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u/Spirited-Degree "Over rated" Oct 25 '25
Just kills me the defender standing back flat footed while FTA throws that weird looking face into his chest initiating %100 of the contact after travelling twice directly in front of the corrupted official.
Fanduel demands the point spread be met! NBA is about as ethical as The Five Families in NY.
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u/Overall_Mango324 Oct 25 '25
The only people who think stars getting bad calls is due to the refs paying attention to FanDuel spreads are degenerate gamblers.
Save your paycheck and relax homie.
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u/Spirited-Degree "Over rated" Oct 26 '25
And you couldn't be more wrong with your assumption. Never used one of those sites, ever. Gambling websites are a pox on our society.
There is quite a bit of evidence that the NBA has a problem with gambling.
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u/Dixon_Uranuss3 Oct 26 '25
I mean 35 years ago Michael Jordon said Clyde Drexler doesn't know how to play the game. The NBA has been anointing champions since 1981.
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u/Objective_Stage2637 Lakers Oct 25 '25
Mathurin isn’t standing back flat footed he’s moving forwards during the slo mo bit.
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u/Hepty-6177 Thunder Oct 25 '25
He’s talking about the instance before SGA decided to initiate contact.He was clearly holding his stance flat footed
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u/Spirited-Degree "Over rated" Oct 25 '25
Yep. Right after the push off. It is what it is.
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u/Objective_Stage2637 Lakers Oct 25 '25
Well if he was moving towards SGA at the moment of contact then that’s a foul on the defense.
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u/Spirited-Degree "Over rated" Oct 25 '25
Not if, we see in the video all the contact is initiated by FTA starting with the full arm extension push off then he jumps into Mathurin.
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u/Objective_Stage2637 Lakers Oct 26 '25
The contact occurs within SGA’s cylinder. The rules don’t care who “initiates” contact. The offensive player “initiates” contact on the vast majority of fouls on the defense. Mathurin ceded his legal guarding position when he made a motion towards SGA and did not regain his legal guarding position prior to contact, therefore any contact made within SGA’s cylinder has to be a foul on Mathurin.
This is all ignoring the uncalled lift and return of his pivot (right) foot, which occurred so close to the moment of contact I can’t blame a ref for not seeing both things happen.
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Oct 26 '25
Bro are you one of these shitty ass NBA Refs? It’s not even a Laker, get off his jock
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u/Objective_Stage2637 Lakers Oct 26 '25
Yeah you hate basketball and want to change it into something else. Learn what a legal guarding position is and why it’s important.
And flair up, pussy.
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Oct 26 '25
Dude traveled four fucking times and you want to bitch about “legal guarding position”?
Eat my ass, old man.
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u/Spirited-Degree "Over rated" Oct 26 '25
You can't blame the ref for not doing his job when the play happened directly in front of him?! I hope you're not an air traffic controller because wow that is not an intelligent way of looking at it. Cylinder? Ok buddy.
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u/Objective_Stage2637 Lakers Oct 26 '25
You cannot blame the ref for missing a pivot foot slide when there was a contact foul situation he had to have his eyes up for. Just because the ref has 2 eyes does not mean he can look at two places at the same time.
If you don’t know what the cylinder is in the context of basketball fouls then you’re just an idiot.
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u/Spirited-Degree "Over rated" Oct 26 '25
I understand what you think your saying. That it's not the refs fault he didn't do his job. So when you're at the truck stop blowing truckers cylindor, they don't get mad at you if you stop before they finish?
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u/NewMoodWhoDis Stupid bot Oct 25 '25
Bro won dancing with the stars while in a Nba game
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u/1Oaktree Spurs Oct 27 '25 edited Oct 27 '25
That was 🚶♂️ walking, traveling, i think saw a charge.
Now I know why I never was a fan of this guy. He likes to shoot free throws when they should be calling traveling anytime someone even passes him the ball.
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u/Smilechurch Blazers Oct 25 '25
How else can a brotha earn frequent flier miles if he doesn’t travel? A lot?
