[Highlight] Sam Merrill takes the hit for a charge on Ausar
What was the plan lmao
truck his ass
Abiding by the Ludacris philosophy: move bitch get out the way
With up to 6 trucks/game, he really opens up the offense
Giannis gameplan
Works in Madden, should work here too - Ausar
guy gets in the gym just to do pushups and run into walls, he didnt have a plan
dont forget calf raises
NBA David goggins
Basketball Cam Skattebo
The Thompson brothers sometimes do perplexing things.
Amen got so overrated after last year
Untouchable in a Giannis trade.
I am going to buy an ice cream cake to celebrate when the rockets give him a max.
why is amen getting slandered in an Ausur thread? he just averaged 17 PPG during the regular season and just averaged 19/7/6 with 3+ stocks against the Lakers. he’s developing confidence with his middy & he’s a good passer with an impressive floater package. he’s a young talent with a high ceiling that doesn’t mean he’s all NBA first team
That reaves play at the end of game 6 aint helping the twins unfortunately
People have the audacity to compare him to Castle.
Agreed, they are both just extremely athletic but reckless players.
Throw Tristan in there too
Might as well add Klay too
Hurt him. He hates Merrill.
Pushing off of Merrill to get up was pretty gross.
He step over Merrill after flagrant fouling him in a previous game
While Dwayne wade was being downright giddy for that foul smh
Ngl he a bitch for that
Thompson bros seem to hate white players
He also brought Strus down hard late in the game and got a technical. You might be onto something
Ausar a bitch real talk
He Hate Me(rrill)
Merrill is a great nuisance
You saw it.
To hurt sam. Idk man looks p obvious
Make Merrill think twice before taking another charge
Only works if Merrill remembers it
Paul Maurice strategy. Pound their d so for game 7 they have nothing left
Make him think twice about setting up for a charge again I’m guessing.
Dude lowered his shoulder I think you saw the plan lol
r/bitchimatrain
It’s about sending a message.
Bulldozer
Simply the Thompson twin special
Soften up Sam
Bro release Merill Avatar state lmfao.
“If he can take six of these then he’s a better man then me”
B Dawkins: “I want to see how bad he wants to play.”
Shoutout weapon x
HALLELUJAH THANK YOU JESUS
“If he dies, he dies”
What’s that from lol
I think it was charles barkley describing himself going to the basket
Thanks, if you have a clip let me know lol. I looked it up and didn’t get results outside of the thread
Ausalt Thompson
Well done 👏
Lmao good one lol
Winner
Lmao what’s Ausar thinking
He and his brother 0 offensive game, it’s kinda crazy
they both think they’re playing football
Could easily be a lock down corner or free safety
Nah he’s massive he’d be an edge rusher
For real, he’s 6’7, what are these people thinking saying he’s a CB/safety, lol. TE/edge rusher is really the only place on the field for guys built like this.
That’s why he doesn’t play football, he’d have to be 70 lbs heavier and his life would be totally different
And all the edge rusher talk is insane, Julius peppers was also 6’7 but 295. 90 fucking pounds of muscle more than ausar.
Football players are fucking mutants.
Basketball players are too, it just shows how these professional athletes tailor their bodies for what is called for in their sport.
Oh for sure. I think NFL and NBA players are the most mutanty mutants in the sports world, just in very different ways.
7’1 bouncy alien longboyes vs 290 pounders with 6packs who juggernaut thru walls
Damn for some reason I always think of them as like 6’2 lol. No idea why
Tight end? Wr?
Wide receivers pretty much the only position they could play at the moment they have to bulk up a ton for anything else
This is why some NFL guys think they can hoop
Honestly with Brian Branch’s injury, maybe Brad Holmes should call Trajan for a quick swap.
