[Lowlight] Podz hides his hands on Luka’s shot attempt, Luka complains to the refs anyway
The complaining after every foul bait attempt is bad for the game. Imagine if more guys started doing this. Would be unwatchable
I love Luka but he does seem to have something pathological going on. It’s like he has no shame or no real awareness of how this comes off. Maybe being a pro practically your entire life develops your brain differently. Like who could put this wonder child in his place? He’s never developed that part of his personality properly. Will be interesting to see if he’s still doing it in his 30’s…
Bro has zero shame. Just go look at that Wiggins poster on him in the playoffs. Dude pretended he got hit in the face and was laying down grabbing his face when he wasn’t even touched.
Just embarrassing.
Almost none of these players have shame. Podz literally flopped like he got shot out of a cannon when Reaves gave him a little bump at the end. They want to win. Problem with Luka is his excessive complaining takes himself out of the game
He reminds me of some of my friends I used to play league of legends with. “No way dude that didn’t even touch me it was nowhere close on my screen” after every single thing. And if you watch the replay, if they stream it and you see it exactly how they saw it on their screen, they’re just flat out objectively wrong, every time. But they can’t be convinced. Even when we’re winning and they’re alive they can’t stop bitching about how the game is bugged and they should be winning more.
Is this your friend?
victim mentality
Lucas Dunkirk is League of Legends player.
Just toxic gamer things
when you’re told from a young age that you’re gods gift to earth because you play sport well, you end up like this
MJ never complained anywhere near the level of Luka.
But I guess Luka was told he was the best at a much younger age than MJ, so that probably helped make him the complainer he turned into.
Seems like he doesn’t have a mentor that he’ll actually listen to when told to knock off the complaining.
I’m sure JJ is reluctant to harass Luka about his complaining because it’s essentially Luka’s team and JJ wants to stay on Luka’s good side.
Even someone like Federer early in his career could be insufferable. But he went on to demonstrate impeccable sportsmanship for the majority of his career.
But this is Luka’s ninth NBA season. He’s 27. If he truly cared about complaining less we’d see more evidence of it by now. But he is still whining too much.
MJ is lucky social media wasnt a thing yet
If MJ entered the league a few years ago in this era he’d be the biggest bitcher of all time. Its part of the game now and SO many people do it, not just Luka even though he kinda takes it to the next level. LeBron didnt do this for the first like decade of his career but now everyone sees him as a complainer because thats how you get calls
MJ complained a lot is the funny thing. He has amazing Pr
Yeah MJ was a relatively late bloomer. Even as a college freshman he was very good and obviously insanely talented but it wasn’t til his sophomore year that people realized he was a super-duper-star. His roommate Buzz Peterson had way more hype coming into North Carolina.
baiting and complaining are part of his game. if he did less, his productivity would decrease.
Who the fuck cares if he complains too much? Dude balls out every year, if anyone deserves to complain it’s Luka. He gets results you work around his faults.
I would love Luka if he weren’t a crybaby foul baiter. I like the rest of his game, especially his passing.
Yep. Luka’s productivity would decrease if he weren’t foul baiting. Its part of his bag. He isn’t going to just stop.
We don’t need to psychoanalyze the dude. He is attempting to gain a competitive advantage. Thats all there is to it
its very obviously having the opposite effect though, they clearly don’t call stuff like podz flopping because luka makes the refs so annoyed with him they are obviously going to give us a hard whistle. It’s just natural psychology, I have a few refs in my family, and they will tell you EVERY ref falls victim to this. If someone complains too much they get punished
Luka is averaging more free throws than ever before and the Lakers are 2nd in FTA. You are very obviously just saying shit
Maybe he’ll get stop in his 30s…
Man we used to have so much hope his rookie year. He’ll grow out of this and see how much its hurting his team..
Remember when he said he’s going to stop complaining for 5 years in a row on the Mavs when he kept getting techs? It was a meme at one point. I dont think he can stop, its a compulsion or something.
Life hits different in 30’s, you grow up mentally. I think it will tone down by then for him.
I don’t mean this as a soccer sucks guy but this is basically par for the course in soccer and I don’t think it’s surprising a guy playing in Europe mimics that behavior.
