[Highlight] Shai Gilgeous-Alexander draws contact on Devin Vassell and heads to the line for three free throws — Vassell and Mitch Johnson plead with the refs
Natural unethical motion
He’s back on his bs
Because they’re losing and he’s desperate
Why are the refs enabling it like wtf such an ugly sight
Because Adam allows it
He encourages it
Yep exactly. First half was great basketball, he was playing really well. Then they go down and he goes back to his bag.
its so crazy how good he is and how silky smooth his mid range game is, but if he’s off on that he needs fts to get back in rhythm.
and tbf I hate the guy on the court
SGA is painful to watch man fuck this
Fuck him*.
SGA borderline gets a pass for this behavior from people, blaming refs or the commissioner before getting pissed at SGA.
When did he stop
For SGA standards he wasn’t falling down AS MUCH until this 3rd Q
he had a couple falls but was for the most part playing beautiful basketball. but this was disgusting. I get from the players’ pov doing whatever it takes to win, so I wish the refs and league would stop enabling this shit. Just stop calling it a foul and the players will stop
Stop calling it and fine the fucking shit out of players that do it
He had a hot streak in the 2nd and now he’s reverting back to his flopping self. Pathetic
game was watchable for the first half. He even did that thing where you jump up and then you land with your legs underneath you rather than at a 45degree angle to the ground then somehow fall backwards 3-4m.
I forgot he knew how to land a jump. when Spurs got on a run in the 3rd quarter he forgot how to jump again.
Felt like this whole series the Thunder were VERY aware of what the media was talking about.. Game 1 they had caruso fouling the fuck out of wemby all game, then it was talked about so they switched to Ihart Fouling the shit out of wemby on every block attempt. Then its SGA falling, then he stops when its talked about..
He was actually playing watchable basketball for the first half
Where all the OKC fans saying “just don’t foul!” Lmao
Back to back mvps, if the league doesn’t want this going on they have a weird way of showing it
Where the Thunder flairs at? C’mon guys, want to hear your mental gymnastics
That may actually be the most pathetic “shot attempt” I’ve ever seen
Literally is looking at player he is about to jump into instead of the hoop. So lame.
You don’t turn your back to the basket and jump toward the bench when you shoot a three? Oh, ok.
I missed watching prime Harden
this shit is not basketball
he hit the peter griffin
Thought these weren’t gonna be called as fouls anymore?
They’re supposed to be offensive fouls lol
they’re supposed to be called as flops, which results in one tech FT for the other team.
This is not a flop though. It’s an offensive foul.
Idk why this one wasn’t challenged, seemed like an obvious offensive foul to me
Spurs knew the league wouldn’t change it.
It’s an offensive foul. He’s not trying to make a basketball play he’s throwing an elbow into a player who is in the air and not in his space. How is this a foul on the defender, I can’t understand it
He’s flying sideways as he shoots lol.
Natural shooting motion. Who doesn’t jump 4 feet left?
The most frustrating thing about the flopping epidemic is that if the refs simply starting calling them as offensive fouls, they would be gone in a week.
Offensive foul + technical for flopping (like the rule book says). This shit would stop immediately.
And ref fans would get to keep eating since there’d still be a foul call!
Adam Silver thinks this is very cool and not a problem at all.
Nothing will change.
100% agree, should be an offensive foul. Absolutely disgusting to watch them actively look for these fouls
It was for like two week and then they stopped calling it lmao
Yes, it was a point of emphasis which, in the NBA, means that outside of the first week of the season it’s completely ignored.
only on lebron that one time for some reason
It’s the way Adam wants it to be
Only for the guy they want to inflate to look like an all star. SGa is probably the third best player at his own position behind Luka and Tatum
What you failed to consider is that OKC is just as pathetic as Adam Silver
Fuck this dude honestly
Normally I would say ‘I don’t get the hate for the pump fake fouls when you get the defender in the air’
But god damn he jumped sideways
I feel like if you bite on the pump fake that’s on you but jumping sideways and putting your elbow into the defender’s landing space makes it somewhat questionable.
Yes, if you pump fake someone and they go towards you, or hit you from behind, it’s a fair game to draw that contact
Drawing contact on a dude who’s flying by you to the side of you is just ridiculous lol
Terrible basketball
terrible, yes. But not basketball at all ;-)
Dude has no integrity
that was probably the most pathetic thing i’ve seen an nba player do in a while
Thats the most pathetic thing I’ve seen SGA do since about two minutes before this
I am sooo happy that these losers didn’t make it today. Don’t wanna watch shit like this in conference finals or Finals. Congrats Spurs!