More like WWE
CB/safety? Pro Bowlers
His brother literally averaged 18ppg on above league average efficiency despite being a poor shooter in a pretty shit spaced team, he’s not great offensively but 0 offensive game is stupid to say
Ausar is the one with no game, Amen has a lot of game, his timing and drives are superior
Ausar is brain dead offensively and he averages half the points
so funny watching them always being lumped together even tho amen is way better on offense & Ausar is the solidly better defender
I’m tired of Amen being lumped in with Ausar’s offensive ineptness. Amen at least drives to the basket and has shown signs of developing a middy and shot well from the FT line unlike Ausar. Amen doesn’t even let his temper get ahold of him as much as Ausar this year lol
Amen still almost led our team in scoring in the playoffs lol
amen the 19 PPG scorer for the rockets?
Amen avg 19 during the Lakers series.
They are running backs
He saw that the Lions let David Montgomery go. Need a powerback to go alongside Gibbs’ speed
Do you know how short running backs are? At his weight, he’d disintegrate after one hit from a LB
This is how he plays basketball
Drive to the paint and draw a blocking foul off an illegal screen probably
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Wow Ausar is a maniac lmao
Normally one sacrifices their body to take a charge but Ausar expected Merril to sacrifice his life.
“Blood for the Blood God, Skulls for the Skull Throne”
The spirit of Marshawn Lynch possessed him for a brief second
I don’t know that might’ve been the spirit of OJ
He pushed down on him to get up too
That’s the part that could’ve gotten a tech. Like the disrespectful stepover. I’m fine without it though. Sammy got up and knocked down a few fuck you threes while Ausar sat on the bench.
thompson bros both dirty as hell. Watching them both shoot from the outside is hilarious
Didn’t realize that until your comment. Major yikes. 😬
Not even close to a basketball move
Shit was a Derrick Henry move.
Ausar “Bettis” Thompson
Did you know he’s from Detroit
Am i stupid for thinking this is a flagrant 1? It seems way too extra but maybe im thinking of a flagrant 2 where it also has to be considered excessive and a 1 has different criteria?
They basically never call it offensively.
He definitely just trucks him though. Which is why JB complaining was extra funny.
JB’s instincts are to always complain
It’s ironic how much he complains about foul calls when his own team leads the NBA in fouls committed during the regular season lol
He’s been quoted saying it’s important to have your players backs, even when they’re wrong
So, I guess it’s just integrity
I admire the consistency honestly
Clearly no intention to actually score the ball so it’s a fair question
They’d never call it but to me this fits the criteria for a flagrant 1. The way he puts his shoulder down to blow him up makes it a borderline 2 in my eyes.
Too often refs allow the offense to initiate all contact and somehow call a foul on the defense and that’s what leads to this. There’s definitely refs out there that would have called this a block because the defense was moving.
Yeah his arm came up and everything. Seemed intentional for them to look at it but they never look at charges.
His arm came up and appeared to have follow-through on the hit. Could you call the lowering of the shoulder wind-up? Not sure.
I don’t think flagrant it just looks a little worse than most charges because he was further out and Auser speed was more than normal for charges
They don’t call that flagrant but if you gently tap someone’s head on a missed blocked shot attempt you get a tech
I’m biased, but I thought it was flagrant. He didn’t just run through him, he lowered the shoulder and clearly the only thing he was trying to do was truck Merrill. Not a basketball play. I was pretty shocked they didn’t review it. I was also shocked that Merrill was apparently fine and continued playing very well.
Yes
JB arguing this but refusing the challenge is such a JB thing to do
Not really. Doesn’t make sense to use a challenge this early to change a call that wouldn’t result in free throws in either direction
I know that but it’s a obvious foul on Auser so if you feel that strongly you have challenges. It was honestly more a general comment as JB does this all the time even when using a challenge would be hella appropriate.
God damn i feel like Sam got concussed there
He came down and hit a 3 while Thompson watched from the bench.
He’s unconscious!
It’s the post-concussion stat boost
I forgot who it was, but I remember there was an NFL player who said that they played some of their best football right after they got their bell rung
Yeah, people glossing over Merrill seizing up . He had the head snap and head bounce.
Yeah I don’t think that was a concussion seize (Or fencing response, I guess), he wouldn’t recover out of that so quickly
Ya if you have a fencing response you’re not just getting back up and drilling threes on the other end
100% his head bounced off the floor. Should be in concussion protocol
Considering how well he played for the rest of the game, I think he was probably fine. Definitely looked bad though.