Luka played for Real Madrid lol, the victim mentality of their soccer team is definitely off the charts
that´s…. kinda…. a xenophobic take….
lol ok? The level of bitching and whining in soccer, particularly in places including Spain, are off the fucking charts compared to even the NBA. It’s very much not strange to think a guy from that sporting culture might be a bit whinier as a result.
Do you think calling Germans punctual and French people direct is xenophobic as well?
It’s that players get rewarded for it + don’t get calls without it. So it pushes / incentives them to do it.
Needs a structural fix
Maybe he’ll go to Draymond’s therapist
Draymond’s been quiet all season so maybe it’d help lol
Narcissistic personality disorder - when reality doesn’t conform to his expectations, everything in the world is wrong, not him.
Free throws are the most efficient shot in the game. This isnt any more complicated that Luka trying to get a competitive advantage.
SGA gets the most free throws? I don’t personally like him but I also don’t see him cry and beg and whine after every tiny piece of contact. Luka is my fave player and it’s okay to call out shitty behaviour, let’s not justify it okay? 👍🏻
I don’t even see it anymore lol. Until somebody mentions it you’re just kinda used to seeing it.
We are practically there.
The foulbaiting itself, sure. The incessant complaining post-foul baiting is, while maybe not 100% exclusive to him, very much is a Luka problem.
Luka even gets a bit of a pass for doing it because he is a superstar.
And Jokic
No we’re not. Look at how he literally turns to the ref and jaws at him. That level of complaining is a huge outlier. Luka does it more demonstrably than any other player and also does it more than anyone else.
Luka both complains more and foulbaits more than anyone else.
The only reason SGA has become the face of foul baiting is because it would feel mean to give Luka both titles, and since his whining is further from the mean than his foul baiting, he gets that label instead.
He should have both.
As a warriors fan, Draymond would like a word.
nahhh. Trae draws plenty of fouls with his own baity technique but he doesn’t whine to the refs
And yet they continue to enable him
This is why I can’t watch the Lakers. He’s too big of a complainer.
Whether Shai is baiting for contact he not, he never complains to the refs during play (and rarely during a dead ball).
Never underestood why he gets SO much more hate than luka
You know why, not even a Shai fan but its so frustrating he gets all the hate and luka gets none.
If they took stopped the offensive player initiating contacting and throwing a half assed shot luka would average 25 ppg.
Ehhh, I wouldn’t quite say Luka gets NO hate. But, I do agree that Shai gets disproportional hate. He never really complains when he doesn’t get the call and he doesn’t actually let whether or not he gets foul calls visible affect his defensive intensity or effort. (Like Luka) There are many other nba stars that have existed that have been as much as a free throw merchant as he is that also regularly flopped. D-Wade, Kobe are a couple of examples and nobody really screamed at their high free throw averages in their prime like this. Its more so crazy in this era to me when pretty much every star will do the things Shai do and most would actually complain and get upset at the refs when they don’t call in the stars favor.
Like fair enough you dislike flopping and point out Shai does it, but you have many other worse players that act more annoying on the court doing the same thing yet Shai absorbs most of that sort of hate. Its perplexing lol.
Maybe because you are delusional
If you’re trying to say Shai complains as much as Luka it’s not even worth the conversation, you clearly don’t watch games you just hang out in nbatalk
They used to give technicals for complaining but I guess they decided to move away from that
I got to see him play live. Luka will chirp at everyone especially the refs, and seemingly on every possession. The TV won’t capture most of it
They should call a foul on him everytime he does it. It looks bad. It looks bad when receivers do it in the nfl as well
Ill never forget seeing him for the first time in person. He was on the bench upset about something and he raised on his water bottle and thought about throwing it for a while. Then he decided not to. Kudos for not throwing it, but the almost tantrum definitely left and impression
i watch like 90% less than 10-15yrs ago cause the league is just a free throw contest league. it’s pathetic.
Make it a foul like flopping.
there needs to be a another punishment other than techs. like obviously refs arent gonna trying to throw him outta the game but shit needs to stop.
They can create a new category of tech like they did with flopping.
Alternatively, they could remove the rule that says you’re ejected after 2 techs, and just make the penalty the free points in the other direction. We’ve definitely reached a point in the league where refs take the ejection into consideration when calling techs, and once a guy has one it takes something really egregious to call the second. And at that point the tail is wagging the dog. Techs should be called without concern for ejections, with something else (ref judgement?) responsible for ejections.