Wemby saved us from 5+ more years of people pretending OKC is a legitimately great team
Remember last season when Chet was telling us what it takes to win the Finals five minutes after being carried to a championship lol feels like a lifetime ago now
Does any other championship team of the last 15 years get dragged into an unfavorable game 7 against the Pacers, question for the philosophers
God how pathetic do you have to be for a play like that.
dude is cooking all game making insane shots that he knows he can and still goes to this crap
Free 3 points it’s ridiculous
This and the flop right afterward from Caruso. Huge momentum swing.
They had 9 straight points from free throws when they were in danger of being down big in the third…
“That’s part of his greatness”
How tf do the refs reward it is my question
Literally how can someone listen to a Thunder fan when they try to downplay this embarrassing behavior when we are watching this shit in real time. This is a game 7 he’s doing this shit lol
What’s even more pathetic are the okc fans chanting mvp for this play
Natural shooting motion
“greatness” according to Reggie Miller lmao
Like how do you say that with a straight face
Reggie was the originator of kicking your legs out while shooting lmao
He was arguably one of the first premier foul baiters on the offensive end
Most NBA players don’t care about ethical hoops lol.
Cause Reggie did the same bullshit and thinks it’s smart basketball.
I mean Tbf it is smart if the refs keep falling for it, it just sucks for basketball fans who want pure hoops.
Lmfao Reggie was the first unethical 3-pt shooter.
Wasn’t that Crawford who said it? Ridiculous no matter who it was, but to Reggie’s meager credit, don’t think that was him.
natual eyes dilated moment
Haha dude went sideways
Life imitates art
Yup it’s natural to jump to your left on a shot
nah this shit is fucking disgusting
This league is genuinely a joke now. Thanks a lot silver
It’s ok tanking at the bottom seeds instead of at the edge of the playoffs was totally the problem.
It’s so fucking frustrating because these two teams tanked shamelessly to get to where they are now and they won’t suffer a single negative consequence.
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eeehhh. this is absolutely bad but, we are just forgetting those harden days at this point I think
Get this shit out of the game Adam Silver. Fans care about this way more than the damn tanking in March
We need to genuinely not watch this shit and not engage at all with videos they post about it and shit. As of right now it gets them tons of engagement so they don’t care
Honestly, I probably will skip more Thunder games because of this. But I wasn’t going to miss the ascension of my young goat
They keep tuning in
Gross
This one is especially bad. Him launching himself sideways into a defender who got out of his way is disgusting.
The league rewarding it is the real problem. This should be an offensive foul when jumping that far to the side.
Same as last year against Westbrook
It’s the fact that the refs call this obvious shit.
it’s an all-time bullshit play and call. even real-time, it was beyond egregious.
The rdcworld1 skit where the Thunder are doing flop lines is real
Get this fucking flopper out of here man
He was playing such a normal game and then as soon as his team gets down double digits he just tries to initiate contact instead of scoring.
not defeating the allegations with this one
so fucking stupid. where tf is Vassell supposed to go
Vassell got out of his way. Shai threw himself back into him.
he should just get out the way don’t you know how gravity works?
/s
That’s part of shai’s greatness
All time flop, genuinely how do Thunder fans support this. That isn’t basketball
Naw his bag deep -Thunder Fans
That Oklahoma eduction.
And the announcers were glazing him on this play, like what has this sport become
I believe the direct quote (I am not joking) was “this is part of Shai’s greatness”
ThAt’s jUsT A WiLY VeTeRaN WiTh pLaYoFf eXpErIeNcE
I think a lot of Thunder fans aren’t enjoying watching this anymore either tbh
Easy they don’t come into threads like this one.
Because most Thunder fans are inbred or 14 years old
They support this because they’re fucking stupid as fuck.
He jumps so far to the left man. This is supposed to be an offensive foul
That’s genuinely disgusting. Such a pussy. Most unlikable team in the league
Fuck off.
“Game 7 fouls only” my ass.
This OKC comeback has been ALL soft freethrows lmfao.
If Harden got these same calls in game 7 2018 he’s a champion. Make SGA an example too.
Literally 10 point lead until 7 straight free throws by the thunder
Final 7 minutes of the third quarter OKC got 1 bucket. Nothing but FTs otherwise
Idk if I don’t understand the rules, but this jump to the side bullshit shouldn’t be allowed, right?
