Deni Avdija goes one on three with the slow Euro step. Then gets the technical for pointing at LeBron and Finney-Smith
I wish pointing wasn’t a tech. So dumb.
Deni’s biggest mistake was that he wasn’t Sophie Cunningham
She got a tech for pointing though
Just start pointing at yourself. Can’t tech me if I’m just pointing at my own face.
Boy… can’t even laugh to yourself on the bench without getting ejected.
Poor Timmy Duncan
I get it but the league looks at this as non-basketball behavior that will lead to altercation.
And they’re probably right.
Escalation will inevitably happen if you let players taunt.
Players taunt in every single game tho.
He didn’t get a tech for taunting but because the refs saw this as a finger gun gesture.
Just like in the nfl they’ll give a tech to whoever do any gesture even remotely close to something looking like a weapon.
Yeah they are out there trash talking, poking/tickling, other weird shit already, as if pointing will escalate anything.
Escalation happens bc they only nominally punish that behavior.
It’s not a tech if you are LeBron
Pointing is obviously taunting
This trash talk type of stuff makes the entertainment of the game skyrocket but they wanna call a tech over it. Get it together man
They let Ant point every game
not at LeBron lol
Cant point at Bron
They also let LeBron James do it against the Pacers.
Yes but it wasnt against Lebron
Suspension worthy
Honestly should be out of the league after such a disgusting act.
And his mama should spank him because she taught him not to point at people lol
Weak ass shit
If I was a ref I’d tell Deni, “We have to tech you up but that was sick bro.”
That hurts my patella just watching it
Next time he should do photo snapshot celly!
Soft shit refs
Maybe they were finger guns 🤷
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If this isn’t travel, what is?
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From whom?
If it happened to anyone else, I’d be mad
told reaves gtfo 💪🏾
Wtf this is dirty, he could’ve ended lebrons body with that play. Good thing refs called a tech
That not being a travel is wild to me but I get it
Haha
You’re not the King
At risk of being downvoted I hate the euro stop it feels like a travel
Edit: emphasizing euro STOP
Thats because it’s 3 steps after picking up the ball but that’s the rules and the way the game is officiated
Watch it again, this is definitely 2 steps
He dragged his right foot after he picked it up, it was a travel. That’s the problem with this move, it’s very hard to do without dragging your pivot foot after you pick it up.
Yep not arguing there. I mentioned this in another comment but two steps into a jump stop is a travel so I don’t understand why this move is legal
it feels like a travel
Are you a ref from the 80’s? If anything, the Eurostep is one of the few times they actually give a fuck about the numbers of steps players take.
Chill out guy I like the euro step. I’m arguing against the euro STOP. Two steps into a jump stop is a travel so why is this legal?
Because the moment you travel is when you return your pivot foot to the ground. You’re allowed to stay on just your non pivot foot as long as you want.
Fair, I’m no rules expert so I didn’t think that pivot foot still applied after a two step shot gather
My bad for being so aggressive about it, but the 2nd foot returning to the ground is the issue. He stops on one foot here
All good dawg I guess I just dislike it based off vibes 😂
That slow Euro will get figured out by the elite defenders in the league.
When you are going full speed like that it takes a second to slow down. Unless you know he is going to do it 100% of the time which most don’t do.
The elite defenders will study their opponents and play the ball.
What?
The laws of physics don’t apply to elite defenders, didn’t you know?
idk, seems like their knees are bound to get “figured out” much earlier than the move itself would
going to an almost absolute stop being 200lb+ pushing all your weight down on one knee, idk about that chief
Even when he showboats he looks lame lol he is a good player but he isn’t likable at all
Go touch grass, I bet it makes you feel important to comment this everywhere you feasibly can. This is a basketball sub.
Facts
Say please tho
Travel.
Close. If you slowmo, his pickup dribble is his left foot then he step on the break with his right foot (1) and then stop on a dime with his left (2).
He dragged his right foot after planting his left foot, it was a travel but they rarely call that
Yea that’s fair, still a travel though. I guess calling out bad footwork is enough to get downvoted lmao.
The issue is you can’t do this in real life without dragging your foot (travel) or falling over. But the foot drag is starting to be an accepted part of the game, unfortunately.
Where in the rulebook does it ever state that dragging your trail foot is a travel? Just making up rules for the fun of it.
If a player, with the ball in his possession, raises his pivot foot off the floor, he must pass or shoot before his pivot foot returns to the floor. If he drops the ball while in the air, he may not be the first to touch the ball.
His right foot was his pivot foot. He lifted it and returned it to the ground. That’s a travel.
it didn’t return to the ground until after he shot
Yes it does. You can see his toe dragging at 7.08 on this video.
oh yeah there is a toe drag. didn’t sound like that’s what you were calling out by saying his foot returned to the ground
If you refer to my initial comment. His left foot is his pivot foot because that’s the one he planted during the gather. His right foot become 1.
So 1,2 step to a shot. So that’s why it was not called travel.
After you gather, the foot you use with your first step is your pivot foot. The second step is just you moving your non pivot foot.
If what you’re saying was true, you could gather then take 3 steps because you can always move your non pivot foot around as long as you keep your pivot foot planted.
When I was a kid yes but the rules interpretations have changed a bit and in the nba their is no such thing
Garbage product
Saying that with a kyrie flag is certainly a choice
Kai may be dumb but at least he doesn’t support genocide
Isn’t Kyrie a Black Hebrew Israelite?
