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@BarstoolBigCat The worst part is if Wemby is on towns in the paint instead of guarding 30ft out og probably doesn’t even get the rebound

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People mad because of the way the media portrayed Okc but now we see Wemby is dirty. It’s great for the nba though. Unfortunately Wemby needs to grow up in order for the spurs to win.

Side note to all this, on the last play how many other teams would have their 7’5 center guarding the point guard 30ft from the basket? If he misses that and Wemby is on towns 99% chance OG doesn’t get the chance to tip that in. Wild coaching decisions

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@AdamSchefter If only their 7’5 big man was in the paint boxing out instead of guarding the 3 they probably get that rebound

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@Devthagoatxx lol the spurs are the most unlikeable team in the NBA. The Knicks proving that right now. Wemby is a clown and needs to mature before you guys can win it.

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I mean that’s not his entire argument so what a dumb post. He literally talks about how no primary ball handler gets to the midrange and takes more shots from their other than Shai and how that landing zone for shooters has always been officiated than the 3 point line which Shai doesn’t use as much as every other PG or SG which his same usage.

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@mattderron @Gobbledub @The_Uncontested lol you don’t know ball, sit this one out.

[Clemente Almanza @CAlmanza1007]

Probably the best moment from what Sam Presti said today. Went scorched earth on all of the SGA narratives that have been bubbling up over the years:

Of all the things that I've talked to Shai about, this is actually one I've never talked to him about. He's probably going to kill me for talking about this, truthfully.

First of all, let me just start with the opposing coaches for one second. The post-game press conference has turned into the bully pulpit to create competitive advantage. I mean, we know what that is. It used to be you'd get up there, you'd talk about your own team. Now everyone gets up there and they talk about the officials and they discredit the other team. Again, like they're great competitors, so we know why that's happening, and I don't fault them because I think they may think it works.

So the question is why are they continuing to do it? Because there's financial incentives not to do it. But everyone's competing. Let's also recognize that it's the bully pulpit for competitive advantage, and that's what it's kind of turned into, which is part of competing. We all get that.

Relative to Shai and the narrative on that, he's playing against six people. He's got five defenders, and the sixth defender is social media. That's a reality. He's not going to be the last player that the machine decides to target, but no one's going to handle it as gracefully because, when they turn it on somebody else, they're not going to step up there every night and not acknowledge it.

A couple things more just on the whole topic. We think all the time or we hear all the time about things that people don't like about the NBA, which are inaccurate, but they're narratives that exist on the alternate reality.

One, players don't play defense. Shai's a two-end player. Now, he plays with four or five All-NBA defensive players, so sometimes his defensive ability gets undersold, but he plays two ends.

Second, all NBA players do is complain, bitch and moan and try to intimidate the officials with bad behavior in the games to give foul calls. He's gotten three technical fouls this year. None for complaining. One for waving a towel in support of someone that hit a shot that doesn't play very often. Okay. So he's not doing that.

The other thing is load management. Nobody plays. They take all these games off. Shai plays every night. He missed a bunch of games this year for an oblique strain, and we might give him a night off two or three times a year, maybe. But he plays back-to-backs. He plays heavy minutes. He plays against good teams. He plays against teams that are bad teams. He plays every night. His consistency is well documented. So you can't get him on that.

The next one is all you do is shoot 3s. NBA players, all they do is shoot 3s. Okay. Well, he's brought the mid-range back to an art form. He's transcendent for any generation, any player. That's why like older players love his game.

It's also one of the reasons he gets fouled a lot. Because he plays in the mid-range because we don't call the landing space fouls in the mid-range the way we do at the 3-point line, right, because he's avoiding that oftentimes because there's too many bodies in there. With the 3-point shot, you can see it easily, and I think a lot of times he's trying to avoid that. So he's not a guy that's just launching 3s. So we can check that off the box.

