[Cowherd] Watching him (SGA) flop in an NBA game is like inserting one of those Life Alert commercials. I’ve fallen and I can’t get up! into Cirque du Soleil. It tears at the fabric of the creativity of the NBA.︀︀ ︀︀
SGA finally crossed a line: doing what he always does, but against the Lakers
Laker’s whistle vs. SGA is the sicko matchup we deserve
Annoying force vs Annoying object
Free throw enjoyers: Yes, ha ha ha… YES!
Wow check out that form
all we need is some more natural shooting motions
Me at the post office applying for a passport
The Lakers once again are leading the league in FTA differential. The distance between the Lakers (+457 FTA) and the second place Spurs (+311 FTA) is bigger than the distance between the Spurs and the 8th place Magic (+198 FTA)
straight up Freddy vs Jason
The fact that the game was 12 vs 13 FTA and the narrative is still about FT’s is fucking insane.
This subreddit should be nuked. Annoying as hell lol
Bro hit those 3 flops in the 1st quarter uncalled and I knew there would be a frenzy today lmfao.
I mean yeah cuz they were egregious and disgusting and he usually gets those calls anyways. Only reason he didn’t is cuz he’s against the Lakers lol.
Is it the Lakers or the ref? It could change tomorrow
It’s the playoffs. Reaves usually gets those fouls in the regular season too. Both SGA and Reaves didn’t yesterday and had to adjust their games.
You say that like he doesn’t do it every game
Just take the win that a Thunder fan said something about an SGA flop lol
He calmed down on it once he realized the refs weren’t calling it last night.
Lmao this one got a good chuckle out of me.
Lmao
Also, Cowherd is a long-time sports-talk blowhard. I highly doubt he actually watches game and is just being told by his producers what take to have to generate clicks and views and listens and whatnot.
A+ 🤣🤣🤣
Unstoppable force meets the immovable object
No one gets more calls than the lakers. Okc should have known better.
take all my upvotes
A few days ago I looked up stats for the playoffs. SGA was there when you sorted by ever category, but when you sorted by free throws attempted, which he was leading the playoffs in at the time, he disappeared from the list. Not sure if it was intentional but it was odd ge appeared when you sorted by any other category. He shows up now that hes 3rd though.
People don’t have an issue when he draws legit fouls. But there’s a few examples of obvious flops last night that upset people. He’s not the top FT player etc just the flops.
Some of these clips are pure comedy lmao like they oiled down the court.
Edit: man I want to live in an alternate universe where Hali doesn’t get injured and we are clowning OKC for losing as heavy favorites. Feel like pacers fans would actually be fun to interact with after a title
Looks like he’s breaking his spine in half these clips tweets on X at like 70k likes with people shitting on the product
Anytime I want a good laugh, I go back to this post in the Nuggets sub. SGA really turns flopping into an art form.
wow wtf, never saw that one and it’s crazy, he got that call?? lol
Lmao the way Jamal Murray was reenacting it
I can tell you I’d still be riding the high if we lived in the healthy Achilles timeline. I wish so many fanbases in the league could experience a run like that
Genuinely felt like magic. I’m still not over it
It was electric as a neutral. Shitty but you got watch some ball into June which is always fun
It actually looks like a parody. If you told me some of those were AI, I’d believe you.
Indy wins that series in 4 if that series was reffed properly.
They win it in 7 if Hali stays healthy.
Do people forget that the Pacers were towards the top of the league in fouls all season
It wasn’t just OKC every team they played in their run saw their free throw rate skyrocket because of their playstyle so if you think the Finals were rigged then it was rigged specifically against the Pacers the whole time rather than in favor of OKC
This just an insane comment lol
His flops are the most looney tune ass shit in the NBA.
Especially with his facial expressions, looks he gets hit with a shockwave lmao.
If John Woo was directing basketball games
needs more pigeons
As long as the refs keep rewarding him, why would he change….either T him up or stop falling for his foul baiting, he’d eventually stop that shit
Get some g-league goons to just wreck his shit a few times when he pulls this crap
The one time Patrick Beverly is needed
Dillon Brooks had the opportunity….
