[Highlight] Shai Gilgeous-Alexander drives through all the Spurs defense, all 5 players, and scores the layup on Victor Wembanyama (with replays).
Wemby just looks done defensively, no energy
Got bitched all game by Hart
Hell, he was getting ready to throw another elbow after that layup when he felt a hand on his back until he realised it was his teammate. /s for the soft peeps.
puts him in all time great if he plays great. makes him like a rookie baby if he doesn’t. double standard is real
fall percentage up!
got fouled by Wemby
Did they show other angles? Because you can’t tell here.
You could hear the slap on stream
Replayed it. You really can. That’s fucked up by Wemby
Nah man he’s just out here falling
This will end up with 60 upvotes max
437 after 10 hours. This place is crazy
Why would this cool play matter when you can bitch about the refs or ignore Plumlee trying to injure McCain out of spite instead?
I actually hate it here now. The hive mind has completely taken over. They’d rather bitch and moan than just enjoy some high level basketball. Not a single objective comment left it seems. Any comment that isn’t just agreeing gets downvoted. No discussion. Just annoying bitchfest circlejerking
The worst part imo is all the circlejerking does is make Thunder fans go on the defensive and jerk even harder in the other direction, which just puts us in a cycle of hatred and everyone ends up angry and worse off
Do you follow NBA content on any other social media platform? The same trend of hating on OKC is happening everywhere. Hell, I know people irl who don’t even really use social media btiching about OKC. At some point you just have to admit that most people don’t like watching OKC play. Whether or not you find them enjoyable is subjective, but it’s objective that most people seem to not like them.
I counted 31 posts when sorting by “hot” before getting to a positive Thunder highlight. I hate what this place has become. It used to be so good for aggregating awesome plays at a minimum.
Truly unwatchable
Wouldn’t this be an example of why he doesn’t need to flop?
Warriors fans hating on SGA will always be hilarious lmao
Where did I hate on him?
I mean, he’s getting hacked, grabbed, and shoved all over the place. He can’t do these moves with Castle constantly fouling him in front of the refs lol. It’s genuinely the most egregious coverage I have ever seen slide freely over the span of a series. This was the first game where it was even slightly called, and he had 17 free throws lol
This is exactly the type of play this sub is complaining about (where he gets a good shot off but ends up on the ground)
no it really isn’t. this is literally a momentum fall backwards and you know that. Its the intentional foul merchant fouls that everyone is upset about. this is like 1 of his maybe 3 highlights this game outside of his foul merchant playstyle and you try to claim this is what people are upset about?
Also important context here… 2 of those people are at 5 fouls because of how whistle happy this game was. quit pretending.
But the sub is literally talking about falls/game with 0 context
I agree this is completely fine but that context is lost on a lot of ppl
the numbers over time wont lie, this is the exception for him, you are using it to try to say this is his standard and its just not true.
The standard fall for him is embellishing contact by a large margin.
Nah, this’ll be added to the tally of falls and be tomorrow’s talking point
But he fell. LOOK HE’S ON THE FLOOR. TRASSSSSHHHHHHH
Both he and Wemby are tired as fuck.
That was a phenomenal bucket.
Ethical as fuck
Crazy free throw
Bro was bricking everything and then does this lol
Is he allowed to fall on this one?
Genuinely feels like the first time he’s gotten to the paint and finished this whole series, it’s been TOUGH
Wemby is so fucking gassed
Just disrespectful to the game of basketball
LOOK HE FELL!
Wemby fouled SGA on the face no call
I know he shoots a lot of free throws, but it’s shit like this that makes it impossible to buy into the “solely a ft merchant narrative.” He is a genuinely elite driver and bucket getter.
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He doesn’t drive through all 5 players? Great bucket though
He’s the only player we’ll ever see drive past a whole team to the rim in a conference finals game and each defender is scared to touch him
Yeah so scared to touch him that they slapped the shit out of him
This shit is so unimpressive. If they defend him they get a foul. It’s just some lame ass dude playing solo ball against trees.
Yes, if a team fouls a player they get a foul called on them. You are truly one of the top minds of Reddit.
Did I say that? I said if they defend him they get a foul. Defending someone is not supposed to be a default foul. Learn to read.
This is why it’s so frustrating to see him fall and flail all the time. He doesn’t need to. He’s so good on his own without the antics.
he does need to. without the fouls they lose. they have the depth to absorb absurd numbers of fouls, meanwhile half the people hes driving by here are at 5 fouls.
They’ve dominated both whistle happy games so far for good reason.
Annnnnnnd falls down for no reason
Considering if you stand within a foot of him he will dive to the floor like a soccer player and the refs will give him it at home its not a surprise that they just give up on defending.
30% of his points are already from overt flop FTs, add points like this that only happen because of flop conditioning… he might deadass get half the points.
Crazy to think that if they start enforcing embellishment it might take him from mvp to not even top20.
you’re wrong they gave up defending, they just CANT because 2 of those players are both sitting at 5 fouls.
they can whispher like lance to him cause thats a foul
If they as so much breathed on SGA the refs would call a foul like how they did all game
Seems like Wemby may have even “fouled” him (right arm clipping Shai’s face after missing the block) and it wasn’t called so apparently you can do more than breathe on him.
yeah right, association should consider hiring you as a ref.
You can see Wemby’s arm swing down in that direction and Shai grabs his face while falling. Granted Shai is a flopper but he’s not going to grab his face for no reason.
Seems likely there was contact, though probably quite slight. Can’t say for certain from this angle but if you’re an adult and not a whining child I’m sure you’re also capable of admitting there might be contact there as well. I’m not saying there is contact, I’m saying there might be.
He gets space cause nobody wanna get call a foul. Thats a huge advantage.
He gets fouled because players try and can’t close the space.
Watch fox foul from last game. Apparently they show replays for fouls this game
“Watch this singular play instead of the overall context of the series!” okay buddy
Also, that play showed Fox clipping his leg. It’s a clear foul lmfao
Got hit in the face by wemby too.
But but but I saw a screenshot where Fox’s leg was not touching SGA
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Prove me wrong. Thats a fact. He gets like a ton of space. My backyard YMCA is more physical than this shit
I’ve been kissed harder