The other one is like these guys are just totally inaccessible. They're in their own world. Well, the guy signs 400 autographs before every game. Before the Western Conference Finals Game 7, he's signing autographs.

So we've got a litany of things that generally the narrative is about NBA players that they do wrong. Well, based on those narratives, I don't agree with them, but he would be doing them right. And he doesn't really complain about any of it. So if we're just talking about trying to draw fouls, well, every other great player in the NBA, that's part of the game is drawing fouls.

He drew 415 fouls this year; 11 were challenged. 11. Four of those were overturned. So that's like 2 1/2 percent of the foul calls were actually challenged. Again, that's part of the bully pulpit part of this thing, which I get and it's part of competing.

As far as those fouls, I think in the fouls drawn -- I had this written down here -- he's tied with Embiid for 8 and 9 in terms of number of fouls drawn in the season. 6 and 7 are Jaylen Brown and Wembanyama. So that's kind of the group of players that he's in.

But I understand, if you listen to the narrative, you'd think he's 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. He drew a lot more fouls before we got much better, and when we got better, obviously people pay much more attention to him.

We'll have to see where that goes, you know what I mean? We don't know. He'll never say anything about it. And the only thing I'm pointing out is I don't think he's being unfairly handled, I just think, instead of talking about something that we are looking to find as a negative, can we please also acknowledge that he also does a lot of positive things for the game, most of which are the things that people are very unhappy -- not unhappy, but they don't like on social media. And I know that a lot of us live on social media. I would think they would love him for that reason.

This is like the world we live in today. There's a lot of financial incentive to create these things, career ambitions, like I said before. The best thing we can do when those things happen is stay above it.

Now I'm pointing it out now at the end of the season, but we're going to have to stay above it because it's probably not going to change. But he does a lot of good things too.

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@jga41agher lol the media made the thunder thing way worse than it was. Silver can’t have them talking about his pride and joy Wemby negatively

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@jazzbeargryllz Peterson. Sga 2.0 but way more ready than sga was after 1 year of college. Dude is electric.

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@JcalDoesIt And you’re not in the nba. Also don’t have any rings or any mvps so maybe sit this one out my guy.

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@iheartjwill Big Texas longhorn fan. Followed KD when he got drafted. Hate KD for the way he left. Been an okc fan ever since.

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@epnohelty This guy on crack. Value of 1st round picks just increased substantially and presti has never been fleeced in a trade like you’re implying he would here.

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@ThunderChats @KEZA2117 The only way our roster works long term is to keep low rookie contracts

[Brian 🇲🇽🇧🇷 @_Braizen]

I mean if you watched last night it’s clearly still SGA

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@TuskedUp @AJ3Jazz Thunder will be fine and everyone is freaking out a little early.

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Haha it was a good argument. Used to be an avs fan too so let me tell you the playoffs were hard for me. Both my favorite teams getting beat by the same team. SMH. At least you don’t have the Rockies in your bio. Some common sense. Hopefully with the broncos taking an ownership stake they can do something

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@midwestbmc @iamjwmoss @Mac_The_Jazz Could be. Peterson could also be SGA 2.0
I’d rather swing for the fences.

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I don’t live in Okc 😂. I’m a fan because I’m a longhorns fan and KD was my guy growing up. Stayed true to Okc after he left. I live in salt lake and our hockey team at least beat the knights twice. Something you couldn’t do once with 2 of the 4 best players in the league. Should’ve never traded rantanen. I’m a broncos fan so we can agree there.

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@nuggetsfan9717 @okcardinalsfan Hmm more mvps than yall. Way younger than yall. Let’s revisit this when yall lose in the first round again next year 👏

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@nuggetsfan9717 @okcardinalsfan lol I found that this morning check the time stamp. Alll this coming from a guy who’s team gave porter jr the max?? Did he make all nba ever? Or all defense? Then his team panic traded him and still got beat in the first round by an injured ant. There’s levels to this my guy.