[Highlight] Spurs and Timberwolves players drawing fouls in Game 3
How could Shai do this?
It’s not the playoffs, it’s the Shai-offs now
The whole basketball discussion revolves around Shai. Which proves he’s the BITW and the face of the league
“proves” doing interesting work there
Shai was literally not talked about in any of the top comments until this guy decided to bring him up for no reason lmao.
He burned our crops, poisoned our water supply, and delivered a plague unto our houses!
The confirmation bias has reached unprecedented levels in the discussion.
Any material difference has to be marginal, but there’s a large portion of the fandom who genuinely believe this myth and move the goalposts at literally every marker when their stance is invalidated.
It’s much more symptomatic of the state of social media than it is the state of the NBA
I think it’s both honestly. Some of the NBA rules are bad and put too much emphasis on “legal guarding position”. Basketball is a hard sport to officiate and these guys aren’t robots. But if you slow it down, it’s impossible to always be in a textbook legal position.
It’s a contact sport where only very specific contact is okay lol. And players rightfully try to take advantage of that
Yeah announcers love to harp about “ticky-tacky” calls but the truth is basketball is just a “ticky-tacky” sport. There’d probably be a foul/violation on damn near every possession if the refs were ever replaced by AI that was 100% accurate.
Exactly it’s like hockey where there are multiple penalties happening at all times
There’s also what, 200 total possessions per game? Thats 200 chances to call a foul? Even more if you extrapolate switches/ screens/ drives/ shots per possession. Refs are gonna miss some stuff. As long as the bias is applied fairly, evenly, to each side, that’s all we can hope for with human refs.
Make everything legal and just give them pads and helmets. And cover the court in padding
My least favorite is turned shoulders. Any time you turn your shoulders or hips they’ll call a foul, even if you don’t really do anything and it should otherwise be a no call or a charge. It’s consistent, defenders know it, it’s not really in the rules and it’s dumb as hell.
I’m on board with this!
Unfortunately true. You see the same thing in every sport and politics as well
The other side of this is that people absolutely do not want the game to go the other way either. If the refs allowed defenses to be physical, then people will complain that they wish they called it tighter because how could they miss such an obvious foul!
the real answer is that literally everyone just wants the calls to go their way for their team, and they don’t care about the logic of it
Weirdly the refs allowed the defence to be quite physical in this game too, perhaps too physical with Wemby though since they were straight up holding him back at times.
Which goes to show that even this compilation could give a misleading impression of the game. If this was OKC people would straight up believe the game was reffed like this the entire time yet in reality there were borderline fights breaking out because the refs were allowing a lot of contact on anyone bringing it up from half court. I thought Castle was about to lose it at one point.
That was my main complaint. They called these fouls and let some of the most egregious shit imaginable go. There were certainly a bevy of fouls to be called but almost none of them happened on ball.
Fans just want to feel good and will lap up anything anyone says that is bad about opposing teams.
They’re too stupid to realize their confirmation bias. They probably ignore any post or thread that makes them feel bad or wrong.
This is 100% accurate
It’s because OKC is doing it against the Lakers.
The Lakers are the ones who always get preferential treatment from the refs. Now they aren’t, and it’s breaking people’s brains.
It just doesn’t make sense to me, why have rules and fouls uncalled when you ABSOLUTELY have the money now to make sure they are called. There should be no discussion, it should be called if it’s a foul, and allowed if it’s legal.
brother you do not want to watch a basketball game where they call every single contact to the letter of the law. games would be 6 hours
Right now sure but you actually enforce the rules and they will adapt.
There would be at least 20 comments saying “this here is why I don’t watch nba anymore, okc is ruining the beautiful sports” if okc was involved instead
That Wemby flop at 0:25 would have 15k upvotes if it was you know who.
This subs bias against AJ Mitchell is sickening
….that’s who we’re talking about right?
That boy and his Belgium bullshit I tell ya
I’m on my Belgian shit rn, we out here fuckin up some waffles.
NGL I’m jealous
You’re exactly right. He went to Belgian waffle university so he’s just soft so it’s understandable there’s a bias against him
Voldemort?
Im extremely biased…..but Wemby gets fouled with no call pretty consistently.
That’s just life as a big.
That’s what was funny about the various think pieces written about Chet’s (admittedly obvious) overselling the chin contact last game.
