Austin Reaves post-game on Lakers talking to the refs after the buzzer: “He [Ref John Goble] turned around and yelled in my face and I thought it was disrespectful.”
Fair enough.
Everyone assumed it was complaining about the Thunder whistle lol
Nah it was definitely personal, Reaves is not the type to go after it after the game ended unless he’s got a personal beef
I actually feel bad sometimes because he’s usually so quiet that they seem to have a quicker Tech whistle on him when he gets upset at refs. Like Luka’s antics eat up Reaves’ chances to air grievances.
Yeah why the fuck would a ref be yelling at him like that outside a power trip?
Power is a scary thing. Especially evident outside of NBA, too.
I’m really starting to think too much power can cause someone to completely lose their marbles and betray every morality they once at least pretended to have.
Is it possible Reaves did anything? or is it more likely that the ref for no reason at all would yell at a player?
Did you just ask what Austin Reaves was wearing when the assault occurred?
Yes this is exactly like the ref assaulted Reaves, you’re 100% correct
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You just defended him
Can you see how a part of power tripping is allowing your emotions to get the better of you and abusing your power?
He wouldn’t do that. He’s smart enough to know there’s nothing he can do about it
OKC fans keep talking about “respect” LOL. You have an army of dirty player, don’t complain when people don’t respect your team
Oh noooo people on the internet don’t respect a basketball team.
For reals lol
Some of us exist in real life too…
14th place lmao yikes pacers fucking suck ass
“Oh noooo people on the internet don’t respect a basketball team” 😂😂
23 day old Jokic-bot account.
Id rather read their comments than watch the okc referees play. disgusting.
Lakers fans the face of irony this series lmao
okay
Are these Thunder fans in the room with you now? 😂😂😂
Did you just try to repeat what’s probably the most upvoted comment in this whole subreddit but make it just sound bizarre and not applicable?
very brave
Who needs respect when it’s way funnier to watch the crash out that is happening?
Wahhh wahhh
LOL
You guys love to pretend that we care about your approval. We don’t respect you either and your approval is meaningless lmao
Shush white boi
Say more. I need to hit Reddit bingo with all your buzzwords.
oh my god youre in every thread
lol it’s 10 month old OKC bandwagon account created after last years finals who has no life and spends all his time repeating the same bs thunder talking points on every thread
They aren’t from Oklahoma either.
what a dunce response
I mean his comments are in every thread, I see them
it looks like you’re also in every thread
the refs were on edge because they cant call the game off of every contact so they are under pressure. plus they are getting it from multiple players all game.
the old school refs were more in your face they talked to players and yelled back and didnt give techs so quick in player arguments. plus you knew what refs didnt play like joey crawford
This “they can’t call every kind of contact” mentality is the issue with the league. When we were all growing up, we all knew that you had to adjust to the crew that night. Some would call it tight, otherwise would let you be physical. Either way, you would adjust your gameplay to the refs.
The problem nowadays is the refs adjust their calls for the teams. If the refs called OKC for their myriad of fouls, they would just adjust and stop doing it. I have no idea why people are so scared to officiate them like everyone else. They are capable of adjusting to that and not fouling as much
True. Its the playoffs. Let them be physical so that you discourage the floppers on both ends. What an eyesore to watch every minute having foul discussion on who’s who.
Also it is SO FUCKING BORING to stop the play for free throws. Minimize it!
Well fucking said.
Is it true the head of the referees was a former Thunder fan?
Genuinely who cares? Do we expect someone who works hard to get a job in the NBA to not be an NBA fan?
Maybe, but it turns out he’s a big Lakers fan too. This was also 14 years ago. That issue has been put to rest already. Why shouldn’t refs like sports? They were kids too at one point. They had favorite teams.
What was the spread on the game? I heard it was 15.5. Hard to believe that the ref’s aren’t betting on games when there’s so much fucking bullshit in the third to let OKC get ahead and then with 6 minutes left in the fourth it gets to 12 points and it starts up again.
Just fucking pathetic
If the refs wanted OKC to cover why call a bunch of fouls on SGA?
It was 15.5 points for OKC to win. They were favorites by 15.5 points if they don’t win by that much it doesn’t cover the line.
The refs didn’t score those points the lakers let them by being garbage at defense
Brother you’ve spent the entire day on reddit dick riding the ref’s and on Shai’s dick.