Would be easier to call the offensive foul to solve this problem. Lunging into a defender and flailing about to make contact should not be good strategy.
Yeah say what you want about SGA but he doesn’t bitch to the refs if he doesnt get a call. Luka is just in their face constantly, its so annoying to watch
I used to watch the game religiously, for about 20 years. In the last 10 I have watched in spurts trying to get back into it and it’s just boring as shit to me and not fun to watch most of the time. I still watch, but nothing like I used to.
What do you mean? Doesn’t everyone do this already?
Foul baiting and flopping is common but nobody complains to the refs nearly as often as Luka. And he is already going to the free throw line more then anyone else in the lg
And he is already going to the free throw line more then anyone else in the lg
Honestly that makes me think what he’s doing is working. He’s like that obnoxious child that continually asks for stuff, and the refs are the parents reinforcing that behavior by acquiescing.
Yep. Its all part of his bag.
The only player who I think is comparable as far as complaining to the refs is Caitlin Clark
lol no. He is crying to a ref after nearly every play. Not an exaggeration. Pay attention to it next time you watch a lakers game. It’s every fucking possession. It never ends. It’s made him unwatchable for me at this point. Non stop complaining on 90% of plays. I don’t know why the refs haven’t just started giving him techs and ejections until he stops.
Yax is right. There is a lot of whining.
We didn’t need Yax to tell us this before they played each other. We literally have multiple seasons worth of games to make that conclusion.
Sure, but it’s very refreshing when an active player calls it out
AND hilarious that it was a rookie after his first NBA game and was already like- That guy’s a whiny bitch.
I think i remember Jason Kidd alluding to this a while ago as well.
It’s truly 90% of his offensive plays. The guy is unwatchable at this point
It’s insane he didn’t grow outta that whiny shit, literally every play
I’m a Lakers fan and it’s really hard to get through a game
It’s on the head coach at this point. But I don’t expect JJ to ever do anything about it. It’s sad because he’s a truly great basketball player. But he’s never gonna give a shit about defense, and he’s never gonna stop complaining. Yaxel wasn’t the smartest for saying what he did cause he’s a rookie, but the dude didn’t lie. I remember watching a game last year. In the 2nd half alone, Luka left him team playing 4v5 on defense 12 times….. in one half. 12 possessions of them playing down a man. The opposing team generated 10 points on those 12 possessions. LA lost the game by like 4 or 6 points. He literally loses them games because of his complaining.
I used to see highlights of Luka and think “this dude is amazing hitting some crazy shots” and thought he might be my new favorite player. The first time I watched a full game with him complaining every possession I absolutely hated his play style
sounded like that was yaxel’s exact experience. he never followed the nba closely and just saw luka’s highlights and thought he was awesome. then he played him and saw all that whining from 5 feet away and was like wtf this dude is lame as hell. and then he said it to the press lmao
personally i’ve never liked watching him. i hate his shot selection
he’s great at hitting crazy shots
but taking crazy shots is not a good tactic because no matter how good you are you still miss a ton
he would be so much better if he stopped trying to impress people on offense and just played
if there’s more than 2s on the clock theres literally no reason to take a crazy shot
Hes a babyback bitch
Imagine how many points he’s given up by not getting back on defense and leaving his team to die in 4v5 transition
It would certainly be an interesting stat to track lol
And it clearly doesn’t work either, just wasting his breath. Dude needs to grow up already.
It works. He’s always leading in fta
Got downvoted for the last year and a half for saying exactly this. Finally. Justice
You just entered a thread after luka got embarrassed by curry so his fans hiding for the most part. Still will get downvoted for this opinion in 95% of posts luka related
Luka glazers will see their boy get fried on a skillet by Chef Curry and blame Lebron James.
Incredible highlight the worst player to watch, him and Giannis 1 and 2.
Man.. I grew up watching Rasheed Wallace Blazers would 110% be a technical foul.. I miss those Blazers.
His incessant whining and mugging is intolerable.
They need to have an intervention Like seriously stop being a whiny little bitch and just play basketball. And I actually like Luka I’m from Dallas. But its so bad
If Lebron couldnt change him who could?