The dude gets legitimately elbowed in the face by guys that out weigh him by 50lbs+ nearly every game with no call. He never complains to the media about his whistle. But now he’s a “flopper” because Reddit decided to go all Zapruder on a single call.
He really has gotten legitimate elbows to the face like 3 times already these playoffs. That’s one every other game lol.
So it’s wrong that Wemby doesn’t get the whistle, and it’s wrong that Chet is making up bullshit to get one. What is hard about this logically consistent stance? The refs are the consistent error here. If they weren’t ass at getting duped by players, things could be better.
Shai, Wemby and most of the top players are getting fouled on most possessions because they’re all simply that good and unguardable. But you wouldn’t know these things unless you actually watch the games lol
I saw that live and was thinking the same thing. Someone posted it and it’s sitting at like 35 upvotes total
Isn’t that a reach in foul?
Can’t believe you’d put MJ on blast like this with his floppin ass.
I don’t like any foul were contact is initiated by the offensive player
Thats basically all blocking fouls. Where the defender is out of position and the offense runs into them
clearly not what they mean
They’ll have to say what they mean more clearly next time
obviously talking about rip throughs and when the offensive player randomly rises up for a shot because the defender had his arm there for .1s. basically everything this video shows
Don’t be a pedant
I’ll mind read better next time
Agreed. I grew up playing soccer, in high school, I played basketball for the first time and could not wrap my head around all the fouls where the offensive player bumps into the defender and they call the defender for the foul.
The worst fouls. Defender is in perfectly natural and legal guarding position, and the offensive player just purposely gets tangled up or hooks their arm or whatever.
This shit just has to be a play on. You didn’t get fouled when all the defender did was exist.
This shit IS ruining basketball
Yeah at least it’s everyone ruining it and not just OKC…
It’s still ruining basketball big dog
It is a disgusting product
It is bad for basketball. I dont care if it’s my team doing it or the Thunder. It is objectively bad for the game. Do you disagree?
With wolves fans saying “THIS IS WHAT WE’VE BEEN SAYING”
Only two players hit the floor in this entire compilation of mostly rip through calls and one bad Wemby flop. Nice try.
Still not as bad as the garbage product okc puts out
I can see Castle becoming a prolific flopper. He’s got all the tools
He already is people just haven’t scrutinized him for it yet
Ngl this series has made me a Castle hater. Foul baits with the best and constantly starts shit while trying to pull the innocent act.
He is a proper instigator, got avidja last series and mcdaniels on this one
I finally realized it in our series. More people will jump on as they see him play more
He’s Jimmy Butler.
I got downvoted into oblivion a few days ago when I said the Castle was foul baiting heavy in the first half of game 2. I was being generous because that dude is always making some sort of weird motion to sell calls.
He also racks up rebounds and assists like a borderline all star. Hes awesome to watch. He should be penalized for flopping as much as anyone else, which currently isn’t enough, but let’s not pretend Castle isn’t absolutely amazing.
(Massive bias here btw)
3⁄11 13 points and 6 of those points were free throws idk man. I’m mad though and hella biased. He’s an excellent passer though.
Hey guys can we just make sure we’re not doing this thing that nobody is doing? Thank you
No Castle should not be penalized, flopping is a part of the game. Castle learned these things by studying MJ, Kobe, Wade, Manu, Reggie etc.
If the league and refs want to change something that’s up to them, the players are not doing anything wrong. We need to move on from this braindead mindset. Winning is all that matters
Sure I’m down. Can we also not pretend that Shai isn’t absolutely amazing?
Shai is incredible. His mid range game is unreal. If he gets to his spot it just goes in. He’s not particularly turnover prone. I do wish he didn’t flop and he would stop if the refs stopped rewarding it but yeah no one is saying Shai doesn’t have great basketball talent.
Lots of people are saying that and have been saying that for two years straight, actually. People really need to remove the “no one is saying” from their rhetorical filler phrases, it’s almost always wrong
What would you feel about replacing Castle with SGA in this statement?
Spurs fans in heavy denial about it. Every time he puts the ball on the floor he’s snapping his head back like crazy.
Guy was even flopping when Jaden tried to fight him.
I really just want people to come to the reality that damn near every team has at least one guy who does this stuff. It’s not new, it’s not unique to OKC, and it’s not nearly the problem that people make it out to be. At some point people have to realize that hyperfocusing on these few incidents per game and making ALL of the discourse about it is more damaging to the league than the act of foul baiting itself.