And call the push offs damnit! It’s an offensive foul.
He’s too good at basketball not to fall for the foul baiting, like if you just stop chasing him around screens and down the lane he’s already won because he’s gonna score 40 without any FTs. SGA has more control over how he’s guarded than anyone in the NBA and it’s in large part because he understands how to play the refs.
Also, blaming the refs because a player is really good at flopping isn’t helping anything, it’s not easy to watch a flop in real time and decide what percentage was due to actual contact and what percentage is due to embellishment and then decide if it was sloppy enough to warrant a technical foul while also determining if there was enough contact for an actual foul. The league needs to assist the refs outside of actual game time instead of giving them another difficult foul to call in real time, especially when that foul either needs to be game changing or it is toothless. SGA gets way more value than 1 FT out of his flopping every game and if the refs eject him for flopping (aka give him 2 Ts) there will be hell to pay because they just decided a game.
Refs are supposed to be impartial and in the pursuit of that they will avoid the appearance of favoritism or thumbing the scale like the plague. This is why flopping technical fouls are basically only called in blowouts. It’s also why they tend to swallow their whistle in end of game scenarios, the good ones do not want to be the decision factor. The Thunder (and other players) abuse this mentality to no end because as you say, the rewards outweigh the punishments.
Agree with your take, but at least the refs should be consistent….calling ticky tacky fouls on one end and letting dirty Dort and Caruso maul the shit outta the opponents on the other end without calling the fouls is when it gets overwhelming
I’ve never seen a player flop his facial expressions either. Looney tunes shit is a perfect description.
I remember we’d laugh at Devin Booker for doing the 😩 emoji every time
Embiid does it. The picture of KAT touching him with his finger and Embiid acting like he got shot is hilarious.
Lmao OKC fans in for it now, pissing off wolves and nuggets fans is nothing compared to pissing off laker fans.
The best thing about these posts are the thunder fans pretending to not care while absolutely seething that people are calling out FTA
I don’t really care about most teams getting annoyed, but seeing fans of Luka/Reaves like “I could never cheer for someone like this” is just hilarious.
Luka isn’t a bad flopper, hes a bad bitcher.
Reaves is a disgusting flopper though
Luka is an egregious flopper. His head snaps are legendary.
Luka is a huuuuuge flopper and many of his drives are more about drawing contact than trying to score.
Luka isn’t a bad flopper
😂 You can’t be serious.
Luka flops, sga fucking disintegrates
you definitely care or you wouldn’t be commenting
Yea, this is a little fucking late for me, dawg.
He’s been doing this shit forever but now bc its LA it gets attention?
Yes.
It’s the way it’s always been
People been crying about SGA for a year now. Where have you been?
Laker fans shouldn’t be pissed, they should be excited. His flops yesterday turned into bricked shots and the ball moving the other way.
Why cant they just pay a ref to review the game and put together a report of “contact was heavily exaggerated on plays 4,7,12,19,24 etc…”
If my grandma can look at this and say WTF is that man doing, a trained professional should be able to also
You’re operating under the assumption that the refs want to improve the quality of their calls.
I’m not convinced that’s true.
This is apparently what the refs want, all the flopping is in reaction to how they call games. It sucks seeing talented players resort to this, but they’re only doing it because the refs not only allow but award flopping
I like this. Then you get fined 10% of your game pay check per deemed “exaggerated contact”.
Flopping is fucking pathetic and needs to be harshly disincentivized.
This would make logical sense, therefore it can’t happen
That would be a very busy job, lmao. Practically every team has at least one player who exaggerates contact, some have several, and it’s because it works. Then you have dudes like Steph who don’t do it who get legitimately terrible whistles.
this is like what flops looks like when you parody flops LOL
I always say this for sga. He is not a good flopper.
Soft calls he got is not because him flopping. Princess sga, bitch of refs is protected by ref whistles.
Cp3 smart flopper, Rondo shameless, Harden is master, Marcus Smart is good actor… SGA is not even an elite flopper.
