[Highlight] Luka receives a tech for clapping at a referee
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Bro immediately went to the ref at half.
i just don’t get why he can’t let it go, it’s just gonna sour his relationship with them more.
He needs the angst to fuel his killer instinct
It’s the european football state of mind. I’m french not slovenian but we are sadly acting like shit with referees since a young age. The cool stuff is with rugby when the ref has a mic and everybody can hear the players, that tends to chill the vibes..
Thats odd for him
He was on the ground after getting a call, turning around to bitch before seeing if his shot went in. He hasn’t closed his mouth all night
Immaculate timing after that earlier thread asking why Tatum gets a tech for clapping and Luka doesn’t and the opposite happens today
Adam Silver is a fair man
Tatum when asked, “I have no beef or animosity.”
two years ago i would have made a joke about how luka ate the beef
No beef with Luka, just some lamb chops and gravy
finally!!!
I get Lukas complaining rep but that was absolutely a delay of game on giannis
If the refs aren’t going to call the carry and 5 step travel every time Giannis attacks the basket, they’re not going to call a delay of game on him.
Say what you want but this play was clean af by him lol
Well except the delay of game
Instead of calling the delay of game on Giannis the refs would rather call a T amazing
Luke broke the rules of “if you’re happy and you know it clap your hands” by clapping when he wasn’t happy. Obvious tech
Lmao yep
How can he clap?
Definitely a reputation call here
Nah he’s been chirping especially bad even by his standards all game long.
This was a pretty blatant delay of game by giannis. You can’t catch the ball and throw it away from the opposing players who want to try to quickly inbound it.
They are fouling him constantly. What else can he do ?
Play through it? Has there ever been any game in the history of the league where every foul committed was called? Does Luka really want 40 fta and a 4 hour game every night?
That hilariously ironic coming from a Thunders fan.
Your guy pretends to have a stroke even after the defender hasn’t touched him at all. Sit this one out kid.
Yes. That way people will know they cant continuously just foul the guy.
Nah he’s been chirping at the refs all game long
So the usual?
His reputation for constantly complaining and berating refs? Sounds fair.
The Jayson Tatum special lmao what is this soft tech
They were complaining for a delay of game that the ref should’ve called since Giannis grabbed the ball
everyone is saying reputation tech but he does this dozens of times a game and doesn’t get anything
Yeah he should get one each game. Constant complaining. He gets so many „superstar“ Fouls and still complains all the time.
Exactly, he should get more of them. Then maybe he’d starting respecting the refs. Guy just yells and whines to the refs the entire game
Might be controversial but make the right calls and you’ll get respected IE not calling Giannis for an obvious delay is kinda bullshit.
Idk if you’ve ever watched Luka before but every call that doesn’t go in his favour is the wrong call in his mind.
‘Respecting the refs’ LMFAOOO if only refs weren’t so widely known across the league and from other sports fans that they’re dogshit and are very inconsistent.
I swear if you people who hate refs ever actually tried to referee a game of basketball you’d switch your opinion so fast.
Fuck the refs I rather have AI robots calling the game
Then you’d blame the AI for calling fouls on your favorite players and say it’s rigged anyway. No pleasing biased fans who think their team can do no wrong and every other team is just out there hacking and slashing.
Robots should make the calls consistent. Fouls should be fouls. The shitty part isnt fouls called on my team, the issue is its called sometimes and sometimes not
He’s been verbally abusing the refs all game. It’s deserved. He needs to fucking relax
He does that to every ref lol, surprised he doesn’t get more techs for it. Honestly good on the refs for putting up to so many players disrespecting them
It should be a tech every game until he grows up. This can’t be the leagues MVP, whining to this extent and then lobbying in week 3, boasting that his own defense “isn’t terrible now”. Like come on. This is not grown man behavior.
Jokic, Giannis, Curry, Lebron, SGA, LeBron, Shaq, Kobe, LeBron, Dirk, Nash, KG, Duncan, LeBron. Did any of them lobby this much or act like this to this extent? It’s called MVP but it’s also a popularity contest over 82 games.
i mean he’s getting mauled all game and lots of dumb calls already, probably gets to you.
He’s also been mauling all game. Dudes got a handful of defender jersey and is yanking and shoving them every time up the court
And that from a man who doesn’t play D, the average pundit would say
Correct, because he’s doing it to his defender while he’s on offense… He hasn’t done shit all on defense😂
You absolutely can have it both ways he could simply not berate referees on every single call
That’s just how he plays, it’s not new. If JJ tells him to watch it, it detracts his focus from the game. A tech is worth a completely dialled in Luka
I bet you give Draymond Green the same grace.
that’s tatums move tf
If Luka was watching Celtics games he would know not to do that
Ref saw the other ref let Tatum get away with a clap tech-free and couldn’t let it stand.
Huge fan of Luka but damn its been constant bitching from him all night long
Does he acts like this all the time? Genuinely asking.
Yes, it’s been like this most of his career. In Dallas he would take whole defensive possessions off to moan at the refs to the point where Jason Kidd got asked semi-regularly about how they were addressing it.
As good as he is, this is really annoying to watch. I haven’t seen anyone else in the NBA do this that much.
Yeah it’s been a bad game even by Luka standards
I thought you were being serious for a second
He’s entered the Rasheed Wallace zone.
All the Lakers fans complaining as if this wasn’t inevitable. Dude’s always in a ref’s face. He should get a tech just off his history of tip-toeing that line constantly, and it’s a surprise he doesn’t have way more.
Typically I’d say refs need to stop affecting the game with techs, but at a certain point players can’t just do whatever tf they want.
What if next-level Luka is non-complaining Luka?
That’s literally impossible for him
Luka gets away with way worse. This is just the universe correcting itself.
It’s a cumulative tech. He won’t stop yapping at the officials.
That’s not even a thing 😭
It’s literally in the rules: “Running tirades, continuous criticism or griping may be sufficient cause to assess a technical.”
https://official.nba.com/rule-no-12-fouls-and-penalties/#conduct
Of course it is lmao. Do you watch basketball?
This is the NBA subreddit. Of course they don’t.
I’ve seen refs say something’s along the lines of, “quit that” or “one more time..”. They give warnings and then they get fed up
I could hear the refs saying it during some free throws on the broadcast
Doesn’t it ever get exhausting?
Dude was crying non stop for 5 minutes straight and that’s what they T up? lol
Reputation tech
Jayson Tatum nodding approvingly
Luka has really turned Hollywood lmao
The league is too damn soft
He had this one coming tbh. Been going at the refs a lot tonight
Jesus Christ such a weak tech, he’s not like that violent thug Tatum from the murder capital of the world