God I hate Tony Brothers.

Honestly this series has been… kinda shitty? Like the first game was electric, the second was solid, but the last three have all been absolute ass. Every one is just some combination of a blowout, brickfest, and absolute dogshit reffing

Scott Foster legacy game coming in G6

Yeah unenjoyable

I’m so happy for Jared though. Went from being unceremoniously traded mid-season, to starting in the most intense playoff series of the year. Crazy shit

Literally every other post in the subreddit has been about this since we traded him

His 3s broke the spurs late in the 4th. He’s so quick, knows when the defense is fucked, and pulls the trigger without fear. All of OKC is willing to screen and give him some dribble handoffs for him to cook. Beautiful offense for him to thrive in.

Fuck Darryl Morey. Gifted the defending champs a starter level player. Timely buckets from McCain, that dude is fearless.

Man is starting in the Western Finals. His 3 ball isn’t en fuego like it was in LA but he always hits big shots and does the little things. Just has to get beefier on defense.

Morey lost his job because of it

Yep, I wouldn’t be surprised if he bounces back and the Spurs take game 6 but get blasted in game 7 with Wemby running out of gas.

His build will never allow that. Double edged sword.

His teammates have to do a better job including him

said it in another thread but the spurs should gradually increase his minutes closer to the playoffs to get him conditioned

im sure the medical staff knows more than a random redditor tho so might be a dumb idea

The issue is he’s not used to high minutes because he has been on a minutes restriction his whole career in the nba.

The issue with playing him more minutes in the regular season to condition him is obvious scares of injury. Tough spot to be in.

The whole OKC squad had the same issue in 2024. That Dallas series they were exhausted. The downside of so many young guys is they haven’t played this many games in a season ever. Add the minutes increase with little break between games too.

70

70 total free throw attempts

I mean they’re fouling the shit out of each other so it’s a tough job

Tell the Spurs to stop committing dumb fouls. Castle had 5 fouls and he easily could’ve had 9. Keldon Johnson holding Chet’s jerseys and pulling backwards DIRECTLY in front of the baseline ref. Like, the Spurs did not adjust and just kept doing dumb shit in obvious ways.

Edit: the problem with the officials tonight was several issues where both teams were affecting the ball above the cylinder and they were not calling it. There should’ve been 3 goaltending this game 1 on Wemby and 2 on OKC. But calling fouls that weren’t fouls was not the issue with the crew. San Antonio has to stop doing dumb shit

Am I tripping or were there like 2 total fouls 7-8 minutes into the game? Then it went bonkers

why blame brothers when y’all wanted this after game 2?

We’ve been fouling the shit out of each other ALL series and now the refs woke up and decided to actually call it all

last two games of this series has turned into a FT shooting contest. Every game and series prior to game ⁴⁄₅ of the WCF was teams absolutely mauling each other on defense lol

That’s what happens when dude plays 30 minutes a game and is expected to play 40+.

He barely touched the ball on offense. Awful, awful coaching

He looked so tired. Thunder’s bench is completely outclassing the Spurs’ bench, it’s just not possible to let Wemby take a rest.

Don’t forget those 6 big rebounds.

Facts, yet Spurs fans are only talking about the refereeing. Bad refereeing or not, him and Fox combining ⁸⁄₃₀ from the field just isn’t going to cut it

Yea that was bush league as hell, the only reason it wasn’t a flagrant is bc it’s way past Tony’s bedtime and he couldn’t be assed to review

Wemby whispered something to biyombo before he got in, he got the memo.

Flip the teams and this sub would explode in rage. Since it was OKC in the receiving end, not even a thread talking about it was posted.

Yeah that was disgusting should’ve been a flagrant.

Bum ass Plumlee. Thinks being an enforcer is hitting the smallest guy on the floor after your star already took all the punishment all game

I thought only the thunder were dirty

First the Wemby elbow, now a Plumlee elbow? Not sure how I feel about these things from the Spurs

Straight body shots lmao

Yuck

Wemby has to shoot it at least 25 times.

Y’all wanted them to call more fouls because defenses were getting away with too much.  This is the result

Whoa there, I was told on this sub that only Shai benefits from FTs.