Sga has a tremendous ref-bitch whistle. Trae Young had this but he was too small, his team defense didnt have beneficial whistle like this for Dort and others commit multiple flagrants to get a simple foul call.
Ya forget worrying about tanking. Let’s clean up this BS
No fucking kidding. Or the gambling bullshit.
That will need to be done at a federal level, to be honest. Reinstate the ban on sports gambling.
Gambling has ruined sports more than anything. No one feels as if the results are legit anymore and tbh I don’t know if I believe some of it. Last years nba finals had a fishy smell
The “2025 NBA Finals were robbed” narrative is one of the most insane things I’ve seen here lol
It feels like it’s heavily influenced by the fact that neutrals loved the Pacers and hated OKC
/r/nba pretending like they give a shit what Cowherd and Doris Burke think only when they talk about SGA is hilarious.
The most annoying person you know can be right sometimes. SGA flopped every possession to start the game. It’s ok to say it was pathetic
OKC fans denying they got both the dirtiest player and biggest flopper despite it being obvious to anyone else with eyes never gets old.
Like why lie? Its not like they can take the chip away, or like its gonna take away from the fact you’ll probably win another this year.
I don’t respect Cowherd for saying this but addressing the flopping situation across the league (not just SGA) is always nice
You’re allowed to agree with something said by someone you don’t like.
They’ve got that Oklahoma education. All they know are the ten commandments.
Broken clock is still correct 2X a day
yeah but its funny
Flops should be automatic free throws for the other team. And x amount of flops in a game you flop out lol. Same as fouling out but with flops.
I don’t like the auto FT but what if they count flopping as a foul against the flopper? If there is a challenge, they can review it and if it is a flop, it gets added as a foul against the flopper.
It should be a technical and a fine.
It is, it’s just not called lol
OKC fans still denying this is crazy to me
It’s wild because it’s every fan base of every other team, plus PLAYERS AND COACHES!!! of those 29 teams vs OKC fans and a handful of media pundits.
But it seems like every OKC fan that argues about FTA thinks they are in the majority opinion. Cognitive dissonance.
It’s the same energy as certain right-leaning communities on reddit and the current state of affairs. Might actually have some actual overlap given that it’s Oklahoma.
You might be a bit too online if this is the comp you immediately reach for.
It rings of those Asian and European insurance fraudsters jumping in front of moving cars trying to be to get a payday.
I know European soccer has their issues with faking injuries and contact. This is that at its purest level. Kind of sad to see
We also saw it with the nfl and QBs baiting for excessive contact/roughing the passer when wbs got out of the pocket.
Watching mahomes run diagonal along the sidelines so he makes it look like he’s going out while also cheating out extra yards because he knows they can’t hit him is a good example of this. The defenders have to let up because he will just step out of bounds when being hit and get a free flag but you also have to watch him get an extra 5 yards over and over again.
no that’s not a good example of this. Mahomes still actually gets hit, nobody is touching SGA to cause him to flail around like he has no bones. both are bad sportsmanship but that’s where the similarities end
Being rewarded for flopping is lame. How can anyone have a different take?
Everybody’s cashing in on the hot, easy, tried and true engagement farming topic. Nick Wright earlier this week too.
Hmm, feel like I’ve heard about this issue pretty consistently for at least a year now.
Flopping isn’t exactly new though. It goes back to at least players like Manu Ginobili. That’s when “Euro diving (I know he’s not from Europe) is ruining the NBA” started.
or more people watch the playoffs and realize the chicanery
Nobody has talked about SGA flopping before. Good point.
so we are doing the thing were we complain about flopping after he only got 3fts in a 20pt win? lmao
Refs didn’t call his usual stuff last night, despite his best efforts
Was nice to see even if they still won
No. We’re celebrating good reffing. They got it right. We need more of this.
Flopping is not about the amount of FT he gets. You could get 12 FT/game and not be considered a flopper. It’s about how you get those FT
“Flopping is not amount of FT he gets. It’s whether I like the player or not.”
If he’s on my team. It’s okay!
