Scottie Barnes on Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: “Shai don’t really foul bait, yo. He’s aggressive going to the basket so they call fouls for him….There’s no reason to hate on his game”
Scottie learning the Canadian bias
Shai was voted best player by the players vote most people in the nba think he is the best not just the media
I got to see the Thunder play the Nuggets in Denver earlier this year. The first half SGA got some of his bullshit calls and the crowd was irate.
Second half comes and Shai is fucking COOKING, no calls needed. It’s not like I thought he sucked, but it was crazy watching him go to work. I don’t remember the stats exactly but he had like 40 points and a dozen assists. He’s an incredible player.
Shai is really amazing and efficient at what he does. He also gets calls and flops. All these are true.
Every player fouls and flops but Shai is the best player in the league right now until proven otherwise 🤷🏻♀️
It’s between him and Wemby, with Joker taking 3rd af least until next season imo.
I have Wemby 1 but can’t argue Shai being 1 rn either
He’s an artist on the court
Got to see him drop 50 in golden state a couple years back, dude had the most effortless 20 point first quarter I’ve ever seen. He’s way quicker than he looks on TV and his midrange is beautiful
Its kinda funny seeing fans going and telling everyone else that they’re wrong. Media agrees, his peers agree.. at what point will fans stop thinking they know better?
you know how many players think Kobe is the goat? lol their opinions have plenty of bias. not to mention the nba fining whoever criticizes refs. but all of his peers absolutely DO NOT agree lmao
I was just about to say this lol. Both current and retired players put him clearly in the top 5 but Reddit is the first place to say otherwise. Just pick an angle at this point.
I’m not saying I think Kobe is top 5, I just think it’s funny that Redditors want to pick and choose when they think their opinion is more valuable than actual players vs. when it’s not.
Shai can be the best player in the NBA and annoying to watch at the same time, nobody’s saying otherwise
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The hatred for his foul-baiting has kept people from accepting the level he’s now reached. Love him or hate him, this is objectively one of the best guard peaks in the history of the sport.
These two aren’t exactly the same though. Players aren’t necessarily good at putting players’ abilities in their historical context, but that’s not what Barnes/other players are doing here - they’re talking about his ability relative to the rest of the league as it stands, which they’re definitely qualified to opine on
We have players who think Paul George is the GOAT lmao player opinions are interesting
He can be the best player while still being a foul baiting flopper.
No clue why you think these are mutually exclusive.
At what point will you start thinking
If players were beyond reproach in their takes on how the game works or how good players are, there would be a lot fewer shitty coaches and GMs who were previously players.
I don’t think anybody on the planet except Joker fanatics say he sucks. He’s the deserved 2x MVP for a reason. We just hate the foul baiting and flopping he excels at. Just like Luka, Embid, Jokic etc. The top guys.
All of the superstars get to push off every play and it’s not a foul. We hate that too.
Folks will complain the Lakers have a favorable whistle and it’s upvoted to the moon. So even Thunder fans who love Shai can admit there’s a referee problem.
Literally everyone agrees there is a ref problem lol they suck across the board. The problem is everyone saying there’s some sort of agenda to push a team like us is just blatantly lying.
We have a game poorly reffed both ways, and the sub becomes unusable. The Wolves and Spurs play football last night, and the sub is posting Wemby aura quotes and suddenly no one minds the shit reffing lol
A lot of casuals are just engagement farming bc sga just gets clicks. The actual people that watched the spurs wolves game have commented that the refs were very bad and extremely inconsistent.
There’s ALWAYS been a ref problem though, now it’s just any dumb ass that puts a mic in front of themselves thinks they’re the best analyst ever and their opinion is fact after their TikTok clip blows up
Just like Luka, Embid, Jokic etc. The top guys.
No, it’s not “just like” the other players. Every day this sub is full of comments saying how it’s different/worse with SGA. You can’t tell me you haven’t seen the classic “it’s different because SGA flops every offensive play and the Thunder commit uncalled flagrants every defensive play.”
