[Highlight] Harrison Barnes called for a foul on Isaiah Joe
spurs are out of challenges after 2 successful ones, gg
I’ve always thought you shouldn’t be punished for the refs bad calls. It should be unlimited reviews until you get it wrong đ€· if the refs called it right it wouldn’t be an issue
At least in the playoffs
No it should be all the time. Thatâs how it works in the MLB.
There is no reason why after a successful challenge you shouldnât always get another one. Why are you punished for the refs getting calls wrong numerous times?
It infuriates me too. But I think the real answer is just for timeâs sake. MLB reviews are usually very quick and relatively easy with todayâs technology. But NBA games are already too long and as much as Iâm sure theyâd love the extra ad revenue, they also know the gameâs gotta end in a reasonable timeframe or people wonât watch. Theyâre already pushing it with the amount and length of stoppages.
You know what saves even more time? Refs not making dog shit call
While true, the only way to make sure refs get nearly 100% of the calls correct is if they hire a ref for each player to watch every move they make.
If you just look in the general area, see a guy hit the ground, with the other guy’s hand extended, you’re gonna call a foul. But this was such a clear flop it would take 3 seconds to review if the NBA cared about getting calls right.
The NBA could solve the quick review problem in an instant if they wanted to. They want the refs on the court making the decision for continuity, but it easily could just be overturned by an outside ref like they do with other quicker reviews.
makes way more sense than asking the refs on the court to admit they were wrong. especially when you’re deep in the playoffs - like, this is literally the only fucking thing going on in the league, it’s not a huge ask to have people available to review
But I think the real answer is just for timeâs sake.
Somebody should let the NBA know that they could run ads during the challenges. Teams will have unlimited challenges starting tomorrow.
With how bad the refs are and how long the challenges are the game would be twice as long lolÂ
NBA refs đ€ PGMOL refs
Screwing Spurs on both sides of the ocean
Incentivize the refs to call it right and there won’t be as many challenges đ€·
LOL I love the optimism. You havenât seen the refs upholding absolutely ridiculous calls during challenges this year?
It would just incentivize them to be even more ridiculous so they donât have to deal with more challenges
maybe they shouldn’t be the ones reviewing their own calls, especially this far into the playoffs?
the nba employs literally thousands of people and the entirety of their programming is exactly one game a night, it’s not a huge ask to have a few more people on staff with replay angles to quickly review
It should be, you get unlimited challenges until you reach TWO unsuccessful challenges.
The NBA will never let this happen because you’d get games with teams having 10+ succesful challenges which would be a horrible look for the league
I can appreciate it can slow the game down too much but at a minimum I think if you get both challenges right you should be awarded a third
Then the refs should call it right and there won’t be as many challenges đ€·
Challenges shouldnât exist. To clarify, Iâm not saying reviews shouldnât exist. My point is why is the onus on coaches/teams/organizations to correct officiating mistakes instead of the officiating crew? First off, as fans, our main goal is for games to be officiated correctly. We understand refs/officials are human, and wonât get it right 100% of the time, but thatâs where we expect them to use technology and forgo their egos. Second off, officiating crews are independent and therefore should own 100% of the responsibility of correcting mistakes vs putting circumstances on teams in challenge situations that impact their future options within a game.
Just get the call right, review close plays, and regarding officials/refs, donât take it personally if technology definitively shows the original call was incorrect.
You sound like youâre new to watching the nba. Sure we all want integrity in the refs. We been wanting it since the beginning of the sport. But truth is, refs are human too and get calls wrong all the time. At least challenges give the illusion of control back to teams
Far from new and you completely missed my point. Not sure why you felt it was necessary to include that presumption in your reply.
Additionally, I literally said we understand theyâre human.
To further elaborate, Iâm stating the accountability for correcting mistakes should be 100% on officials vs a system that can punish teams for simply suggesting a call was wrong. Iâm advocating for including contractual language that holds the independent officials accountable to the highest degree of accuracy with the expectation technology would be used to assist when necessary, and it should include a system of checks and balances to reinforce impartiality.
They used their ref counter ults too early
no they had to, two fake fouls on wemby changes the series.
shit seems rigged at this point.
Bro it’s the NBA, the whole league has been rigged for decades
You would know (so would I)
Me too!