It was an ass-off between the stars. Ugh

He wasnt seeing the pearly gates before all that. Dude thought he mathematically solved basketball and got embarrassed in game 7 in 2018 by applying that philosophy to the max when it clearly wasnt working.

additional comments after some replies: people always bring up the waived off 3-4 three pointers when 0-27 is brought up. i get that it could have easily been the difference betwen win/loss when the final score was a 9 point differential, but even then 3-27 or 4-27 in a pivotal game 7 stretch is still terrible. when you attempt that many 3s and only make 3 or 4 out of them (which didnt actually happen btw), you’re not playing basketball the right way.

they were also up 11 at halftime. its not like they had an extreme desperation to shoot 3s in hopes to climb up from a deficit. they should have just looked for easier shots when the 3 stopped falling. its kind of like when my lions tried to go for it on 4th when all they needed was a field goal to extend the lead and ended up blowing that 21-3 lead vs the 49ers in the 2024 conference finals.

basketball isnt just a spreadsheet, its actual human beings playing a highly physical, competitive sport with lots of pressure. in a game 7 you probably wont be good at making as many 3s as you would in a regular season or even in an earlier game in the series. moreyball works when you’re on fire, but when the 3s stop hitting, it would be a time to maybe move to a plan b. unrelated to 2018 but brian windhorst out of all people pointed this out: morey has a very high IQ but a low EQ which honestly makes sense. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9nAEegcMpls

i appreciate your post-game comments that attempt to have actual basketball discourse on how the different games have gone.

I agree it was a mix of the thunders hitting their shots today, and wemby looking gassed (and it seems that the spurs live and die by wemby).

when the spurs play disciplined, they shut down SGA and OKC hard, but then when they make mistakes, they can spiral and be their own worst enemies. that’s not something they can afford against a team like OKC that thrives off forcing mistakes

On the Wenmby of it all. I was saying in the first quarter and then all throughout the game, “why is he playing so far from the basket?” He was outside the paint near the 3-point line on both sides of the ball for the majority of his minutes. That feels like coaching decision and I don’t understand it.

Game 4 was beautifully done by the Spurs. They forced Thunder into making bad shots. But I honestly felt game 4 was a bad night for a lot of Thunder players. Spurs players played much more disciplined and a desperate hunger to win. I feel like them and the fans threw off Thunder’s game all night so a lot of players just couldn’t find their rhythm. 

Naturally game 5 that wasn’t the case. So Game 6 will be interesting. Spurs are a hostile cornered animal so they’ll play with more ferocity for a win. Question is if Thunder will have a repeat bad game or if they can weather it, make consistent plays to make points, and minimize turnovers. 

What about Game 6 bruh

They’re so talented and so ahead of schedule that people forget how young they are. They looked young tonight.

Yeah Wemby was not himself tonight, rough game, let’s see how they bounce back in game 6.

People can say whatever they want about the bozo refs. Spurs lost this game themselves.

Real. This game was decided with Wemby’s sorry ass play all night. He has got to be better regardless of how the refs call the game.

SGA shooting 37% from the field and still shooting more than 10% better than 3 Spurs starters is wild

i think his 0 point game killed it and shai dropping 30 in the pretty critical wins, but i think both gets votes

Gobert could learn a thing or two from IHart on how not to get played off the floor

absolutely sickening that Wolves gave up 5 FRP for Gobert while OKC didn’t give up a single pick for IHart

I’ve never rooted against a dog more in my life. He’s so cute but why 🤣

I cannot figure out why he does that shit. Like he just saw what being aggressive does but then he comes out and stands around on offense. If he’s fatigued that’s gonna be a problem going forward. Maybe he needs to train with some Kenyan marathon runners instead of monks this offseason

How many did Wemby have in regulation Gm1?

They neutralized him today

What do you mean? This sub will complain every time OKC win blaming the refs.

I can know if OKC won only by looking at the most upvoted posts at this sub, and they never talk about the score itself

With the Thunder wins it’s always the main talking point, don’t make it obvious guys

70 combined free throw attempts 😭

As an okc fan I can say: I do not give a fuck about the refs. Keep making excuses, we are missing 2 of our top players while the spurs are not

his response would give me a headache, and i already got one from Mr Sold High

Castle can’t defend without fouling

No, that’s totally unrelated. The league is just rigged. Wemby just needs to continue standing 30’ from the hoop and Castle continue to throw it out of bounds. 

Keldon ensuring every push and jersey grab was directly in front a ref did not help the Spurs tonight

They had a great opportunity to hype up OKCs mini-run but instead Reggie said “MORE IMPORTANTLY DID YOU SEE WEMBY START TALKING TO HIS TEAM”

Nah you’re right.

People act like these guys are robots or can go grind levels in stamina, but that’s not how it works. Being that size and being able to do so much offensively and defensively isn’t sustainable playing every other night in the playoffs.

Even prime Lebron had limits. Spurs will have to shore up the roster and gameplan more efficiently in the future. They will figure it out in a year or two, I’m sure. The league is fucked when that happens

Not to mention out of bounds on IHart that was randomly called a jump ball. Brothers needs to lay off the weeduh