
Just wait til Luka comes back healthy and he gets a semi competent team, just enjoy this shitty run while it lasts.
Dumbass saying a dude that averages 31 PPG in the playoffs career and has made the finals is going to be considered overrated, with multiple 32/7/7 seasons. Goddamn you guys are brain dead.
Glug glug glug keep slurping Luka bro. Don’t worry I watched the games.
Shouldn’t he have more than +1.4 assist if he was kicking it out all the time? Hmm..
Lebron almost swept the Rockets w/o Luka, he’s a losing player.
Wait why’re you now quoting PRA? Didn’t you say PRA didn’t matter like two sentences ago? LOL try to keep your arguments straight bro.
Keep taking backshots from shai, weird ass.
You want him to average 20 assists? Like what? Go rewatch the games, Luka got doubled and tripled every possession, resulted in buckets every time.
LeBron is the goat.
Yeah I’m not the one with 70k comment karma posting about SGA LMAO. Everyone knows you’re that weird AF Luka parasocial.
If he was double and triple teamed EVERY time and he supposedly made some sick passes into buckets… shouldn’t he have more assists?… arguing with Luka stans is truly a lost cause sometimes. Come on put together a coherent argument.
My god dude! Does your throat hurt from having Luka’s dick so deep down it?
Where’s Luka’s ring? 2 MVPs? Thats what I thought
If there’s a player in the world better than SGA it’s Joker, crawl back in your hole my fat white man is better than yours
IS CM PUNK
Looking like it rn
In my heart of hearts
Best at what?
Playing basketball
Do not downvote this man. He was blinded 2 years ago.
He doesnt know!
He knows nothing
His TS% of 67.8 is the highest SGA’s had in a playoff round by a lot, beating his previous high of 62.8%
Feels like a big contrast of what we’re currently seeing with Jokic.
After all the talk about SGA being the “Playoff dropper…”
One bad game and people love to talk about it.
A bad game he played like 20 min and they won by 35 at that
I wouldn’t even call it a bad game because he still contributed heavily to winning at a high level. Just because he got to the line a lot doesn’t mean he didn’t drop 25 with 7 assists, zero turnovers, great defense, and pressuring the Suns’ defense.
Tbf the quality of opponent is drastically different between Phoenix and Minnesota
Phoenix has no one who can match up with Shai while Minnesota has a 4 time DPOY center
Tbh other than the spurs I don’t think any team has much of a chance, SGA would live at the line vs the wolves they foul so much
SGA lives at the line vs everyone, he gets calls others don’t.
Bro you’re a known Luka stan no one cares what you got to say lol
Pathetic excuse for an argument, might as well make a burner if all yall got is “Luka Stan” losers don’t even know how to argue right lok
You lack the ability to remove bias due to being a hardcore Stan. You say Shai lives at the line and gets calls other don’t when Luka objectively gets to the line more. Not only does he get to the line more he complains more and not only does he complain more he misses the free throws that he’s begging for more often.
So I don’t feel the need to rebuttal because you will find a reason to ignore the paragraph above
Luka gets to the line more because he’s 6’8 230 lbs that actually forces contact. SGA FLOPS. You clearly don’t watch games. Yes, he complains more, because half of his fouls don’t get actually CALLED. Anyway, unlike ur bias ass, I know my favorite player is not the best in the world, sadly jokic and soon to be Wemby exist, although it’s fun to argue it.
lol so you think Luka is better than Shai?
lol, lmao even
Lol
Lool
You do not exist in reality if you genuinely believe this.
True of course. I do think Jokic has also just been playing bad and letting Rudy get in his head? If that makes sense but it’s also been a legacy series from him, the amount Gobert has been disrespected is absurd.
I think Jokic has been playing terrible by his standards - but you also have to acknowledge the level of comp.
Jokic would have video game numbers in a series vs the Suns, but the Suns would also be able to score quite a bit, partially because of Jokic inability to protect the rim
Wolves rim offense until ant got injured is better than the suns though
Shai played pretty well against the Twolves last year
How anyone can say he’s a playoff dropper after last season with a straight face is insane to me lol
After that disastrous Game 1 efficiency, I wouldn’t have expected these numbers.
That’s the exact same thing I felt when someone posted his numbers for March. He had that disastorous 0/10 from 3 game but you look up and he’s still at 67% ts on the month.
His 3 point shooting dropped off significantly in the back half of the season. He was at like 45% from 3 in early-mid December.
Even with this huge regression, he was still getting efficient 30 point games because his 2 point FG% was like 62% lmao
Efficiency on paper wasn’t even that terrible in Game 1 because of all the… super legitimate fouls
Literally playoff Jordan numbers
Was about to say the same lol. Granted, I believe scoring numbers are inflated in this era compared to the 90s but still, very impressive. Not to mention the resemblence in their styles too with that deadly midrange.