No point in talking to someone like you
Nba officiating has been a problem for a while now, refs dont rig games but they could influence it with couple bad calls that swing the game or ruin a team momentum or rythme and this is not about thunder. It is in general, One of the greatest teams of all time used to get away with the most obvious moving screens for years and when they got washed, they started to call it.
I don’t get it, they fine players for calling them out but there is no penalty for them doing such a shitty job. Remember when they would do that 2 minute review thing and go over the final minutes of a game? They stopped that because they constantly had “missed” calls in almost every game.
The fact one of the nba refs got a nickname as the extender is just bad look for the league.
https://official.nba.com/l2m/L2MReport.html?gameId=0042500231
They still do it
The L2M report?
Useless as fuck though because it basically pointed out how bad the refs were most of the times and fans got salty because it was usually some foul call they got absolutely wrong that changed the outcome of hte game.
It would only have worked if they fined the refs after they made a wrong call. That would never happen though because Adam Silver is the most spineless commissioner in any sport of all time.
Refs argument was always going to be this sport being too hard to ref at the highlest level because of how quick and skilled these guys are, and i agree.
But shouldn’t we be getting these refs more help? But yeah the NBA continues to bat an eye.
That’s not exclusive to Adam Silver and the NBA, though. Do they do that in any sport? I really only know basketball and football, but there’s no ref accountability in the NFL, either. And if what hockey fans say is true, apparently the officiating over in the NHL is just as bad as it is here.
They didn’t stop doing those two minute reports. I looked it up and they go as recent as the last wolves/spurs game so they didn’t even stop for the post season. You are literally just making shit up.
They have a good union, that’s why.
They didn’t stop shit, L2M is very much a thing
I mean, wouldn’t that be like penalizing the players for playing poorly? The refs have good games and bad, just like the players. It’s easy to watch the replay on TV and say something is or isn’t an obvious foul.
Well yeah, those moving screens were the key to their entire dynasty. Draymond’s screen was invincible 10 years ago because there was no counter for it due to the fact that referees flat out refused to properly officiate him.
Try to go over the screen? You’re getting hip checked into the fourth row. No call on Draymond.
Try to go through the screen? Lol you’re getting football tackled, again for no call. Or worse, the refs call a foul on YOU.
Try to go under the screen? Good luck, now Steph or Klay has an an open look from 3.
There was quite literally no way to play against this.
Feelings were definitely hurt in this game.
My feelings are hurt every game
NBA with rugby officials or even NHL refs would go such a long way for the sport. Not in the way plays are actually called but how players talk to officials and their demeanor. But honestly I think the culture of it is way too far gone, it’d take a full generation of both refs and players to pass through the league to change it.
The referees in rugby are more competent AND the players far more respectful. I can’t see the NBAs player/ref interactions ever looking anything like that of rugby’s.
Especially in this sub, this dude is r/nba’s favorite player by miles
What’s wild is Gobel was the ref in 5 of 7 OKC playoff losses last season.
He’s the ref JB Bickerstaff personally called out for coming into games with bias too.
Up there with Foster and Brothers with who I don’t want to see on a ref assignment
He’s my least favorite
Mine too. I was on pins and needles knowing he was reffing tonight.
Thunder fans need to be victims
Nah he’s just a terrible ref.
I agree with them. Fouls didn’t decide this game but John Goble is terrible
It’s not that man. It’s just that everyone knows he’s a bad ref
I wonder if it’d make any difference if the nba forced the refs to answer questions from the media after every game.
Remember that Lakers vs Celtics game a few years back. When LeBron drives and Tatum slaps LeBron hard as hell on the arm. Ref is standing out of bounds looking directly at it and didn’t call the foul so we’d get OT.
Folks only remember LeBron throwing a tantrum and the memes that followed. But the refs clearly saw LeBron get fouled and said nothing.
Would’ve loved to hear the referee reasoning for that one.
and it gave us Beverley showing the ref the replay on a camera
“I didn’t see it”
Accountability?? Nonsense lol
NBA refs are garbage…good job Reaves
Players yell in the refs’ faces all game, I’m surprised they don’t yell back more often.
Players are so disrespectful to refs and they just sit there and take it. I wouldn’t mind refs getting a little more aggressive. They lose control of games far too often
seriously, it’s a joke. I’ll never understand why refs allow that behavior. If they just issued techs more liberally players wouldn’t behave like children all game. Heck, I feel that most players think you need to yell in order to get a ‘fair whistle’, disgrace.
are we watching the NBA for LeBron, or for John Goble?
Well what we watch are grown men acting like children over every call that doesn’t go their way. They bitch and moan about everything all the time.