More like it’s whether the player flop or not. In this game he was not rewarded for his antics which is good and I hope it continues that way.
Which of the 3 fts that he did get were from flopping?
None, they weren’t calling his flops. That’s why he only scored 18 points.
The refs actually called the game right last night.
ok, so we are still complaining about a game that he had 3 fts in? just trying to see where the mashed potato brains are at today.
Did you watch the video. SGA flopped like crazy but the refs actually did their job. The reason he flopped so much is because hes used to the refs giving him fouls for that
Yall are insufferable my lord
You see those clips and you’re takeaway is people are insufferable? Wow
I’m starting to believe the playoffs could never be good enough to distract from made up narratives with small kernels of truth.
Genuinely enjoying first two rounds of ball and the media couldn’t enjoy it if they tried. Sad
The made up narrative train is coming your way. Wembys suddenly a bum who fouls every block according to the internet.
Haha we’re talking about this somewhere else in this thread. Its funny you brought it up here too!
Its definitely coming.
I really hate that the default NBA discussion is hating on players
We’re supposed to celebrate this flopping?
It really does suck. WTBS, the NBA ought to read the room and at least try to do something to combat flopping. I truly think SGA is having an all-time great guard peak to be clear, he would be fine if the NBA clamped down on flopping and allowed for a bit more physicality on defense, but he is the poster child of what a lot of fans find troubling about the modern NBA for a reason.
And it’s significantly worse because he’s a tremendous player who doesnt need to do shit like this
Same shit we said for harden, and Kobe, and d wade, and even further back than when I watched. These players absolutely can score at will while putting on an entertaining product, but as long as the refs and league continue to reward flopping and embellishment with free throws, the players will continue to do it.
The 450 players in the nba are among the most competitive people on planet earth; they’ll do whatever they can that makes winning easier and more attainable.
We should be allowed to point out frustrations with the game, no?
Tanking is an issue, and whether or not we agree with the NBA’s path forward, it is being addressed.
Flopping is also an issue. We should start by acknowledging that the league and officiating are the bigger issues and that players are merely behaving in the way that they’re incentivized to behave, but we should also not turn a blind eye to it.
Frankly, it’s been more frustrating to hear the constant “stop complaining about it” retort. Everyone sees it, you can’t gaslight us into ignoring it. It isn’t specific to just one player even if SGA gets more heat than Luka or Brunson. We absolutely should not just accept flopping as part of the game, though.
He gives him tons of kudos and points out the issue that almost every viewer has with the game right now.
I agree, but calling out flopping is a little different than senseless hating.
Only speaking for US sports…. It would be the equivalent of a MLB batter crumbling down to every inside pitch …and then also to outside pitches in the dirt. The NBA has to tighten how fouls are called. Imo, a player that beats their player, drives, and then looks back to calculate where to stop, and then stops to force contact, should be called an offensive foul. In the NFL pick plays (essentially the equivalent) is an offensive penalty. Defensive fouls should be due to the defender reacting to the offensive player attempting to make a play not attempting to bait. NHL calls that embellishment (another offensive penalty). So yeah, it’s discussed ad nauseum in the NBA because the league has yet to do anything about it while all other sports have mostly solved for it.
And people eat it up and panic over it while simultaneously having multiple media conspiracy theories. Its such an odd thing to witness as someone who works in the industry.
Likewise I hate that you can’t talk about legitimate problems with this league and the current state of the game without some dorks complaining that people are too negative
Exactly lol. And I can’t get over how flopping apologists are always quick to say that the players wouldn’t do it if the officials didn’t reward it, but then they also refuse to tolerate any escalation of the NBA actually needing to crack down on it.
Person 1: “SGA wouldn’t flop if the league didn’t reward him for it.”
Person 2: “that’s true — if we make a big enough stink, surely the NBA will crack down on this.”
Person 1: “… shut up.”
Top posts during the playoffs today are Sengun being overrated, Cowherd hating on Durant, and Melo and McGrady hating on Harden.
It’s gross.