It’s an offensive foul. Five point swing right there by the refs. Unwatchable product legitimately lmao
not sure it’s supposed to be an offensive foul, but it is supposed to be called as a flop which is one tech FT for the Spurs, but OKC ball after. I think it’s a team tech too, so a player can’t get ejected for it. The idea is to make it hurt, but not so much that refs have even more control over players getting ejected for being stupid in a way that is generally harmless to player safety.
Thunder fans will tell you that playing twister in mid-air is his natural shooting motion
It is, he never takes a normal shot s the refs have only ever seen him contorted like a fish, therefore its a normal shooting motion.
Is this your king
Nice while it lasted but hes back to his bullshit
Bro natural shooting motion my ass. I’m not even usually an SGA hater but what the fuck lol
Fuck everyone who defends this
This should never be called a foul
It should be called an offensive foul
Flopping mvp
SGA IS A BASKETBALL TERRORIST
“That’s a part of SGA’s greatness”
Fuck all the way off.
Spurs have been contesting SGA by jumping to the side to avoid contact so SGA decided hes just going to jump to the side into them in the most unatural way to draw a foul lol. Comon refs
that is not basketball
Most unlikeable superstar in the league. Can’t believe anyone likes watching this shit
He was going for the fucking long jump with how far he moved horizontally there
Ruining the NBA with this shit
Literally took the shot jumping sideways wtf
Totally cool and normal basketball play
Disgusting wtf was that
Natural OKC motion
Bro, that’s literally the ‘Green fn’ meme 😭
This is the biggest bullshit I’ve ever seen. Vassell was going to fully clear SGA and then he jumps 18 inches to the left while flailing like a fish
Absolutely shameless
Kobe would never
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Bro’s raping my eyes I didn’t sign up to watch this.
Shai has fallen down like 5 times in the past couple minutes, dude is hilarious hahahah
Where thunder fans at for this highlight
as natural as pamela anderson’s titties
“But that’s part of SGA’s greatness” Bro what.
“that’s part of SGA’s greatness”
hell naaw
Basketball terrorist
LMAO
Get this play out of the league, this should be a tech.
Send in Zaza
Somebody needs to slap the flop outta SGA.
B2b MVP used to mean something
Lmao basketball is loved all around the world. Even people in Asia are mocking SGA for his flopping, they fucking hate it there, but I guess Silver thinks this is good for the NBA.
Does OKC have dirt on Silver like how BiBi has dirt on Trump? It seems like they won’t do anything that would make basketball/world better because of one entity.
“That’s part of SGA’s greatness.”
Gimme a fucking break
So do all okc fans went to hiding? Where all you cowards? Come and defend your flop king.
Flops are back lol. It wasn’t that bad until now
Natural shooting motion for sure. I swear some of yall don’t know ball
/s if it was t obvious
Fuck off. How on Earth is this bullshit still going on
Loser behavior lol
OKC fans will look at you straight and say Shai doesn’t foul bait
“Part of his greatness” 😭
thats crazy vassel literally jumped to the side to avoid getting in sgas landing space and sga does this shit and gets rewarded
“that’s part of SGA’s greatness” .. what? Falling on the floor and looking scared?
Dude from where he pumps to where he actually ends up shooting, completely different time zones, holy moly. This isn’t basketball I’m sorry.
Pathetic. When the lead gets to double digits, refs step in to give those FTs.
Spurs is playing pure bball. While OKC is doing theatre school. What a joke nba has become
And he’ll continue doing this since the refs keep rewarding him for his bullshit.
Not even a natural shooting motion! So trash frfr.
“That’s part of SGA’s greatness” 💀
“That’s part of SGA’s greatness, when you can score like that…” like what? Wtf are we doing here
Most pathetic MVP in NBA history
I hate when the announcers start glazing a guy for doing this bs come on have some backbone
this motherfucker jumped to the side to take his jumper. I fucking hate this shit. Just play normally and act like an MVP
Fuck the commentators too “this is a part of his greatness” stfu ya pole smokers, this is gross.
Hey OKC morons (sorry, “fans”) do you really think jumping sideways into people is actually how you play basketball? Are you this fucking stupid?
So glad this fucking clown isnt getting a second ring this year.
Greatness? I want to puke.
this guy definitely practices this shit on birds at his local park
What the fuck is THAT????
What a natural shooting motion this is
Any normal shooting motion and its just a normal driveby contest. What are we doing
Brain dead refs brain dead anouncers
Basketball gods can’t keep allowing this
Idk how thunder fans can even like this guy
“Thats part of SGA’s greatness” Lolwut