Ya agreed, as a pacers fan it’s easy to get salty about last years end but he’s a great example for fans

the fact the media trying to push it… shows it generates clicks. it’s printing money so it’ll keep going. host getting bread off of just mention sga in any form. twitter nerds getting elon coins off his name. shit was funny asf when mfs said if you type shai or sga you’ll get 1k likes & mfs ended with 4K likes. i wanna see okc hoist that trophy in the garden id be laughing my ass off & happy to see it

I gained tons of respect for Hali in the past couple years. He’s everything you could ask for from a franchise leader.

The problem isn’t the players, it’s the refs and the league, if you reward certain behaviour of course every player especially star players are gonna abuse tf out of it, if the refs stop rewarding the flopping, that whole shtick will disappear within a season

I like that he isn’t fanning the flames and I like the perspective he’s sharing. I believe the pushback to the Thunder has gone way overboard.

That said, whether it’s him or any of my other beloved Pacers, members of the Thunder, etc. I wish these tactics weren’t so incentivized. The league leaned hard into finding ways to disincentivize tanking, I hope they do the same at some point with the foul-baiting rituals.

Why not Mosley?

FIBA refs actually enforce rules, unlike NBA refs.

The court and how ball is played (less minutes per quarter, spacing, passing, 1 less foul before fouling out, etc.) and how refs call the game according to FIBA rules are just a bit different to college and NBA basketball.

FIBA has a better flow (less interruptions) than nba, which is very nice considering how long nba games can be in the last few minutes. Whether the players like it more or not, different players have had different opinions on it. It’s more physical and there is no 3 seconds iirc which makes scoring a lot harder

FIBA refs are better and dont give a different whistle based on if a player is a big name.

In FIBA he doesn’t get star player treatment like in NBA, so of course he is happy to come NBA. In FIBA referees make more mistakes and miss calls, however there isn’t these annoying ghost calls that you get in NBA if you just flop and super player treatment. Refereeing is much more neutral, just missed calls which is fine.. It also is very telling who shine in FIBA. Suddenly guys like Harden doesn’t look as good.

It is the other way around, FIBA refs are not going to be calling fouls because you snapped your head back all the way up to the ceiling while driving for a layup.

It’s actually insane how much he looks like a highly educated gay 50 year old from a coastal “elite” city. You could tell me this dude runs a combination wine bar/community theater in Portland or Seattle and I would not even question you.

It’s the deep v neck

He’s off the steroids now.

So what about the players on the other side of it? Do they know less about basketball than Haliburton and Thunder fans?

Not even saying he’s right or wrong but this attitude of “see? this player/former player said THIS so it has to be true!!” is very silly when there’s almost always examples of players/former players that have the opposing view.

Or maybe he’s not in the business of calling out his friends and colleagues lol

I hate this argument. Just because he plays in the NBA he can’t be wrong on anything NBA related? Just because we comment on Reddit we can’t be right about anything NBA related? Knock it off. Clown. Maybe he’s close friends with SGA and refuses to talk down on him? Are my eyes deceiving me? Did I not just watch a game earlier and see SGA fall on half of his shot attempts for no reason? Do I not constantly see almost every player on the team flop? Just because other players in the league do it don’t make it right. That’s where all of you OKC gotta understand. We’re not saying SGA is the only one that flops. We’re saying they do it the most as a team and it’s a bad watch. Tell me where I’m wrong? 

For real, what the hell does this NBA player know compared to a 13 year old Reddit shitposter

I mean maybe it’s true?

If you aren’t getting injured in pickup are you even trying?

The issue is who determines a pump fake and a shot attempt youve stopped because of the defenders foul

Tf is wrong with a pump fake? Pump faking to beat a defender is a 101 basketball skill.

Stay down and don’t get beat jumping into the shooter. That’s also a 101 basketball skill.