Why would Lebron change him? He complains after nearly every play just like Luka
I think it’s just a Europe thing. Too much soccer. Idk
Lebron is a crybaby too. It’s an epidemic. Foul baiting and then acting like you got shot and then scream at the ref
Can you imagine if they called a tech. Escort him to the review monitor and watch it and be like bro his hands are behind his back
He truly is the Overwatchiest of Overwatch players
i love luka but anyone still thinking the whining thing is narrative and not fact is just operating with crazy blinders on.
at this point luka is old enough that i don’t think this is going to change in him
He’s always been a whiny joyless Mfer
I mean, it’s not like we all suddenly realized it when Yax was talking about Luka.
I support Yax!
Yax has been in league for like a week and I already like him more than Luka.
New GSW slogan for the season just dropped “Yax is right”
I’m in the minority of minorities but I think that statement that he’s gonna be more like James Harden and get close to the Championship but never have it is actually on the mark.
His weaknesses are defense, conditioning (gassed Luka is a common problem) and his whiny ass nature. Even in this play he could’ve played on and focused on getting into a better position in case of a rebound, instead of staring and mean-mugging the referees.
If he wins a Championship, feel free to dig up this post and laugh at me all day long. Until then, I stand by that Harden statement made in that other thread.
Podz swiped down y’all blind as hell.
We’ve known that for many years.
Luka has his hands up like that 50% of the game
out of context this makes him sound like a savvy high-effort defender
This comment is gold lmao
Luka & Nick Nurse combo would actually break the sport
I wonder what made Luka such a complainer in general.
I’ve heard him claim he’s trying not to complain as much but I don’t see evidence of it.
He seems to be complaining as much as in the past.
He’s been such a high level competitor from such a young age that I’m sure he feels slighted whenever he doesn’t get a call. Kinda in a narcissistic way, which is also why he shit talks so much (I actually do like Luka btw). Getting the foul call is also a big part of his game, so he already has an overemphasized relationship with the refs in a game.
His Real Madrid upbringing, probably.
hes a gamer
This is a legit answer
He’s a baller
Sometimes he gets those calls, so he thinks ‘that was a foul last time what the hell changed’ instead of, ‘wow I should not be getting a foul call for that’
How are you accessing his internal dialogue
We’re friends
They say peopel stay the age they became famous at
Luka’s been famous since being a teen
And he is getting the calls. So, why not?
Call or no call. It’s so great watch Luka bitch to the refs during live action. His team shooting. No court awareness no running after the rebound. And still complaining instead of running back on defense. Classic mvp stuff right there.
I usually hate “unwritten rules” bullshit in sports but I hope this is a reason people hold out against his MVP case.
People continue to act dumb on why it happened, but this is the exact shit that got this guy shipped out of Dallas. He hasn’t changed.
Also I might lose my mind if I keep seeing this guy twirling his fucking finger in JJ Redick’s face after every single call against him.
What is this revisionist history. The move from the Mavs was so bad the whole city erupted and the gm got shit canned right after while stating its cuz his fitness. You camt just put whatever narrative you want on Luka and say thats why he got traded
Lakers lost, so it’s this again. This will happen after every loss
It’s not just that, you can see it all over this sub and internet at large. People are shamelessly spewing whatever bullshit they can come up with to fit the current narrative/circlejerk within their bubbles, and actively build whole headcanon lore together, giving one another a bit of attention and gratification they so crave. We’re truly living in a post-truth era.
classic r/nba
Revisionist history? Read any reporting about why Nico traded Luka man.
You can disagree with the decision to trade him (or the return), but they were telling anyone who would listen all the reasons why they got fed up with him.
Literally show me a single quote of Nico saying complining at refs is why Luka got traded. I cannot believe people are defending that trade now
Yet mavs traded him anyway. Imagine the conversations they had about his fitness, defense, bitching at refs instead of getting back, techs. So they knew the mavs world was going to be a disaster post trade yet they did it anyway.
Exactly. It’s terrible to watch. Not just for fans of the opposing team but nba fans in general, Should be against all this. Bitching baiting. Flopping. Get rid of all of it.
yaaa ur not very smart lol
“Doncic touches earth”. Lives on forever.
Dude has been an unwatchable prick for years now. He will never change. He’ll put up 35 points on 84 arm flails.
