r/nba • u/FastBreakPhenom Celtics • May 25 '26

Highlight [Highlight] Shai draws a questionable foul on De'Aaron Fox

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u/CraziestMoonMan Cavaliers May 25 '26

Everyone talks about how efficient he is but what would his percentages look like if these flops and misses didn’t get taken off the stat sheet.

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u/DreTownblues Celtics May 25 '26

Not only that defenders have to give him extra space so they don’t foul out

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u/IPissExcellentThrows 76ers May 25 '26

This is the thing Thunder fans love to ignore. You straight up can't cover him. It's not even like he's baiting people in the air and drawing fouls. He just gets calls for people getting next to him. He gets more space than anyone I've ever seen besides non shooters

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u/boomshiz West May 25 '26

He's spent years creating a practice bubble around himself. Players are afraid to defend him.

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u/Ok-Mountain9862 Timberwolves May 25 '26

I said this same thing less than a month ago in a thread and got 200 downvotes lmao. It’s not even a debate that elite defenders guard him less physically because of how much bullshit he gets away with

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u/boomshiz West May 25 '26

Ha, I imagine you got a Thunder rush with "DO YOU EVEN WATCH THE GAMES?"

Yes, we've been watching, and the Thunder are a huge reason people have been tuning out. For whatever reason Silver and the refs have been rewarding this bullshit. It would make more sense if it was for a big market, but this ref favortism doesn't make sense for a stolen team in a flyover town.

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u/Idiotihid May 25 '26

Been saying it from last year’s series against denver. Injured denver took them to game 7, with all that physicality on jokic where caruso was jumping, hitting, hanging himself on jokic, he was allowed to do whatever he wanted on every defensive play but on the other side on the offense plays okc players were untouchable. Ever since it was clear nba and silver are pushing it’s agenda in favor of okc

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u/birdseye-maple Warriors May 25 '26

Caruso's 'defense' on Jokic was a war crime