The reality is that 1) the NBA has a rules/officiating issue, 2) basketball is incredibly hard to officiate, 3) SGA sells calls and baits defenders into fouling 4) great defenders are good at being physical without fouling, and the Thunder are full of good defenders, and 5) the Thunder use the classic “you can’t call them all” approach used across sports.
You forgot 6) Shai makes ridiculous O-faces when he’s selling a call which makes it incredibly meme-able, and Reddit loves a good meme
Lmao it’s actually hilarious how much they bring up his facial gestures and it’s even funnier when you realize MJ also had insanely funny looking concentration faces 😭
The insane part comes when in the same thread as a pro says something like this they pretend actually the entire league is on their side on this debate.
There’s already an upvoted comment claiming “29 other coaches” disagree lmao
Lol how is that relevant? I barely see people disagree that SGA is the best player (or one of) in the league. That’s a completely separate matter from whether he flops and foul baits or not, so I’m not sure why you’re even bringing it up.
Hali too
Dillon would be disappointed
This guy doesn’t know ball like Redditors.
its kinda crazy a professional basketball player thinks he has a say in the matter
He just doesn’t know his shit like Nick Wright does.
Always Wright, never Wrong.
Damn Wrong people…
NBA player says thing Redditor agrees with: “Crazy a professional basketball players thinks he has a say hehe”
NBA player says thing Redditor disagrees with: “See, just because you played/play in the game doesnt mean you know what you’re talking about all the time”
As Kendrick Perkins has shown a million times. Playing basketball at a starting level for 12 years doesn’t mean you know shit about basketball….
Perennial dpoy candidate too
Shai literally foul baits. It’s not a conspiracy or something. You only have to watch a game.
I can probably count on one hand the number of great players that don’t foul bait
Now I wanna know if you’re serious about that. Who are they?
Cade, Barnes, Edwards off the top of my head
Edwards absolutely foul baits but agree on Cade and Barnes only because I don’t watch them much, but ant doing the ol AYYYYYYYYYYY head snap in the paint is literally foul baiting and I’m not sure why I see people on here disregard it so much lol he’s literally the most iconic head snapper in the league even if he’s not doing Jordan FTA numbers, by iconic I just mean literally every time he does it you recognize it 😭
Lmao let’s accept every player draws fouls aka foul baits, why? What player wouldn’t want more free throws, the point of the game is to score more points to win
There’s a subtle difference between getting to the free throw line by being aggressive and seeking contact, and foul baiting. Former is trying to make a basket like Shaq and getting fouled in the process. Second is not trying to make a basket but rather play to trick the refs into calling a foul like Embiid
Kind of agree but thats also a problem on what the NBA incentivizes. There is a reason the MLB is catching up to the NBA and will likely win
All players foyl bait, you don’t get to the top level without it being part of your game.
I mean yes but what star doesn’t? Dude has a ridiculous handle and explosion that noone can guard and dudes like harden, embiid, brunson do just as egregious shit.
Shai does foul bait but so does everyone else.
The narrative is exclusive to Shai because people know that he’s the best player in the league and need reasons to cope.
Why wasn’t Shai called a foul baiter in 2023 when he averaged 11 FTA compared to 9 now? Because he started winning accolades and led his team to multiple 1 seeds and a championship, so people made up narratives to downplay how good he is
Sure, so does every player in the league. The Shai FT stuff is the most overblown thing in the NBA, by a mile and current/former players know it.
This is the third player THIS WEEK publicly saying it’s all overblown: Hali, Scottie, Reeves.
I mean yeah, the free throw is one of theost effecient shots in the game. If your team or player doesn’t emphasize this then you are probably a loser. The Knicks don’t tell Jalen Brunson don’t get to the line, the Lakers don’t tell Luka or Reeves to not shoot free throws. Yet when Shai does it r/NBA thinks he’s committing a crime. Have thousands of posts and upvotes going see, see, see. Mother fucker what is that going to do, is it going to make the refs, NBA to change. It’s like old men yelling at the clouds and more and more he gets more belligerent. Eventually people are going to have to check up on that old man and see does he need to go to the psyche ward.