The basketball was amazing this year, ratings were up, but if you browse this sub you’d think everyone is being forced to watch the NBA as part of some sort of torture method
he got that head snapback game
And his hairstyle make it look very fun
I get the hair now. It’s a good way to highlight contact.
In all honesty I like Castle a lot. He’s a prick like Jaden and frankly the league needs more of them. I feel the same about Brooks.
Wrestlers have known this for years
The sad thing about it is that he has been getting hacked and bodied all season long without getting a proper whistle. If you watched Spurs games consistently, you’d know Castle has one of the worst whistles. And yeah.. now I see him resorting to these methods every so often and it’s terrible, but something’s gotta give. NBA needs to do something about these terrible refs.
I think if refs would call actual fouls we wouldn’t have a flopping epidemic. Wemby and Castle get mauled, but they’re bigger players so they don’t call them. They have to exaggerate for the refs to call it.
There’ve been so many times Wemby was grabbed, held, or just mauled with no whistle these playoffs. Castle is also just built like a tank and people just push and ram into him.
He has to otherwise he won’t be getting any call. There are numerous occasions he was mauled. If refs don’t call them, he has to sell it.
Yeah his best move is the foul someone and act hurt himself. He does it a lot.
It was funny hearing Candace Parker and Dwayne Wade laugh on broadcast at all the fouls on Randle and Gobert that weren’t Called for pulling Wemby’s arms down lol
For whatever reason those don’t get called as much as they should. Rudy usually is on the receiving end of those for us. He gets his arm pulled like he was doing to Wemby all the time
the cycle of trauma continues 😔
Hurt people hurt people
Refs trying to bring balance as Wemby is such a cheat code. Someone needs to remind them that’s not their job.
Lots of physical defense, flopping, and some non-calls last night but oddly I don’t think there will be 24 hours worth of “discourse” as a result
No because yall play tonight
And it’s the weekend.
And we mustn’t forget it’s been raining
And gas prices are high.
They’ve gone up god damn 90% since I’ve bought a car 😔
So it’s your fault! Please sell your car for the good of gas prices
OKC transcends gas prices
And we’re at war
I like how this thread shows people were downvoting you but then got to the gas price comment and they were like shit he has a point lol
Thundering a smidge?
Ty 🐐
Of all the fanbase the lakers being the most vocal about officiating is some sweet karmic shit
i think the NBA needs to reevaluate what a shooting foul is on these kinds of plays
similarly to how they made the “rip through” move a foul on the floor instead of a shooting foul
if guys are feeling contact and flinging the ball up towards the rim, can it just be a foul on the floor?
(yes i realize there is a guy on the team that i root for that regularly seeks out this contact and benefits for it)
Yeah i don’t understand shooting fouls anymore at all. Half the time the player gets fouled BEFORE the call and then throws up the ball, not even at the rim just sort of in the air, and it’s counted as a shooting foul.
That would allow savvy defenders to be even more aggressive. Imagine the way Caruso plays defense but he’s allowed to continue it all throughout a play, instead of just for the first few seconds while the ball handler gets set up, without risking a shooting foul. OKC’s defense has mastered playing super hard defense during the times it only risks a foul on the floor and then backing off when it risks free throws, and this would make that even easier.
It would hurt Shai’s game a bit but it would be a net positive for OKC and teams with similar defensive personnel.
(I’m not disagreeing and saying the nba shouldn’t do that, it just might not wind up making the Thunder haters happy)
It is a foul on the floor if you’re LeBron. Everyone else: shots.
should have been continuation on lebron for sure, but the ensuing play, austin reaves grifts 3 free throws
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1t6zqt3/highlight_austin_reaves_draws_the_3_point_foul/
and proceeded to miss 2 of the 3.
It’s so weird because they just let us beat the shit out of each other and then constantly stop the game for this shit
Yeah, I think this series perfectly encapsulates the league’s officiating problems.
It’s CRAZY physical. Wolves were getting away with murder on Wemby off-ball. San Antonio’s guards are playing like offensive linemen to get Wemby space offensively. But refs are largely letting them play physically.
But then you have these ticky tack calls happening because guys are throwing their head back or folding over like they just got sucker punched.