According to the one who stands outside the 7⁄11 I go to the Messiah will come once the white people are eliminated
And according to the army Deni served all Arabs must die and all nations surrounding Israel belong to them because the holy book says so. Think that’s a little worse.
I’m an ex Muslim and Egyptian. By polls 88% of Egyptians believe I should be executed because I left the faith
Meanwhile Deni’s dad is Muslim
How is that relevant to Dani serving in a army that has been committing a genocide since 1947?
They all do, its not a choice
Yes it is. You can decide to not serve but you have to go to jail for it. The fact people choose murdering innocent Palestinians instead of jail says a lot about them as a person.
Im sure you would have picked the jail option. You think Deni saw combat?
You’re like a child I swear lol Deni served in the military in 2020 as it’s mandatory for all citizens. There was no genocide or war in 2020. You shouldn’t speak on things you don’t understand boy.
Stunning and brave
So you fuck with genocide too, got it
America has been bombing children and innocent lives in Middle East for decades. What do you have to say about that? You shouldn’t attack people cus of their place of birth.
Americans are so fucking funny man. America is responsible for millions of deaths in the middle east and funding a apartheid state while Americans can’t afford life yet you idiots are out here using whataboutism about it. Amazing.
It’s the hypocrisy that pisses me off. The ignorance and lack of awareness…my god.
Im talking about you champ
Oh cool. What do you wanna hear me? 🤷🏽♂️
I dont want to hear shit from you. Just hope you gain consciousness of the postion you’re in.
Good. What position am I in?
Fuck all genociders and the weak morons who defend them. How about that?
That’s good
Nobody is attacking him because of where he was born. We hate him because he vocally supports the occupation of Gaza and the bombing of Israel’s neighboring countries
I can understand why he would love and defend his country. If you were born in Israel you will be biased as well. You are born here in US and the US actively commits tons of war crimes abroad. It just seems extremely hypocritical to point fingers since he’s not involved in the genocide.
His country was invaded and they were at war. If IRAN attacked the US and killed people best believe most of the citizens will fully be patriotic and back their Country IN SPITE… IN SPITE of the atrocities and war crimes we committed abroad.
We accidentally bombed 200 children just months ago. If IRAN even dared to retaliate we would literally glass them completely. Even though we are the ones who started the war. We have killed all their leaders and several thousands,we have destabilized their entire economy.
I hope you can see the parallel am trying to make here and how it relates to the Israel and Gaza conflict. It’s not as black and white as it appears. Let him defend his country
I don’t support US imperialism and I don’t criticize people who speak against it. Deni does both in regards to Israel’s atrocities. You’re downplaying genocide right now
I don’t support genocide. I can understand why Israel’s actions can be seen as genocide but it’s mot really a genocide if you understand the history of the conflict.
I personally think they should be held accountable for the disproportionate response to the attack. Israel over did it. But am not convinced US would have done any less.
We murdered over 250,000 in Japan. Insanely disproportionate. Call it a genocide I guess if you want..
I don’t understand why you keep bringing up the US. I don’t support the USA government’s war crimes and most people who criticize Israel also criticize America
AND thats perfectly fine. my issue is why are we attacking Jews and their Private citizens??
Does living in America make me and you awful people? Even though we don’t support some of the atrocities. Most Americans supported the war is Middle East where we disproportionately killed in the millions and committed proper genocide after 9⁄11.
Whataboutism at its finest
If that’s the conclusion you drew then you clearly didn’t read what I wrote or you didn’t understand it. Please read it again till it makes sense. I’m not on anyone’s side here. Not even the US.
I don’t need to read again to call bullshit , bullshit bruder. You are clearly picking sides and I don’t really care but you should accept that you are picking a side.
I wanna understand and do better. What part of my statement do you disagree with? What side are you on? What side am I on?
< If IRAN attacked the US and killed people best believe most of the citizens will fully be patriotic and back their Country IN SPITE… IN SPITE of the atrocities and war crimes we committed abroad. We accidentally bombed 200 children just months ago. If IRAN even dared to retaliate we would literally glass them completely. Even though we are the ones who started the war. We have killed all their leaders and several thousands,we have destabilized their entire economy.
You’re absolutely cooked. “Accidentally” lol You really think you’re the good guys
You need to work on your reading comprehension. We have always been the baddies but many Americans don’t see it that way CUS 9⁄11 happened and in response we almost wiped them out!! Most regions will never recover. Generations of families wiped out by our decades of occupation down there.
Read to comprehend and not to react boy
Nah you’ve got to work on your cognitive dissonance. You say you’re the baddies but you obviously don’t believe it. That’s how you can handwave away killing 160 schoolgirls and pretend it was accident instead of facing reality.
Why does it matter if it was on accident or not? They still killed 200 school children. You make it seem like I absolved them..
What are you talking about? Whether it’s intention or not matters not. No one was held accountable. The only reason we get away with shit like this is cus IRAN recognizes an escalation can lead to their complete annihilation. Where does dissonance have to do with this?
I like to think it was on accident but that detail is not important. I don’t think the kids were the intended targets. We are evil but not to that level.
Bro this is Reddit. It’s a bunch of stupid white guys who don’t care about anything that doesn’t affect them
What does that have to do with this situation in the slightest?
Deni is a vocal supporter of Isreal’s actions to ethnically cleanse it’s country…
Please educate me here. What has he said or done to support the genocide or the ethnicity cleansing?