There are other basketball players with different opinions. It’s almost like different people have different thoughts on the same situation. I know, I know. It’s wild!
Jaylen Brown, professional NBA basketballer: “SGA is a foul baiter”
Scottie Barnes, professional NBA basketballer: “SGA is not a foul baiter”
Random Redditor: “See Scottie Barnes plays in the NBA, he knows better than all of you!”
Like I don’t even have any opinion on SGA foul baiting cause I rarely watch OKC games, but I hate this logic in any sport. Professional athletes are not perfect and often have their own biases. They can provide valuable insight in certain areas but can also be dumb or sometimes straight up wrong
Dismissing people’s opinions over professional athlete takes is almost always lazy
For real. Just because you’re a professional in the field doesn’t mean that you’re always right
Or people know that players aren’t infalliable and themselves don’t agree on things. There are players that defend shai and there’s also nba players that complain about shai foul baiting. Ultimately you have to look at reasoning for their points on what they’re saying rather than blindly agreeing.
29 of the coaches in the league disagree but Scottie Barnes said it was cool so we’re good
29 coaches called Shai a foul baiter?
Highly doubt that’s true
And Joker, and Haliburton…
They also voted him as best player in the league but sure man
How are those mutually exclusive?
They don’t have to be mutually exclusive. I think he’s the best player in the league and he also plays a horrible brand of basketball
His game is only like 5% flopping but redditor want to have is believe it’s like 90%. Majority of the 30 pts he puts up every night are ethical and majority of the fouls he gets are legit. I hope the Spurs fade em but let’s not pretend here like he’s a horrible player or he plays horrible basketball.
Me when I make shit up because I’m in my feelings
Sources for each 29 coaches?
He doesn’t have one lmao it’s funny tho every other coach in the playoffs is bitching about every respective opponent apparently having golden whistles yet we ignore this and choose to believe they only have a problem with shais whistles
Jaylen brown wasn’t even bitching about Shai he was bitching about embiid, im genuinely convinced 95% of this sub doesn’t realize this because they don’t pay attention to the clips that solely fuel their understanding of the nba
If they did have any understanding from clips they’d know bitching about officiating is now just a trend irrelevant tk Shai or the Thunder, because literally every coach and plenty of players are bitching right now about teams and players getting golden whistles that aren’t the Thunder or Shai
Coaches who want every competitive advantage they can? You think they just say it out of “justice”?
Dude, don’t even acknowledge it, there’s no 29 coaches actually disagreeing
It’s literally just a lie to cope with someone challenging their circlejerk
& Booker
Could be Michael fucking Jordan saying this and i’d still call bullshit on it
It’s funny to me people assume just because someone is in the league their opinion somehow matters more than someone watching. Plenty of examples that watching something from an outside perspective allows you to see things you can’t while participating.
lol dude, as someone whose college roommate from 05-08 won a national championship at Texas then went on to become a pro-bowler for the Bears, there is no “outside perspective” that lets us see anything they didn’t. These guys have access to proprietary resources and technology 95% of people don’t even realize exists, spend hours every day analyzing it with the most brilliant basketball minds on the planet, and exist in a continuous cycle of real-time physical and tactical feedback using and experiencing it in the wild.
The coolest thing I got to witness though was guys who most people had only ever heard speak a few words publicly, talk ball for hours with each other every day but Sunday when they were hanging out. Their conversations were on an entirely fucking different plane..
for example when I helped him move into his house in Chicago in April 2008, some of the vets came over and asked who my favorite team was (Saints). They all started talking about how good they were gonna be, how they were glad they didn’t have them on schedule for the regular season, and how they were the team to beat.
Literally thought they were just straight up mocking me until about 7 months later when the Saints were 12-0 then went on to win the fucking Super Bowl.
They literally said that shit unanimously like it was gospel behind closed doors because that’s how much better their intel was compared to all we had then which was:
And that information gap is certainly even greater today
Just need to have eyes
NBA players famously never ever misunderstand the game they play
I know rockets fans aren’t complaining about foul baiting when realistically you went from harden to sengun in your lifetime.
