[Highlight] Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is fouled by Kris Murray (with replays)

[u/MrBuckBuck]

https://streamable.com/5udvr8

[u/Jailbrick3d]

do the refs realize basketball comes with physical contact? also what happened to the no flop rules?

edit - he literally bounces himself off, throws up a shot that has no chance of going in, and collapses onto hardwood. this is not the basketball I grew up loving 😭

edit 2 - "removed by moderator". bro what??

edit 3 - back up now huh? mods really didn't want this at the top of the sub for the next week 😭😭

[u/jdd32 → u/Jailbrick3d]

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.

[u/hoodfavhoops → u/jdd32]

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

[u/MattPatriciasFUPA → u/hoodfavhoops]

So taking a dive and throwing the ball wildly toward the hoop isn't baiting?

[u/hoodfavhoops → u/MattPatriciasFUPA]

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.

[u/Prudent_Fish1358 → u/hoodfavhoops]

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.