Realest shit ever, how is he not the face of flopping
SGA wins more and thus gets more attention
no fucking way you think thats true lmao this is hilarious, sga is a hidden media darling, he is shielded from criticism. If Luka was paying as bad as SGA this season you guys would be going nuts
Brother if SGA did this it’d be at the top of this sub for days and getting 1M views on twitter. just stop. can’t believe we’re power scaling floppers in the nba sub now what happened to the game i love
He’s the face of whining to refs. Get it right. The face of flopping is SGA by a mile, with Embid trailing.
How does bumson seem to escape these little lists? Especially after one of the worst flops in nba history last night against vj?
Oh believe me, we are keeping count of Bumson too, he is right below SGA, Luka on that list, right next to Embid lol.
Luka should be the face of both whining and flopping
Luka’s flopping is league average at best.
People on this sub get really angry whenever your bring it up but we know why…
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1oesqf8/highlights_all_the_15_fouls_shai/
You can blame it on race car pilots, but if you watched him play you’d see SGA has no shame and is willing to start the game jumping into defenders for the foul. He does that from start to finish. Luka is closer to Brunson than to Shai as a master baiter.
Tbh, his flopping isn’t successful. He largely imploded in the finals because of it. IMO SGH has done it much more successfully
He’s the face of crying to the refs, Shai is the face of flopping.
Luka maybe doesn’t ‘flop’ in quite the same literal sense but he absolutely foul baits as much if not more than Shai imo. Could be wrong but that’s my genuine impression when I watch both play
Agreed
Hes the king of initiating contact and throwing up a half assed shot for fts.
hes not really a flopper like SGA is, he just bitches constantly
FTA is even worse
He literally is. Him embiid SGA and Brunson
Brunson toned down his antics a lot since a couple of years ago. People still say this shit because they don’t actually watch the games
And then he gasses out in the second half
arm frails lmao
Here’s what’s funny. Brunson shamelessly foul baits on national television in prime time games all the time. Constantly. You don’t care because you’re a Knicks fan. What’s interesting though is that nobody else cares either.
Luka is the most annoying player to watch in the league, he complains on nearly every play he’s involved in. It’s exhausting
Only games i refuse to watch is when we play the lakers, just makes me angry wether we win or not.
Agreed, like five years ago he said on JJ’s pod he has to cut it out, but it’s only gotten worse.
This is Josh Hart for me.
Can’t defend you for this, Luka 😭
Wtf is that 😭
he is slapped on the wrist by podz, as he is jumping. you could argue whether it’s before the shot or not but it looks like he definitely gets him there, complaining aside.
He’s supposed to have room to land.
Are you fucking kidding me
Let it go brother he’s gotta be a child 😭😭
His feet literally don’t move from where they’re at when Luka elevates, what are you talking about lol
Just cause Luka jumps into him doesn’t mean Podz has to move, what are we even talking about
Maybe if he wasnt a lard bucket and didnt jump forward into the contact he would have room to land.😅
Podz does a sneaky lil shuffle at the end to close the gap. Not saying it was a foul, just that I’d probably also be complaining.
edit: can’t quite make it out, but he might not be shuffling at all and just shifting all his weight to the front through his hips and feet. Good D
Setting his feet to take contact like a charge.
It’s 2026 and the NBA still allows blatant foul baiting like this. No wonder fans are quickly being put off by watching games these days.
If the league has flopping rules, then I really think they need to include this type of move as well. It’s such bullshit that a shooter can intentionally jump into someone that’s trying to defend them.
Last nights Raptors game against the Magic was the most terrible officiated game I had to turn it off
To be fair the jumping into the defender was to keep them honest so they can’t play as aggressively and have to choose how to react carefully on pump fakes.But this is just straight up abusing the rules just like with what they’ve done with the gather step.
This being a no call is good but they should start going a step further and try to get rid of the excessive crying by giving complainers a team foul and 1 FT. So we incentivize this to end.
And you watch the Raptors game and Scottie gets no calls. All we ever ask for is a little consistency.
I mean yes but this play should be a no call. Let the offensive player clown himself and don’t bail him out.
But he sweeps his arms. It’s a foul.
I mean, he “hides his hands” after swiping down at the start of Luka’s shot. Luka’s definitely a whiner, but this isn’t the most egregious example by a long shot.