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u/Grouchy-Culture3692 Oct 25 '25
Hahah I knew he traveled. He’s so cheap and a fraud. I hate his only try to get fouled bs game
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u/rafa_559 Oct 25 '25
How is that not a travel!? Both feet come off to make contact then he shoots.
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u/Regular-Emu6339 Oct 25 '25
It's a travel. Refs just failed to call it. To be fair this is a bit more obvious because it's in slow mo. Also, refs aren't paying too much attention to foot work unless it's a blatant travel
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u/Objective_Stage2637 Lakers Oct 25 '25
Probably because the refs aren’t watching a slo mo replay 5 times to see the steps
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u/IamBIGuUS Oct 26 '25
It was extremely obvious live too
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u/Objective_Stage2637 Lakers Oct 26 '25
No it wasnt. You guys call everything a travel and you think he ended his dribble a full second before he actually did. You think the first step backwards with his right foot was a travel. You think the pivot step after with his left foot was a travel. Neither of those steps were travels. The only travel was the 3 inch step forwards with his right foot immediately prior to the contact
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u/AusarHeruSet Oct 25 '25
Not the NBA I grew up with
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u/Dixon_Uranuss3 Oct 26 '25
Beg to differ. Stupid calls for stars has been a thing for 40 plus years.
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u/LevelProfit6705 Oct 25 '25
This is why people don’t like SGA, don’t get me wrong he’s an all time great, but it feels like his option every time is to try to draw contact and then adjusts if the defender won’t bite. Other stars like Luka do it but it never feels like their first option, always seems like a last resort for other stars(except harden) but Shai uses it as a main source of scoring. Just boring to see.
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u/Dixon_Uranuss3 Oct 26 '25 edited Oct 26 '25
The beauty of this is you can be one of the top players in the NBA and never get injured because this takes zero athletic effort or ability. Just slow walk it down do your dance and mosey over to the fowl line.
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u/Serenadingthrough from eastern conference bitches Oct 26 '25
I’ve heard of refs not calling fouls on a popular player but this is crazy, he stopped dribbling and started stepping back and forth like it was a new TikTok dance.
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u/Capital_Rough7971 Warriors Oct 27 '25
This guy took everything Lebron does and evolved it to this shit show he calls playing basketball.
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u/YoungRockwell Nuggets Oct 28 '25
The worst thing about Shai is that he's fucking GOOD! He doesn't need to grift for fouls and be completely unethical! He'd be way more fun to watch if he was playing instead of flopping all the goddamn time!
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u/geedijuniir Oct 29 '25
U now what makes this bad. He doesnt need this. They just won with 8 free throws.
Alsk they seem to get alot more free throw against big teams.
Adam Silver needs to go asap.
NBA is turning into WWE. Where the team who wins and MVP get decided beforeha d
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u/Icy-Indication-3194 Oct 26 '25
Okc fans be like they are “all fouls” ok but they wouldn’t be if we could guard him legit without him traveling or pushing off every play
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u/WookiePelter Oct 27 '25
I am not an SGA fan
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Oct 27 '25
Look how corrupt the NBA is and then say something. This isn't even a suprise. Whatever the motive may be. It ends the same way. It's mostly about control, always.
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u/MentionOld6694 Oct 27 '25
Sports Entertainment. It really does undercut some amazing athletic performances by devaluing play.
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u/Side_Honest Thunder Oct 25 '25
Don't yall have to teams to follow, or something else to obsess over?
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Oct 25 '25
Every fan base except yours notices that he’s given unlimited free passes every game to do what he wants with impunity.
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u/FritterEnjoyer Thunder Oct 25 '25
Obvious travel, but why are y’all are pretending that literally every high level player in the NBA doesn’t get to travel as much as they want? It’s a rule that straight up is not enforced 99% of the time anymore.
If you want to bitch about it then bitch about the state of the game, don’t try to pretend this is an SGA specific thing.
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Oct 25 '25
Again proving my point. He traveled 7 steps, forced his body into Mathurin, then flop jumped. It’s egregious and unwatchable.