Okay, this was an unexpectedly wholesome exchange.
I bet my house on the Thunder as the script was never allowing the Spurs to win tonight. Not actually betting my house for the trolls here lol
They were never gonna let OKC go to SAS down 0-2 man.
These mfs
They gotta be careful. NBA loses a lot of money if wemby gets hurt
Amazing gameplan. Flop until they burn their challenges. Then flop some more. Adam silver, do something because it’s disgusting.
OKC philosophy: they can’t challenge them all đ€
Well we can’t have endless challenges
OKC games would last 7 hours and they’d be pulling players out the stands by the 3rd quarter
Why not? If you keep getting them right why should you be punished?
cos nba is not a serious league anymore
Heâs being sarcastic. OKC gets away with murder so the challenges would be endless and they would have every player foul out.
Second half flops are gonna be OUT OF CONTROL
Two successful ones just means refs keep calling bullshit for OKC
That system makes no fucking sense. âYouâre very good at pointing out our mistakes, so you donât get to do that anymore.â
OKC: UNLEASH THE FLOPGATES
How could you not hate this Thunder team. They are everything wrong with the current NBA under Adam Silver
I’ve heard Russillo make this point, not pretending it’s original, but don’t the refs ever get embarrassed? Like, if you saw that replay, wouldn’t you think, “fuck that dude, made me look foolish.”
Baseball umps will hold grudges against people who unvelcro their batting gloves the wrong way, but these basketball refs just get clowned over and over and they just fall for the flop the next time.
It could just be because I watch more baseball but I feel like umpires in baseball are the most scrutinized officials in American sports.
I know way more active umpires who are awful, meanwhile I could probably only name four NBA referees when theyâre all just as awful.
To be totally fair, itâs really easy to criticize an ump when youâre sitting at home and have a strike zone and pitch tracing technology on your screen that shows you exactly where it lands. A little harder to make calls when youâre standing behind a plate with a ball coming at you at 95mph and a catcher actively framing it into the zone.
Also they are forced to make a call on every non swing pitch. NBA refs decide when to use the whistle.
Umps are overly scrutinized. At least thereâs ABS now though!
Baseball is the easiest game to statistically track how well umpires do and thus their performance calling balls and strikes has improved tremendously from years past. The rules are generally black and white other than check swings and balks which people meme about
I wouldn’t even know where to begin tracking a refs performance in the nba because a foul could be called on every possession and so much is in a grey area of contact. Plus the game moves too fast with too many moving parts
I would be telling the ref
âThey playing you ref They aint playing basketball They playing YOUâ
Their ego would take a hit fs
Lmao average Reddit fanfic
I just cant believe that they let the fucking OKC thunder of all teams get away with this shit
Disgusting this isnt a tech.
Agree the league needs to address this with the same determination they are addressing tanking
Should be a suspension imo
This is moreso a thing that needs to be reviewed after the game and that player should sit in flop-jail and never given the benefit of the doubt again. If you go out of your way to flop and “trick” the ref, then the fucking ref should just look at who it was doing the flop every play here after and assume they are trying to trick them again, even if they are right because they had to act to get the whistle. So sure, you get 1 or 2 calls but better make them count because you are getting nothing here on after.
Silver has Luka, the No.1 popular player in NBA, Jokic, the All-time passing center, Wemby, the Alien, Edwards, the charasmatic scorer, and he choose SGA and the Thunder to market, he really has a bad taste
Because on tiktok it looks like SGA in the gang are just draining magical shots while being hit like NFL defenseless wide receivers getting destroyed by brutes.
Which is, almost verbatim, what Adam Silver’s NBA is focused on
Literally Wemby, Chet, Hart, JWill, and Kornet all set more moving screens than this on every single play lmao. Refs just glaze OKC man
Barnes was literally flat footed lmao I guess there’s gonna be an Oscar presentation at the half
I hope the jackals bring a “and the oscar goes to…” sign for the games in SA
Suspend guys after the fact for weak sauce like this. Itâs pathetic. (And limpdickSilver wonât do anything about it)
Just call techs for it in game for a season or two (like they’re supposed to do) and this shit will go away REAL quick. Even if the refs miss one, allow video review to do it automatically with no challenge. Flopping will never stop until there are actual in game repercussions for doing it.
how is this whole team full of bitches
No consequences
Theyâre rewarded for it. Shits ridiculous.