LeBron is still pretty aggressive to the basket and he’s got only 5 FTs in 2 games, so what’s your point, Scottie?…
and wemby got 12 in one last night. what’s it all mean
Lebron is stronger. They regularly don’t call as many fouls on big/strong guys.
And he also just has a bad whistle and has had a bad whistle for like 15 years.
The guy with the most games while only being 114th in total fouls has never had a bad whistle.
I would believe this if giannis didn’t lead fta for like 6 years lol
Teams intentionally foul him a lot to get him to the line. There’s plenty of instances of him also getting fouled that doesn’t send him to the line.
Teams would rather foul him and bet on him missing a free throw than make a near guaranteed shot at the rim since he’s so fast and strong.
Lol funny you say that cause Giannis should actually go to the line even MORE considering how many times he gets mauled and it goes ignored because he’s Giannis and is expected to just play through it.
Shaq was the most fouled man ever
And he probably deserved more fouls
They don’t call it hack a shaq for nothin
Shai drives over 20 times per game while lebron averaged 8.5 last regular season and passes out of more of them. It’s not close.
1 game sample size totally matters for a guy who averages 7 FTA a game for his career and over 10 FTA per game multiple seasons
He hasn’t sniffed 7 FTAs for 7 seasons now. He barely gets 6, sometimes less than 5
It’s also not about his averages, which are low. You can literally see him get fouled on a lot of drives that don’t lead to calls
guys wanna count FTs when you can watch the games and see the disparity in contact allowed on Shai vs other players
While calling you a box score watcher
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3 to be exact 10.2 10.3 x2
2018-19 was the last time he averaged 7
LeBron Averages 7.sum free throws a game in his career
So avging 2.5/gm in this series is an issue.
Lebron is averaging 2.8 fewer FTA per game than his season average over the first two games of the series. This is an issue, because he isn’t shooting enough.
SGA is averaging 3.0 fewer FTA per game than his season average over the first two games of the series. This is an issue, because he is shooting too many.
Make it make sense.
“Pretty aggressive” is not remotely close to what Shai does every game.
Future Oklahoma City thunder scottie Barnes
Don’t speak these evil wtf. Scottie would be disgusting on your team.
I think a more fair deal is if you give us jdub, Chet, sga, Ajay, Isiah joe, Jwill, Cason and 2 frps for poet and BI personally
Future raptor Shaivonte Aician Gilgeous-Alexander
TIL Shai is short for Shaivonte
The name of an angel
Its a not so secret secret that Thunder were going to draft Barnes if he fell to Giddy’s spot.
they tried to trade up to 3 or 4 to take barnes
HELL NAHH
If only he fell to 6 like people were mocking a few weeks before the draft 💔
scottie might forget more about playing basketball than i will ever know. but that doesn’t mean im going to stop believing what my eyes tell me
He’s just recruiting. Don’t get it twisted
Scottie obviously knows ball.
He is obviously also just protecting his fellow Canadian.
The guy from Florida is definitely trying to protect his fellow Canadian
Raptors did play in TB that 1 year lol
Don’t remind me…
It led to Scottie …
You don’t miss getting booed during our home games lol? Fun times
That whole season feels like a fever dream.
We the South!
He’s an honourary Canadian
The clips from last game completely shatter this claim
It’s funny how people pretend like we don’t have eyes lol
Holy shit you got the OKC Avengers in your replies on this one
You should watch the game and not just the clips.
People on this sub don’t follow the NBA. They follow r/NBA. Hell i saw 10-15 comments literally saying “…and that’s why I don’t watch the NBA.” Weirdo behavior
People on this sub are oddly proud of not watching the nba lol.
Seriously, think about how many times you read something along the lines of “x thing is why i dont watch/barely watch games now” i swear its every other day
It’s commonplace in today’s society to be proudly ignorant and arrogant about it
“This is why ThE nBa iS uNwAtChAbLe”
No, they will keep using 10 second clips to make their entire opinion
The question was whether he foul baits or not.
