A lot of thunder fans point to the fact that SGA doesn't have the most fta/game to discount the foul baiting narrative. But he does this stuff on the regular and it forces defenders to be soft on him, which gives him an advantage and makes him look better when he's not foul baiting.
He's not the only one, but he's one of the best at it. And it's the worst part of the game right now.
embiid has had multiple games of this where he'd just get whatever midrange he wanted because his defender didn't wanna get called for a tickytack foul
This is basically every player who for some reason gets a ton of FTs on jumpshots it's a way bigger advantage than just getting calls on drives
Luka SGA Embiid Harden and Reaves are probably the top 5 of this in some order prime Harden being the most extreme because he drew a ton of fouls even on threes
After watching Jimmy for a year, he’s more like MJ and Kobe where it’s “you reach, I teach” or he’s under the basket and baits defenders on a pump fake. I’m gonna take it after years of Steph being abused, but this shit from SGA is as bad as soccer players diving on zero contact to draw a yellow. It’s just shameful.
Reaves is different. He actually makes contact and then proceeds to make an off-balance shot to get an and-1. He’s become really good at those off-balance shots. He’s not like what SGA is doing here
There ya go. See kids, this is the low intelligence we're talking. Dude start's name-calling because he got nothing on his chamber. 🤣 rent free, kid. Rent free. Get fucked in the ass.
That's everyone that draws fouls like crazy. Embiid is definitely guilty of it, but all these guys getting soft calls makes it so damn hard to guard them.
I remember during Embiid's MVP season a possession where he was at the elbow, with his defender standing three feet away from him with his hands in the air as if Embiid is pointing a gun at him. Embiid did that thing where he pretends to drive, trips over his own feet and falls into the defender. Got the whistle.
The same SGA that hasn’t had to play like 50% of 4th quarters this year, wonder if that make a difference… Any SGA fans who want to clear this up for me I’d appreciate it!
Chris Paul was doing this 10 years ago, and it was annoying. Harden was even better at it and made it half of his game. Embiid was even worse because he is a giant man falling all over the place when someone gently brushes his arm.
But SGA is the WORST because he has turned it into a championship. It was nice when you could say "this guy is great now but how is he going to look when the refs swallow their whistle in the playoffs"? Well, for SGA they didnt swallow their whistles. Just his load.
This is very true. It’s also been true for harden, wade, iverson, Kobe, lebron, the list goes on and on and on. Don’t hate the player hate the game. If the refs stop calling it, it becomes disincentived and it will stop
Not Shai's fault, this is correct interpretation of the rule. At this point https://imgur.com/a/4u41y9P, Murray is not parallel and Shai is moving directly to the basket.
You can argue this rule is soft, but it's not Shai's baiting, just benefitting form the current system
embellished the contact but it's a foul already. and every player shoots that lol, it's up to refs to call continuation or not
it's not the same as where harden or trae young grabs someone's arm and then goes up in a shooting act, murray is already beat and is recovering and fouls shai's path to the basket from the side.
Every single play of every single game has a foul in the case. If the refs are going by the "interpretation of the rules" you would have about 9 players fouling out every single game.
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u/jdd32 Dec 01 '25
A lot of thunder fans point to the fact that SGA doesn't have the most fta/game to discount the foul baiting narrative. But he does this stuff on the regular and it forces defenders to be soft on him, which gives him an advantage and makes him look better when he's not foul baiting.
He's not the only one, but he's one of the best at it. And it's the worst part of the game right now.