I mean, you saw their reactions during G1. The moment they started losing and getting any kind of resistance on the court, they were shoving cameras out of their faces because their bitch made play wasn’t working enough. They were sore fucking losers the moment things weren’t going their way.
They cannot be allowed to win this series.
and we’re the problem, upvoting this and commenting thousands of times on it! welcome to 2026 media
Itâs how Daingenault coaches
Yep, several of these guys were well liked on their previous teams. Then they go to OKC and play like bitches just like the rest of the team making it clear that it’s an intentional strategy.
I am ashamed that he is from MA
Itâs coachedÂ
Itâs actually impressive they found a whole team of floppers and dirty players. Usually, champs have like 1-2 of those guys.
They didnât find players who flop, they created the culture of flopping and foul baiting and embellishing. Itâs embarrassing
Gameplan revolves around one thing and that’s daring the refs to call everything and it works lmao
Culture does that when you have a bunch of young guys
Teams take their identity and on court cues from their star. It’s why Kobe and Duncan role player teammates played above their level often.
It’s also why SGAs teammates feel comfortable roleplaying fish and looking aghast.
Also they are a deep team. If you ain’t keeping up with the jonses and flopping efficiently they will play someone who is
I never really paid too close attention to them and assumed it was hate because theyâre defending champs but god damn theyâre dirty. Hartenstein just holding wemby and grabbing jerseys but no calls.
Embarrassing
This stuff has 100% got to be part of the program. This is coached. I watched Isiah Joe at Arkansas and for the Sixers. Dude never did this shit in his life.
Head coach.
Flop city thunder
Absolutely fucking shameless. What a loser.
Itâs OKC culture. Coaches have trained the players to get calls. For being so talented it feels disrespectful and unnecessary to other fans thatâs y everyone hates on OKC so much
They are so good, they could just try to win on merit and stand a chance itâs so frustrating
yea I was a big SGA fan his first 3 years in OKC. he was so good living in the midrange and without flopping. It just sucks that their whole team is rewarded for doing dirty plays. and SGA now is the poster boy of flopping.
And every time I see his top tier middy it makes me so much more upset. Just go play ball
Its infuriating. His game is so pristine and smooth that heâs an easy 30 piece every game. Funny enough in the playoffs he hurts OKC more when he flops vs. just getting the basket. Watch the wolves series last year after the game 3 blowout as an example of this, he cut that shit out and dropped 35 in game 4 on decent efficiency.
Yeah that’s the whole issue with watching this team. They’re really good but they just do stupid shit like this and it’s like why lmao
Except if they did that, they wouldnât be a juggernaut. The grift is part of why we all perceive them as so good and good enough to win on merit. Without the foul baiting, they may not be able to win đ
yea, I don’t think they could. If you called the fouls they commit on defense and called them for flopping/embellishing on offense, they genuinely aren’t winning on merit. they’re a solid playoff team in that scenario
No. This is a red issue. The refs have the whistles. The whistle determines the play. If the refs stopped calling this obviously baiting BS, teams wouldnât do it. Period.
Or if they enforced it as flagrant or technical foul. Foulâs are already difficult to call. When a team has been trained to exaggerate makes it so much harder
Yup. Itâs an NBA problem for sure. Itâs a league issue. IMO a much bigger one than tanking which dominated the airwaves. Itâs the NBAs complete unwillingness to say anything that can be construed aa negative about the refs. How some of these refs seem to do the same goofy shit over and over to the point we *know itâs not an âoopsy.â The refs have done more harm to the on court product than anything since the last lockout.
I get that itâs near impossible for refs to call this in the flow of play (itâs hard to tell whatâs real and exaggerated in real time), but the NBA desperately needs to have a group dedicated to evaluating and penalizing flopping during the playoffs. Go through and assign like flopping points that lead to a suspension if you hit like 5 throughout the playoff run (the same way flagrant points accumulate).
Not a bad idea tbh. It doesnât have to be in the game (I mean ideally it would be) but even a post game analysis and assignment of flopping points would discourage the behavior.
These guys fucking suck.
The whole team is like that, dirty fucking floppers, a disgrace.