Correct me if i’m wrong but wasn’t Jordan not allowed to get double teamed due to the rules? Shai would average 40 if he wasn’t doubled
You could double and collapse onto a driver etc, but you couldn’t defend space, like running a zone for example. Players weren’t allowed to cheat/hedge off their man to discourage penetration, they’d have to commit to the double.
Forget actual best (because I think Sga’s more skilled) but in terms of greatness this is pretty much it. He’s our MJ (just with way more hate because people hate refball nowadays vs when Jordan did the same thing)
I love coming into circlejerk threads because you’ll have people unironically comparing SGA to Michael Jordan and saying he’s more skilled than him. Incredible escapism to a different reality
Every thread in this sub is a circlejerk
They actually average very similar numbers per 100, not saying Shai is better but its interesting how understated his dominance is.
We need to have serious conversations about him. Top 25 alltime, walk with me people.
I mean sure. People have Jokic top 15 already why wouldn’t SGA be at least top 25 at this point
Even if they don’t win this year he’ll have the two MVPs, and it’s a tough era, so yeah.
The real convo is can you put him above Jokic if he wins again this year…
Love him and have a lot of respect for Jokic but my answer to these things is always that we should wait. Giannis was in a lot of top 15 discussions right after 2021 and you’ll struggle to find people dying on that hill now.
You could convince me SGA ends his career Top 10 all time or that he’s a respectable Top 30 but only time will tell.
You beat me to it. It’s incredibly hard to go b2b, and it’s why the greats of the sport are all guys that have done it and more.
A big difference is that compared to the 2021 Bucks and 2023 Nuggets, OKC got even better after winning the chip. Hopefully we can stay healthy to have a good shot at repeating.
It’s incredibly hard to go b2b, and it’s why the greats of the sport are all guys that have done it and more.
Tim Duncan/the Spurs Dynasty:
Nah but in all seriousness, I hear you.
I just love that the Clippers traded a possible top 25 player of all time for PG13 and several years of choking in the playoffs.
Sucks but trust me nobody from the Thunder thought this was coming either. Not even Presti.
I heard Presti is using black magic rituals to see the futures of young basketball players so he probably knew
With that username, you know. They feel the same now as all the “experts” who balked at the idea of signing Yamamoto for 12 years/325mil and look at all of them now.
The ones who saw the vision, saw it.
He’s easily above Jokic with another title.
B2B years of MVP, FMVP and Championship… as well as 4 straight years of averaging 30+ points on MJ level efficiency.
And he’s still getting better, taken a huge playmaking leap this season and his defense remains good.
Given that he is a noticeably better player than Jokic while they’re both at their peaks, I would say so.
Joker peaked in 23 or 24, he’s visibly slowing down now. Though his touch is still saucy as ever.
That’s debatable. He’s definitely better offensively nowadays, but his defense was better before. Advanced stats favor current Jokic, playoff performance says 23 Jokic, but that could just be because he played bad teams.
If not he’ll probably be above Jokic by the time he reaches his age. Dude is 4 years younger and went toe to toe with Jokic best seasons
He’s going to get another MVP this year with potential for a championship. That’s a feat only matched by people in the top 10 all-time.
I’m not saying that makes Shai top 10 ever, but his resume would be top 20 and rising.
With another title and MVP? No question.
Top 25 is where guys like Dirk, CP3, Wade, Giannis, etc sit (all prob somewhere in the 15-30 range).
Shai already sits comfortably amongst them, probably closer to top 20 then not.
If the Thunder manage to win a second title, the conversations truly get uncomfortable because now we have to entertain top 15 conversations.
The leap from Top 30 to Top 15 is (rightfully) roughly 1 title for a guy like Shai (2 MVPs, multiple All-NBAs, arguably best player in the NBA for multiple years).
THIS
Whatever you do, don’t ask AI for its opinion. I asked it for top 10 players all time today just for shit, and shit you not it put Luka at one, MJ two, Jokić at three. I swear to God it was pulling from Reddit threads
r/nbatalk leaked into the LLMs
You don’t think Luka Goatcic is better than Jorgamble?
If you brought Jordan and Luka to a mob-owned casino, Jokic and Luka to a horse race to the death, and LeBron and Luka to a golf course where you lose a year of your life for every wine glass you emptied… Does anyone seriously think Luka isn’t coming out alive?
Do we?
At this point I’m only surprised he had such a low 3p%
All Middies for the MVP
Close enough welcome back Professor Andre Miller
He was kinda chucking game 1
He was like 0-10 at one point game 1 or some shit.
One of the best scorers on OKC’s roster, and I’m not sure it’s even debatable at this point.
