@TheHoopCentral Lovingly, I've gotta say this as a Lakers fan:
Luka and Reaves foul baiting/flopping: "Aww, you're sweet"
SGA foul baiting/flopping: "Hello, human resources"
@ed_kleese@AlBoogie_Sports@wicccsterr@TheHoopCentral Even this one is fair. It's light contact and the rules have become very soft, but they're still the rules and apply. People need to hate on the rules more and the players less bc the players follow the rules a lot more than the rules follow the players.
@Iwantapatek9099@AlBoogie_Sports@WestlingWCC@TheHoopCentral You're legit just fucking stupid. There's not even a different objection to raise. Your eyes and/or brain just don't work right if you look at that picture and say "see? obviously no contact".
@veloute11@AlBoogie_Sports@WestlingWCC@TheHoopCentral It's so funny, my dad was watching last night saying "why are the refs not calling so many of these fouls?" and I said it's probably bc people will already complain they're calling too much as is bc it's OKC. Aaand sure enough ๐
@YOKU_DAGOAT@AlBoogie_Sports@WestlingWCC@TheHoopCentral Unfortunately by the rulebook it isn't bc it turned his body a bit in the air. Which is why I'd get it if more people were hating on the league itself for the rules, but people are fr pretending to be blind just to hate on Shai lmao
@BeatFlippaz@Mannyx305@WestlingWCC@KindaTher3@AlBoogie_Sports@TheHoopCentral That's deadass a picture of them touching... Are you on peyote rn?
Do you notice how Shai is facing the Spurs net during the shot and facing the Thunder net after De'Aaron "moves out of his way"? He must be generating a hell of a lot of wind or static for that to be no contact.
@KindaTher3@WestlingWCC@AlBoogie_Sports@TheHoopCentral Literally what disingenuousness? They deadass touched, idk what you're seeing otherwise. He ran into SGA's leg, which twisted him in midair.
"Contact that results in the re-routing of an opponent is a foul which must be called immediately" copy/paste from the official rulebook.
@GEEZUS_69@TheHoopCentral@Neeterpeter There needs to be more of these types of comments bc I don't think it's right to blame Shai for doing the best job at following the bad rules, he's just trying to have a career. The problem is entirely with the league and rules; any player adhering to it is just doing their job.
@Tostky@TheHoopCentral Can you blame him for overselling it when 80% of people are watching this saying there wasn't even a foul? This way he gets called a flopper, but if he doesn't flop, people will legit think he's paying off refs just bc they've never read the actual rules. I say get your throws ๐คทโโ๏ธ
@SteveauxDaVinci@_Tr3ndS3tter@kevoskis@TheHoopCentral I know it's crazy, but there are ways to play defence other than walking into your opponent's airbound legs with no goal. He didn't try for a block here at all, so I'm not sure why you're talking as if he did.
@feisty_forbes@kevoskis@TheHoopCentral It's very objectively a foul and I'd sooner believe you'd read the entirety of the Bible than a single section of the NBA rule book (which I wouldn't believe, just to be clear).
@kevoskis@TheHoopCentral It isn't for no reason, it's bc they don't know how the foul system works and heard some influencer say "lol Shai flop" a few times.
To be clear, he absolutely does flop, but he also get subtly fouled like 20 times a game, so fuck it I would to if it gets my deserved call ๐คทโโ๏ธ
@TheHoopCentral "Well I just like basketball but the NBA have ruined it in the new era" okay well then it's ruined, stop supporting it ๐คทโโ๏ธ Go join a local drop-in league and play it yourself if you love it. Or watch a local minor league/college team.
@TheHoopCentral I think y'all are jokes for criticizing the athletes for playing the game as is written and gets them paid.
If you think flopping is stupid, you should be insulting yourselves instead of Shai, for watching a sport where the optimal strategy is doing something you hate.
@TheHoopCentral Like I think bullseyes are way more hype than triple 20s, but I'm not gonna go insult dart players for that when they're just trying to win the way they're shown to, I just don't fucking watch darts. It's that easy.
@TrippinWitNegus@AdamLan85313800@rvpats1212@TheHoopCentral He also just did touch him, it literally turned Shai's body in midair bc he bumped into his leg.
Ofc Shai sold it a lot, but I'm never gonna blame him for that when I scroll through these comments and see 10x ratios from people who don't understand the rules and just complain.