This needs a click to view button bc itâs gruesome
One inch punches can be lethal when executed properly. SUSPEND BARNES
Yep kick him out of the damn league
You can make a highlight reel of all their flops and uncalled fouls from this game alone, show it to r/thunder and theyâll call it AI edited.
BuT eVeRyBoDy DoEs It
This is why you canât respect the thunder. Thereâs nothing to respect. They are the bitchiest of bitchiest teams in history.
I already got all the reasons I’ll ever need.
I have family in Seattle, still have my Gary Payton stuffed doll they sent me. My uncle was very upset when they left
WE HATED THEM FIRST!
It’s okay bro I understand your pain more than you know
And no one ever will. No matter how many championships they win the Thunder will never be respected like previous dominant teams were, purely because of the bitch ass way they play to game the whistle. On both ends of the floor.
I honestly donât think they could win without it. Those 5-7 point swings are huge in playoff games
Oklahoma should be thankful Mississippi exists so theyâre not the shittiest state in the country but second shittiest
Fun fact, apparently Mississippi has drastically improved it’s education system, so the people from OK have plunged to be well below them now.
People thought we were crazy after last years finals. OKC gets away with more shit than Iâve ever seen.
Nah man watching your best defender get called for a stupid foul when they do it on the other side is just lame as fuck from the refs.
Y’all would’ve won if it wasn’t for Hali getting hurt
True. I’m so tired of this team flopping and holding. You can include their stupid fans too.
Like watching a soccer game.
Yeah, iâm a football fan and always heard americans say that football (or soccer) is bad because the players are always flopping around. Then I decide to watch NBA and this is the match I see. Wtf.
I’m an overall sports fan, but soccer was what I played through all of my youth, in high level travel league and varsity once I was older. Have followed Premier League and others since before I can actually remember.
The only thing that I could compare to how egregious OKC is, would be Morrocco during Afcon against Senegal.
Yes, the clichĂ© of players embellishing isn’t without merit, but the cheapness on defense to go with how absolutely constant their flailing is, is a pace that even the most dramatic soccer match can’t keep up with. Thunder can’t go 60 seconds without it on either side of play.
I hated the warriors for years but at least they were good and dirty. Thunder are shameless with flopping and hammering people on defense.
Adam Silver, get this shit out of the game man.
Enforce flopping techs retroactively during tv timeouts
I agree. They can apply them retroactively after the game too but it never happens. If the league would just enforce their own rule on the most egregious flops like this, players would adjust and we’d see less of this.
He don’t care, man. Too busy pushing for betting.
This should be a suspension. If I were commish heâd be done for the series. Itâs just straight cheating.
get all these refs out the league man
Game 1 was too well officiated so this was only the natural course of action
I was curious how this one would be called. The last game was officiated really well. It’s crazy how much the refs can make a game miserable to watch and it really shows when you compare the last game to this one
Refs are why I don’t watch the NBA anymore outside when my team is in the playoffs. And even when I’m watching I’m hating it because of this shit. I just follow from box scores and reddit and I ain’t liking what I’ve been seeing.
it’s not the refs they’re doing exactly what the league office tells them to do
Canât challenge it because the refs already made the Spurs burn both!
At least for the playoffs, it needs to be if you don’t lose a challenge, you have infinite.
Still makes them not good to call flippantly because if you lose one of your two, you lose the right for infinite and either have 1 left for the rest of the game no matter what, or are now out of challenges.
Don’t punish teams for shit that should have never happened. That 2nd one took one replay to see it was obviously all ball, no need for much delay.
if they gave a shit about any of this, they wouldnt bring out tony brothers and co for these games. if its not a priority in their ref selection and training, why would we think its a priority for them to give the teams more chances to shine a light on that?
Fucking thank you. Absolutely atrocious bullshit from a thunder player again.
Remember that a thunder flair will gaslight you and spill whataboutism
Always downvote a thunder flair
so true, every sga flops post comes with thunder fans mentioning luka or brunson as if that makes it fine
Other teams might flop but no team can replicate the thunder whistle, that is just unique and what elevates them above other historic teams
âHiVeMiNDâ
One of those losers told me Luka and Bron are the biggest floppers in the league. They have no self awareness lol
They’re a bunch of barely educated hardcore conservative evangelicals. False persecution narratives are hardwired into their DNA at this point.