Top 10 player in the Western Conference and it’s not even a conversation
Best basketball player named Shai and it’s not even close
My cousin Shai is definitely a hopper. Saw him score 15 in a game to 21 the other day. May be closer than you think.
the best current canadian basketball player
Woah that’s too far
what do you mean its the freaking tr-
wait, who is that staring at my window
One of the guys on the thunder, no questions asked
Arguably the best canadian scorer on the team
But not the best Belgian. Makes you think.
big if true
Arguably the best player in his family
Easily one of the top 10 scorers in first round playoffs this year
MVP best player in the league
Broke the first round Shai curse!
Finally, so odd that he jist doesnt go to town.
Maybe previous couple of years has been because he has got out of rhythm.
But id argue he is Definitely looking sharp going into R2 versus what it was post Grizzlies last year.
SGA makes this kind of statline look so easy, man is absolutely ridiculous lol
To me the most impressive stat is the fact that he averaged 8 assists with only 2 turnovers a game despite being doubled and having high usage the entire series.
Other players are capable of having similar statlines, but only shai can do it with that much efficiency as a guard and without turning the ball over 3.5+ times a game.
GOAT SHIT. Can’t wait for him to climb the all time rankings once OKC goes b2b
Brother the receipts will be generational. He’s the best player in the world. It takes a fucking alien to rival his greatness.
Dying of cringe reading this nonsense
My good man, don’t come at me with cringe when you have been spending your free-time caring deeply in r/destiny.
Not counting game 1 he was 60/40/90 with 74% TS😭
Best itw
Easily his best performance in a playoff series.
to be blunt I haven’t seen this since Kobe Bryant. My god
Kawhi vs the Mavs would like a word
I don’t watch Mavericks basketball on principle but I’ll take your word for it 😂
With much better efficiency. It’s closer to Jordan’s numbers.
Shai has better individual scoring efficiency but Kobe was an underrated playmaker and by far the better off-ball player, which naturally tugged at defenses and opened up space for his teammates to attack a compromised defense. Thinking Basketball said 2025 Shai improved his teammates’ TS% by 1.5%, while peak Kobe’s was near 5%.
He finally shook the first round dropper allegations and the game 3 stinker allegations.
Pretty sure playing against his buddy, Dillon, motivated him a little.
His most PPG in the playoffs and best efficiency and it had to be against us lmao
Im sorry man 😅
I’m enjoying watching people try to downvote this post. Like clockwork
50/30/90, just like Jordan!
can’t believe this guy shot 27% (5⁄18) in game 1 lol. the next 3 games were straight layup lines for him lol
We kinda knew after that Game 1 stinker he would be super efficient at the tail end as he usually does lmao.
I think that’s pretty good
clearest bitw since Peak Bron
Best player in the nba
BITW
Pretty pedestrian numbers for his standard. Hope he improves as the rounds go on
You have to be trolling. If he puts up these numbers while winning the chip it’d have an argument for one of the best playoff runs of all time and solidify him as having had the best individual season ever.
Its not much of an improvement in his regular season numbers. Its the standard for him
Except he’s averaging more points, assists, and better efficiency?
His efficiency is pretty stagnant for true shooting when factoring 3pt. And the increased points and assists are quite marginal on the per /36 scale. It was a good series byt it wasnt a major leap from his usual
You shouldn’t expect him to suddenly become better than his regular season self. Putting up similar per 36 numbers on a greater volume in a tougher environment makes him a great playoff performer.
it’s not normal to maintain ur regular szn numbers in the playoffs if ur avg is 31 on 67% ts, this has been easily his best playoff series EVER statistically
who has ever averaged 34 on 68 ts on a chip run??
Michael Jordan has 5 playoff series of averagong over 40 on >50%fg including one series of 45.0 on 61% fg
calling that incredible is damn near underselling it
Don’t worry, the lakers look like they are up next and I can’t even imagine what Shai’s numbers would be against that team’s defense.
Oh no don’t tell em!
shai gilgeous alexander is devin booker father
Man I am so psyched for SA vs OKC!
Unless the Nuggets come back from their 3-1 deficit, SGA will be the consensus best player in the world.
He already is
just outrageous
Yea they deffo are running it back
Lakers will humble him
Zzzzzzzz
Fuck up eah
who tf cares about this dweeb
Playing the Suns….. lol
Top 10 defense lol
The fat cone is playing a depleted wolves team
Non ethical hoops
Jokic, ant, cade, Luka have all played great youre right
You’re busy tonight aren’t you? Take a break
Are the wizards that depressing that you spend your nights hating on Shai/okc ? Constantly see you complaining/crying
Don’t need to be hearing anything about ethical hoops from a fan of a team that has won a total of 50 games over the last 3 seasons lol