SGA is probably the 8th or 9th best basketball player in the world who the league has granted the ability to use his off arm as a battering ram so that he can be the 2nd or 3rd best player in the league. Extremely weird!
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The off-arm annoys me as well but pretending that “the league” allows *only* SGA to do this is so intellectually dishonest lol. Please watch other games
I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I was to see someone else have this take. It’s like SGA watched Paul George’s career and said “hold my beer”.
He swings his elbow at people too. Just weird stuff that nobody else does/gets to do. He should have gotten a yellow card for that flop attempt against Clark.
I want Jim Pete and Grady to hyper focus on it and call it out at all times. To FIXATE on it. Because at its root, it’s not basketball. What are we even doing here? But they won’t (and neither would I if I were them).
He'd still be pretty good player but I really don't think he would dominate. His special treatment from the refs is so huge it takes him from a solid starter past All Star to MVP.
The special treatment is the key to his entire game
I’ve seen some ridiculous takes, but this might be the worst. If you haven’t seen SGA “do anything particularly impressive” you’re either lying, don’t watch basketball, or are being hyperbolically contrarian.
I just tried to watch a SGA "highlight" reel. Watched the first ten plays - counted six uncalled offensive fouls, three jump shots and ONE pretty cool spin move
He's great at pushing off, I guess, if that's what impresses you
Timberwolves fans were chanting “free throw merchant” while Ant shot 1 less free throw in Sunday’s game. Monday the Timberwolves shot 10 more free throws than the Thunder. And if the refs were calling fairly, it probably would’ve been 20 more, so many missed fouls on both sides
You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Have you ever watched basketball? Put Jayson Tatum's name in for SGA, fuck, maybe PG13, Harden, just about any NBA wing.
Watching Shai or Brunson get sent to the line over and over for any tap, and then watching big wings get battered every possession, it's like you are watching a different sport.
He’s the MVP running away and you reposting this same thing every time he plays the Wolves doesn’t stop him from chewing up this team. Just tip your hat. This is loser talk.
If you're comparing Shai, a player that drives to the basket an obscene amount, while being the best mid-range jump shooter in 30 years, with elite small space footwork to...James Harden? You've lost the plot. Using the off-arm has been a tool of the mid-range shooter since Bernard King.
I said I think he’s a top 10 player and have repeatedly said I think he’s awesome. Him getting to swing his elbows out on drives and shove off defenders with full force in front of refs with hardly any repercussions is extremely weird and it sucks to watch.
He’s a top 2 player and has been 2-3 years. I’m not gonna argue with what is aesthetically pleasing for YOU. I love his game. Best midrange game in 30 years. Best small space footwork of this era.
He’s obviously insanely skilled. One of them is being able to get away with this stuff that nobody else gets away with this much obviousness or regularity. That’s incredible by itself.
Everyone who covers the NBA for a living has him as a consensus top 5 if not top 3 player in the league but I guess you just know more than everyone huh
I even said he’s the 2nd or 3rd best player because he’s figured out a skill to get a big man foul rate in the paint for a guard. I don’t really know what you’re complaining about here.
What is crazier is the percentage of FTAs Shai has vs. the rest of his team!!
Shai leads the league with 501 FTAs but OKC overall is at the bottom of the league and his teammates have only shot 628 FTs.
Shai has ~50 more FTAs than Giannis, but over 100 more than anyone else.
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The special treatment is the key to his entire game
He's probably a top 50 player though?
I've never seen him do anything particularly impressive
He's great at pushing off, I guess, if that's what impresses you
I don't watch a ton of OKC but I watch enough
YES!!!
EXACTLY THIS!!!
He pushes and wards off every single play!! It has to be stopped!
Why is SGA allowed to flop his way to the free throw line all night?
Tatum doesn’t flop for free throws like those other three names you listed.
Just like it wasn’t when Harden was foul-griftting so hard it was changing the game.
Shai leads the league with 501 FTAs but OKC overall is at the bottom of the league and his teammates have only shot 628 FTs.
Shai has ~50 more FTAs than Giannis, but over 100 more than anyone else.
But serious question. Why? Why OKC? I mean, they are not a big market team, why do the refs single him out for this kind of treatment every night?
[OKC skeeters I concede SGA is talented player, talking about him getting a maddeningly frustrating whistle and leeway on the offensive end]
65-47 from both games…
Out of the 10 pts Min scored in OT, 8 were FTs…….
can’t just look at box scores my dude…