I actually hate the thunder nowÂ
Respectfully, it took you this long?
Probably didnât bother watching them til now
Pacers fan and can’t say I really developed a hatred until I had to watch it for 7 games. On top of the flopping Dort had some absolutely filthy plays.
A sort of relief for me that at least two of the many threads in this sub are people witnessing the same amount of robbery we did last year. You can blatantly see, in real time, the refs fucking over the better team. Just like they did us.
What’s the foul on this one? What rule am I missing?
Not being on the Thunder.
Standing there menacingly.
Refs are ruining game 2
The frequency at which this happens stops surprising you once you accept that the NBA is closer to the WWE than a serious sports league.
This is insane, he could have killed him, make it NSFW
Gulag for Barnes, actually make it worse, send him back to Sacramento!!!
The Thunder are an embarrassment to the NBA
holy shit wtf. Can we all upvote this? This is insane.
Meanwhile Hartenstein is punching kicking pulling clawing and shoving all game
The double standards for OKC is insane.
The 96 Bulls, the 2017 Warriors, the Showtime Lakers didn’t need this kind of treatment to prove they were legendary.
The warriors definitely benefitted from no call moving screens and Draymond having the most insane leash of all time
Everyone benefited from no call moving screens (See Sabonis, Bam and Trae). Especially when the Warriors showed that how they played is winning basketball.
I’d like to see SGA with a Curry whistle
How did they allow a sniper in the building?!
Shit like this still happening the the WCF is sad
they do this shit while holding wemby on every possession and then their fans have the audacity to complain about refs, truly the israel of the NBA
Rigged.
Itâs kind of funny seeing him go flying while Barnes is just standing there lol
How is this not a good basket on the 3 and a technical foul on Isaiah Joe for the flop?
Exactly. They should at least fine his ass
This team is fucking disgrace lol. Legit coached to flop and bitch all around.
This team doesnât deserve to win a championship. Tony Brothers doing everything he can to make sure they do.
This is fucking ridiculous
Lmfao. How can anyone like the thunder?
Two techs. Suspension for remainder of season.
Fuck you, Thunder.
And fuck you very much, NBA.
This is why OKC is hated in a way Golden State wasnât. At least Golden State actually beat mfs straight up. This is terrible basketball.
Just getting in on the team mission of killing the sport of basketball.
Welp, gonna be an L tonight I guess.
Can’t beat a team that gets rewarded for that absolute bullshit.
I canât even defend this đ
These flopping ass bitches are so embarrassing
This team is so lame man.
Reggie’s gotta call that bullshit out, what is he doing victim blaming Champagnie
This team is so unlikeable man. Like literally just a team full of cunts
You guys only hate us because the media brainwashed you guys!!!
Put NSFW on this, he couldve died there.
The worst parts isn’t OKC which is bad enough, Its the ref’s falling for this shit constantly
This is unwatchable. Why are these cousinfuckers in Oklahoma cheering for this, is it the resemblance to pro wrestling?Â
lol, fuckin ridiculous
Absolute bullshit
I know the Spurs aren’t playing the best… But can’t tell me this shit ain’t rigged if you actually call a game like this
Thunder, have some fucking shame.
After 05 I vowed to never root for the spurs… OKC has made me rethink that. Fuckkkkkkkk OKC go spurs this is bull shit.
We got the âlet them play physicalâ game to open the series. This is the âmake sure itâs 1-1â game.
This is war crimes, he needs to be fined for such dangerous plays
Thatâs just a ridiculous flop, dude goes flying after initiating the contact with Barnes to rule out a 3..
Going from the officiating in Game 1 to this makes me sick. They should just pay Zarba 3x his current amount and make him officiate every game.
Absolutely ridiculous
this is just pure comedy by the NBA and the refs
I love watching basketball and appreciate all the talent in the nba but I can honestly say I do not like a single player on the thunder. Biggest collection of bitches Iâve ever seen and I live in San Antonio
please use NSFW tag next time. That was brutal, should have been a flagrant 2
embarrassing
Okbitches reported the video. Fucking lame.
it really really sucks to watch
How do you even have a chance to beat this team with shit like this?
These kind of flops just need to get called down from someone in the booth kind of like football does for some replays