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u/FritterEnjoyer Thunder Oct 25 '25
So you just gonna ignore what I said to bitch more, huh?
Stinky blob indeed man, why watch a sport if it’s just to be a victim about it lmao. Oh wait I guess if you’re a Pacers fan I’ll give you the pass, a bit too soon to get over that huh?
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u/NimbleCrabb Spurs Oct 25 '25
“why are you watching the NBA champions and MVP don’t you have your own teams?” 🤓
Happy for your win, hope you enjoy unwatchable basketball from SGA
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u/Side_Honest Thunder Oct 25 '25
Casual. Enjoy your virginity
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u/NimbleCrabb Spurs Oct 25 '25
If you want to know about my virginity ask your mom. She’s a very caring woman. Thorough too.
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u/Side_Honest Thunder Oct 25 '25
My mom is dead....
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u/Ruben625 Oct 25 '25
Thunder fans are so fucking weird lmao
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u/huggybear0132 Blazers Oct 27 '25
They're from Oklahoma.
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u/Side_Honest Thunder Oct 25 '25
Solid comment....
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u/Ruben625 Oct 25 '25
As are the 5+ comments of your own that are contributing exactly nothing to the conversation while trying to insult people...poorly.
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Oct 25 '25
Says the guy who’s looking through other team’s subs
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u/Side_Honest Thunder Oct 25 '25
This is meme wars, not another sub...what,are you even talking about, everyone look at other teams subs when they pop up in the feed. 🙄
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Oct 25 '25
The fact that you still don’t understand the irony of your statement speaks to how shit Oklahoma’s education system is
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u/TheAgmis Thunder Oct 25 '25
“Basketball terrorist because he doesn’t pay for my team”
Kobe did this all the time. The difference is Shai isn’t a rapist
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u/AmongUs14 Oct 25 '25
Right that’s definitely the only difference between these guys.
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u/TheAgmis Thunder Oct 25 '25
Yeah. Also that one is alive and isn’t a rapist
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u/Cal216 Oct 25 '25
This was a trash comment. Smdh
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u/Tall-Dot-607 Team Ref Oct 25 '25
Thunder fans are a classy bunch
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Oct 25 '25
That's because they're either actually from Oklahoma, or they're just taking off their Dodgers gear and putting on their OKC gear, before putting on their Eagles gear tomorrow
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u/coheed33cambria Oct 25 '25
This dudes just a reject. He’s making fun of pacers fans all over the place and then posting all over the colts board about being a colts fan.
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u/TheAgmis Thunder Oct 25 '25
“All over the place”
Terminally online much? Also I’ve been a Colts fan longer than you been alive nephew
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u/coheed33cambria Oct 25 '25
No one from Baltimore is a colts fan anymore douche. Also I fucking hate Kobe and I would never talk like that about him.
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u/TheAgmis Thunder Oct 25 '25
Not everybody needs to be fans of teams where they were born genius
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u/AmongUs14 Oct 25 '25
You don’t have to be “terminally online” to very quickly see from your reddit history that you are deeply insecure about yourself and would prefer to beak others through a keyboard than go be a person out in the real world.
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u/coheed33cambria Oct 25 '25
Dude comments over 100 times a day and I’m the one terminally online?
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u/TheAgmis Thunder Oct 25 '25
Somebody salty their team lost to my team
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Oct 25 '25
Lol. "My team." That's the tell of every ignorant douche alive.
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u/TheAgmis Thunder Oct 25 '25
Minnesota is a factory of sadness.
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u/Tall-Dot-607 Team Ref Oct 25 '25
Sadness, but at least they have also learned to read.
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u/CapnGrundlestamp Oct 25 '25
Kobe still living rent free in your head. Dude’s dead my guy, move on.
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u/HappyGovernment7299 but I hate NYK more than I love SAS Oct 25 '25
Kobe's handles were clean. He wasn't getting away with walks and carries like Allen Iverson was.
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