Yeah. My first thought was “why did Pods put his hands down like that”, seems like a reaction to knowing he just committed a foul lol
If you watched the game, Podz did this a bunch because Luka kept baiting the foul without really trying to make the shot. Since it wasn’t a genuine shot attempt, it was better to just super clearly not foul him and let Luka whiff it.
It looks like he made a play at the ball, missed, and instead of continuing it dropped his hands knowing Luka would try to get a foul off it
This is so obvious but most people are just commenting based on the title alone. Yeah he complains a lot but this is a poor example the way it’s phrased
Big nothing burger. Likely got fouled and he ended up running back on defense anyways. This isn’t even top twenty most egregious foul baiting into complain to ref sequence by Luka.
Ah yes, took awhile to find the sensible take…sadly it typically does lol.
This video and title are just stupid, but Luka really has to stop whining
Nah it’s luka, he cried for no reason!
he swiped down as Luka took an unnatural shot to try and foul bait. Embarrassing from Luka . Nothin else to see here
Yeah I think the foul complaint was for the swipe on his arm at the start of the shot. But then he decides to just jump forward into a stationary defender. Good way to get the ref to swallow their whistle.
He’s also complaint that podz is in his landing space.
Yax was right about everything
Podz Save America
Dog Luka will never live down the cry baby comparisons
Put his hands away after swiping down on Luka’s wrist. I’m against flopping but does no one else see him swipe?
Dude I’m super confused about the apparent narrative here, he puts his hands behind his back like some shit where a kid was about to get caught by mom and dad after hitting their younger sibling. I get it that Luka complains but people gotta pick different battles because there are way better examples of him complaining for no reason.
Yeah if you slow it down you can really clearly see he hits his wrist on the way up. I am the biggest hater of Luka whining but this is not the clip for it.
this has already been posted and it’s obvious that Podz swipes down and makes contact before putting his hands behind his back
The other thing I assume Luka would be complaining about, would be Podz not giving him room to land properly. But Luka is kind of jumping towards him, and fishing for the foul.
Either way the constant complaining does get tiring, I’m sure the refs aren’t just going to give him the benefit of the doubt everytime.
He doesn’t need to give him landing room if he’s just standing there.
not defending the complaining. shit is annoying and makes the game unwatchable.
but posting this clip with that title is just trying to farm points without actually watching
Even the “contact” is just Luka trying to do a rip through type move though. His natural shooting motion doesn’t include sticking the ball straight out at the defender before rising up into a jump shot lol. I like Luka but this was just a double foul-bating combo move that didn’t work out for him.
Podz didn’t jump to contest the shot. Room to land doesn’t apply in this case.
I feel like those landing space fouls get called more often when the defender is closing in trying to nlock the shot. In this case Podz barely moves, has his stance set already before Luka shoots. Defender is entitled to his space on the floor as long as its in a legal guarding position.
Yeah, I’m like, am I watching the same video as everyone else? I am a Luka-hating Warriors fan but Podz swipes down as Luka’s starting his shooting motion, clear as day.
There are a million examples of Luka bitching about BS no-calls, why are we pretending this is one of them?
am I watching the same video as everyone else?
That’s your problem right there. No one is watching anything they’re just jumping at the ragebait title.
Yeah people in here are blind emotional fools looking to jump at anything. Podz clearly swiped him and Luca tried to bait a foul off the swipe and immediately jumps into a bad shot thinking the refs saw the contact. Luka and frankly almost every star player whine constantly, the fans just a bunch of in the moment whiney bitches, while all the players laughing and hugging each other after
Luka complains a lot. We shouldn’t need to frame something like it’s not to further that narrative
yeah trust me I’m not a fan of how much Luka complains. it can make games unwatchable.
but juding by Podz’s own reaction, he got away with a foul
What upsets coaching staffs more than simply playing for a call is completely giving up on plays to bitch at officials
He flops more than anyone else and you guys love him for it
What I really love is when people tell me what I love. Makes it so much easier than using my brain, thanks
I love to hop on a hate train when deserved but it’s wild that people are ignoring the swipe contact across lukas arm.
Even if he didn’t make contact, the title of this post is still one of the stupidest and most inaccurate I’ve ever read on this sub for a highlight that wasn’t deleted by the mods.
He’s playing normal, handsy defense during the play, then blatantly swipes down during the shot, and only puts his hands down afterwards like a guilty child after sneaking a cookie from the jar.
