[Highlight] Austin Reaves drives, turns the ball over, is frustrated with the no foul call, and Marcus Smart wraps Shai Gilgeous-Alexander at the other end, fouling him (with replays).
Reaves continues his protest.
If refs could consistently not call this, I’ll pay for league pass
Nope. They gave Caruso a touch foul 15 seconds later.
That’s wasn’t a foul. It was a clock malfunction and blew the whistle to stop the play and people assumed it was a foul call.
Sounds like you watched the game, what are you doing here gtfo bro
That was so bad.
Do you get as upset when the Spurs get a touch foul? Or when they called touch fouls against OKC tonight?
Right, like it should always be a no call, but regular season Laker Austin Reaves gets that call
Just be glad Luka and his whiny face doesn’t play this series cause damn, I don’t even know how many times more of these posts would there be.
Literally every post from this series is about the fucking refs. I’m watching a random Dodger game instead of this stupid bullshit. I miss basketball.
It’s really exhausting. Every series has more litigation than the Supreme Court now.
y’all are for real insufferable man. this series is the same as every other series I’ve been watching. mostly good calls and some bad calls but everyone just bitches about the few calls they miss all game.
there’s been a whopping 17 free throws in the first half, that’s like nothing.
I’m not bitching about the missed calls. I’m bitching about the fact that a huge portion of the discourse is about the calls and not the basketball. Because that is what basketball has become.
Okay but what does a reddit post have to do with you not watching the game and turning it off for baseball?
You could just log off of reddit and still watch the game but you lowkey want to bitch about the refs too and how basketball is unwatchable.
Well yeah man. Because I love basketball and I hate that this is what it is now. I also know that in every entertainment profession, people who work in that profession read the popular subreddits related to their work to get a gauge on public opinion. That’s why I write my silly little comments. If I can skew what executives view as the public opinion, I’ll do it. It probably does nothing but I can pretend it does something while I watch the dodgers get killed
And you wanted to add to it.
You just wanted to feel included huh.
No that’s what this sub has become their favorite players team isn’t getting gifted every call lol. This is not at all the discourse outside of Reddit.
You are literally unread it you clicked on a thread about ref calls and are now arguing about those calls. Maybe you’re not the right person to be making this critique.
It’s never the number of the calls. It’s the specific calls. Why do yall act like you don’t understand that
The specific calls happen in damn near every other game too
And I hate it all. It’s never about the number of freethrows if the calls are actually fouls. This isn’t a foul. I hate when shit like this gets called a foul.
Every team has shit like this but it only gets this amount of attention for 1 team. Your own team does the same shit and plays the same defense OKC plays, I’m sure you’re just as disgusted watching Pistons games
Who said shit about defense? Weirdo. Literally saying this foul baiting bullshit. And if any of our players did I would call it out. No you haven’t seen pistons players doing this weird shit
Also, bad and missed calls have been a thing for the entire history of basketball. But only the past few years have fans become such babies that it’s literally all they think about when they watch games and have it on their minds going into games before it even starts. Just take a damn breath, bad calls are gonna happen cause they’re human
No one said shit about bad calls and missed calls, it’s the foul grifting. Faking contact that isn’t there or running into a defender who didn’t do anything trying to get a whistle.
That’s been a thing since the dawn of time. Only in the past couple years have yall been getting outraged to the point of tears and saying it’s killing basketball
No it hasn’t. And it’s pathetic to defend it.
Yall are just salty it’s ok lol. I’m sure I’ll be seeing all y’all’s hate comments about whatever Wemby’s doing in a few years anyway
“Random dodgers game”?? Dodgers/Braves! The two best teams in baseball!
Yes and Strider vs Snell too! Hopefully we can make this one a bit more competitive though.
I’m surprised the Braves got to Snell the way they did, but I like Dodgers for the rubber match if it comes to it
It’s his first game pitching since the WS. Rust is expected.
No. I demand that professional athletes be machines lol
I’m here for it. I need vintage Strider.
As a Mets fan, I do not!
It’s been an entertaining game. Please go watch something else and quit the bitching
Seriously what a loser. It’s a close game and game 3 of the playoffs and this dude is in this sub talking about how he’s not watching the game lmao
The problem isn’t the game, it’s the fan mindset
Then close reddit and just watch the game?
But then he can’t bitch and let people know hes upset
Yeah YOUR mindset is the problem lmao
I’m a different guy than the first guy you responded to
I’m an idiot my fault lol
I am. I already told you that I was lol
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I’m sorry for giving a shit about basketball. I promise I won’t bother you with it again now that I know how delicate your sensibilities are.
Bruh you are talking about turning off a good playoff game but you “give a shit about basketball?” Lmao
Yes. Exactly. I’ll let you figure it out
Imagine not watching a game because you’re upset about reddit comments lmao
I mean, that’s not really why. But damnit you actually kinda got me with this one. I did write it that way.
