Watching OKC vs Spurs game 7 made me realize one thing:
I’ve seen Wemby try to flop for more contact than I’ve seen the entire OKC team.
But we don’t usually hear about do we? 🤔
After seeing clips of OKC chanting Flopper at Wemby, I am now 100% convinced they turn down the crowd noise for OKC and not for SAS. You could barely hear it on the broadcast but every other video loud asf. Just another way their bias for SAS smh.
This would appear to be a clear attempt at impacting the star player by accelerating and adding an extra layer of collision which could've easily led to an injury. So there's no place for this kind of thing.
How is this any different than Ajay Mitchell’s flagrant foul on Castle in Game 3? Not even a basketball play. Just a straight-up dangerous shove on Williams. Yet you don’t see the same outrage or consequences
Free throw disparity per game.
Game 1: Spurs +10 (Spurs win)
Game 2: OKC +7 (OKC win)
Game 3: even (OKC win)
Game 4: Spurs +14 (Spurs win)
Spurs have a +17 disparity through 4 games and had a double digit advantage in both wins.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has played 35 playoff games over the last 2 seasons, shooting 334 FT attempts in that span.
His 334 attempts RANK OUTSIDE THE TOP 1,000 for most FT Attempts in any 35 game playoff span in NBA History.
The Free throw merchant narrative is LAZY and FALSE.
Free throw battle
Lakers: 15-20
Austin Reaves: 6-8
Thunder: 7-8
No idea how podcasts, social media and First Things First are going to fill their content space the next 2 days.