Pathetic hate mongering.
Makes contact with either the ball or his hand, which isn’t a foul. Maybe if Luka cared about shooting the ball instead of trying to look like he got fouled he could’ve hit the rim
Yall are delusional. If he hit the ball or hand he would’ve knocked it loose. It seems very obvious he swiped his arm before putting them behind his back
Ok but he hid his hands so obviously it’s not a foul.
It was his forearm lol
Did you get a better angle of it? Because you cant definitively say that from this.
Also a classic tale by defenders to hide their hands after committing a foul.
i think he was more so complaining about not having space to land his feet but i mean how else can you contest without getting that close ?
Luka created that situation by jumping into Podz to draw a foul in the first place.
Yeah NBA just needs to say no foul when there is an unnatural shooting motion, not that hard.
I don’t care that the officiating might be slightly less consistent, the less of this crap that is allowed the better
Luka is complaining about it all. Everything. Every play.
Should be obvious but not to the idiots on here
Obvious that he’s coming up with new bs ways to do a rip through. This play unfortunately is a foul by todays rules and really thats what people are mad about. A big part of the celebration here is the ref refusing to blow a whistle for this nonsense
Its like the refs never missed foul calls be fore. /s
There have been shit calls that have benefited Luka before and there have been shit calls where he hasn’t. This shit will not stop anytime soon. I personally think that Luka has gotten the better end of the deal through his career. Move on. Just one loss
He tried to deflect, Luka saw his hands out of position and attempted to draw a foul, Podz saw it coming (because it’s Luka) so it didn’t work
He SLAPPED him then hid hands behind back and looked at ref if he saw the slap.
No he didn’t, and even if he did that doesn’t make it less of a flop, other players got lynched for less
Lmao right?
I don’t like Luka and who knows is Podz even touched him, but he clearly swiped down lol
Yeah but Luka’s a bitch so it’s ok
He also has to be upset that his landing space was crowded like that tbh. He jumped forward a smidge taking the jumper, but Podz is entirely under him when he lands.
Podz didn’t move forward after he jumped though. You’re not entitled to the defender moving backwards away from you if you jump into them
Podz had already fouled him, and Luka’s momentum carried him in to Podz. It’s not like he flung himself at Podz or anything. The onus to clear space for a shooter to land is on the defender.
What? A defender does not have to move their feet if they aren’t even moving in the first place.
I can’t see well enough on the swipe down to agree or disagree on the “already fouled him” part. He certainly might have but I don’t know.
But Podz stood still, you can’t reward jumping into stationary defenders with land space fouls.
Doesn’t Podz tie the game with a 3 right after this?
I mean…does Podz not swipe down? He clearly does. You can’t tell from this if he makes any contact.
Luka also pushes out his arms in an unnatural shooting motion to draw that swipe. I’m not saying it’s not a foul, but Luka is equally guilty of baiting.
Yes literally everybody does this. That’s just how the league works. There is not a single superstar for whom such shots dont exist
Is that supposed to mean I should take them seriously when they do it? Lol, I’ll pass on all of it
I’m pretty sure he does. Luka gets fouled a lot. This post is so dumb. Yeah Luka complains a lot, but just putting his hands behind doesn’t suddenly erase the sweep right before. Actually, I’m pretty sure that’s why he puts his hands behind, because he knows he touched him and is acting like he didn’t.
Most of the time when defenders pur their hands behind, it’s because they fouled someone.
This sub foaming at the mouth to bitch about Luka has entered weird territory starting from last season. People in here calling him a miserable fucking prick off this it’s genuinely not that serious
Do people think swiping is illegal? If there’s no illegal contact you can do that shit all day.
We need make a separate sub where Lakers and Warriors fans can post all this dumb shit and just bicker amongst themselves
I know youre probably joking but that sounds like a fantastic idea😹
It actually is. We all have our own subreddit and rivalry teams aren’t allowed to come talk shit there.
Make a Spurs vs OKC subreddit. Make a Lakers vs Warriors sub. Celtics vs Sixers.
That could be great
Moderating a rivalry subreddit would be time consuming… lol
I mean isn’t that the meme subs? They’re just not used that much
Dude seriously the two most insufferable fanbases lol
Luka still has plenty of stans frim Dallas
I’m in!