Putting down both NBA and MLB products at the same time. Not satisfied with anything - whining more than enjoying a great sports day.
Peak internet stuff right here.
First, you’re literally a fan of the clippers. Second, nowhere did I make a negative remark about baseball. I said I would rather watch regular season baseball than playoff basketball. You just read in an implicit statement because you wanted to sound smart.
Don’t know what my Clipper fandom has to do with anything.
I’m a Dodger fan though, so talking down the Dodger game to complain about reffing in this game is just super lame.
Just fucking around. I don’t mean to complain about the reffing, rather that discussion about basketball has become so heavily focused on discussion of reffing. And again, I didn’t intend to talk down the dodger game, just emphasize that it was 1⁄162 while the lakers are fighting for their lives
Yeah, no worries. Playing OKC is frustrating, i know.
Go Dodgers.
Yep. Hockey playoffs are way more fun and I don’t even understand it
Lmfao we’re watch Avs vs Wild. its the most electric hockey ever, Olympics excluded. These teams rock.
You missed the pregame show where they talked to an NBA rules guy for a long time about the calls.
I’ve been watching the UFC. I was going to change when the game came on but I didn’t want to be mad at refs today
I get it…losing sucks…
When you got elite foul baiters on both sides, this is what you get. Just be glad Luka and his whiny face doesn’t play else it would get MUCH worse.
Bruh blame the team that’s made flopping ref ball their game plan. The Lakers have a whistle but the Thunder legit don’t know how to play when the refs swallow their whistle
You right bro. Thats why the Thunder have the number1 offense in the playoff and are 11th in FTA per game in the postseason. Fifth offense in the regular season with 17th in FTA.
Clearly free throws are the only thing that make them good
It would be better if it was the only thing. Then they’d just be a bad team with an ugly/unwatchable game plan.
Instead they have one of the best offensive players I’ve ever seen flopping worse than any MVP has a right to flop.
But yeah mate, everybody who watches the game and complains about what they see is wrong. Their opponents complaining about the refs to the point of getting fined are wrong. My eyes are lying to me. SGA isn’t a flopper, and you (a Thunder fan) are obviously the torch of truth and have no bias /s
Did you happen to check the free throw attempts for each team tonight after you got done watching the tik tok highlights of the game?
This is what you’re crying about?
And that in a “this sub’s 9/11” moment, Doris is right, Reaves needs to just stop whining and play
If ripping through an outreached hand is a 3 point foul then this is a foul clear as day. And I’ve been a Laker hater longer than most people on this sub have been watching the nba.
This isn’t a foul though. Defender never reaches in.
The defenders arms are not in his cylinder, and contact the ball handlers arms/shoulders/face. It’s a foul.
It’s not a foul. He didn’t impede his movement. Marginal incidental contact is not a foul. You can’t run into a defender then say that defender fouled you. You have to be strong with the ball. And actually attempt to score. Trying to grift the refs is the most pathetic form of basketball
Defender is not within his legal defensive position ‘cylinder’, his arm’s contact with the ballhandler is therefor illegal, contact caused a turnover. It’s a foul.
That’s not what happened. Offensive player flailed like a fish before there was any contact and lost the ball. Turnover
My dude, just pause this video at 30 seconds. You have a center who twists his body because a guard got him to go left and then he immediately cuts back right and Hartenstein’s left arm just hugs Reaves as he is shifting back. How the fuck is that not a foul? This literally causes him to lose his dribble. He isn’t jumping into him or going into shooting motion to a defenders outstretched arm. Reaves just cuts back and a guy that is 60 pounds heavier than he is pulls his shoulder to stop his movement and it isn’t a foul? There is so much flopping and other bullshit that goes on but this isn’t one of them.
He doesn’t “hug” him if you have to pause the video to see it, this is not a foul. In no way. And it’s pathetic trying to draw a foul instead of make a shot.
If an offensive player can’t turn a direction because a defender has their arm down and it will pull them, then the defender has to do better job of understanding their body placement because it is a foul for preventing movement. For years we’ve watched defenders having to go above and beyond in making sure they don’t reach or hit offensive players, ESPECIALLY the floppers, and all of a sudden this isn’t a thing? This is a simple foul call for the fact that Hartenstein should know better, not because Reaves did anything to draw it. This is a normal foul and it’s weird that it isn’t called in today’s nba that has the most egregious shit called every game. In a better officiated system, this would not be a foul but that isn’t what the nba is at this point in time and there are a massive amount of weaker calls that get a whistle in comparison.
If we are going to get annoyed that it is pathetic for trying to draw a foul instead of making a shot, wtf does Chet do a dozen times a game? How does Sga not receive the same criticism for ramming players and then going limp half a second later like he did all season? He isn’t doing it this series cause has tried several times and the refs decided before hand that it wasn’t going to happen this series despite calling them all season long which is a problem of itself.