Wemby is actually the perfect example. He probably got fouled 25 times yesterday (off-ball holds, grabs, etc.), but a lot of his free throws were on him becoming an inflatable tube man on relatively minor contact.
completely agree
100%
I hate to bring up OKC here but just as an illustration of how misleading hightlight compilations like this can be. If it was OKC in this ticky-tacky compilation the sub’s narrative would be the game was 100% OKC foul baiting. If you made a compilation of all the non-calls against the Spurs (like Wemby being held) and had the Wolves in OKC uniform, the narrative would be the game was 100% OKC getting away with murder on D. People just assume a comp of a handful of plays represents the entire game.
In reality, the game had both sides of the reffing problem but you could easily sell it to people as one or the other depending on how you cut the compilation.
Anyway, go Wolves as I don’t want OKC to face Wemby in the WCF.
Honestly one of the worst ref jobs I’ve ever seen, on both sides
It almost ruined the game for me, but there was some good ball to be bad thankfully.
Yeah, yesterday was kind of a bittersweet win. I saw the game at a pub - so, no sound and was prob getting distracted every now and then, but I couldnt make out what many of these weak ass calls were about on both sides. Hope game 4 Is diff. GSG!
Wow they are completely ruining the game of basketball how could silver possibly be rigging it like this for them this is outrageous. Shai is a disgrace. Wait a second
People are mad at the players, but not with the referees who have eyeballs that they can use to see what’s happening
NBA fans are notorious for going easy on the refs and giving them all the slack in the world.
Yeah, smart offensive players know how to draw fouls depending on how the game is reffed. They adjust night in night out. Blame the refs for rewarding them.
Can’t wait to see Nick Wrights hissy fit over this.
/r/punchablefaces
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It was Jason Timpf’s turn to throw a fit after game 2
The lack of outrage just shows that you guys don’t actually watch games and just watch whichever clips get upvoted on here and examine every perceived infraction under a microscope.
I think the other part of it is that you guys don’t actually care about flopping/foul baiting as much as you say you do. When you go into a game thinking “the refs are gonna screw us, the other team always gets to get away with shit”, every single whistle or non-whistle against your team seems egregious and unfair.
This is magnified even further because like 95% of this subreddit doesn’t understand slo-motion replays and how human bodies move/react. In slow motion every foul and reaction looks deliberate and thoroughly planned out, when in reality those actions take place in split seconds. Someone gets hit and takes a beat to react to it is deemed as fake and flopping when in reality that’s just what happens in real life lol.
I can live with missed calls from the refs. This is the shit I can’t stand. The best thing the NBA can do to improve the quality of the games is to stop rewarding foul baiting
The only reason players exxagerate contact is because of all the missed calls.
Just call it straight
I know, but I don’t think it’s possible to call a perfect game. It’s just too fast. Start calling techs for flopping and offensive fouls for unnatural shooting motions to cause contact.
No it’s not
That’s what’s makes it so frustrating. OKC’S entire team now is flopping on Offense and Defense and now Victor “Ethical hooper” Wemby and Castle are doing it - why? To get calls. What’s disheartening as a Twolves fan is they don’t flop. Ant, JR, Rudy get mauled regularly but since they don’t flop, it puts us at a disadvantage. There is no hope against OKC and to a lesser degree San Antonio if we don’t adopt the same strategy.
We don’t even know how often refs are instructing them to do so. Like, we see them conferring and coming to agreements all the time.
“Bro, I’m getting hacked out here, wtf man.”
“Alright, alright, just show me when it happens next time.”
.
“Dude, how was that a foul??”
“Well, you impeded progress and your thigh tripped him.”
“I beat him to the spot!! Do I gotta just drop?”
“Yes, that’ll work I’ll give you that if it comes up.”
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, CAN YOU MISERABLE FUCKS JUST MAKE A GOD DAMN FOUL WATCHING SUBREDDIT.
Crafty veteran moves all around
Agreed!
Dawg I’m this close to muting this sub y’all are more insufferable than the “flopping”
It’s alright, in 8 hours, all the complaining will be around OKC again
And it will be just as annoying that people continue to make it moralizing about players/teams rather than inconsistent officiating
usually spurs fans love it here when it’s all thunder hate
I’m personally I’m more invested in enjoying basketball than Bullying The Canadian but I cannot speak for my brethren
Solid outlook
Personally I do think the thunder get away with a lot but the only actually dirty player is Lu Dort. Fuck that guy. The rest of them are just physical defenders and ballers.