Every fandom discourse on the Internet hates the present because it threatens their nostalgic past
It’s not hating when it’s genuine critcism
So sick of watching this MF play basketball. I actually avoid watching Thunder games, even in the playoffs.
Now imagine he’s 7 feet tall and 300 pounds; the Joel Embiid experience.
Embiid is on another level from anyone he literally just falls onto guys and gets free throws lmao
Like it’s not even both foul baiting and flopping it’s just flopping without even having to bait
Embiid is like SGA’s flopping had a baby with Dort’s dirty play and added 80 pounds. SGA is awful to watch, but Embiid is my least favorite player in the NBA.
Found Jaylen Brown’s account
Goddamn it. Cowherd actually with multiple non-r word takes in a single day. The world must be ending.
This conversation is so tired man
Well the conversation will keep happening unless the floppers stop getting rewarded.
he wasn’t rewarded
So you agree he flops?
for sure!
lots of other players do too but seem to attract much less attention for some reason
The past 4 MVPs went to a person who people call a flopper.
He had 3 freethrows last night. What exactly was he rewarded for?
Good, now let’s keep this up for the remainder of the playoffs and next season. The conversation will die down.
so if it’s “good” what the fuck are we all crying about?
The play everyone is crying about reslulted in no fouls and possession for the Lakers, lol
Not as tired as the flopping itself
Damn, all 47 people that watch FS1 are heated seeing this.
“The amount of viewers isn’t the problem. It’s HOW they’re watching FS1.”
Seemed like a good segment to me, not sure what point you are trying to make in this comment. Seems like some attempt at dunking on the clips point?
I’m the 26th person that watches and I don’t mind seeing this
Redditors forced to face that their takes are Cowherd level bad.
What “take” ?
Did you not watch the game?
As a thunder fan, he absolutely deserves to be clowned for this. I do think in many cases it is over, exaggerated on his foul beating, but I don’t know what his deal was in that first quarter. I’m just glad he stopped doing it.
I definitely support moving to playoff officiating.
If the Thunder can’t win at straight up basketball, then they’re not the better team. And that’s ok, it’s just basketball.
The one everyone is crying about he got tripped the n the ball got knocked out of his hand but everyone just sharing the screenshot of him after all that happened lol.
He got legit fouled by Reaves and Kennard on the other 2 plays people are mad about. Whistle didn’t even blow and y’all are still crying about it.
The other play people are mad about, fair enough. You see stuff like that in every game but if you hate it across the board I get it.
Seen quite a few people think he didn’t deserve that and-1 he got on Hayes though for some reason. You people are crazy man lol.
Well you know Wemby had 8 goaltends so narrative gunna narrative. Its exhausting.
It will get worse for you. Right now you’re the only thing that can save the NBA from OKC. When you’re on top soon everyone will be holding your team under the microscope. Good luck and Godspeed friend 🫡
Oh I know but it feels like the tide is already shifting to Minny on that front. I’m not totally sure we’re already displaced and thus kinda villainy this series. Lol
But yeah it’ll get worse.
I also didn’t realize how much people hated the 2000s Spurs. So I didnt know this has already happened. I always thought people were indifferent. Lol
Welcome to the club man lmao 🤝
🤝🏿
I didnt expect to be here so soon. I thought I had time 🤣
lol we did too. Hits you fast!
Oh look, it finally matters once it happens to the Lakers.
At least people are starting to realize why everyone hates watching OKC basketball. Maybe they’ll actually do something about it now that it’s effecting their pressious babies.
For the love of god stop posting colin cowherd on this sub, literally who the fuck cares what he has to say in 2026
He’s being posted because he’s right for once
That’s how I feel about Simmons. Oh no, you had to move Jokic on your pyramid? Who gives a shit?
Funny the stat he used to prove his point was comparing SGA free throws to SGA free throws two years ago. This is because if he compared them to other players in the league, it wouldn’t be that convincing.
Edit: I did not catch the “than number two” line. My bad. But this is still a skewed stat because neither of those two years did he lead the league in ft. It really only proves that he’s played more games than most the other leading free throwers such as Luka and Giannis. SGA plays more games than Luka every year and Luka still rivals him in free throwers attempts. Also, everyone knows 3s are a major part of Luka’s game and the midrange is Shai’s game. Anyone one who watches basketball should know the guy who spends more time inside will draw more fouls!