You’re not getting this call at any level of basketball. The fact that some NBA players get it is pathetic. The defender didn’t reach in, the offensive player flailed around, this is not a foul. It’s a lazy attempt to grift freethrows and anyone who likes this kind of basketball is pathetic
How is that marginal contact when it is directly responsible for Reaves losing the basketball? Without that “marginal” contact his dribble goes on unimpeded.
It’s not responsible for him losing the ball. He lost the ball because he was flopping around
He brings up both arms up with the basketball, and Hartenstein’s arms prevent Reaves arms from continuing up. Reaves literally can’t raise his arms up any further than where Hartenstein’s arm is. How is that flopping around?
See: my previous comments
when you’re used to privilege, equality feels like oppression
More that this is a could on SGA but not on LeBron or Reaves
Reaves tripped SGA on a play with a no call
Yes, but SGA always throw himself onto the floor. What do you expect? Ref calling every single one?
I guess that’s what lakers fans and players expect
That is what thunder player does on defense. Ref wont call everything. So why the double standard?
Lakers are getting just as many calls as the Thunder and act like they’re getting screwed. They expect a double standard because they’re used to getting it against everyone else. Now that they’re not they are just crying and getting their ass beat
yeah nobady here is saying lakers dont get calls. Why are you changing the topic constantly? stay delusional then.
The topic is Laker fans and players getting all the calls and bitching when the calls are 50⁄50. You got ADHD or something?
Look at what I said. Wtf are you on? Are you not capable of intepreting a full sentence or what?
Austin’s gotta stop all the complaining today and just play
Reaves is not good enough to complain the way he does
Super unlikable player to watch
Luka rubbed off on him in the worst way.
But the refs have been telling him all season that he is good enough given how great his whistle has been.
Today?
I rate that being a no call but the refs turned around and called a weak foul on Kennard right after. Just let them play
Wasn’t a foul on Kennard. Clock malfunction
Kennard has 0 fouls so I think they ended up just wiping that one off and saying it was an inadvertent whistle or something.
lol maybe these refs should take the whistles out of their mouth. That way they can’t just blow without thinking, new rule should be have the whistle on a lanyard and have it away from their mouths at all times
Bruh it was a shot clock malfunction, the shotclock didnt reset/start when Caruso took possesion.
You guys are so blinded by hate you’re inventing things to complain about
The refs did their job recognizing the shot clock issue and acted accordingly and yet here we are
Maybe fair but then people will complain about late calls.
there wasn’t a foul called on kennard?
They didn’t call a foul on Kennard. Stopped game for a clock issue
Yeah, they didn’t.
But dont let this stop the OKC whistle crusade
Right lol kennard barely touched him
Complaining so hard holding his hands up about a clear non foul is so embarrassing. This is why it’s so hard to take that man seriously lol.
If I were a ref, I’d T him up so fast his head would be spinning.
Then again, my dream is to be the ref that’s hated more than Scott Foster and Tony Brothers combined.
I mean Reaves was initiating the contact there
I hart was staying upright and not reaching in, Austin is shoving and baiting for a foul then he lost handle of the ball and starts bitching. lol
Unfortunately they gave him that call all season long.
Ahh, the SGA
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They didn’t call a foul there. There was a clock malfunction.
I mean its pretty obiviously a foul.
Like maybe if he gets the shot up you dont call it but it forced a turnover.
It wasn’t a foul call it was a stoppage because of a clock malfunction
I think they ended up wiping off the foul on Kennard.
Yeah idk what the ref thought he was seeing on that play
Interesting how there are so many plays like that for one specific team, game after game, season after season.
Lakers fan with 0 self awareness, incredible
Yeah the Lakers lmao
Lol you mean the team that leads the league in FTA, FTA per FG, FTA per offensive play, and FTA differential?
Amazing watching the team with the highest free throw differential in the league for multiple years straight, complain about not getting calls.
When you’re used to preferential treatment, equality feels like persecution
Not in the playoffs, clearly
Doris roasting Reaves was not in my bingo cards tonight
He took up the whining duty for Luka
Everyone rightfully is complaining about OKC, but forget Reaves was like 3rd in FTA this season, and is also used to flopping and getting every call
Reaves finished 13th on FTA per game with 7.3
Remembering him being 3rd 20 games into the season seems kinda pointless since it clearly didn’t continue throughout the season
Nothing rightful about it
Why is reaves crying that isn’t a foul. Play on
I hope that move never gets called again, better for the league that way
Yea doesn’t really seem like a foul at all.
Does anyone whine more than Reaves?
Luka
I recall late 2000s early 10s internet branding LeBron a whiner so if that holds up they really do have a crazy trifecfa of complainers on the lakers
Lebron is def a whiner too. There’s 10 min compilation videos of him complaining to refs while his team plays 5 v 4 on the other end for 10+ seconds.