He’s been hooping since
Ausar thought he’s Giannis
More like he thought he was possessed by Shaq (which is an insult to Shaq, sorry Shaq dont shet in my shoes)
Do you guys actually watch Giannis play? He legitimately never does shit like this.
Nah that was Jerome Bettis
That was angst from last game lmao
Bro is never gonna have a moment of silence in Cleveland if he keeps this up lmao
Dirty play
Pushed off him to get up too. Beyond dirty
Just give us the Cavs man. At least we’ll have a series where nobody is playing recklessly and hurting each other.
RESPECT. I am now a Merrill fan for life for taking that one. Ausar looked like Ray Lewis out there
Honestly this should’ve been a flagrant move especially when he pushed him down to get up.
What’s up with these Thompson brothers and doing stupid shit? I know their twins and all but damn.
Ausar is an absolute pos lol
He’s the new Draymond
if you’re going to take a charge, he’s going to make you earn it. Try taking more than three of those.
Man rammed into him like a freight train.
How are they fucking arguing that he just hit tha mf like ed reed
To be fair, it was clearly a blocking foul
Great example of a charge for anyone who thinks the defender’s feet have to be “set” lol
Okay this one might be flagrant
100% on purpose
Psycho
Ausard hates mormons
Let’s see you try another moving screen big Sam 😂😂😂
I’m starting to think this Ausar guy might be a little violent on the court.
I means there’s your hard fouls I guess
i dont understand how this isnt a blocking foul
Yeah, people are understandably focusing on how hard the hit was, but that was a pretty cut and dried blocking foul
I am also confused too, Merill other foot is still on air, and he literally extended his other leg so that Thompson won’t pass him. To be called offensive foul, the defender should have both his feet on the ground and not moving.
Flagrant, lol.
The Thompson brothers really are just football players who ended up in the NBA. They play a very loose definition of basketball.
holy shit, just destroyed him lmao
Finish him……………
Brutality, Ausar Thompson wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HB dive
If he knew how to shoot he could easily stop on the dime pull up bucket everytime
“I’m just gonna senddd itt”
Assault Thompson
lol no wonder Merrill went bananas this game.
“Trample the weak, hurdle the dead”-Ausar (probably)
Can you get a flagrant on a charge, if you can then this is it
Hope the bros learn how to shoot after
Ausar has been exposed as a dirty ass player this series. Dude is just a bum
Defender was still moving
Yea this guy needs anger management
I will be so happy the day both teams realize these brothers are no good. The dude fouled out as a guard and can’t shoot.
He trucked him then put his full body weight on him to get up
Like a freight train
Ausar and Amen would be the best players in the league hands down if either one of them had any offensive touch or intuition to their game.
Amen just avg 19 in the Lakers series
This feels invective
Why does this guy hate Merrill so much
I love and hate him so much
Marginal contact, play on.
We 100% positive this isn’t Amen?
That wasn’t a hit, that was assault
Sam git that Mormon strength
Shao Khan shoulder charge in the big 26
I honestly think this should have been flagrant with the way he lowered the shoulder. I was shocked that Merrill was not only fine but continued to play very well.
Honestly should have sent him into concussion protocol and maybe we would have had a chance. Dude was raining threes on us.
dirty mfer
That was violent
Crazy part was Pistons fans saying he moved his feet. Who gives a fuck he got trucked brother lol
I’ll never forget the time I was playing 1 on 1 with a friend at the park court a few years back when I was like still skinny. A bunch of dudes roll up, all jacked, shortest one is like my height like 6’3” at least but huge and asked to play 5s. Of course we’re like yeah. First play some dude does exactly this to me, but I was trying to contest at the rim so I was in the air. He hit me so hard I flew back and hit the “Stantion” pole so damn hard. Brutal
Thompson turned him into roadkill lol
Is that not a blocking foul because he was sliding his feet??
Those Thompson twins are something else, remember Steph’s overturned to a defense foul? Bruised ribs and still he got hit with the foul… I do love watching them play rough and only occasionally a little dirty!
Blocking foul.