So did he foul bait in that game yes or no?
He does, as do all NBA players.
Watched both. Agree shai is a flopper. Anything else?
“the clips from the last game” you guys tell on yourselves a lot perhaps too much
Clups mean nothing, you can find 10 a game for virtually any high usage player.
“clips”
This has turned into solely an SGA debate when the problem is clearly bigger than that.
Every casual fan I know constantly complains about the flopping and bullshit calls in the NBA. It’s like the #1 issue I hear about from both casual and legit fans of the league. I was watching the first OKC/LA game with some people who have no horse in the race and they were annoyed by the way SGA was flopping and fishing for contact in the first quarter.
But it isn’t just SGA, there are a ton of players who do it and the NBA needs address it
2026 r/NBA would not survive the mid 2010s Harden years 😂
imagine if they were around for all of wades NINETY-SEVEN FREE THROWS IN SIX GAMES. IN THE BAD BOYS ERA 2006 FINALS against the mavs.
In the 2006 finals D-wade shot 15+ FTA 3 times on 14 drives per game, combining for 97 FTA over 6 games.
Lebron in 09 had a generational whistle against orlando trying to get that kobe-bron matchup cause of those dumbass puppet commercials. He shot 94 FTA in 6 games.
In the 2025 playoffs SGA shot 15+ one time, while driving 24 times per game, and shot 214 over 23 games, or 9.3 a game, compared to his regular season 8.8.
which is in line with the past ~20 years having a ~10% increase in fouls/FTA in the playoffs from the regular season. Source: This reddit post with data sources.
lol the sub existed
i have more of an issue with austin reeves than anyone else. at least SGA is a star lol
Its also funny to me because people will ignore reaves flopping like a fish just as much as shai in this series. Obviously shai is the bigger name but the hate he gets for it is unreal. It’s just post after post on every social media as if him flopping is the most important basketball related topic.
I think the foul-baiting, flopping, officiating is a bigger issue for watchability than tanking.
Like, I totally get why players do it — they’re being rewarded for it and they’re trying to win. If throwing your head back or crumpling to the floor gets you an extra 5 points over the course of a game, it makes total sense why they do it.
The way the league is officiated right now, they’re more likely to call the “result” than the actual action. Like, if they see a defender put a hand on the hip and try to steer the offensive player, they’re way more likely to call a foul if the offensive player falls down or jumps sideways than if the player just keeps trying to drive. It’s rewarding players who allow themselves to be affected vs players who try to play through it (e.g. LeBron, Steph, Ant).
I wish the league just totally reworked their officiating in the offseason. Start punishing flopping or non-basketball plays more, but also being quicker to ball illegal defensive contact without needing to see the offensive player fall down.
Yup, it’s way more than SGA. Although being the champion and MVP, probably back to back at that, he is the face of the problem.
Shai does foul bait. But so does everyone else.
Shai just also happens to be the best player in the league on the best team, so people need to find reasons to hate.
Kyrie (most “ethical” scorer OAT), Barnes (top 10 defender rn), and Haliburton have all said he doesn’t foul bait and that the whole narrative is overblown.
The reality is Shai is having a top 3 guard peak ever and people don’t wanna accept it so they’re saying he’s a foul baiter and that’s why he’s good.
I don’t understand comments like this that are so black and white. It’s like you all forgot about prime Harden. Shai is a generationally good basketball player. He also foul baits more than most. End of thread.
As you said, Harden was cooking the entire league averaging 40ppg while being the entire offensive engine, and I acknowledge that while still hating him for his flopping antics at the time.
I have eyes, Scottie.
Edit: aw I upset all the okc fans!
i saw his arms all cut up by the end of the 3rd
castle flung his head up 4 times baiting a foul on a singular drive in the game yesterday
shai is a shameless baiter, but i’ve never seen him do that before
refs jus missed another wemby goaltend as u typed this
Sorry but your “wemby always goaltends” narrative won’t deflect from the truth about your flopping addict
wemby was doing everything shai does last night bro. i dont know how this “ethical” spurs shit started when they’re just as bad as every other team.
that being said wemby is still fantastic and so is shai. drop your double standard.