How shai gets more hate and Luka flys by unscathed will always baffle me
While commenting on a post talking about how Luka is whining. People have been talking about his complaining for years.
Both suck! (And not skill wise)
Yes but people bring up free throws with shai unprovoked in situations that have nothing to do with him half the time. When Luka shoots more fts, drives less, and complains constantly.
i feel like i see luka’s free throws brought up pretty often too, at least on reddit.
Like how he’s being brought up right now? lol.
Its because Shai is a better flopper than Luka.
Exactly. Luka puts in the work to get those fts.
This like the first time. He BEEN LIKE THIS FOR YEARS
“Luka has become one of the biggest whiners in the NBA. It’s constant, every time he drives he is whining. He spent so much energy whining to the referees and slumping his shoulders to teammates, it sucked the life of the team many times” - Zach Lowe, 2021
Excuse me did you forget where you are commenting on this
They both earn it.
You think no one complains about Luka whining to the refs?
Luka gets plenty of hate but he also isn’t as threatening as SGA because he isn’t typically on a contending team. Also I think Luka is more entertaining than SGA as a personality so that might be part of it.
That makes sense
Also imo whining is annoying but flopping is just weak
I think it’s because the same move shai uses to get open he also uses to foul bait (the push off) it’s so annoying when one possession he uses it to get separation and the next he’s flying into the first row on contact he created
Luka does not fly by unscathed. People hate his ass but he’s more shielded because he’s on the Lakers who have tons of fans and tons of “fans.”
But I also personally know multiple Lakers fans who either stopped watching games or even started rooting for their backup team because they find Luka completely unwatchable
bigger market team
People are talking about it af this very moment lol
Mf did you see the video ? Fucking bots everywhere
You’re literally commenting on a Luka hate post smh 🤦
People shit on Luka for flopping (and bitching) all the time. Shai gets more hate for it because he’s winning MVP awards while doing it.
??? People crying about Luka nonstop on here
The flopping isn’t as egregious, the whining is moreso. One gets wins and is frustrating because of it. And Shai had the history of it. Plenty of shai flopping videos on YouTube but it’s hard to find a luka one. Whining gets luka a tech sometimes, Shai flopping gets him free throws.
He doesnt even flop he just foul baits which is why Shai gets all the hate. Since year 2 Luka’s career Ive been yelling at the screen telling him to stop crying and get on defense
Luka flops like a fish just like Shai does
Luka gets hated on a lot for constantly whining.
Because SGA has won 2 MVPs and a Championship doing it and people love to hate on winners. Luka is starting to look like he’s gonna have a James Harden career and be an amazing player that never wins because he’s too heliocentric and plays no defense. Just like Harden.
SGA actually won stuff, it comes with the territory
It’s actually insane
His complaining hurts his own team, Thunder flopping hurts basketball.
Unscathed? Are you living under a rock? Luka is 1000x more hated than SGA
SGA is more successful that’s why
shai was getting away with it constantly deep into playoffs, thats why his went more viral
when I cared about SGA flopping it was a jokic vs sga thing
Luka unscathed? Have you been living under a rock. Luka’s approval rating since joining the Lakers has absolutely tanked…unsurprisingly lol
Because Luka plays for the Lakers. That’s it.
what do you think this post is, if not Luka hate?
I would say shai success is what brings him more hate, it was a point where it was in reverse. After winning the finals and back to back mvps that’s when his hate started.
Classy
Because SGA is already an MVP and a champion.
Luka is still treated as an underdog.
You ever saw the Peter Griffin skin color palette?
because SGA won a ring doing it
literally receiving hate here rn ??
They’re both incredible but obnoxious players sometimes
Give me Ant’s and Tatum’s ethical game over this bs
maybe if you had any brains, you would come to the conclusion that SGA gets the calls and does not need to complain, since HE GETS THE CALLS!!!!!!!! this clip here,, sga would also go to the line and shoot 3 ft cause he would get the call. see the difference?
I think luka is 100% half a player and ill never win a championship because of his playstyle
I personally think Luka and bumson are worse watches than shai
I’ve gotten so used to Brunson I’ve gotten desensitized. He does it pretty often too. I think he’s a bit sneakier with his
Luka does this all game, every game and when people call him out, he tries to rub THEIR nose in it? What a wild fucking league.