Dort being dirty is not what we were talking about in this thread and hasn’t been the discourse this playoffs yet either. Don’t know why you feel the need to bring that up. It’s very typical though: “oh we might agree on this flopping / initiating contact thing but I got this other thing I hate about the thunder.” 🤷♂️
I bring it up because imo it’s the only real thing to hate about the Thunder, they have a player that is dirty and attempting to injure other star players, and it has come up in the playoffs with Devin Booker. That’s generally where most of my irls and people I talk to online stand but I don’t speak for everyone.
because that one is warranted
This is considered “playing modern basketball”
1:03 was 100% a foul that they were not going to call until Victor sold it a few seconds later. They were doing that shit all game with Rudy and Ant. Just straight up holding him/hugging him/holding his harms down in the paint to try and get past them. I mean ffs rudy practically has Vic in an Armbar at 1:05
Every other play in this video is definitely something the league needs to look into, but that one? I have no issues with that.
I don’t think the Harper one is even a flop. He just goes up into his shot. Should be a no call if anything
Ayo isn’t vertical despite the commentary saying he was, his arms were over Harper’s airspace. It looks lame in real time but it’s absolutely not legal guarding position.
I agree that it is technically a foul with Ayo’s arms not being vertical, but in all cases like this I don’t like that it’s a foul. Too much is expected of a defender to be in perfect position, need to be vertical, can’t be moving, etc. If I’m just standing there with my arms up over you, you shouldn’t be able to jump into my arms and get a foul call simply because I wasn’t vertical. Doesn’t sit well with me in the spirit of basketball.
Yeah at second look he’s definitely moving into Harper. They called worse fouls this game though lol
I mean, the shove was one thing. But Rudy also had his foot behind Victor right at the moment of the push. It was not a legit flop.
Exactly! I feel like people are completely glossing over that. He didn’t flail his arms because of the push by Randle but because he clearly loses balance being tripped up by Gobert’s leg.
And it was still a fun watch. Crazy how that works.
Spurs and “Timberwolves” and it’s only Julius Randle
Yeah, we’re not seeing all the drives from Wolves players drawing significantly more contact being labeled as “gritty defense” by the Spurs.
He makes me so mad
Unwatchable fraudulent unethical product. Or whatever the bingo card words are
No no, you see, these are isolated incidents. The unwatchable fraudulent unethical product is tonight.
Wait why are all the comments about OKC in a Spurs/Wolves post? Anyway refs were all over the place this game. Not calling hard fouls then calling soft fouls. There’s zero consistency. That foul called on the Harper drive was especially egregious. Pure vibe whistles.
A lot of hand in the cookie jar fouls, which aren’t great but there’s a big difference between that + selling contact vs wholesale inventing contact, which I didn’t see any of last night
Wolves fan here. Trust me, I love blaming the refs but last night was a fun ass competitive game. I didnt really feel any impact from the refs.
Nah. Nah. Nah. This can’t be? I’ve read too many comments on r/NBA that this series is where the real BB fun is. No push offs. No foul baiting. No flopping.
This video didnt show up couple of wolves players locking up Castle’s arm for a couple for possessions, a couple of bumps from Castle not being called as a foul already.
I watched the whole game, both team getting bad officiating honestly.
Lastly, they grabbed Wemby’s arm like a tug war.
It’s crazy hockey is the only sport that figured out flopping shouldn’t be a part of the game. I genuinely don’t understand the hesitation in soccer and basketball to punish flops until it’s out of the game.
Why would Shai do this
This is going to have 1/20th of the engagement. Weird
I hate dirty plays more than flopping, the main difference is that one can cause potential injury
I think most of these are standard catching your defender with their hand in the cookie jar and manipulating the space a little bit or the double clutch jumping into the defender to draw contact. Some of it is annoying but mostly consistent I would say, and I don’t mind it with OKC either. Shit like that flop from Chet last game where he straight up isn’t touched anywhere near the face and falls to the ground holding his face is when the discourse deservedly gets more aggressive towards OKC because they literally don’t need to be doing all that with the level of talent they had. When Rudy starts holding his face like there was a sniper in the building, I will have the same level of outrage for that.
This is the issue. If you go and watch that play, he absolutely was hit in the face. But you don’t see what you don’t want to see, and that “belief” will prevail and be used in conversations like this for who know how long to prove a point that isn’t substantiated.