Not to mention they had Manu, modern flopping wouldn’t look the way it does today without his contributions
He foul baits, there’s a lot of foul bating in the NBA. Some more than others. Some players look ridiculous at it like Embiid and some are so good at basketball that they don’t need to but do it anyway because that extra layer is another problem to create for the opponent like SGA, Brunson, James Harden…well Prime James Harden.
I just think Brunson and Trae young are so much worse about this than SGA. I think SGA gets fouled more for his style of play and how he shoots the ball on his pull ups, where as Brunson really seeks to go out of his way to initiate contact.
Trae plays more like Harden, more about using the hands and arms to draw fouls on the perimeter but both Brunson and SGA use footwork to put themselves in “disadvantageous” positions in the paint and just score from there. That kind of foul drawing is unsolvable by the whistle.
Are you saying shai and brunson purposely put themselves in a bad spot so that they can flop?
Oh please. Brunson averaged 5.7 FTs per game this year while Shai was at 9. Now Brunson is at 6.2 per game in the playoffs while Shai is over 10.
Don’t want Shai to get to the line? Don’t get beat off the dribble. Every single one of these fouls, literally every single one, is because Shai blows by his dude with two dribbles and the defender is forced to get overly physical to compensate. It isn’t foul baiting. If it wasn’t a foul, it would be a bucket.
What does getting beat off the dribble mean? The clips I watch on here never include that
I mean that’s just not true. I’ve seen him put his head down and run straight into a defender that was in position and flail his arms up like he was attempting a shot after he created the contact on a fast break.
I mean you can say that about nearly everyone when they’ve played hundreds of games.
SGA is an incredible player and would be without the flopping as well. He obviously does flop and so do many other players. It’s also not really on the players to fix this issue though. SGA should not limit his own effectiveness because fans ask him to. Its on the league and the refs to fix the issue if they want it fixed, which I think they should before this turns even more into soccer.
Well that settles it. His friend says he’s innocent guys
Who says they’re friends lol. Yall realize Scottie isn’t actually canadian or anything right. It’s just a player commenting on another player and the trendy topic. But i guess it’s easier to dismiss what he’s saying this way.
One of the most annoying things about the modern time we’re living in is how often people tell you to ignore what your own functioning eyes are seeing.
edit: Of course here come the thunder flairs doing the literal same thing I’m talking about.
In terms of sports, most fans don’t even watch games. They “see” what they’re shown on clips, highlights, social media, and podcasts, etc. It’s all filtered down for them. Algorithms are pure confirmation bias for engagement.
(Edit: or rage bait for engagement. All things reasonable and nuanced get filtered to the bottom. Which is a huge problem w our society in general)
Maybe that’s not you, idk, but it’s definitely most.
Well a lot of people dont realize your eyes are sometimes covered with jade-colored glasses
It’s also kinda annoying seeing people make up shit for rage bait or for pushing an agenda.
There is a post on the front page with a title saying something like “thunder laugh at lakers complaining to refs” even though there’s no evidence in the vid they’re even laughing at them… ofc the replies were absolutely unhinged in that thread. Meanwhile a post of AR foul baiting to kick shai directly in the nuts got barely the same engagement.
I saw a comment from a spurs fan saying Wemby would rather join advidja in the IDF than join okc…Please absorb that for a moment in how ridiculous that is…
Like have we not lost the plot at this point? People aren’t even watching the games but just like to be outraged and spread an agenda that barely even checks out…
“tRy AcTuAlLy WaTcHiNg ThE gAmEs” I do dumdum. Thats the problem
turns out the guy who drives to the rim the most in the league gets fouled a lot
And dives to the floor a lot
We have eyes, we can see the foul baiting lol
He does foul bait a lot. Let’s be real here.
The haters are always louder but numbers don’t lie, SGA is loved by many. Tons of all star votes, tons of eyes on the TV when he plays despite some saying he’s ruining the game, lots of respect from other players, award voters recognize how good he is, no off court problems, etc.