This is the hardest series to ref lol
John Goble is probably the worst referee in the game and it has nothing to do with this game(the Lakers didn’t lose because of the refs)
Ugly, dented head motherfucker
Drop a name I got it
It’s damn loud in that arena so maybe the ref needed to scream lmao
Game was over, what he needed was the shut the fuck up and go home.
There needs to be off court film review of every ref call, challenges shouldn’t be a thing, every play needs to be reviewed under the camera
Smh no Luka to bully the refs for you.
Bronny gotta try break this habit of playing with his hair, he looks like an idiot. He’s doing it in literally every shot I see of him.
We’re all the main characters of our own stories, but the refs need to understand that they’re not the main characters of the nba. They’re actively hurting the product, and I say this as a fan who watched the grindy basketball of the early 00’s. They are too involved.
Reaves should place that anger on Smart on trying a behind the back alley oop pass with his fucking left hand ?
I swear Smart is good for 1 boneheaded play per game. That pass was awful
That was wild lmao
Even then…. He’s still one of their most impactful players on the team. He’s great at organizing defense with the 2nd squad
Players wanna yell but don’t wanna be yelled back lol
Why would a ref yell at your face, do you think?
betrayed by referees
i really don’t envy being a ref. there’s the normal heat of the moment stuff where you get yelled at all throughout the game, but then players also think they can angrily confront you after. the games over, the guy doesn’t want to be berated. it makes sense at a certain point the ref might respond.
Maybe if he wasnt dogshit at officiating he wouldnt be berated as much.
Its the most hypocritical thing in the world because all players & coaches do is spend the entire night yelling at officials but its “disrespect” to get it back.
It’s literally the refs job to stay calm and be impartial. If football refs can take their ego out of it so can NBA refs
Yeah cuz if you do a shit job then ur gonna get yelled at wtf is is confusing abt it
How does this kid get to say this shit to a ref? If he doesn’t cop a fine over this
I knew he was going to point out how he’s a grown man.
I hope they both used hard r
So Reaves calls him a pussy in retaliation?
I think it’s even more disrespectful to call him a pussy after the fact
nah deadass both was walking away already 😭
I wasn’t disrespectful
Other than yelling “pussy” at him after he walked away…
He probably means before the ref yelled in his face.
“We’re grown men, and I just didn’t feel like he needed to yell in my face like that. I told him that. I wasn’t disrespectful.”
Did you just turn your ears off when the sentence right after addresses what you just said?
Poor baby 👶
“Then I proceed to call him pussy, with all due respect”
“I was respectful to him and have said worse to refs” - AR
“That’s some bullshit for you to talk to me like that. Pussy.” - also AR, in the same game
Going to bat for the refs? Casually returning the favor
Sounds like that was after dude felt disrespected and got upset.
He was talking about up the point of getting yelled at
I thought your flopping tonight was pretty disrespectful, Austin.
you don’t even believe that
Yes I do lol, dude pulled some absolute bullshit worse than anyone on OKC did.
He had two and1s and 3 technical fts, ig you’re tweaking about 5fts he flopped for in the 38 mins he played instead of shai 9 in 28 mins
Dawg he tried to draw a foul way behind the 3 point line and threw up an absolute brick. Shit was embarrassing.
I know. He’s got a lot of work to do to get to the level of sga and the rest of the thunder but he’ll get there eventually.
Austin, you led all players in scoring yet you’re still complaining like a little bitch
“after I yelled at him all night and then called him a pussy”
Maybe AR doesn’t know the economics of respect. You see, you gotta give respect to get respect. If you don’t give no respect you won’t get no respect.
They let him flop around and gave him BS calls he should have shook the mans hand and said thank you and had a smile and a coke.
Take the bias glasses of my man. The ref screamed in his face, yelling from afar and screaming in someone’s face are 2 different things. He called him a Pussy after the fact.
Lmao why are all the thunder fans in this thread acting like Reaves said that unprompted
Look up states that are the least educated and you’ll get your answer.
lol people forget Reaves went to Oklahoma
And is from Arkansas.
This is an argument over intelligence not basketball skill you numb nuts
and you’re losing
Again, literally not what we are arguing about. But go off buddy you really got me!! 🤩
who tf is we
Lakers yelled at the refs for 48 minutes. What are you on? LeBron was running at them complaining from the start of the game. You gotta be kidding.
Read the statement you quoted again then get back to us. I ain’t one to make okc education jokes but damn 😭