Ok I just found the other angle and I can agree there’s some arm to face contact but not enough for him to react as much as he did, it looks more like part of his upper arm to me than elbow but that’s needlessly speculative. Either way defenders are supposed to grant some level of space and there’s definitely a bad trend of defenders leading with their face which is just not ever practical basketball. I can agree that the narrative around flopping being exclusively an OKC problem is a little unfair, because it’s just a general officiating problem where players feel a need to flop or get no calls. Most of the calls in the OP are calls that SGA gets too and that’s fine, but people have to get why it’s annoying with how physical Caruso, Dort, and Cason can be on the other end. But its definitely league wide
The clip of Wemby at 45 seconds is clearly a huge flop. Sure randle has an elbow by his waist, but Wemby clearly flails his entire upper body back with no contact anywhere near there.
Wemby is definitely a huge flopper too I agree
Crazy dicotomy between allowing super physical play, and calling weak ass fouls, all within the same game.
Every team does it, it’s not a new thing. If u watch these games only paying attention to the foul baiting, sure it’s not gonna be fun, but then why are you watching basketball at that point, nba discussion is at its lowest right now cause people only talk about the foul baiting and all that. Genuinely when was the last time u saw a clip of a good handles/defense/offense (not posters) on this sub/social media, it feels like the only thing people talk about right now are flops and refs while ignoring the rest of the game which is crazy when its only about 3% of the whole game
None of those could have been called and it would have been great.
Why are there such vast differences in the way the game is officiated, especially in playoffs? It is impossible to not assume refs go into a game with a specific style of reffing they will use because game two Lakers/Thunder these were basically not even getting called because they wanted to curb that but here we see these immediate arm up shots the second a defender starts to trail with their arm on the shooter. Why can’t the NBA just implement reffing the way Fiba does and allow for more contact and not call exaggerated moves by the offense. They basically don’t call this shit if it looks like someone is trying to “game” the rules. But it doesn’t prevent any of the awesome highlights or hero moments cause we all watched them happen in the olympics. Having these games look entirely different from a rules sense is just a bad look as a viewer.
I realised in the 2024 playoffs when we lost to Minnesota, different refs will call it differently
But I thought sga only flops
LOOK WITH YOUR EYES!!!!
I posted this and it got deleted lmao
Definitely some flops, but it was pretty physical game on both sides. In one of the clips, Gobert is pulling down on Wemby’s arm half the time with no-call. Excuse the last two minutes of the game where Stephon Castle lost the ball on a foul and even Wade and Parker thought the Timberwolves challenge would be unsuccessful.
Anyone who watched both series with no bias would still see a major difference in whistle from the Thunder and every other team. A couple of soft calls wouldn’t change that when you see Shai hit the Harden head snap at light contact while you watch Castle, a flopper, play through questionable at the end of a tight game.
Every player flops; some like prime Harden or MVPiid flop way more and way harder than others. Shai gets hate for being the next torchbearer, but he still has a ways to go if he wants to reach prime Harden levels.
Everyone is doing it now. This shit needs to stop.
Gotta be honest, this fouls reel makes the KAT-Embiid fouls reel look like WWII. There really actually is levels to it.
In before mods delete this since it’s not the Thunder lmfaoo
There’s a difference between foul baiting and straight up flopping
People get mad at Shai for the flailing and embellishment. Wemby was the only one in this compilation that did that. Harper/Randle/Castle all took the contact and stayed in a natural motion.
The constant fouls being called on both ends make games bumpy and hard to watch as it stops momentum. Playoffs are meant to be more physical and less soft fouls being called. Is it possible for us to get back to that please
The playoffs aren’t supposed to be called this heavy. Refs are making this paboutique them. The league needs new refs.
I feel like these refs call this BS simply cause CB is a rookie…
Thank you for posting this
Because the Wolves don’t really physically exaggerate fouls, they’ve really gotten vocal about calling their own calls.
Please all the OKC and Shai haters keep their mouth shut for the rest of their lives after seeing the Spurs flop like crazy yesterday. And don’t pretend it’s the only time they do it or the rest of the league doesn’t as well.
It’s not so much the flopping that bothers me, it’s that you’re not allowed to touch them on offense while they get to play football on defense. Huge discrepancy there
OKC being a terrorist organization distracts from how the twolves strategy is the exact same - they foul the shit out of you every possession so the refs don’t call it then flip shit if you match their physicality. OKC is just better on it so gets more attention for it
Beautiful savvy moves.
NBA needs to do something about this horseshit man. This is sport is supposed to be entertainment and FTs are the complete opposite of that.
Make it 1 FTA MAX for shooting fouls. Punish players for this behavior. Do something man
Nah, only one team in the league does this
The tears are giving me life