That’s what privilege does to a team. Think they deserve calls for existing.
Reaves just needs to play on. Way too emotional
They need to T-up all the whiners. It’s pathetic.
not a foul reaves is just horrendous
This feels like watching the spoiled kid’s first time in the real world.
All season the league held his hand and told him, yes honey, that’s a foul, go take two shots, you’re doing amazing!
All the sudden the playoffs show up and the integrity of the game means more than the Lakers winning and he finally sees what reality is like for 20+ other teams.
If you aren’t as strong and play with zero force you get officiated as such. You can only trick everyone for so long.
I hope whoever pays him knows that his elite foul drawing won’t transfer out of the lakers gold.
SGA flopped so hard, he forced Smart to hammer his arm hard
We cannot pretend that they were identical plays lmao
I’ve seen SGA shoot 300 free throws from that exact play. It’s not a foul but it’s usually called kne
THIS IS NOT A FOUL. this is the shameful foul baiting weak as shit that makes NBA basketball a bad product right now. Go make a fucking shot. Stop trying to get fouled defender is moving his feet and never reaches in.
His hands went up to fake the foul instead of going after the lost ball. That’s bad basketball.
Ignore my flair for a moment.
Austin Reeves is a little bitch.
He played for a whistle instead of trying to play actual basketball.
What a whiny bitch
What I’m hearing is that yet another player in the NBA has lacked the basic leadership around them to cease the antics and whining to the refs … so they can instead get back on D and keep playing.
“Here come Austin [Reaves]”
Reaves is literally what people think SGA is lmao, garbage ass foul baiting player
How the thunder sweep the Lakers I forgot how insufferable their fans are
Foul baiter doesn’t get rewarded oh well
Game’s back. You just hug players as a defense tactic and you get away with it. And game’s gone you cant even hug players as a defensive tactic.
Hes got the free throw tit in his mouth tonight and is still playing like ass and whining.
My fucking Lakers need to adapt and just find other means of scoring if their current move ain’t working or getting calls.
Kobe would use frustration as fuel. There’s a time and place to talk to refs.
Where Austin playing next year?
if lu dort did this new slurs would be invented
All star, do you have the Williams through Kennards leg pass to Joe for the hockey assist 3 by Wallace.
There is a replay on the broadcast at about 35 minutes that shows it. They showed it just before SGAs free throws at 1:38 left in the first.
Reaves will always look like some random dude that plays ball at LA Fitness
So glad I haven’t watched a minute of this series. Holy fuck the crying on these replays
“Star” Austin Reaves.
I swear, AR’s facial expressions are slowly and steadily morphing into what Nicholas Braun would look playing the lead role in “The Danny Ainge Story.”
At least play defense if you’re going to complain this much…
Poor guy. Not getting treated like prime Jordan for his bullshit. Sign with the Kings and see how much of that shit is rewarded.
Can Doris shut the fuck up
She’s right
Like he’s far too focused on whining to the refs than actually playing
I’m fine with this not being a foul just call it like that on both ends instead of that bullshit on Kennard
They didn’t call a foul on Kennard. It was a clock malfunction
Apparently wasn’t a foul on Luke was a strange premature whistle
God im so sick of listening to her rambling. She just goes on these really unnecessary tangents that never end!
Thunder should have a halftime meeting with refs. Sarcasm.
Reeves makes the Shai face
I would be okay with the no call even tho they would call that a foul for SGA. Honestly I didn’t see how SGA got fouled until after the foul was called
It’s a foul. Just call it consistently
Then Kennard gets the softest foul called on him 20 secs later lol
Was not a foul. It was a clock malfunction. Dorris just doesn’t know what she’s doing
They didn’t call a foul though? It was a clock malfunction he has 0 fouls…
Well a. Fuck Doris. b. That’s a foul against any other team
Shut the fuck up Doris
But then Kennard gets called for an even softer foul. Be consistent refs
They didn’t call a foul on Kennard. They stopped it for a clock malfunction. If anything it helped the Lakers
No he didn’t.
Next possession Caruso gets a touch foul called on Kennard. If this was a no call how the fuck was Kennard on Caruso called a foul?
I hate that I have to keep posting this but there wasn’t a foul called on Kennard. It was a stoppage for a clock malfunction.
It wasn’t a foul call on Kennard it was a stoppage from a clock malfunction
It was BS, but keep that energy on the no-call of Lebron again hitting someone in the face and no call. Bad shit gets called and gets missed. Its not one way or another this game (yet).
U can not call that but then not even 1 minute later calling a foul on less contact at halfcourt on kennard js mindblowing
Cause that didn’t happen.
They didn’t call a foul on Kennard. They stopped for a clock malfunction