What are you talking about? He shows that SGA has shot 425 more FTs than 2nd place. It’s literally the first star he talks about
Lmao that is including the playoffs, so of course it’ll look lopsided.
He never had the most attempts in a single season when everyone has the equal opportunity to play 82 games.
Just a bullshit stat.
Literally showed the stat and said, “look, he’s shooting nearly 3x the free throws as two years ago. It’s become the central part of his game.”
And this bozo’s like, “y not cumpare 2 other players?”
lol they had to include last year in the stat to fit the narrative because luka missed 32 regular season games and got gentlemen swept in the playoffs
What are you talking about? That stat is saying SGA has the most free throws attempted over the last two years, which he does
That crap SGA was doing in those clips was embarrassing. No wonder people like myself hate watching the Thunder.
Yes Jalen Brown must be a breath of fresh air.
I have heard nonstop over the past 48 hours that Shai’s scoring is all free throws and Wemby’s blocks are all goaltends/fouls. I cannot even imagine why these people watch basketball.
Look I get it, dude had 2 EGREGIOUS flop moments yesterday and I’m glad they weren’t called fouls but my goodness man. SGA flops yes, but so do other players. Difference is those players aren’t held under a microscope lens with every little thing they do. I don’t like flopping either but it’s insane how delusional the media and this sub is acting like he’s the only player doing it. If SGA and Embid do it it’s Karma farm city but if Jokic and Luka do it it’s “hating and being defensive”
Do we really need to place value on Cowherd’s opinion?
SGA you’re a really good player. You don’t need to do this stuff!!
The one at :50 is so fucking egregious.
Sure would be cool if the refs would look at more plays and call this stuff out with techs.
Or, let teams challenge and they keep the challenge if it’s successful, like in baseball. This “you lose it either way” stuff is terrible.
Refs have toned down the whistle on him the past few years in the playoffs and he keeps winning. As long as they keep letting them play than this is a pointless thing to complain about.
Harden always hit a wall with this. Shai has still found ways to win. And he still gets legitimately fouled a lot even if he does oversell.
It’s infuriating cause he’s also a superstar in scoring and defense, yet still flops abhorrently
Now show all the times he was hacked, but didn’t get the whistle. He had 3 FTs you whiny babies.
It’s crazy how all of these clips are just from 1 game. I need a whole flopping compilation of 82 games
Don’t you guys get it??? Out of everything that happened in this game Sga flopping is the biggest story.
Ajay mitchell had a great playoff performance to counter the sga double team, Who cares? Chet played like an All star and out bigged the lakers big men, meh. Lebron at 41 dropped 30 on the best defense in the league, yawwwwwnnnnn.
“LOOK SGA FLOPPED 4 TIMES AND ONLY HAD 18 PTS. Seeeee I told you he wasnt that good. Its the free throws, yea that’s why he was 2nd in scoring. No whistle = no buckets”
FTA is such a clown ass player
Do you guys remember like 2-3 years ago?(I think) when at the start of the season they gave out techs for flopping for like the first 3 days of the season and then just completely abandoned it.
Stop posting cowherd.
Thank god someone talks about this. SGA is MVP and we have to watch him do this. It’s crazy
TF you mean someone lmao. Everyone is talking about this.
It’s crazy that we’re on the cusp of potentially one of the greatest peaks of all time, but some people choose to not enjoy it “He FlOpS dUr HuR”. He’s not even the biggest flopper in the league either. Plenty of players do the same shit, but I guess since he’s at the top, he’s the one who has to be the target of everyone bitching about it.
It’s wild to me how we will say that the only thing that should matter to a player is that they try everything to win. Except this thing apparently.
Sports journalism should die
Shai is looking rough with those flops. Irks me because it’s so unnecesary most of the time
I can’t believe I agree with Colin but it’s true. And I like SGA. League has to do better.