It’s mostly just Laker nation flexing their whine muscles.
must’ve been the wind then
Shai’s biggest sin was winning mvp over Jokic.
I think Shai does flop some. Every star & superstar does. But I really think people grossly overestimate how much he flops versus how much he’s just abusing people with his super power.
Shai legitimately might be the best off balance/contortionist player in league history. Which means you have to play him with absolutely perfect defense or he’s going to find a way to get you into illegal defense position 9⁄10 times. Or he’ll cook the shit out of you with his middy or finish at the basket. But because he’s going to get you into illegal position with these snake like contortionist moves it isn’t super aesthetically pleasing and it looks just janky at times.
Which I think really upsets people because it’s hard to understand and see in real time how he’s basically forcing defenders to put their hands in the cookie jars way more than they’d like.
And as the great Chris Smoove once said, “You reach, I teach”
He has the best body control of any player I’ve ever seen live. The only thing I can compare it to is watching old MJ clips.
There’s a difference between: foul baiting, which is being aggressive to initiate contact (part of the game); exaggerating contact after you successfully foul-baited (which is lame but part of the game); and flat tf out flopping off of no / minimal contact like a bad actor in a Tubi movie (which is garbage)… Shai happens to be good at all 3.
The problem is the referees call it all the same like they can’t tell the difference, to the point it’s glaze-ish. If OKC was a play-in team with no chance, nobody would care… but they’re not.
“Don’t believe your eyes” is not just being used by our government.
I mean almost anyone who actually watches the games in full should agree with this. The only people bitching about it are the ones just watching 10 second clips on the internet.
I hate the refs who constantly gift him fouls on minimal or no contact much more than I hate him.
This is smart, now maybe SGA don’t foul bait when Scottie is guarding him
Psh what do nba players know about the nba.
They not gonna like this lol
R/nba’s new least favourite player
I can’t wait for silver to get replaced. Dude is on a generational tear of ruining this game. Between the atrocious reffing, non called technicals for flopping, and a lack of appearances regarding any controversy in the league this guy is a complete joke. When you’ve got players driving to the basket and head snapping every attempt it’s bad for the game
MLB is positioned to overtake the NBA due to MLB doing things like the pitch clock , ABS challenges, and bigger bases ect while NBA self owns with the contact fishing situation.
As someone from Florida, don’t mind him he’s Floridian
Floridian with a knick flair disgusting
You ever been to Florida?
The problem with this subreddit is that during games they are out there to actively find shais soft calls and weak whistles and only that . They are so motivated to find the smallest thing that they disregard 99% of the other thing that happens on court. Shai foul baits a bit but if they had the skill every one of the nba players would do that. Also why the fuck would nba be biased for a small market team like okc?
Protecting his fellow Canadian brother
Scottie is also the Patrick of the NBA
I don’t hate his game, he’s awesome. I hate the flopping. What’s so hard to understand?
There’s a difference between baiting fouls and exaggerating contact. SGA exaggerates contact, sometimes to a hilarious degree, but the truth is a good amount of the time he is actually fouled.
Now, we can have a conversation about the idea of “technically fouled” versus the fouls that definitely need to be called, but that’s a different conversation.
That being said, you can’t watch the Thunder with any regularity and come to the conclusion that they don’t broadly exaggerate and flop a decent amount.
Well lets be real he does foul bait, but like everyone does. It’s not nearly as bad as someone like Luka, Jimmy Butler, or prime James Harden. Given the volume and amount of times he drives to the basket, his free throw throw numbers are par for the course and even a little below average. So yeah he does flop which is annoying but I don’t get why he gets so much of the backlash compared to some of these other stars
he doesn’t foul bait????. you wanna praise his game and skill fine but let’s not be delusional now
#THATS MY SPECIAL LITTLE GUY
A “no excuses” attitude is a winning attitude.
I think mods forgot to delete this
And yet the comments here are still full of bitchmade “experts” lmao.